vb.org Archive - View Single Post - Miscellaneous Hacks - Let PHP Live! (Allow PHP code in templates)

King Internet · #13 08-16-2006, 10:39 PM

I'm pretty sure it's annoying when software intentionally tries to limit the administrator. If you have a huge problem, remove Styles Permissions in the administrator permissions for the administrator you cannot trust. All of my admins also have FTP access and have been in my community for 5 years, I would trust them with babysitting my children. If you cannot trust your administrators, then who can you trust? They have access to all of your board. They could delete all of that board. I guess it is a security risk to have administrators at all. :/

However, it is not good to assume that all situations can be solved by saying "well, if it was written RIGHT then this wouldn't be necessary." This is a nice shortcut for anyone who actually wants to turn vBulletin into something else besides a stock vBulletin with a different logo and color scheme.

Here is my situation and the reason I wrote this particular hack: I wanted to integrate the header and footer which vBulletin uses with the rest of my site's template system. I do this by calling top() and bottom() when I need the header and when I need the footer respectively. Since each template has different values that I will need to pass to top() for the navigation selection, title, necessary <head> elements, etc I will need to replace the HTML code that starts every template with a call to top(). Saying that I could just put this in $header is ridiculous- vBulletin itself does not do that. What am I supposed to do? Make a plugin for every single _start of a document? That's also ridiculous, and also hard to maintain.

I know separating code and display is the hot new thing to do, but that doesn't mean you should have to go out of your way to do it. Personally, I like being able to include template files and use PHP formatting logic to echo stuff directly into templates without being assed to make a plugin in some far away part of the CP. vBulletin template support is poor; it needs this.

Thanks to everyone who installed!

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.01432 seconds Memory Usage 1,763KB Queries Executed 11 (?)
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