Including templates in VBulletin

[Sothside40]

Hey, I'm currently trying to write a mod (my first) for vBulletin, and from the mods I've read it seems like they've been able to include their templates inside of other templates such as:

<template name="myTemplate" etc="" etc="">
<div>This is what the first template is</div>
</template>

Then from there I go into the style editor, and inside of the footer template I throw in: $myTemplate. The desired result is for the template I defined as "myTemplate" to be shown inside of the footer. Am I mistaken on the functionality of this? And if so, can you please tell me what I've done wrong?

[Lynne]

You need to eval a template before it can be used. Look in any of the php pages and you will see templates evaled:

PHP Code:

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('tracker_newupload') . '");'); 


[Sothside40]

fetch_template() seems to be returning null, no matter what template I use it on.

[Lynne]

Well, you probably need to include it in the global templates first.

You should take a look at these articles - How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates) or [How-To] vBulletin API Basics: Creating Custom Pages & Misc.

[Sothside40]

I've read those articles, and I can't even get the examples working. fetch_template() is still returning absolutely nothing, even with templates that already exist (footer, navbar, etc).

PHP Code:

array_push($globaltemplates, 'test');
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('test') . '");'); 


Result is a blank page, when it should be displaying a table. (that I have defined and am 100% positive exists in my boards templates)

[Lynne]

Post your full php page and your full template. That way we can see what you are doing wrong.

[Sothside40]

Template: test

PHP Code:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
    <tr>

    <td class="tcat" width="100%">
    <a  style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('my_table')"><img id="collapseimg_my_table" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_my_table].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
    <div style="text-align: center;">
      New Table Title
    </div>
    </td>
    <tbody id="collapseobj_my_table" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_my_table]">
    </tr>

    <tr>

    <td class="alt1" width="100%">
      <div class="smallfont">
        [snip]
      </div>
    </td>

    </tr>
</table> 


PHP: plugin hooked to cache_templates

PHP Code:

array_push($globaltemplates, 'test');
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('test') . '");'); 


That's all there is to it.

[Adam21]

Whats your full php page?Is this page gonna be a link in your navbar or?

[Sothside40]

I'm gathering the boards last.fm group statistics via the API (which are received with no problem) formatting them into HTML, and then placing them on the forum.

This will add a table(for content) between the main boards and navbar. I know currently my example would merely output just a table, but that's easily remedied once I can get my issues resolved.