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leonarrias · #1 05-14-2011, 01:13 PM

Hi there guys, been having a spot of bother recently trying to figure out the forum block system with it's ability to parse html and php.

Been trying to add a Teamspeak 3 Viewer to a forum block which would be at the side of the forums, and I'm rather stumped as to why it isn't working, found out early on it doesn't do the whole <?php & ?> thing so i dug around and found vbulletin uses things like :

Code:

ob_start();

echo 'my output';
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $output;

Which does indeed output it correctly, however when i try and find out where to place these in the viewer.php file i either get a complete white screen for the vbulletin index page, or the block doesn't show up, below i have a sample of the viewer.php code, i won't put up my attempts at implementing the ob_start etc as the attempts have been rather vast

Additionally i currently have it set as an iframe for the moment, its not perfect however since the forum block doesn't automatically adjust to channels being added, lots of people coming and going, the viewer ends up running off the block so you can't see who else is there, or even any of the other channels.

Any insight into how i could pull this off and understand how forum blocks operate for future block additions/modifications would be most appreciated, many thanks!

Code:

<?php

/**
 * @file
 * TeamSpeak 3 PHP Framework Example :: viewer
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *
 * @package   viewer
 * @author    Sven 'ScP' Paulsen
 * @copyright Copyright (c) 2010 by Planet TeamSpeak. All rights reserved.
 */

/* set error reporting levels */
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

/* set default timezone */
date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Berlin");

/* load config file */
require_once("../../config.php");

/* load framework library */
require_once("../../../libraries/TeamSpeak3/TeamSpeak3.php");

?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de">

<head>

  <title>Section7 TS3 Status</title>

  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
  <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
  <meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1" />

  <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
  <meta name="generator" content="TeamSpeak 3 PHP Framework <?= TeamSpeak3::LIB_VERSION; ?>" />
  <meta name="resource-type" content="Document" />

  <style type="text/css" media="screen">
  <!--
    body {
      font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
      font-size: 12px;
      line-height: 1.25em;
    }

    h1 {
      color: #3D6A95;
      font-size: 2em;
      margin-bottom: 1em;
      font-weight:normal;
    }

    img {
      border: 0px;
    }

    a {
      color: #0088B5;
      text-decoration: underline;
    }

    a:hover {
      color: #FE6400;
      text-decoration: none;
    }

    div.footer {
      font-size: 8pt;
      color: #999;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer {
      width: 100%;
      border: 0px;
      border-collapse: collapse;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer tr.row1 {
      background: transparent;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer tr.row2 {
      background: transparent;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td {
      white-space: nowrap;
      padding: 0px 0px 1px 0px;
      border: 0px;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.corpus {
      width: 100%;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.query {
      font-style: italic;
      color: #666E73;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.spacer {
      overflow: hidden;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.left {
      text-align: left;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.right {
      text-align: right;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.center {
      text-align: center;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.suffix {
      vertical-align: top;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.suffix img {
      padding-left: 2px;
      vertical-align: top;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.spacer.solidline {
      background: url('../../../images/viewer/spacer_solidline.gif') repeat-x;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.spacer.dashline {
      background: url('../../../images/viewer/spacer_dashline.gif') repeat-x;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.spacer.dashdotline {
      background: url('../../../images/viewer/spacer_dashdotline.gif') repeat-x;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.spacer.dashdotdotline {
      background: url('../../../images/viewer/spacer_dashdotdotline.gif') repeat-x;
    }

    table.ts3_viewer td.spacer.dotline {
      background: url('../../../images/viewer/spacer_dotline.gif') repeat-x;
    }

    span.success {
      color: #648434;
    }

    span.error {
      color: #CF3738;
    }
  -->
  </style>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Section7 TS3</h1>

<?php

try
{
  /* connect to server, authenticate and get TeamSpeak3_Node_Server object by URI */
  $ts3 = TeamSpeak3::factory("serverquery://" . $cfg["user"] . ":" . $cfg["pass"] . "@" . $cfg["host"] . ":" . $cfg["query"] . "/?server_port=" . $cfg["voice"] . "#no_query_clients");

  /* enable new display mode */
  $ts3->setLoadClientlistFirst(TRUE);

  /* display viewer for selected TeamSpeak3_Node_Server */
  echo $ts3->getViewer(new TeamSpeak3_Viewer_Html("../../../images/viewer/", "../../../images/flags/", "../../ts3icon.php"));

  /* display runtime from adapter profiler */
 // echo "<p>Executed " . $ts3->getAdapter()->getQueryCount() . " queries in " . $ts3->getAdapter()->getQueryRuntime() . " seconds</p>\n";
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
  /* echo error message */
  echo "<p><span class=\"error\"><b>ERROR 0x" . dechex($e->getCode()) . "</b>: " . htmlspecialchars($e->getMessage()) . "</span></p>";
}

?>

</body>

</html>

leonarrias · #2 05-16-2011, 02:11 PM

Is there anybody at all able to assist with this problem, i'm no further forward despite having a play around with the whole ob_start thing.

Would be very much appreciated if anybody could help me!

Lynne · #3 05-16-2011, 02:33 PM

did you see this article - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=242454 You haven't done anything in your code to include the external file.

leonarrias · #4 05-17-2011, 07:54 AM

Hi Lynne, thanks for linking that article, didn't see that one as i was searching for things forum block/sidebar related.

Tried what i found in that article, with activating plugins, using hooks etc and the most i get is a completely white page when i tried and go to the forum homepage.

I saw something about echo's don't work on it, yet i never clearly understood what you had to do to make them work, or what alternative you had to use/replace the echo's with.

Lynne · #5 05-17-2011, 05:11 PM

You should not be using echos. This is what is shows in the Configuration for the block:

Code:

$my_output = 'Hello, world.';
return $my_output;

Instead of
echo "Hello";
you want to use
$my_output .= "Hello";

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