including external php file not working?
 

Hi,

I'm trying to get asrep working with vbulletin. Basically, under the first post in a thread I display a Google Adsense Ad.

I want to be able to use the asrep fraud prevention feature. So I have done the following.

Created an external php file called displayad1.php in the root of my forum with the following content:
Then I create a new plugin which hooks into showthread_start:

At this point I have not added $displayad1 to my template, but if I visit my forum I get the following error message:

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

You can not use HTML style comment in PHP/Plugins. ;)

Is HTML, not valid in a PHP script.

Ah, yes, thank you for that, I have removed that line and it works.. But I have come across another problem......

I've add the $displayad1 to the postbit template.

If I hook the plugin to the showthread_start location, no ads are displayed, but it I change the location to postbit_display_start the ad is displayed as per normal.

Is postbit_display_start called for all posts in a thread? if so how can I get the plugin to only run once when displaying posts in a trread? As stated above, i've tried adding it to the showthread_start location, but no ads are displayed?

Cheers ...
Gerald.

Try the showthread_complete hook location.

Hi,

Changing it to the showthread_complete hook location doesn't work, no ads are displayed. Any other suggestions?

Use $GLOBALS[displayad1] in the template.

Marco forgot about his variable scopes. Rookie... :p

Hi,

I had to change the hook location to showthread_start and now $GLOBALS[displayad1] works perfectly.

Thanks everyone for their help! :)