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Originally Posted by DragonBlade
I have plenty of "custom pages" with no problems whatsoever. Can you post a sample of one page to make sure? When this happens again, disable the plugins globally (you dont need them to render the custom pages), does it still work?
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Thanks for the reply DragonBlade.
I first saw this behavior 3 weeks ago. I had added like 8 or 9 custom pages with now issues at all. Then when I needed add my 10th page it wouldn't work. I was ready to pull my hair out as when creating new custom pages I just use the previous files (plugin code, php file, template file and the php files that are called by the plugins) as templates and just give them new names and rename where appropriate in files, increment the phpincluded number, etc. I created the new page and the thing either would not come up at all or it would be missing the plugin generated content. After renaming and recreating all the files (template, plugins, php file etc) it suddenly worked. What freaked me it is that it made no sense why it worked as I had created the files exactly as before. It was like for two hours 2 + 2 no longer equaled 4. At the time I managed to convince myself that I must have been doing something goofy. After that everything was stable.
Then tonight it happened again. But this time the page would come up missing the content and it killed my cms and forum pages. This really freaked me out. For a period of time just creating and activating the plugin would kill my CMS and formum. Then after that I could creat and activate the plugin but the minute I specifed the new template file name it would kill the CMS and forum. Same drill as last time recreated all files, new names etc. After an hour it worked with the same combination of file names that I started with. Needless to say I am not feeling super confident.
I was wondering if some background maintenance task was causing this issue.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
See below for examples of Template, plugin code, and php template:
Template file-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar
textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}"
id="vbulletin_html">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lookup.js"></script>
<title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle} - {vb:raw pagetitle}</title>
{vb:raw headinclude}
{vb:raw headinclude_bottom}
</head>
<body>
{vb:raw header}
{vb:raw navbar}
{vb:raw $includedphp31}
{vb:raw footer}
</body>
</html>
Plugin code------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ob_start();
include('termsbody.php');
$includedphp31 = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
vB_Template:
reRegister('terms',array('includedph p31' => $includedphp31));
set for global start and execution order of 5, 6 or 7
PHP template---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<?php
// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'home');
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('terms',
);
// 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 ('/path/to/your/forums');
require_once('./global.php');
// ################################################## #####################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// ################################################## #####################
$navbits = construct_navbits(array('' => 'Terms'));
$navbar = render_navbar_template($navbits);
// ###### YOUR CUSTOM CODE GOES HERE #####
$pagetitle = 'Terms and Conditions';
// ###### NOW YOUR TEMPLATE IS BEING RENDERED ######
$templater = vB_Template::create('terms');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
print_output($templater->render());
?>
Php file----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
standard code. Sometimes PHP and HTML or other times just HTML.
Is there a limit to the number of plugins\custom pages?
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