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Originally Posted by djohn

Here's a better description of what i need.
Forum address: www.site.com/forums/index.php
Image gallery main page address: www.site.com/forums/gallery/index.php
Needed address: www.site.com/forums/gallery.php

Previously, i've used invision, and there i could do this simply by adding the required entry in www.site.com/forums/index.php. For example, if my file was gallery.php, i would add the folowing:

"gal" => "gallery",

And then if I called www.site.com/forums/index.php?act=gal I'd see my gallery. Contents of the gallery.php would be as follows:

<?php
$idx = new gallery;

class gallery {

   var $output     = "";
   var $page_title = "";
   var $nav        = array();
   var $html       = "";
   var $base_url   = "";   
   function Articles()
   {
    global $ibforums, $DB, $std, $print;
    require('/home/site/public_html/forums/gallery/index.php');    
    $print->add_output('');
       $print->do_output( array( 'TITLE' => "Gallery", 'JS' => 0, NAV => array( "Gallery" ) ) );
 }
}
?>

That would do it in invision, no skin modification would even be required.

The quiestion is, how can i do this in vBulletin, still having it's design, footer and header?

Not sure if the above post would do exactly what he wants it to do. This is just a tried and tested way, it works and it works well (see PHP code in attachment, it works).


VB has been built in a way where its very easy to expand upon it and make use of functions while keeping performance at an optimum.

Just try this... put the following code in a PHP file called integrate.php, upload it to your forum directory and run it.

You will be presented with a custom page, using the vbulletin template. header, footer everything.

PHP Code:

<?php

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

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'gallery');


// #######################################################################
// ######################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES #########################
// #######################################################################
$globaltemplates = array(
'GENERIC_SHELL',
'agallery',
'navbar'
);


$specialtemplates = array(
'smiliecache',
'bbcodecache'
);




// #######################################################################
// ######################### REQUIRE BACKEND #############################
// #######################################################################
require_once('./global.php');




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

$navbits = array();

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);


// Do your processing here (thats the code to get the gallery images into a table 
// or whatever it does).

// BTW, the code to parse a template is:
// eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('agallery') . '";');

// $HTML is your main content area (the middle bit)




// ### ALL DONE! SPIT OUT THE HTML AND LET'S GET OUTA HERE... ###

eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('GENERIC_SHELL') . '");');
?>

Very simple, very powerful, very effective.

Just try it.