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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!

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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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you have to eval temp2 and store the result in a variable before you try to print_output from temp1. see how navbar is processed in the example in the first post.
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I had this page working for about 2 years, and all of the sudden it stops working and if i'm not login it ask me to login and when I log-in it says

"username, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:... etc".

Like I said I had this working for 2 years and it stops working and I haven't changed any of the code on the page.

How can I get this back to work?

Can someone really help me out with this. I can't figured out why I'm getting permission deny on my custom page. I did follow all the steps propertly.
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If you want, send to my e-mail (carlito@psfantasy.com) a copy of the file that is giving you issues. Of course, being able to see your exact setup would make debugging this very easy - maybe you could give us more details?
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Old 08-04-2007, 11:33 AM
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umm how do i limit the page to be viewed ONLY to registered members?
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Did everything right but am just getting a blank page. Any suggestions?

Template Name: About_Us
Code:
PHP Code:
 <?php 

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

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS'1); 
define('THIS_SCRIPT''http://www.u-connex.com/About_Us.php'); // 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( 
'About_Us'
); 

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

); 

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

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

$navbits = array(); 
$navbits[$parent] = 'About Us'

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

?>
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Old 08-05-2007, 05:31 AM
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A blank page usually means that display_errors is off in php.ini. Either switch that on or set the error_log variable to a file writable by nobody.

Quote:
Originally Posted by edgecutioner View Post
umm how do i limit the page to be viewed ONLY to registered members?
put this just below the 'START MAIN SCRIPT' comment

Code:
if ($vbulletin->userinfo->userid==0)
{
    print_no_permission();
}
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Old 08-05-2007, 06:37 AM
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It should actually be $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . To simplify the code, and fix:
PHP Code:
if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
    
print_no_permission();

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Quote:
Originally Posted by SirAdrian View Post
It should actually be $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . To simplify the code, and fix:
PHP Code:
if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
    
print_no_permission();

Quote:
Originally Posted by amcd View Post
A blank page usually means that display_errors is off in php.ini. Either switch that on or set the error_log variable to a file writable by nobody.


put this just below the 'START MAIN SCRIPT' comment

Code:
if ($vbulletin->userinfo->userid==0)
{
    print_no_permission();
}
thanks for the code guys!

EDIT: Works perfectly!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by amcd View Post
A blank page usually means that display_errors is off in php.ini. Either switch that on or set the error_log variable to a file writable by nobody.
My error:

Quote:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING
in /big/dom/xu_connex/www/About_Us.php on line 2
Anyone???
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Old 08-05-2007, 06:05 PM
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What's your code?
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