Multiple "custom pages" withOUT multiple templates?

[MortysTW]

I've been digging around using the heck out of the search function and coming up with no luck.

What I want to do is make myself some custom pages, but I do NOT want to have to make a new template for every custom page. Everything I'm finding about "custom pages" gives me different ways but they all involve having a new template for every new page.

All I want is the code that I can put on a fresh and blank php file that will call in the globals and header and header includes, and the basics that make up a page, and if I have to make 1 template that's cool. But I want to only make that 1 template.

I need a true file I can use as my template and I just add the content I want on those pages and not have to keep going in and making new templates every time.

Get what I mean? I just want to make the typical vbulletin setup of a "shell" and I can just keep copying that page over and over and over and each time just put different content on that page.

My idea is that I plan to make 100's of pages, but I don't want to have 100's of templates to have to deal with.

Anyone clue me in on this please?

Thanks!

[petertdavis]

One option is to use vbAdvanced and add the page using the 'BB Code' option.

[MortysTW]

I already use vbadvanced. And its basically the same difference. Either way I'm going into the AdminCP and creating something new over and over and over.

I want to have actual filed pages with my content and not have to additionally go into vb to make them function.

Its not going to happen, but say tomorrow a black hole sucks vbulletin and all of its tables out of my database. All my content will be lost too. I know doing it all via templates and modules is suppose to be the "modern day webmastering" way of doing it, but I don't want to.

My plan is, to have my pages built with 3 parts.
1. An included file to create the top of my pages. (ie, metas, vb requirements, etc.)
2. The actual content of the pages.
3. An included file to create my footer and close out tags of my pages.

Again, this way if vbulletin vanishes, all I have to do is make a simple edit to my included "top" and my included "footer" and all my pages of content are still functioning happily ever after.

I have no plans to ever leave VB, nor do I think VB is ever going to go away since it just keeps advancing more and more, but at the same time, I plan to make a huge beast out of my website, and I don't want my little world revolving around someone else's script.

Feel where I'm coming from?

[Dismounted]

Use the template 'shell_blank', put your content into $html.