Placing some vb elements into non-bv pages

[Chris11987]

Can someone tell me what I would need to do to let certain elements of the forums (like PM total, username/login, avatar etc) appear on a custom, non-vb page (and not in the forums directory)? All I found so far was an article about creating vb-powered pages using templates, which isn't what I'm looking for.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You can use the same article and just not use the template system.

[Chris11987]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62164" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62164</a>

That was the article I mentioned. It seems as if the page itself is being ran by vbulletin, though.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

As long as you inclide global.php you can use any php script, or just use the example in the above thread and remove calling the templates etc.

[boxerman]

Hi,

how would iuse a require fuction on the vb powered page?

<?php
"staff/request.php";
?>

thats what im using, but its not displaying :(

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please start your a new thread describing your problem.

[Chris11987]

Everytime I use include or require_once, for the global.php file, it results in a fatal error and is unable to load the page.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Without knowing the code you are now using or the error message you get, we can't give more assistence.

[Chris11987]

Warning: require_once (*********************) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ***************/forums/global.php on line 20

I'm trying to make this page outside of my forums directory.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You still have not provided the code you are using, nor the full error messages.

[Lynne]

I'm trying to make this page outside of my forums directory.
You need to chdir to the forums directory:

chdir ('/path/to/your/forums');
require_once('./global.php');

[Chris11987]

I did that and the page is coming up without error now, but nothing from vb works when I place it on the page, like avatars for example. I tried this code for an avatar:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="margin-top:5px;">
<tr>
<td><a href="$vbpoptions[bbdir]/profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editavatar"><img src="$vbpoptions[bbdir]/image.php?u=$bbuserinfo[userid]" alt="Your avatar" border="0" /></a>
</td>

[Lynne]

I don't believe that is the code to get you to the avatar. You are calling a script (image.php) not an image. You need to call an actual image in order to have an image displayed. Where did you get that code from?

[Chris11987]

From the article. What would be the proper code to display an avatar for a member if they were logged in?

[Lynne]

From the article.
Hmmm, I tried to look but couldn't find it in there. Perhaps they were using an older version of vbulletin or something.

I'm not really sure what to use for the avatar. I looked in the postbit template and this is what is in there:
<a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a>
I'm not sure that the post variable is available to you. You may have to replace that with $user and see if that works.

[Dismounted]

Avatars can be accessed using image.php - but only if avatars are stored in the database. You can access avatars stored in the file system using fetch_avatar_url().

[Chris11987]

Mine are stored as files, so I'd need to use fetch. Can you give me the exact code (using an example file path) I would need for an avatar to appear?

[Lynne]

Take a look in member.php around line 395:

// AVATAR
$avatarurl = fetch_avatar_url($userinfo['userid']);

if ($avatarurl == '' OR !$vbulletin->options['avatarenabled'] OR ($avatarurl['hascustom'] AND !($userinfo['permissions']['genericpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_genericpermissions['canuseavatar']) AND !$userinfo['adminavatar']))
{
$show['avatar'] = false;
}
else
{
$show['avatar'] = true;
$userinfo['avatarsize'] = $avatarurl[1];
$userinfo['avatarurl'] = $avatarurl[0];
}
Does that help?

[Chris11987]

I then get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_avatar_url() in ********************** on line 16


I'm using this code in the header:

<?php
chdir ('./forums');
require_once('./global.php');
?>

[Dismounted]

You need to include the user functions to be able to use it:
require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');

[Chris11987]

<?php
chdir ('./forums');
require_once('./global.php');
require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');
?>

I'm using that now, and still no luck.

[Dismounted]

Please post the complete file you are using now.

[Chris11987]

This is the entire content of the page I'm testing:

<?php
echo '<' . '?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?' . '>';
chdir ('./forums');
require_once('./global.php');
require_once('./includes/functions_user.php');
?>



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">


// AVATAR
<?php

if ($avatarurl == '' OR !$vbulletin->options['avatarenabled'] OR ($avatarurl['hascustom'] AND !($userinfo['permissions']['genericpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_genericpermissions['canuseavatar']) AND !$userinfo['adminavatar']))
{
$show['avatar'] = false;
}
else
{
$show['avatar'] = true;
$userinfo['avatarsize'] = $avatarurl[1];
$userinfo['avatarurl'] = $avatarurl[0];
}
?>

[Dismounted]

You aren't actually using the fetch_avatar_url() function...

[Chris11987]

Wow, how did I miss that one line? I know I was using it originally because I was getting an error from it at one time. I must have taken it out to get rid of the error.

I put it back in on the new test file I showed you and now I get a database error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.1:
MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 6
Error Number : 1064

My avatars are using my files, not my database. I double checked.

[Dismounted]

Please post the file you are using. Just saying "I put it in" doesn't really explain where.

[Chris11987]

There.

The url of the file is mydomainname.com/avitest.php, and the url of my forums is mydomainname.com/forums/, it that helps.

[Dismounted]

$vbulletin->userinfo is the array for the logged in user's info, not $userinfo.

[Chris11987]

I replaced the $userinfo's with $vbulletin->userinfo's and still get a blank page.

[Lynne]

I took your php page, replaced the $userinfo with $vbulletin->userinfo and I get a page that simply says:

// AVATAR

But, since you aren't using a template to spit anything out and you aren't echoing anything in your php, I would not expect any other result.

edit: I meant to add, if I add this, I get something to spit out. I'm not sure it's the best way to do this though (someone else may comment on that).
echo "<img src='/forums/" .$vbulletin->userinfo['avatarurl']. "'>";