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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());

?>
- Be sure to change 'TEST' to the actual template name (WARNING: the template name is CASE SENSITIVE!!!), and change 'test' to the filename or a unique name for the page. Also, change 'Test Page' and 'My Page Title' to whatever you want to show in the navbits, such as 'Viewing Member Profile' (just an example).

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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Old 06-01-2012, 09:14 PM
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Works great, thanks!

This will help maintaining different ads per category
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BTW, nice solution, cellarius. Maybe this should be added to the article.
Well, I'll return the applause After all, the idea came from you, and you've been the one refining it :up:
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Old 06-02-2012, 10:56 AM
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Well, I'll return the applause After all, the idea came from you, and you've been the one refining it :up:
Well, not to go on too long with the mutual admiration, but the thing that bothered me about using a plugin was having a bunch of checks for THIS_SCRIPT and coding in styleids, but your scheme puts the styleid in the script. (...and all I really did was to debug it).
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I have been able to create my custom pages ok and use the following code for my templates

Code:
// ###### When do == 'xxx' #####
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'players')
{
$pagetitle = 'NI Football Fantasy League Players';

$templater = vB_Template::create('fantasy_players');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
print_output($templater->render());
}

// ###### When do == 'yyy' #####
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'rules')
{
$pagetitle = 'NI Football Fantasy League Rules';

$templater = vB_Template::create('fantasy_rules');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
print_output($templater->render());
}

// ###### When do does not equal 'xxx' or 'yyy' #####

$pagetitle = 'NI Football Fantasy League';

$templater = vB_Template::create('fantasy_index');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
print_output($templater->render());
I am using v 4.2 and I have created a manin menu using the Navigation Manager and also sub menus. The main menu gets selected ok and highlighted but my sub menus are not. I have looked around the forums for an answer but can't find any. Any ideas or links to how I do this thanks.
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I have been able to create my custom pages ok and use the following code for my templates

I am using v 4.2 and I have created a manin menu using the Navigation Manager and also sub menus. The main menu gets selected ok and highlighted but my sub menus are not. I have looked around the forums for an answer but can't find any. Any ideas or links to how I do this thanks.
Sounds to me like you are having problems setting up your tab in the Navigation Manager, not that you are having problems with your page itself. I'd suggest you post in the main forums for help with your NM settings.
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Hello everyone,

I'm new here and I'm urgently looking for help in regards to this topic. Here's my issue:

1: I have created a custom page with a .php uploaded to the root folder as per the instructions.

2: Both of this I have created a template on the Default Style and Mobile Style.

3: The issue is I can view the page normally on the desktop version and Andriod devices and mobile version via the desktop however when I open it on an IPhone ie IPhone 4, the entire screen goes blank and stays blank.

I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks Guys
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3: The issue is I can view the page normally on the desktop version and Andriod devices and mobile version via the desktop however when I open it on an IPhone ie IPhone 4, the entire screen goes blank and stays blank.

I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks Guys
I'd suggest checking your error_logs (if you don't know where they are, ask your host). Here is a page from the manual about troubleshooting blank or 'white' pages: https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/blank_pages
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Well, Lynne, I want to thank you very much for the article; I've used it with success here @work (up to a point), but I'm very sorry I have to chime in with YAQ (Yet another question).

On our sites, I can't seem to get the site footer to work.

Here's the relevant section of my PHP script:
PHP Code:

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);
$navbar = render_navbar_template($navbits);
//$templater = vB_Template::create('footer');
//if (!is_object($templater)) { die("template not object!"); }
//$footer = $templater->render();
//if (!is_object($footer)) { die("footer not object!"); }
$templater = vB_Template::create('pfs');
        $templater->register_page_templates();
        $templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
        $templater->register('checked', $checked);
//        $templater->register('footer',$footer);
print_output($templater->render()); 
You can see I've been fudging around trying to figure this out. I even read about 24 pages of this thread before giving in to the temptation to bug you about it. Not that's that would be any consolation for you, I'm afraid.

I suppose what's really confusing is that the $templater object does contain the footer code as it's supposed to. So is this some sort of rendering issue? It doesn't appear in the HTML source code of the resulting page --- no footer HTML in there at all.

Here's the 'pfs' template code:
Code:
{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"<vb:if condition="$vboptions['enablefacebookconnect']"> xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"</vb:if> dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}">
<head>
	{vb:raw headinclude}
	<title>My Page Title</title>
	{vb:cssfile faq.css}
	{vb:raw headinclude_bottom}
</head>
<body>

{vb:raw header}

{vb:raw navbar}

<div id="pagetitle">
	<h1 style="font-family:sans-serif,arial;text-align:center;margin-bottom:25px;margin-top:20px;font-size:20px;background:#448ccb;width:960px;color:white;font-weight:bold;">A Big Header</h1>
	</div>
        <iframe style="border:0px;margin-left:100px;" src="http://somesite.com/myscript.php" width="760" height="1600" scrolling="no"></iframe>

<!-- FOOTER TEMPLATE IS INCLUDED BELOW THIS LINE -->
<vb:raw footer>
</body>
</html>
I can comment out the IFrame, but it doesn't seem to matter; the footer's not output/shown regardless. I do see the closing /BODY and /HTML tags.

I you don't mind to help me close this bug, I'd be quite appreciative. Whacks w/the clue stick are appreciated as well
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I suppose what's really confusing is that the $templater object does contain the footer code as it's supposed to. So is this some sort of rendering issue? It doesn't appear in the HTML source code of the resulting page --- no footer HTML in there at all.
You've got the wrong kind of brackets for the tag where you're inserting the footer. They should be curly braces.
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Doh! Too much stuff this week for brain to function properly! Thanks much!

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