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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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Doh! Too much stuff this week for brain to function properly!

I looked at it twice without noticing, it was only after going back and reading the part where you said the footer string was OK that I thought it had to be something to do with the template.
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I followed all the directions and got this to work for me! Yay! One question that's only indirectly related - on this custom page I've just created, I don't want to display ads. We have ads on the other parts of the forum, but I can't figure out how to tell vBulletin NOT to display ads on museumlinks.php, the page I just created.
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I have the page working, thanks!

I'd like to know how to pull RSS from certain forums to different custom pages as well if someone can help me. I've searched google, found something but it doesn't work with vb4. Any help would be appreciated.
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See these threads for methods to pull threads via javascript:
[HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an RSS2 feed
[HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an XML feed
[HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an RSS feed

You may need to change the html output a bit.
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Thanks for the links. However I'm having a issue with that still. After placing the code at the top of the php page, then adding echo $rss_output; to the template, it doesn't show an RSS feed.

Nothing says what to do from there, so I'm kind of clueless on how to get the actual feed to show. What do I need to wrap around the echo $rss_output;?

I placed it inside of the following code, but I'm no expert on this.

HTML Code:
    <h2 class="blockhead">Popular Games</h2>
    <div class="blockbody">
      <div class="blockrow">

{vb:raw rssfeed}

          </div>
    </div>
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Originally Posted by Americanbang
What do I need to wrap around the echo $rss_output;?
Are you feeding the rssfeed variable into the template?
PHP Code:
$templater = vB_Template::create('my_page');
        $templater->register_page_templates();
        $templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
        $templater->register('rssfeed', $my_rs_feed_variable_here);
print_output($templater->render()); 
If you are and it's not working, I'd wonder if the variable is null for some reason.

Thread addendum:

Suppose you wanted to feed a $_SERVER variable into the template? Is there a native vBulletin function I could use to clean it prior to feeding it to $templater->register()?
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Suppose you wanted to feed a $_SERVER variable into the template? Is there a native vBulletin function I could use to clean it prior to feeding it to $templater->register()?
You could use $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('s', 'varname', TYPE_NOHTML) (or whatever type you want, of course).
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Hmm, doesn't seem like I can. I had already discovered clean_gpc in the developer's guide; tried it with 'r' and 'p' ... null string result. And 's' is also null.

Guess I'll need to hunt down the location of clean_gpc (obviously in the input class ... wherever that is) and see what I can figure out.
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Guess I'll need to hunt down the location of clean_gpc (obviously in the input class ... wherever that is) and see what I can figure out.
Yeah, it's in includes/class_core.php. I haven't tried it, but it looks to me like 's' should get variables from $_SERVER.
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Indeed, it does.

I just wasn't thinking inside the framework

PHP Code:
//this won't work
$foo = $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('s',$_SERVER['SOME_VAR'],TYPE_NOHTML);
// this is correct!
$bar = $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('s','SOME_VAR',TYPE_NOHTML); 
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