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[HOW TO - vB4] Create your own vBulletin page
 Lynne
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 41,180
California/Idaho
11-15-2009, 10:00 PM
This is an updated article on how to create your own vbulletin powered page. It's only for use with vB4. This is NOT my work. I'm posting this from another thread where vB Style took the time to write this out. And his work is based on the article by Gary King here - How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates) Instructions to Create your Own Page: 1. Create the php page: - 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 - WARNING: the template name is CASE SENSITIVE!!!): Code:
<?php
// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test');
define('CSRF_PROTECTION', true);
// 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 ############################
// if your page is outside of your normal vb forums directory, you should change directories by uncommenting the next line
// chdir ('/path/to/your/forums');
require_once('./global.php');
// #######################################################################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #######################################################################
$navbits = construct_navbits(array('' => 'Test Page'));
$navbar = render_navbar_template($navbits);
// ###### YOUR CUSTOM CODE GOES HERE #####
$pagetitle = 'My Page Title';
// ###### NOW YOUR TEMPLATE IS BEING RENDERED ######
$templater = vB_Template::create('TEST');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
print_output($templater->render());
?>
2. Create the Template: - If you are in debug mode, create the template in your MASTER STYLE so it shows up in all your styles, otherwise make sure you create the template in the style you are using. If following the page above, call the template TEST (WARNING: the template name is CASE SENSITIVE!!!) with the following content: HTML Code:
{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" id="vbulletin_html">
<head>
<title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle} - {vb:raw pagetitle}</title>
{vb:raw headinclude}
{vb:raw headinclude_bottom}
</head>
<body>
{vb:raw header}
{vb:raw navbar}
<div id="pagetitle">
<h1>{vb:raw pagetitle}</h1>
</div>
<h2 class="blockhead">Title</h2>
<div class="blockbody">
<div class="blockrow">
Text
</div>
</div>
{vb:raw footer}
</body>
</html>
Instructions to Add your Page to the Who's Online List (WOL): Create two plugins using the following hooks. Replace mypage and similar with your information. 1. hook location - online_location_process: Code:
switch ($filename)
{
case 'test.php':
$userinfo['activity'] = 'mypage';
break;
// add more cases here if you have more than one custom page. no need for multiple plugins. one plugin can handle all.
}
2. hook location online_location_unknown: Code:
switch ($userinfo['activity'])
{
case 'mypage':
$userinfo['where'] = '<a href="test.php?'.$vbulletin->session->vars[sessionurl].'">My Page</a>';
$userinfo['action'] = "Viewing My Page";
$handled = true;
break;
// add more cases here if you have more than one custom page. no need for multiple plugins. one plugin can handle all.
}
The colored part in the code above shows what you need to change in the plugins (both reds should be the same and both blues should be the same, whereas green can be whatever you want). Please see this article for help with rendering templates - [vB4] Rendering templates and registering variables - a short guide 
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#462
01-14-2011, 05:26 PM
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Hello Lynne,
I used this thread to create a Google custom search results page and it works great. However, my problem is I have Google adsense ads in the navbar and footer, how do I exclude the ads from the "search results page" as they are against Google terms of service?
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#463
01-15-2011, 03:37 AM
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You would need to put a condition around the code in the ad to not show it on this page. (Use your definition of THIS__SCRIPT in the condition.)
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#464
01-16-2011, 09:08 AM
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Thank you Lynne for helping me and everyone else with in this thread...
Here is the condition I used around the ad, works great. Maybe this will help someone else! Code:
<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'Your_Definition'"> </vb:if>
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#465
01-16-2011, 01:20 PM
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Hi Lynne - I'm wondering if you can help me. I have tons of pre-existing custom HTML (actually .php) pages, all which leverage a server-side include, let's call it header.php.
I'd like to replace the contents of header.php with something that would allow all of my pre-existing pages to automagically support my vbulletin header and navigation. All these pages also reference a footer.php, if that is helpful to the cause (but that's easy enough for me to replicate, at least visually what is shown to the user). --------------- Added [DATE]1295192670[/DATE] at [TIME]1295192670[/TIME] --------------- Quote:
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#466
01-16-2011, 05:10 PM
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Sorry tonmo, but I don't understand your question at all. This is just a tutorial on how to make a single custom page. If you want to reference other scripts in the page, that is fine, but you need to write the code in those scripts and write the code in the php page. This isn't a tutorial on how to write your code.
As for the undefined error.... you need to change Your_Definition to a valid name or that isn't going to work.
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#467
01-16-2011, 05:36 PM
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To clarify - I have dozens of static php pages that I created long before I implemented vBulletin. The page format is this:
HEADER .. UNIQUE ARTICLE CONTENT .. FOOTER The HEADER and FOOTER are separate included files (i.e., header.php and footer.php); they are common across all article pages. I am wondering if there is any common vb4 code I can put into the header and footer files in order to wrap all of these articles into the vbulletin look and feel. I'm running 4.1.1. Does that help explain what I'm trying to do?
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#468
01-16-2011, 06:27 PM
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#469
01-17-2011, 03:43 AM
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#470
01-17-2011, 01:00 PM
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All of my static pages exist in different places throughout my site, and have signifcant inbound links that I don't want to break. So far I've found two ways to convert them into vb pages: 1) Simply create new Article pages via CMS and copy/paste the original article contents into the new file. Convert the static page to a permanent redirect which points to the new CMS article. 2) Use the method described in this thread (How To Create Your Own vBulletin Page). I'm finding both to be a bit labor-intensive (I have dozens of pages). Maybe 5 or 10 mins per article - those add up! Since all my static pages use server-side includes for the header and footer, I was hoping I could insert the logo, ad, and navbar at the top, and the footer at the bottom, so that I would only need to edit two files (the two includes) and viola! My site is converted. Seems that's not an option?
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#471
01-28-2011, 01:59 PM
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Good article, thank you.
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