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

[Adrian Schneider]

Originally Posted by cnczone

Has this been redone for VB 3.5?

Tis the exact same for both.

[JohnBee]

I would l like to use vB templates to design a dynamic page (with changing content)
specificaly the page is for news and would have a: Page 2 >> Page 3 >> type of arrangement. but I want to keep the vB header and footer active.

Normally this is not a problem on a regular .php page because I can use php includes but using vBulletins php include variable in the php_include_start template I am limited to one variable. The news page links are generated on the fly with there own unique ID's.

Is there any way to call php includes from an external file or something to get this working? can this addon do this?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

[AndyA]

Great I've got the page showing http://www.throttlejockey.co.uk/forum/info.php but am I right in thinking that any text is entered into the template and not the page itself ?

How do I get links or images to work on my new page ?

[BigIke]

Originally Posted by AndyA

Great I've got the page showing http://www.throttlejockey.co.uk/forum/info.php but am I right in thinking that any text is entered into the template and not the page itself ?

How do I get links or images to work on my new page ?

Yes. What you want to put on the actual page goes into the template. However, whatever goes into the template must be html. So you can't put http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...4/P9060045.jpg that url and expect to have the image come up, you must use html like this:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v185/andyaveyard/Tan%20Hill%20Meet%204-9-04/P9060045.jpg"></img>

[keymistress]

erm... for those who are using this mini mod for sub-domains, you have to add these two steps for it work:

find

PHP Code:

require_once('./global.php'); 


and add this before it

PHP Code:

define('CHDIR_PATH', '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/yourdomain.com/subdomains/forums/httpdocs'); //just an example, please change to your own forum's full path
chdir(CHDIR_PATH); 


next you'll need to copy the login.php from your forums folder and paste it in your sub-domain directory. also find

PHP Code:

require_once('./global.php'); 


and add this before it

PHP Code:

define('CHDIR_PATH', '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/yourdomain.com/subdomains/forums/httpdocs'); //just an example, please change to your own forum's full path
chdir(CHDIR_PATH); 


after that the mod will work for your sub-domain... just something i discovered while trying it for my own site... hope it helps!

[eljeffe]

I created a index.php file for our IRC chat client. I built a vbulletin header and footer wraper for it and it works like a champ. However, my chat client is outside the vB forum directory and the navbar links contain the wrong URL.

For the purposes of this example, my forums directory is in: http://www.mydomain.com/forums

My chat directory is in: http://www.mydomain.com/chat

I'll eventually have several other features that will be a subdirectory off of the http://www.mydomain.com/ website (i.e., chat, photos, files, journal, etc...)

Anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this. Here is the code in my index.php file:

PHP Code:

<?php 

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

        // #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 
        define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 
        define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'index'); // 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( 
                    'java_irc_client', 
                ); 

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

                ); 

        // ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################ 
        chdir('/home/www/mydoman.com/forums');
        require_once('./global.php'); 

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

        $navbits = array(); 
        $navbits[$parent] = 'Chat Room'; 

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

?>

Any ideas are appreciated.

Thanks

[MRGTB]

Can you not move your IRC into your forums folder, things would be much easier for you then

[eljeffe]

Originally Posted by Gary Bolton

Can you not move your IRC into your forums folder, things would be much easier for you then

I'm trying to keep my vb directory as clean as possible. I have to imagine there is some way to do this without throwing everything into the top directory of the forums.

Originally Posted by Gary Bolton

Can you not move your IRC into your forums folder, things would be much easier for you then

Gary,

On second thought, I don't have a problem with keeping chat.php in my forum directory and accessing the chat system via http://www.mydomain.com/forum/chat

However, I would like to store the jar files, images, and support files outside of the forum directory. Even a subdirectory under forums (like chat) would work for me.

[o0stephane0o]

How would I create a page that only group ID 6, 8, 13 can see?
I tried with the information page 2 but it doesn´t work

[Adrian Schneider]

After calling global.php (and before the main output)

PHP Code:

if (!is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 6) AND !is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 8) AND !is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 13))
{
    print_no_permission();
} 


Replace "$bbuserinfo" with "$vbulletin->userinfo" if you are using 3.5