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nubian · #43 12-17-2009, 06:51 PM

So I've been tinkering around with this tutorial and was close to raising the white flag of surrender because I could not understand this for the life of me.
So after long grueling hours, I've manage to figure things out and get things working...well sort of.

I've used Lynne's artcle "[HOW TO - vB4] Create a own vBulletin page" and managed to create an about us page.

My about us page named, "about.php" look like this...

PHP Code:


			
<?php

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'aboutus_plug');
define('CSRF_PROTECTION', true);
// change this depending on your filename

// ################### 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('about_us',);

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array();

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
require_once('./global.php');

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

$navbits = construct_navbits(array('' => 'About Us'));
$navbar = render_navbar_template($navbits);

// ###### YOUR CUSTOM CODE GOES HERE #####
$pagetitle = 'My Page Title';

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

$templater = vB_Template::create('aboutus_tmplt');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
print_output($templater->render());
?>

My template page named, "aboutus_tmplt" looks like this...

Code:

{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" id="vbulletin_html">
  <head>
    <title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</title>
    {vb:raw headinclude}
  </head>
  <body>
    
    {vb:raw header}
    
    {vb:raw navbar}
    
    <h2 class="blockhead">About Us blockhead text</h2>
    <div class="blockbody">
      <div class="blockrow">
       About Us text here
      </div>
    </div>
    
    {vb:raw footer}
  </body>
</html>

My plug-in script named, "aboutus_plug" looks like this...

PHP Code:


			
if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'aboutus_plug')
{
$tabselected = ' class="selected"';
$vbulletin->options['selectednavtab'] = 'About Us';
}
$template_hook['navtab_middle'] .= '<li'.$tabselected.'><a class="navtab" href="about.php">About Us</a>'.$tablinks.'</li>';

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It feels awesome when things just work!
Like they say, "If it ain't broken, don't fix it", well that's not how it is in my case because my knowledge of VB's coding is fairly basic so I feel like I may have butchered some things that weren't necessary.

What I'm concerned with is that I have no idea what this line of does in my plug-in code.

PHP Code:


			
$vbulletin->options['selectednavtab'] = 'About Us';

Because I could name it, "Foo" and it will still work.
Can anyone shed some light as what that line of code does?

Also what I'm hoping for is that if anyone can please verify that the lines of code I have posted are valid giving their respective names and all?
Any help will greatly be appreciated.

Thanks.

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