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Tigga · #**723** 02-19-2003, 07:28 PM

arracing - Ok, this should work for you... I have 2 files attached here (one in this post, one in the next... sorry, I'm being lazy and doing it this way rather than zipping them

) that should help allow you to turn myvbindex into more of a portal rather than just a homepage script. Since the only things you'll be using for the left side of the page are the poll, custom templates, and search, those are the only parts I put in the "portal" part. If you ever decide you need to add something else to that side let me know and I can tell you how to change it.
Now for the instructions... First open the include.php file attached here. Change the path in the chdir part to point to your forums (just as you did with the myvbindex.php file when you first installed it). Then upload both the include.php and myvbindex.php files to the root folder on your server and after they are uploaded you can check the myvbindex.php page to be sure it still loads right. Then you will want to create a new template called include with the following content:

PHP Code:


			
$index_header



<table width="100%" cellspacing="10"><tr align="left" valign="top"><td width="165">



$custom1



$search



$custom2



$currentpoll



</td><td valign="top">

Then you would want to create another new template for the content of the page. It can be called whatever you would like. You would place the following content in the template (or at least something like this):

PHP Code:


			
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>

<!-- no cache headers -->

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">

<meta http-equiv="no-cache">

<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">

<!-- end no cache headers -->

<META NAME="title" CONTENT="$hometitle">

<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="">

<META NAME="description" CONTENT="">



<TITLE>$hometitle</TITLE>

$headinclude

</head>

<body>

$include



<-- YOUR CONTENT GOES HERE -->



</td></tr></table>



$index_footer



</body></html>

Obviously replace the <-- YOUR CONTENT GOES HERE --> part with the html code for the content of that page.

Now for the last part, which is actually getting that template to display. You want to create a new file... It can be called whatever you would like, but must have a .php extension. The content of the file should be something like this:

PHP Code:


			
<?php



$templatesused .= 'testpage,';



require("./include.php");



eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('testpage')."\");");



?>

The only things in that need to be changed are the 2 places you see "testpage". This should be changed to whatever the name of the template you just created is. Change that, upload the file, and it should work just fine. One thing to note... In the first part where you see $templatesused, make sure there is always a comma after the template since there will be more templates called from the include.php file. Also, one nice thing is that you will be able to use replacements in your new templates, and these pages will change to reflect the style a user has selected if you use the replacement tags for the colors and such. And of course to create other pages like this, you would just create a new template and new page, and change then put the name of the template in the 2 places for that page.
Well that should be everything you need to do. If you have any questions or problems let me know.

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