Include Global.php on Main Site
 

With vb 3.0.7 I could include global.php to give me access to things like bbuserinfo and such, which many of the scripts on my site work off of.

Now if I include it, I no longer have access to those variables, and it messes up my .htaccess settings so that everything is redirected to the main page.

Any solutions?

It still works the same, but the names of the variables have changed. See the topics on moving from 3.0 to 3.5 in the 3.5 tutorials section.

okay I will look into the variable changes, but any help on the .htaccess thing? The specific .htaccess that isnt working is the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|media|forums|layout|gamingextreme|inc ludes|news|archive|dave)
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ index.php?id=site/$1

Basically just makes

http://www.ffextreme.com/index.php?id=ff6

look like

http://www.ffextreme.com/ff6.html

When I include the global.php, it redirects all of the pages to the main page for some reason.

What is the exact code of your script?

through the process of trial and error I figured out what the problem is, but I dont know how to fix it.

Basically if I include global.php, if I try to pass any variables through the URL, for example.

index.php?id=blah or index.php?page=blah they dont get passed, they just are NULL values.

Any idea why it does this?

You will have to use $vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc or $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc on them.

how exactly do you use that function?

Then use the var in the rest of your script:

Okay I did that, now the variable is always giving the value 0. Is there a certain place I need to put the clean_array_gpc?

You might need to use TYPE_STR instead of TYPE_INT if it is not an integer var.