How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates)

[Digital Jedi]

Yup, just add it to your forum directory where all your other files are.

[XxBuLLeTz]

im using this custom vb page for my site, so its forums/videos.php

im going to be adding videos so how can i make it so i dont need to add a template everytime...cause ive seen video.php?id=1 <-just something like that.

any help is very much appreciated!

[Mum]

I am wanting to get a page from elsewhere and insert it so it looks like it's on my site (the other page is also mine ie hosted on the same please) how can i do this?

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Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You could do that with an iframe, but it seems to me the simplest thing to do would be just to put the HTML of that page into your template, and make that page tickers.php.

I want to keep the html of that page seperate as it's updated automatically, so it means every day a few times a day i'd be manually copying and pasting the html into the template. How can i just CALL the html from the other page? ie open up the other page inside it?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Mum

I am wanting to get a page from elsewhere and insert it so it looks like it's on my site (the other page is also mine ie hosted on the same please) how can i do this?

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I want to keep the html of that page seperate as it's updated automatically, so it means every day a few times a day i'd be manually copying and pasting the html into the template. How can i just CALL the html from the other page? ie open up the other page inside it?

So tickers, I see, is actually tickers/index.php and not an HTML page. Well, there are more intricate solutions I'm sure, but one way I've done this is using an iFrame to display the content as if it were one page.

Just follow the instructions as stated, and then in the HTML area add: <iframe src="tickers/index.php" height="xx" width="xx" frameborder="0"></iframe> And, of course, you can adjust things as you like, and you'd never have to change the template again other then for tweaking and getting the style just right, and it will look like one integrated page. There's a also a really good script on Dynamic Drive for creating an iFrame that resizes based on the content of the frame, in case you have really dynamic content that would need that. You can save the page as tickets.php and it won't conflict with /tickers/

[Mum]

Is there a way to make it open, just whatever size it is? Cos the page changes. Like 100% instead?

[Digital Jedi]

100% wont do it. It will just stretch to 100% of the users browser window. The code for making the iframe adjust to the size of the content is at Dynamic Drive. http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...iframessi2.htm

[CommanderFluffy]

i have completed what the tutorial says. i have made a test template and changed header include to what is stated. then i put my code in another folder...

pub_html>community
pub_html>file here

heres the code i have i dont really know if i made the template right or not in stylemanager since it didnt really state where to put it.

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

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'index1'); // change this depending on your filename 

//########################## REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
$currentdir = getcwd();
chdir('/home/site/public_html/community');
require_once('./global.php');
chdir($currentdir);  


// ################### 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( 
    't1', 
); 

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

); 


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

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

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('t1') . '");');

the page when i load it in any directory ends up being blank. no errors or anything just blank white. the template should be showing but isnt. everything i have tryed throught the entire thead here has no effect aparently... or i have something wrong... is there any way to show this page on a non vb folder? cause it doesnt show in the vb folder either

[Digital Jedi]

Try just putting the PHP file in your main forum directory.

I'm not sure what you mean by you don't know where to put the template, as the template can only be in one place, in the style manager. Also, you should not have made any changes to your headinclude.

[CommanderFluffy]

i added it to the main forum and i still have a blank page

[Digital Jedi]

I just noticed that the code you posted looks quite different from the sample PHP code. I'd recommend starting over and keep everything exactly the way it is in the tutorial, except for your template and file names of course, and see if that fixes your problem.