Grab Template?

Can someone give me the command to grab a template onto my own PHP page? IE: not a vb Page...it's for a hack I'm working on...

This is untested, and possibly not 100% correct, but the theory is there :).

You'll need to do something like this:


<?php
require("forums/global.php");

$DB_site->query("SELECT all, of, the, things, you, want, FROM table WHERE yadda, yadda");

eval("echo(\"".gettemplate("template_name")."\");");

?>


The theory is that you'd include global.php, connect to the database, and call the template you want.

That's the best I can do off the top of my head. The code depends on what is it you want to do more than anything else.

-jim

I used this:

require("global.php");

$DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM template");

eval("echo(\"".gettemplate("savethread")."\");");

And got this:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class db_sql_vb in admin/db_mysql.php on line 6

Any idea whats wrong? I created a "savethread" template and as it turns out the global.php file is in the same directory as my file.

Okay, I think I know what's wrong.

In global.php up towards the top you'll see a whole bunch of function definitions. Add this somewhere in there (I added mine below "Start dovars" and above "start standarderror":

// ####### Start Save Thread Hack #####

function savethread($title="") {

// This is where you put all the variables that you use in your template

global $header,$footer,$cssinclude,$fivelinks,$forumjump, $timezone,$bbtitle,$hometitle,
$bburl,$homeurl,$copyrighttext,$privacyurl,$contac tuslink,$titleimage,$replyimage,$newthreadimage,
$closedthreadimage,$lastvisitdate,$timenow;

makeforumjump();

eval("\$returnval = dovars(\"".gettemplate("savethread")."\");");

return $returnval;
}

And then in your page, you would put this:

require("global.php");

eval("echo savethread(\"".gettemplate("savethread")."\");");


As I was typing this, I decided to try it out on my test board.

What I did was put the second code snippet into a file called savethread.php, and put it in my /forums/ directory. Then I created a simple template called "savethread", and used some of the standard variables. You can see an example here:
http://www.bronx-bombers.com/testforum/savethread.php

I think that was what you were trying to do, so I hope that helps :)

-jim

[Edited by JimF on 09-19-2000 at 01:50 PM]

TWTCommish - Did this work?

I'm sorry Jim! I never got around to it - til now.

Works great! Thanks a lot! Hopefully I'll be able to finish my pathetic exscuse for a hack now. :)

One quick problem: how do I integrate the two together? IE: I have some SQL queries to make here, but I can't just stick em in the template, can I? I don't think the rest of vB is like that...

The problem is whatever I have printed out shows up at the bottom, below the template...