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

[MiLynne]

I looked through all 15 pages and saw the question asked that I want answered, but no one answered it sooooo..

I'd like to use this page to integrate phpMychat into it...how would I do this?

[root123]

This is great - and it helped me a lot. But I have one problem though. I'm new to vB, so I hope that someone can help me with this problem.

I have created a non vB-page as described in this thread - and it is working fine.

But when I try to parse a variable in the URL calling the non vB-page, the variable is lost.

Ex.

http://www.mysite.com/nonvBpage.php?parm=1

In this case it seems as the the nonvBpage.php does not recieve the variable parm and its value.

How can this be (or... what am I doing wrong)?

Cheers
Root

[Dean C]

$_REQUEST['varname']; use that for all incoming variables from a URL

[root123]

Thanks ) That solved the problem .....

[sfowler39]

I can create the test page and it works fine, but I have a php page that I want to be part of the board with its user permissions. How do I call it up? I have followed all the instructions but still cant call it up.

On the first post of this thread Gary King has wrote this in the end of his post:

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!

Well my file is called test2.php in my forum dir. I added this to the bottom of my file and this is my code of the test2.php file

<?php
echo "hello";

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'showtest2')
{
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('test') . '");');
}

?>

As you can see all this page is- is saying hello for my test2.php file. The webpage should be wrapped around with its pemissions that vbulletin has.
In your example you wrote this in order to view your template: example.php?do=showprofile to view this template.

HUH????

I am confused here - for one there is no file called example.php. what is the example file is this the file that is my test2.php file or index.php or cmps_index.php or I dont get it - help please to understand how to add a external php page into my site with the security of vbulletin cause i want to secure a page or 2 and if a person has not logged into the bb that is an administrator then he cant view a certain page.



If I use this http://hrc/vb/test2.php?do=showtest2
I get this as an error

hello
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: fetch_template() in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\vb\test2.php on line 6

As you can see with the hrc I am on an intranet and vb is the forum.

[Mosh]

Gary,

Thank you very much for that, just what I needed.
It works extremely well, I changed the template code a bit so it displays several tables per page.

So thanks again.

JD.

btw, there is no place to click Install, but count this as one of them if you can.

[indie]

For step 2, creating the template, how and where do we do that? From the admin panel? thx

[Mosh]

indie,

In AdminCP select Styles & Templates -> Style Manager.
On the right there is a drop down box that displays All Style Options, click the v button to the right of it. From the drop down menu select Add New Template.

Hope that helps,

JD.

[Adrian Schneider]

Sorry if this has been covered before, but for the parent link thing (for the vb navigation) on custom pages, how do you set one inbetween the site index and the page. Say if I'm working on a 'Misc Downloads' page, can I add a link between it and the index called 'Downloads'. Thanks

[Adrian Schneider]

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