"blank" forum page

[VodkaFish]

I'm running vb3 and wondering how I should go about making a "blank" forum page. By blank I mean within my template, yet there's nothing in the middle (no forum listing, etc.). The top w/login and bottom templates I have and that's it.

I need to make some non-forum-related forms, except that I need the user id of the person (and would like them to have a normal look/feel of the page).

I'd like to know if I can just strip out the middle of the index.php page, or if there is another page that would be a better template.

[Zachery]

I'm running vb3 and wondering how I should go about making a "blank" forum page. By blank I mean within my template, yet there's nothing in the middle (no forum listing, etc.). The top w/login and bottom templates I have and that's it.

I need to make some non-forum-related forms, except that I need the user id of the person (and would like them to have a normal look/feel of the page).

I'd like to know if I can just strip out the middle of the index.php page, or if there is another page that would be a better template.
look at the templates named SHELL

[VodkaFish]

look at the templates named SHELL
I'd love to use it, but I have no idea how the templates work. I was just looking to take a .php page and stick some forms in it with some sql statements and have a series of them link to each other.

Is there any sort of basic tutorial someone can point me to? (I'll go search around too)

[Zachery]

you know what, im going to write a quick tut ill post the link once im done, granted it already hasnt been done

[VodkaFish]

Very cool. Thanks.

Sorry for the newb-like questions, I'm super-new to vb and php in general.

[Zachery]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=459146#post459146 enjoy :)

[VodkaFish]

If I slap your (longer) example into a blank .php page and use the shell_blank as my template (unchanged); I get an "object expected" error when the page tries to run this script:<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// Main vBulletin Javascript Initialization
vBulletin_init();
//-->
</script>

* editing to point out that the page I wrote was in a different directory, so I used this:
chdir("../forums");