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i create a page with this learning

now how can i change this page to a product?

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Originally Posted by mohammad6006 (Post 2217339)

i create a page with this learning

now how can i change this page to a product?

You cannot includes files in a product xml file. You need to include them separately. And then to include the templates, you need to be in debug mode (there is an article about this) and then add the template to the product.

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Originally Posted by Lynne (Post 2206060)

You should have no echo statements in your coding or it will go above the template header. All output in your page should be assigned to a variable, that variable registered for use in a template, and then the variable put in the template where you want your output to show.

Sorry, I am not a coder and am still trying to figure out vbulletin.

So I went into my PHP code and replaced the echo with:
$test1 = "..."

I then tested it by adding echo "$test1" and that worked.

So then I tried adding this variable to the template but this is where I am having no luck. Here is what I have in the template:

Code:

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" id="vbulletin_html">

  <head>

    <title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle} - {vb:raw pagetitle}</title>

    {vb:raw headinclude}

    {vb:raw headinclude_bottom}

  </head>

  <body>

    

    {vb:raw header}

    

    {vb:raw navbar}

    

    <div id="pagetitle">

      <h1>{vb:raw pagetitle}</h1>

    </div>

    

    <h2 class="blockhead">Title</h2>

    <div class="blockbody">

      <div class="blockrow">

        Text

      </div>

    </div>



<h1> Test 1 </h1>

        

{vb:raw test1};

    

    {vb:raw footer}

  </body>

</html>

I'm not sure if I got this wrong

You need to pass it to the template.

Add this before the print_output($templater->render()); line:

PHP Code:


		
			
$templater->register('test1', $test1);

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Schneider (Post 2219182)

You need to pass it to the template.

Add this before the print_output($templater->render()); line:

PHP Code:


		
			
$templater->register('test1', $test1);

Ah, great that worked somewhat. I think maybe I'm using the wrong command. Basically I am trying to pull out threads from the forum and put the links onto an external page. Here is my PHP Code:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?

    //print Today's threads

       $query = "SELECT * from vbthread where dateline >". $one_day_ago . " AND dateline <" . $today . " AND FORUMID in (2,4,6)";

        $result = mysql_query($query . " ORDER BY (views+votetotal) DESC"); 



    //print it

    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {

        $test1 = "<a href='showthread.php?". $row["threadid"] . "'>".  $row["title"] . " " . $row['postusername'] . " " . $row['votetotal']/$row['votenum'] . " avg score " . "|" . $row['votetotal']  . " votetotal" . "  +  " . $row['views'] . " views " . "  =  " . ($row['votetotal']+$row['views']) . "</a><br/>";

I added your $templater code to and that worked but it only shows the very last thread not all of the threads. I think I need to be using a different code in the template other than {vb:raw variable}?

Also if I want to then add another variable I can just do the same thing? Add another line

PHP Code:


		
			
$templater->register('test2', $test2);

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and add the vb code in the template?

Yes, you can do that for as many variables as you like.

Regarding your problem that only the last line is shown: In your while loop, you're overwriting your $test1 variable with every single loop, so only the result of the last one is returned in the end. You need not use $test1 = "whatever", but $test .= "whatever". This will not overwrite the existing value of the variable, but preserve the old value and add the new value at the end of the string.

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Originally Posted by cellarius (Post 2219194)

Awesome! That works great!

One last problem I have. As I am trying to pull threads from X days ago, for some reason the date seems to be one day off. Here is what I have defined for x days ago:

PHP Code:


		
			
$today = strtotime("now");

    $one_day_ago = strtotime("-1 day");

    $two_days_ago = strtotime("-2 day");

    $three_days_ago = strtotime("-3 day");

    $four_days_ago = strtotime("-4 day");

    $five_days_ago = strtotime("-5 day");

    $six_days_ago = strtotime("-6 day");

    $seven_days_ago = strtotime("-7 day");

    $eight_days_ago = strtotime("-8 day");

    $nine_days_ago = strtotime("-9 day");

    $ten_days_ago = strtotime("-10 day");

Its showing $today values as yesterdays threads instead of today's...seems like all of them are off by one day. I think it is because it is showing the threads that were posted exactly 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours, etc from the time the page is loaded. Is there a way to change that to just any threads there were posted on X Date regardless of the time.

You really need to open your own thread for this - this has nothing to do with this tutorial.

I've followed this tutorial to a 'T' (as far as I can tell) yet the php file I'm trying to call (a newsletter form submission) won't load within the template.

I created newssubscription.php and put it in my forum folder.

Code:

<?php



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

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);



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



define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'newslettersubscription');

define('CSRF_PROTECTION', true);  

// 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('newsletter_subscription',

);



// pre-cache templates used by specific actions

$actiontemplates = array();



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

// if your page is outside of your normal vb forums directory, you should change directories by uncommenting the next line

// chdir ('/path/to/your/forums');

require_once('./global.php');



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

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

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



$navbits = construct_navbits(array('' => 'Newsletter Subscription'));

$navbar = render_navbar_template($navbits);



// ###### YOUR CUSTOM CODE GOES HERE #####

$pagetitle = 'Newsletter Subscription';



// ###### NOW YOUR TEMPLATE IS BEING RENDERED ######



$templater = vB_Template::create('newsletter_subscription');

$templater->register_page_templates();

$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);

$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);

$templater->register('subscribe_newsletter', $subscribe_newsletter);



print_output($templater->render());



?>

I then created a template called newsletter_subscription.

Code:

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" id="vbulletin_html">

  <head>

    <title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle} - {vb:raw pagetitle}</title>

    {vb:raw headinclude}

    {vb:raw headinclude_bottom}

  </head>

  <body>

    

    {vb:raw header}

    

    {vb:raw navbar}

    

    <div id="pagetitle">

      <!-- <h1>{vb:raw pagetitle}</h1> -->

    </div>

    

    <center><h2 class="blockhead">Newsletter Subscription</h2></center>

    <div class="blockbody">

      <div class="blockrow">



<center>{vb:raw subscribe_newsletter}</center>



      </div>

    </div>



    {vb:raw footer}

  </body>

</html>

Finally I created a vBulletin, global_start plug-in called subscribe_newsletter that is active.

Code:

ob_start();

include('/home/fpaul46/public_html/forum/newsletter_form/form.php');

$includedphp = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_clean();

I've checked and rechecked and everything seems to be entered correctly. Any thoughts on what's happening? What am I missing that is preventing this from working?

There are no plugins in the test.php page. You need to put the php into the test.php page. Plugins are for modifying files you don't want to actually modify. When you create your own php page, you need to put all php in there because they don't use plugins.

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