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Want to create your very own vBulletin powered page which includes the header, footer, and the user permissions system as well?

Well now you can

Want to know how it will look? Take a look at the attached screenshot below!

Now includes the Who's Online modification!
Also, instructions included on how to create your own pages that are integrated with current vBulletin files!

I'm going to give you a generic page but you can easily modify the contents of the page by changing the template

So here we go

Instructions:

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):
PHP Code:
<?php

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

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test'); // 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 ############################
require_once('./global.php');

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

$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'Test Page';

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

?>
Be sure to change 'TEST' to the actual template name, and change 'test' to the filename. Also, change 'Test Page' to whatever you want to show in the navbar, such as 'Viewing Member Profile' (just an example).

Now create the template, called TEST with the following content:
HTML Code:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header

$navbar

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
    <td class="tcat">Title</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="alt1">Text</td>
</tr>
</table>

$footer
</body>
</html>
All done
Now check it out by going to test.php

Who's Online Modification

Now if you want to show who is browsing this new page of yours, just open up includes/functions_online.php and find:
PHP Code:
    case 'bugs.php':
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'bugs';
        break; 
Below, add:
PHP Code:
    case 'test.php':
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'test';
        break; 
(Be sure to change the values to your own!)

Then find:
PHP Code:
        case 'modcplogin':
            $userinfo['action'] = $vbphrase['moderator_control_panel_login'];
            break; 
Below add:
PHP Code:
        case 'test':
            $userinfo['action'] = 'Viewing Test Page';
            break; 
All done!

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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!


edit by Lynne: If running 3.8.4 or above, see this post to take care of the PHP 5.3.0-related problems - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1171
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Old 12-23-2008, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Lynne View Post
Get rid of the ending slash:
PHP Code:
chdir('/var/www/html/forum'); 
Got rid of the trailing slash but still no cigar. (I had actually tried this previously as well)

--------------- Added [DATE]1230061351[/DATE] at [TIME]1230061351[/TIME] ---------------

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Got rid of the trailing slash but still no cigar. (I had actually tried this previously as well)
OK, I figured out a workaround, however I don't like the workaround. It's trying to add the additional directory to the filepath of the images. So instead of being forum/images/styles/mystyle/misc/header.png for the header, it's looking at forum/directory/images/styles/mystyle/misc/header.png. My workaround is to copy my forum/images directory into the forum/directory/ directory (I know, that's not confusing right ).

Is there a way to include that images directory some how?
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Old 12-24-2008, 12:05 AM
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Got rid of the trailing slash but still no cigar. (I had actually tried this previously as well)

--------------- Added 23 Dec 2008 at 14:42 ---------------


OK, I figured out a workaround, however I don't like the workaround. It's trying to add the additional directory to the filepath of the images. So instead of being forum/images/styles/mystyle/misc/header.png for the header, it's looking at forum/directory/images/styles/mystyle/misc/header.png. My workaround is to copy my forum/images directory into the forum/directory/ directory (I know, that's not confusing right ).

Is there a way to include that images directory some how?
Maybe try putting the full path to your images in the stylvars rather then the relative path. vB files are usually not in a subdirectory, so ordinarily the relative path would do.
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Old 12-24-2008, 01:33 AM
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Maybe try putting the full path to your images in the stylvars rather then the relative path. vB files are usually not in a subdirectory, so ordinarily the relative path would do.
That makes sense...but where are the stylevars? Is that in the style manager in the Admin Cp, under "All Style Options"? I tired changing all the relative paths to the absolute paths and it quit working for the whole forum
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Are you putting the literal URL for the paths or the directory path? You would only put the URL complete with the http://
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Old 12-24-2008, 03:45 AM
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it would be easier to create a symlink
Code:
cd directory
ln -s /home/whatever/www/forum/images
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Are you putting the literal URL for the paths or the directory path? You would only put the URL complete with the http://
Perfect, that worked.
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Hello everyone,

I'm a novice PHP and MySQL but have some understanding of how programming languages are supposed to work so based on about 3 days worth of effort, I have built a table in MySQL called 'sales'. This table contains sales data on cars. Now, I'm trying to display this tabular data and picture on a vBulletin powered page as a table but to no avail... I'm getting memory errors... It goes without saying that I copied most of this code from others on this website so have a very limited understanding of many of the concepts. Following is the memory error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 129237044 bytes) in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/ref.php(64) : eval()'d code on line 18

So, here's my PHP code:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'ref'); // change this depending on your filename

// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array();

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array(
'REF',
'REFBODY'
);

$actiontemplates = array();

require_once('./global.php');

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] == 0)
{
$show['permission_error'] = 1;
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('STANDARD_ERROR') . '");');
}
elseif (isset($_REQUEST['do']))
// Being passed from a web page
$ref_req = $_GET['mdl'] ;

include("dbinfo.php");

mysql_connect(localhost,$user,$pass);
@mysql_select_db($db) or die( "Unable to select database");


$showlistbits = '';
$altclass = 'alt1';

$query="SELECT * FROM sales WHERE model LIKE '%$ref_req%' ";
$result=mysql_query($query);
$omega = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$num=mysql_numrows($result);
mysql_close();

$i=0;
while ($i < $num)
{
$altclass = ($altclass=='alt1') ? 'alt2' : alt1;
eval('$showlistbits .= "' .fetch_template('REFBODY') . '";');
}

$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = "Sales Table";
$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '");');
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('REF') . '");');

?>

Here's the REF template:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
$headinclude
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $pagetitle</title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" align="center" colspan="6">Sales Table</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center" bgcolor="#336699">
<th style="width: 81px"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Venue</font></b></th>
<th style="width: 77px"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Cylinders</font></b></th>
<th style="width: 77px"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Color</font></b></th>
<th style="width: 90px"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Wheels</font></b></th>
<th style="width: 90px"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Year</font></b></th>
<th style="width: 50px"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Pic 1</font></b></th>
</tr>
$showlistbits
</table>

$footer
</body>
</html>

Here's the REFBODY template:
<tr>
<td class=$altclass">
$omega[venue]
</td>
<td class=$altclass">
$omega[cyl]
</td>
<td class=$altclass">
$omega[color]
</td>
<td class=$altclass">
$omega[wheel]
</td>
<td class=$altclass">
$omega[year]
</td>
<td class=$altclass">
$omega[pic_1]
</td>
</tr>

Two more things. I have a thumbnail pic and a full-size pic. When the table displays, I want the thumbnail to show but when you click on the thumbnail, I want the full-size pic to display in a new window. BTW, both the thumbnail and the full-size pics are stored on the server directory and not in MySQL. Also, I've noticed some people using conventions like $DB->... These conventions don't work on my server, however, I have verified that PEAR is installed on the server. Any advice in this area will also be greatly appreciated.

BTW, I posted the same information in the regular discussion forum but haven't received any feedback yet....

Thanks in advance for your help.

Shoolace

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Never mind... figured it out by myself. Here's the PHP code that was missing...

$i++;

Thanks
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Never mind... figured it out by myself. Here's the PHP code that was missing...

$i++;

Thanks
and now it works perfectly? amazing.
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Well... the table display does work but I had to tweak the two templates. The only big issue for me now is that page navigation doesn't function and/or display on the vBulletin powered page I've been working on it all day without *any* success....

amcd,

Your forum is cool and has the navigation setup for custom pages. Would it be possible for you to share your code on how to setup navigation for custom pages? I would really really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Shoolace

------------------------------------------------
Never mind... Figured it out again.

Shoolace
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for the Who's Online modification

Code:
    case 'bugs.php':
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'bugs';
        break;
doesnt seem to exist in my functions_online.php
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