Filburt's n00b hacking questions thread

[filburt1]

Okay, I plan on making a psuedo portal for one of my forums in my collection of forums. Rather than posting tons of small questions I'll just use this thread ;)

1. To convert bb code to HTML, what do I do? Something along the lines of this?


require('forums/admin/functions.php');
$stuff = bbparsecode($bbcode);
echo $stuff;


But it's more complicated than that...right?

[NTLDR]

If you have required global.php you won't need to require functions.php, otherwise you will:

bbcodeparse(text to parse,0,1)

Where text to parse is the text or the variable containing the text, 0 is the forumid (if not a forum use 0) and 1 is to allow smilies (0 to disallow).

[filburt1]

And it returns HTML?

[NTLDR]

I will return whatever the vB code is set to return, eg ; ) (with no space) would return the code for ;)

[filburt1]

Cool :)

[filburt1]

2. How can I make page powered by vBulletin's template system (custom templates)?

[NTLDR]

For just a page which displays a template look at c-prompts extra page driven by template hack.

[filburt1]

Nope, this will be a bit more complicated (i.e., loading specific templates and templatebits, etc.)

[NTLDR]

You can either edit that hack to suit your needs or take alook at vBindex or vBhome and see how they work and modify to your needs.

[filburt1]

Coolness

[zachb]

Yea, thanks. I have learned some stuff from taking your advice. :D

[NTLDR]

No problem, glad to help fellow vB'ers out :D