vb.org Archive - Getting a message to post

I haven't written any PHP since I was in school about 8 years ago so I'm sure this is going to be a pretty n00b question.

I'm working on my first product and had a question about how to post messages. I got pretty far with the awesome articles here but I'm at a point where I'm lost to the extent of where I don't even know what terms I would use to search for an answer.

I have the following PHP file:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php



error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// add for wysiwyg

define('GET_EDIT_TEMPLATES', true);

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'trprojects_test');

define('CSRF_PROTECTION', true);



// ################### 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('trprojects_test',);



// 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 ('/home/sandboxt/public_html');

require_once('./global.php');

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_editor.php');

require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_bigthree.php');





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

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

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





//$editorid = construct_edit_toolbar('',1,'signature',1,1,($vbulletin->userinfo['userid']));

$editorid = construct_edit_toolbar("test body text",0,0,1,1,0,'fe');



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

$pagetitle = 'My Projects';



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



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

$templater->register_page_templates();

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

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

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

print_output($templater->render());



if ($_POST['do'] == 'postreply')

{

   $outputvar .= "test it";

}

and my template:

Code:

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"<vb:if condition="$vboptions['enablefacebookconnect']"> xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"</vb:if> dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}">

<head>

        {vb:raw headinclude}



        {vb:cssfile attachment.css}

        <script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin-editor.js?v={vb:raw vboptions.simpleversion}"></script>

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

{vb:raw headinclude_bottom}

</head>

<body>

{vb:raw header}



{vb:raw navbar}



    <div id="pagetitle">

      <h1>{vb:raw pagetitle}</h1>

    </div>







<form class="vbform block" action="/projects/post.php?do=postreply" method="post" name="vbform" onsubmit="return vB_Editor['{vb:raw editorid}'].prepare_submit(0,0)">



        <h2 class="blockhead">{vb:rawphrase your_message}</h2>

        <div class="blockbody formcontrols">

                <div class="section">



                        {vb:raw messagearea}



                </div>

        </div>

        <div class="blockfoot actionbuttons">

                <div class="group">

                                <input type="hidden" name="s" value="{vb:raw session.sessionhash}" />

                                <input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="{vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" />

                                <input type="hidden" name="do" value="postreply" />

                                <input type="submit" class="button" name="sbutton" id="{vb:raw editorid}_save" value="submit it" accesskey="s" tabindex="1" />

                                <input type="submit" class="button" name="preview" value="preview" accesskey="r" tabindex="1" />

                </div>

        </div>

</form>



{vb:raw footer}



</body>

</html>

My question is how do I get the text that is entered in the form's messagearea to display on a new page? I'll be eventually sending this message to the DB. As long as I know how to get the text to show up on a new page, I'm sure I can figure out the rest (I'm pretty well versed in other languages).

--------------- Added [DATE]1317163406[/DATE] at [TIME]1317163406[/TIME] ---------------

I meant how do I get the text to show up in a new vBulletin page?

An example would be when I click "Go Advanced" it takes me to newreply.php. Then when I enter text and click submit reply it takes me back to showthread.php.

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.01083 seconds Memory Usage 1,759KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)bbcode_code_printable (1)bbcode_php_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (9)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
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