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Want to create your very own vBulletin powered page which includes the header, footer, and the user permissions system as well?

Well now you can

Want to know how it will look? Take a look at the attached screenshot below!

Now includes the Who's Online modification!
Also, instructions included on how to create your own pages that are integrated with current vBulletin files!

I'm going to give you a generic page but you can easily modify the contents of the page by changing the template

So here we go

Instructions:

Create a new file, whatever you want to call it (let's say test.php).
Open up test.php and add the following (replace TEST with whatever template you want to show):
PHP Code:
<?php

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

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

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

);

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

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

$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'Test Page';

$navbits construct_navbits($navbits);
eval(
'$navbar = "' fetch_template('navbar') . '";');
eval(
'print_output("' fetch_template('TEST') . '");');

?>
Be sure to change 'TEST' to the actual template name, and change 'test' to the filename. Also, change 'Test Page' to whatever you want to show in the navbar, such as 'Viewing Member Profile' (just an example).

Now create the template, called TEST with the following content:
HTML Code:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header

$navbar

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
    <td class="tcat">Title</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="alt1">Text</td>
</tr>
</table>

$footer
</body>
</html>
All done
Now check it out by going to test.php

Who's Online Modification

Now if you want to show who is browsing this new page of yours, just open up includes/functions_online.php and find:
PHP Code:
    case 'bugs.php':
        
$userinfo['activity'] = 'bugs';
        break; 
Below, add:
PHP Code:
    case 'test.php':
        
$userinfo['activity'] = 'test';
        break; 
(Be sure to change the values to your own!)

Then find:
PHP Code:
        case 'modcplogin':
            
$userinfo['action'] = $vbphrase['moderator_control_panel_login'];
            break; 
Below add:
PHP Code:
        case 'test':
            
$userinfo['action'] = 'Viewing Test Page';
            break; 
All done!

----------------------------------

Also if you want to create your own pages 'within' current vBulletin files, do the following:

Open the file you want, and then right before the final ?> in the source code, add the following:

PHP Code:
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'xxx')
{
    eval(
'print_output("' fetch_template('TEMPLATE_XXX') . '");');

Replace 'xxx' with whatever you want ?do= in the query string to be (for example, replace 'xxx' with 'showprofile' so then someone would type in example.php?do=showprofile to view this template.) Then of course, change TEMPLATE_XXX to your template name, it's that simple!


edit by Lynne: If running 3.8.4 or above, see this post to take care of the PHP 5.3.0-related problems - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1171
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Old 06-29-2009, 08:07 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary King View Post
Create a new file, whatever you want to call it (let's say test.php).
Open up test.php and add the following (replace TEST with whatever template you want to show):
PHP Code:
<?php
 
// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
 
// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS'1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT''test'); // 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(
    
'TEST',
);
 
// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array(
 
);
 
// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
require_once('./global.php');
 
// #######################################################################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #######################################################################
 
$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'Test Page';
 
$navbits construct_navbits($navbits);
eval(
'$navbar = "' fetch_template('navbar') . '";');
eval(
'print_output("' fetch_template('TEST') . '");');
 
?>
Be sure to change 'TEST' to the actual template name, and change 'test' to the filename. Also, change 'Test Page' to whatever you want to show in the navbar, such as 'Viewing Member Profile' (just an example).

Now create the template, called TEST with the following content:
HTML Code:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header
 
$navbar
 
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
    <td class="tcat">Title</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="alt1">Text</td>
</tr>
</table>
 
$footer
</body>
</html>
 
 
All done
Now check it out by going to test.php
I do that and i get blank page http://www.dacho.co.il/test.php
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Old 06-29-2009, 08:22 AM
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You're doing SOMETHING wrong. Can you post the .php and template codes you're using?
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Old 06-30-2009, 02:58 AM
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hi all

I want to make the header and footer

but the content of the page
is from another site

can anyone explain this 2 me
easily
as I'm not professional @ all
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Old 06-30-2009, 05:23 PM
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Is this up to date with the latest VB? (3.8.3)
Or do I need to do some extra modifications?

--------------- Added [DATE]1246386340[/DATE] at [TIME]1246386340[/TIME] ---------------

In addition, would it be a good idea to put PHP logic into the VBulletin plugin system? Or should I just put them in this new php page?
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Old 06-30-2009, 11:08 PM
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This worked great! Thank you.
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Hello
I'm trying to design one custom page while keeping vbulletin header, navbar and footer on it.
I've referred to following topics :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=logicians
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=217075
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=197563

Here is the custom page i wanna have headers and footers on.
http://www.projectsplanet.org/forums/testverify.php
Enter code 1234test to test above page.

When i try to put my code as follows in custom template created in Vbulletin admin CP, i'm getting error :
Quote:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header

$navbar

[MY CODE GOES HERE]

$footer
</body>
</html>
When i try to save above template, i get following error :
Code:
The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home2/******/public_html/forums/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3729) : eval()'d code on line 16
I guess its because i'm also trying to write php code within template.
Please check attached php file testverify.php
Please tell me how do i put vbulletin header, navbar and footer there.

Following are the contents of attached testverify.php if you do not wish to download it :
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Purchase AdiInviter</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$done=0;
$trid=$_POST['trans'];
if (!empty($_POST['step'])) $step=$_POST['step'];
else $step='inp';
          	
?>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="70%" align="center">

<tr>
	<td class="tcat">Verify</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
	<div class="panel">
		<div align="left">
		  <div style="margin: 10px"> 
          <?php
		  if ($step=="inp")
			{			
			?>
		    <form id="verify" name="verify" method="post" action="">
		      <label>
		      <div align="center">
		        <p><strong>Enter Paypal Transaction ID of VbInviter Payment :</strong> 
	              <input type="text" name="trans" id="trans" />
	              </p>
		        <p>
                <input type="hidden" name="step" value="transid">
		          <input type="submit" name="step" id="step" value="verify" />
		          <br />
	              </p>
		      </div>
		      </label>
	        </form>
	      </div>

		</div>
	</div>
    <?php
	}
	else if ($step=="verify")
	{
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$clients="1234test";
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
if ($trid==$clients)
{
$done=1;
}
else
{
$done=0;
}
	  if ($done==1)
		{
    ?>
      <div align="center">
        <p><strong>
    		Successfully verified!
        </strong></p>
            <br />
            <span class="highlight style2">Package #1</span><br />
            Discount Price = <strong>45$ USD</strong><br />
            <a href="http://www.projectsplanet.org/purchase.php">Click here to check Package #1 features. </a><br />
            <----------Buy Link---------->
<br /><br />
            <span class="highlight style2">Package #2</span><br />
            Discount Price = <strong>80$ USD</strong><br />
            <a href="http://www.projectsplanet.org/purchase.php">Click here to check Package #2 features. </a><br />
           <----------Buy Link---------->
            
      </div>
            	      </div>

		</div>
	</div>

			<?php
            }
			else if ($done==0)
			{

            ?>
                            <div align="center">
		        <p><strong>
    		You have entered wrong transaction id.
            </strong><br /><br />
            <a href="verify.php">Click here to try again</a>.</p>
                            </div>
            	      </div>

		</div>
	</div>

       <?php
	   }
	   }
	   ?>
	      </div>

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

</body>
</html>



Detailed instructions are much appreciated.
Regards
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You should follow Gary King's article that you linked to. In it, you'll see that you don't do your php page like you have written above at all. Your template will be fine as long as you don't put php in it. Start with the stuff in Gary's article and then add your custom code to it.
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Is there any way i can do PHP with this like

Quote:
Header & Navbar

PHP Code Here

Footer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pspmodandcfw View Post
Is there any way i can do PHP with this like
no.

You are supposed to do this:

something.php
Code:
set some variables
require_once('global.php');

PHP code here

output(eval(fetch_template('something')));
and in the template:
Code:
header and navbar

output of the php code

footer
More or less, that is the general idea.
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Thank you my good Sir. Ill try that out

Edit - What do you mean output of PHP code, the HTML form?
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