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Marc.F

10-17-2007 10:27 AM

PHP Include in Header

Hi Guys..

I am in the process of creating a skin for my forum but i have ran into a problem.

My problem is:

Can i use a PHP include such as:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

  include('../../core.php');

  top('Forum');

?>

in my header template (not headerinclude).

Cheers,
Marc

Marco van Herwaarden

10-17-2007 10:40 AM

No, you can not use PHP in templates, they are only HTML.

You can however create a plugin with your PHP-code, assign the output to a variable and use that variable in your template.

Marc.F

10-17-2007 11:07 AM

Ill give that a try and post back! Thanks!

By the way, what would my Hook Location be? The header?

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Anyone?! Please!!

Analogpoint

10-17-2007 02:20 PM

Use global_start if you want it to be available on all pages.

Marc.F

10-17-2007 02:26 PM

Ok, thanks but how do i put this in my template?

As you can probubly guess, im a beginner with vBulletin code!

Analogpoint

10-17-2007 02:30 PM

Plugin on the global_start hook:

PHP Code:


		
			
$myheader = '<h1>My Header Here</h1>';

Then near the top of your header template:

Code:

<!-- logo -->

<a name="top"></a>



$myheader

Marc.F

10-17-2007 02:46 PM

Thanks,

I have created a new product (called 'nav') and added a plugin within (called 'navshow') it's hook location is global_start... In plugin 'navshow i have:

Code:

$navig ='<?php

  include('../../../core.php');

  top('Forum');

?>';

Also, in my header template i have $navig.

It still isnt working, what am i doing wrong :(

Thanks in advance!

Analogpoint

10-17-2007 02:52 PM

Change your plugin code to:

PHP Code:


		
			
ob_start();
include('../../../core.php');
top('Forum');
$navig = ob_get_clean();

Dismounted

10-18-2007 06:01 AM

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/templates_externalfiles" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/t..._externalfiles</a>

Marc.F

10-18-2007 08:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dismounted (Post 1362884)

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/t..._externalfiles

Thanks! Just what i was looking for!

suttercain

11-23-2007 07:17 PM

Hi guys,

I foollowed the direction to this post as well as the official documentation and I can't seem to get it to work.

I went to "Plugins & Products" and created a new plugin. The product was selected to vBulletin, I set the hook location as vBulletin General > global_start. I left the Execution order at 5 (i have no idea what this is) and I added

Code:

ob_start();

  include('http://www.supermandatabase.com/header.php');

  $includedphp = ob_get_contents();

  ob_end_clean();

to the Plugin PHP Code box.

I then went and placed $includedphp into the header box on my template. Nothing... does not work. What can I do?

Thanks

Analogpoint

11-23-2007 09:00 PM

You need to include a file on your server

include('./header.php');

or

include('/path/to/the/file/header.php');

suttercain

11-23-2007 11:26 PM

Thanks for the reply.

I changed

Code:

ob_start();

  include('http://www.supermandatabase.com/header.php');

  $includedphp = ob_get_contents();

  ob_end_clean();

Code:

ob_start();

  include('/home/superman/public_html/header.php');

  $includedphp = ob_get_contents();

  ob_end_clean();

and I also tried

Code:

ob_start();

  include('./header.php');

  $includedphp = ob_get_contents();

  ob_end_clean();

I didn't change any of the other things I listed above. Still no luck...

Any other suggestions? Thanks again.

SC

Analogpoint

11-24-2007 02:59 AM

Try this temporarily, and see if it outputs the contents of the header file

Code:

ob_start();

require_once('/home/superman/public_html/header.php');

$includedphp = ob_get_clean();

echo '<hr>before';

echo $includedphp;

echo 'after<hr>';

die;

suttercain

11-24-2007 03:09 AM

Nada.. nothing showed up in the header. I wonder if it's a pathing issue (I ran a php script and verified the correct path though) or something else?

Analogpoint

11-24-2007 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by suttercain (Post 1388425)

Nada.. nothing showed up in the header.

Nothing at all showed up?

suttercain

11-24-2007 03:28 AM

Nope. You can see the bulletin board here
supermandatabase.com/forums

I even triple checked to make sure that the plugin were turned on. I tried renaming the variabl and placing it into the header. Nothing... I know a lot of php and this has me scratching my head.

SC

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't mean "Nothing" showed up. I meant nothing showed p that we set in the plugin variable.

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