Having issues integrating wordpress header into SMF

[ProwlingCat]

Edit: Ignore this post, scroll down to my second post. Most of the issues in this post are solved, but I ran into more issues.

I've done a lot of integration with wordpress and external sites and I just can't figure out how to fix this issue.

Over at segabits.com [nofollow] we have featured articles on the header, that's the only reason I want to integrate the header directly, otherwise I would just do it manually with HTML code.

Well, I've been tinkering with this for hours and these are the ends I'm stuck at:

I can randomly drop the code into the top or bottom of the index.php file for the root directory of SMF and this is what happens:
http://i.imgur.com/XBzt4.png [nofollow]

Which is good and bad at the same time. It's great that it's including the header! I only want it to include it once though.. but the thing is, when I try to include the header in a logical way so it only appears once it directs me to a non-existant wordpress install in the SMF directory.

Here are solutions I have tried that all lead me to the non-existant install directory:
- Including the code right after the body tag in index.template.php
- Creating a function called wpHeader(); with the code in index.php and calling it in index.template.php
- Including the code in the beginning of the smf_main(); function in the index.php file

the code in question that I'm talking about:

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define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require_once('/path/to/blog/wp-blog-header.php');
require_once('/path/to/blog/wp-content/themes/segabits2/header.php');

The wordpress blog is installed in the /home/blog/ directory and SMF is installed in /home/smf/ directory. I was thinking maybe that could be an issue, but I wanted to see if other people thought it could be before I go crazy and move everything.

I mean seriously XD this is making me pull my hair out. XD. I'm hoping I can get an answer here, but if not I'll try the wordpress forums... *prays*

Oh, and sorry if this was the wrong forum to post this topic in. It just seemed the most appropriate.

[ProwlingCat]

Alright well... I got the template issues sorted out, but now I've ran into different problems. The problems I'm running into now are that the featured images don't load, and I can't login, some kind of cookie problem according to SMF.

Look for yourself: http://segabits.com/smf/index.php [nofollow]

Anyways, this is the current situation I got going...

index.php

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require_once('/path/to/blog/wp-blog-header.php');
right before

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$forum_version = 'SMF 2.0';

and...

index.template.php

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require('/path/to/blog/wp-content/themes/segabits2/headerForums.php');
right after

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function template_body_above()
{
global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings;

here is the code i use to fetch featured images with in wordpress, for some reason it's not working when embedded into SMF:

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<?php 
include('/path/to/blog/wp-content/themes/segabits/functions.php');
query_posts('cat=814&showposts=6'); ?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="featuredBox">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">
<?php $key="featured_pic" ?> 
<?php echo '<img width="144" height="80" src="' . get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true) . '" />' ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a></div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

anyways yeah ^^;;; that's my current issue.. I hope this makes more sense.. i was pretty tired yesterday when I made that other post and probably made no sense.

[Kindred]

that is because SMF uses the php standard notation, not php notation on every single line...
you'll have to get rid of all the crap <?php and ?> tags.

Also, you should consider the global header.footer mod instead of editing index.template.php directly...