Hello Lynne,
I used this thread to create a Google custom search results page and it works great.

However, my problem is I have Google adsense ads in the navbar and footer, how do I exclude the ads from the "search results page" as they are against Google terms of service?

You would need to put a condition around the code in the ad to not show it on this page. (Use your definition of THIS__SCRIPT in the condition.)

Thank you Lynne for helping me and everyone else with in this thread...

Here is the condition I used around the ad, works great. Maybe this will help someone else!

Hi Lynne - I'm wondering if you can help me. I have tons of pre-existing custom HTML (actually .php) pages, all which leverage a server-side include, let's call it header.php.

I'd like to replace the contents of header.php with something that would allow all of my pre-existing pages to automagically support my vbulletin header and navigation.

All these pages also reference a footer.php, if that is helpful to the cause (but that's easy enough for me to replicate, at least visually what is shown to the user).

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I get an undefined error when trying to wrap this around my ad code via the Advertisements feature within AdminCP. Do you embed your ads manually?

Sorry tonmo, but I don't understand your question at all. This is just a tutorial on how to make a single custom page. If you want to reference other scripts in the page, that is fine, but you need to write the code in those scripts and write the code in the php page. This isn't a tutorial on how to write your code.

As for the undefined error.... you need to change Your_Definition to a valid name or that isn't going to work.

To clarify - I have dozens of static php pages that I created long before I implemented vBulletin. The page format is this:

HEADER
..
UNIQUE ARTICLE CONTENT
..
FOOTER

The HEADER and FOOTER are separate included files (i.e., header.php and footer.php); they are common across all article pages. I am wondering if there is any common vb4 code I can put into the header and footer files in order to wrap all of these articles into the vbulletin look and feel. I'm running 4.1.1.

Does that help explain what I'm trying to do?

Yes, that explains it better. I would guess you would want to assign the contents of those files to a variable and then spit them out into the template. I know I've seen the code posted around here to do that, but don't know it off the top of my head. (I think it's even posted in this thread somewhere.)

Can you use an example.

Thanks - but probably not for me. I want each page to retain its own unique title and I don't believe your method would allow that.

All of my static pages exist in different places throughout my site, and have signifcant inbound links that I don't want to break. So far I've found two ways to convert them into vb pages:

1) Simply create new Article pages via CMS and copy/paste the original article contents into the new file. Convert the static page to a permanent redirect which points to the new CMS article.

2) Use the method described in this thread (How To Create Your Own vBulletin Page).

I'm finding both to be a bit labor-intensive (I have dozens of pages). Maybe 5 or 10 mins per article - those add up! Since all my static pages use server-side includes for the header and footer, I was hoping I could insert the logo, ad, and navbar at the top, and the footer at the bottom, so that I would only need to edit two files (the two includes) and viola! My site is converted. Seems that's not an option?

Good article, thank you. ;)