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Quote:

Originally Posted by ncangler

I don't know if this is possbile or not but I'm trying to create a stand alone index.php file that contains some code for a Beach Tide Table. The trick is getting the vBulletin header, footer and navbar on the page so it looks consistent with the rest of my site. The Tide Table code has to be in the index.php file as it contains information for multiple locations that is refreshed when you click on the location you want. Here is the Tide Table link:

http://www.ncangler.com/tides/wilmington/index.php

My forums are located here: http://www.ncangler.com/forums/

Can anyone tell me if this can be implemented with this hack? Thanks for your help!

I have this hack pretty much done, except I want to do the same thing you do.

I think this post applies to what we want to do. (This is speaking of images, but I think the same methodology for calling other pages applies) I'd really like to display a separate PHP file in the main window. Seems this isn't like working in frames like HMTL...

is there a version of this for vB3.5 series?

It works on 3.5. The only change you should make is to move $headinclude up before <title> in the template.

You mean like this:

Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]

<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">

<head>

$headinclude

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

</head>

<body>

$header



$navbar



<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>

        <td class="tcat">Title</td>

</tr>

<tr>

        <td class="alt1">Text</td>

</tr>

</table>



$footer

</body>

</html>

If thats right, does nothing need to be changed in the PHP file?

Yes, thats right. Nothing in the PHP file needs to be changed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gary Bolton

You mean like this:

Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]

<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">

<head>

$headinclude

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

</head>

<body>

$header



$navbar



<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>

        <td class="tcat">Title</td>

</tr>

<tr>

        <td class="alt1">Text</td>

</tr>

</table>



$footer

</body>

</html>

If thats right, does nothing need to be changed in the PHP file?

Is there an edit to the file so I won't to change it (I mean, the 3.5.x version).

Thanks worked perfect on Vb 3.0.12 :up:

I'm gonna bookmark this page. Not got the time right now, but excellent work nonetheless. Well done.

How do you get the Who's Online to work in 3.5.3?

I did the original edit, but it came back with "Unknown" and a link to a file on my server.

I see that when you click on "Currently Active Users" it's online.php that handles it. What do I change in there?

Meanwhile, I'll keep trying some things.

Great tutorial. Thanks ;)

How can this be made to work from outside your forums folder?

What code changes would have to be made

Quote:

Originally Posted by caislander

Anybody,

I can't get phrases created via the phrase manager to show up? Any ideas what i might have done wrong ? here is the info in my template if it helps :)

As always Thanks for any assistance :0

Ditto - html shows upe just fine - phrase do not...

Any help would be appreciated.

Does anybody know how you can get the lastest thread titles displayed on the test template taken from the forum boards, that display the thread title as a link that when clicked leads to the thread itself

Quote:

Originally Posted by UManiac

Ditto - html shows upe just fine - phrase do not...

Any help would be appreciated.

Got it to work :)

I added 'register' to special phrase gorups. See below

PHP Code:


		
			
// get special phrase groups 

$phrasegroups = array(

    'register',

);

For some reason, when i do a query to the database within this page i get the following error
"Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /vservers/lustiesn/htdocs/vbulletin/main.php on line 45"
and there is the code that i'm using to query to the database

PHP Code:


		
			
 $getnews = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT * FROM thread left join post  on (post.postid=thread.firstpostid) where thread.forumid=18  order by thread.threadid desc limit 1");

What version of vB are you running?

If you are using vB3.5, you will need to use $vbulletin->db->query_first instead of $DB_site->query_first.

PS I think there is a similar HOW-TO in our 3.5 Tutorial section.

Look:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2006/02/5.jpg
How can I change this so it IS a know location?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eagle Creek

Look:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...id=43143&stc=1
How can I change this so it IS a know location?

i get this aswell, i think every one else does also:S if a fix can be made, then nice, if not no worries..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smiry Kin's

i get this aswell, i think every one else does also:S if a fix can be made, then nice, if not no worries..

you obviously have not followed the instructions proper, as it tell you how to sort that out on the first page of this thread by the hack poster, who has also posted the code fix for Who's Online

3.5 users may be interested in GTCUSTOM PAGES

I need add this code to php file but doesn't work.

$ch = curl_init ("http://www.domain.name?".$QueryString);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec ($ch);

if(curl_error($ch))
echo "Error processing request";

curl_close ($ch);

But if I comment this line it works, but is not a vbulletin page anymore :-(
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('my_template') . '");');

I've solved the problem.

loook i made this .... but need ur help .
hi !

i have a little problem in reading and viewing some html from my database which i make it .... acually iam trying to make some differnt hack which can read templates from the database instead to include it to the style templates

the idea comes to me when i was trying to add some html templates to the style and i saw that its from the stupidity to add a houndred templates to a styles so it will make the forum style very heavy for me . any way here is the idea ....

i create that

Code:

CREATE TABLE `testdb` (

  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,

  `name` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',

  `descr` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',

  `content` text NOT NULL,

  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)

) TYPE=MyISAM;

and add for every id and content a unique number with a full html template.

i have more than 100 id with 100 full html text pages for that .
so i make a php file with a name of test.php and include that code inside it :

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

/*======================================================================*\

|| #################################################################### ||

|| # test v6.0.1                                                                                                                  # ||

|| # Copyright ?2005- 2006 Barakat. All Rights Reserved.                                               # ||

|| #                                                                                                                                    # ||

|| #################################################################### ||

\*======================================================================*/



//-----------------------------------------

// By: Barakat Barakat



// ######################## SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ########################### 

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); 



// ##################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test');  



// #################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ###################### 

// get special phrase groups 

$phrasegroups = array(); 



// get special data templates from the datastore 

$specialtemplates = array(); 



// pre-cache templates used by all actions 

$globaltemplates = array(''); 



// pre-cache templates used by specific actions 

$actiontemplates = array(); 



// ########################## REQUIRE BACK-END ############################ 

require_once('./global.php'); 



// #################### HARD CODE JAVASCRIPT PATHS ######################## 

$headinclude = str_replace('clientscript', $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/clientscript', $headinclude); 



// ######################################################################## 

// ######################### START MAIN SCRIPT ############################ 

// ######################################################################## 



if ($id) {

function getcontent($contentid) {

$contents  =$vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT content FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "testdb" . "WHERE id=$contentid");

$content   = $vbulletin->db->fetch_Array($contents);

$contentid =$content[content];

$html=str_replace("\"","\\\"",$contentid);

return $html;

}

$que =$vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "testdb" . "WHERE id=$id");

$result =$vbulletin->db->query_read($que)

  or die ("Error reaching the file.... ");

$page = $vbulletin->db->fetch_Array($result);

$navbits = construct_navbits(array('' => $page[name]));

eval('$navbar .= "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');

eval("print_output(\"".getcontent("$id")."\");");

}

/*======================================================================*\

|| ####################################################################

|| # CVS: $RCSfile: test.php,v $ - $Version: 6.0.1 $

|| ####################################################################

\*======================================================================*/

?>

www.forum/test.php?id=1
while browseing the file , a blank page appears to me !!!1

so ...........

if i include 'test_h' template to the style it will open it nicely but i need to read from my database by its id so to browse is as its browsed from the style it self:-

now if i want to read the templates from my styles i just make that changes

// pre-cache templates used by all actions

PHP Code:


		
			
$globaltemplates = array('test_h');

and add that code instead of the main script corner

PHP Code:


		
			
$navbits = array();  

$navbits[$parent] = 'testss'; 

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 

eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('test_h') . '");');

and off couse the test_h template is included and it tooks a style like that :-

Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]

<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">

<head>

        <!-- no cache headers -->

        <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />

        <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />

        <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

        <!-- end no cache headers -->

        <title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>

        $headinclude

</head>

<body>

$header

$navbar



<!-- html codes begins here-->

<!-- html codes ends here  -->



$footer

</body>

</html>

P.S i tried also to include the functions in a function_test file and upload it to the includes but it did not works .......

Hi Guys!

I read this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=98009

But I can't get it working.

It's about this page:
http://www.nucia.nl/forum/donatie.php

So what I do is:

Quote:

Plugin:
Product: vBulletin
Hook Location: online_location_process
Title: My Custom Location (Part1)
Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:


		
			
 if ($filename == 'donatie.php')

{

        $userinfo['activity'] = 'donatie';

}

[b]Plugin is Active: Yes

Quote:

Plugin:
Product: vBulletin
Hook Location: online_location_unknown
Title: My Custom Location (Part2)
Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:


		
			
 if ($userinfo['activity'] == 'donatie')

{

        $userinfo['action'] = 'TEST message donation'; // you might wanna use a $vbphrase here...

        $userinfo['where'] = '<a href="./donatie.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . '">THIS IS TEST MESSAGE</a>'; // you might wanna use a $vbphrase here...

        $handled = true;

}

Plugin is Active: Yes

But it keeps saying 'unknow location'. Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Mine does that, but the page looks good and works - that's the important part to me. The location thing is nothing more than an annoyance at the moment.

how can i let only people that are logged in see this page?, and if not logged in it will take them to the log in page, or the page of choice.
*sorry for the newbie question*

Guessing some have more constructive things to do than nail others - or some of us don't really grow up huh?

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackwidow

how can i let only people that are logged in see this page?, and if not logged in it will take them to the log in page, or the page of choice.
*sorry for the newbie question*

I would like this too. At the moment anyone can view the page, but I would like to restrict it to members only.

blackwidow and Jordan17: Try somehting like this:

Code:

<?php

    if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])

    {

          header("Location: http://www.redirected_page.com/");

          exit;

    }

?>

I made the php file and the template exactly as you described and when I point my url to test.php I get this

Code:

Warning: Division by zero in /includes/functions.php(4320) : eval()'d code on line 98

What have I done wrong?

Quote:

Originally Posted by funinthesun

I made the php file and the template exactly as you described and when I point my url to test.php I get this

Code:

Warning: Division by zero in /includes/functions.php(4320) : eval()'d code on line 98

What have I done wrong?

Post your PHP file and your template.

My PHP file

Code:

<!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">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>



<body>

<?php 



// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ########################### 

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); 



// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 

define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test'); // change this depending on your filename 



// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ###################### 

// get special phrase groups 

$phrasegroups = array( 



); 



// get special data templates from the datastore 

$specialtemplates = array( 

     

); 



// pre-cache templates used by all actions 

$globaltemplates = array( 

    'TEST', 

); 



// pre-cache templates used by specific actions 

$actiontemplates = array( 



); 



// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################ 

require_once('./global.php'); 



// ####################################################################### 

// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################ 

// ####################################################################### 



$navbits = array(); 

$navbits[$parent] = 'Test Page'; 



$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 

eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('TEST') . '");'); 



?> 





</body>

</html>

And my template

Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]

<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">

<head>

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

$headinclude

</head>

<body>

$header



$navbar



<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr>

        <td class="tcat">Title</td>

</tr>

<tr>

        <td class="alt1">Text</td>

</tr>

</table>



$footer

</body>

</html>

Your PHP file shouldn't have any HTML in it!

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php 



// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ########################### 

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); 



// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 

define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test'); // change this depending on your filename 



// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ###################### 

// get special phrase groups 

$phrasegroups = array( 



); 



// get special data templates from the datastore 

$specialtemplates = array( 

     

); 



// pre-cache templates used by all actions 

$globaltemplates = array( 

    'TEST', 

); 



// pre-cache templates used by specific actions 

$actiontemplates = array( 



); 



// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################ 

require_once('./global.php'); 



// ####################################################################### 

// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################ 

// ####################################################################### 



$navbits = array(); 

$navbits[$parent] = 'Test Page'; 



$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 

eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('TEST') . '");'); 



?>

Doh! How stupid am I! It's late and I'm falling asleep, please forgive me ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by funinthesun

Doh! How stupid am I! It's late and I'm falling asleep, please forgive me ;)

lol

Good luck!

I want to display thumbnails on my page of all the same size and when they are clicked it opens the image in a new browser (like google image search). How would I go about doing this?

I am novice in php code just know how .html and use dreamweaver

I could make the test.php file but lost after that I mean where to make teplate and how to link them ...

So, I would be grateful if someone could explain me step by step what, how and where to do

thanks a lot

I tried Iframe code in the template but it didn't display the website that I wanted to display in the costume page created.

Can anyone help me how to display through template

or

how to create a page with just header navbar and footer or say no need to fetch template

thanks

Edit: I fixed it, I was putting the PHP file into the template instead of the HTML stuff.

this method wont work with 3.5.4

Phrase Groups Available:

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.02403 seconds Memory Usage 1,900KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (9)bbcode_code_printable (8)bbcode_php_printable (11)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (4)pagenav_pagelink (1)pagenav_pagelinkrel (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (40)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
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