Filburt's n00b hacking questions thread

[filburt1]

Okay, I plan on making a psuedo portal for one of my forums in my collection of forums. Rather than posting tons of small questions I'll just use this thread

1. To convert bb code to HTML, what do I do? Something along the lines of this?

PHP Code:

require('forums/admin/functions.php');
$stuff = bbparsecode($bbcode);
echo $stuff; 


But it's more complicated than that...right?

[NTLDR]

If you have required global.php you won't need to require functions.php, otherwise you will:

PHP Code:

bbcodeparse(text to parse,0,1) 


Where text to parse is the text or the variable containing the text, 0 is the forumid (if not a forum use 0) and 1 is to allow smilies (0 to disallow).

[filburt1]

And it returns HTML?

[NTLDR]

I will return whatever the vB code is set to return, eg ; ) (with no space) would return the code for

[filburt1]

Cool

[filburt1]

2. How can I make page powered by vBulletin's template system (custom templates)?

[NTLDR]

For just a page which displays a template look at c-prompts extra page driven by template hack.

[filburt1]

Nope, this will be a bit more complicated (i.e., loading specific templates and templatebits, etc.)

[NTLDR]

You can either edit that hack to suit your needs or take alook at vBindex or vBhome and see how they work and modify to your needs.

[filburt1]

Coolness