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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 03-20-2009, 08:05 PM
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Ok, so I have fixed this and its working now

Just one problem now. When I go to this page and want to click on one of the links there is, no matter what the link is this is where it it going when I click main link to go back to forum

http://www.mysite.com/Affiliates.php/index.php

How do i fix this so that all links on my page go where they are supposed to go and not constantly going back to this custom page?
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I have created a custom page and it's nearly working ok. However the stylesheet isn't loading. I have chdir into the forums folder but am clueless now what to do.
Any suggestions? TIA.
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All the images, stylesheets, etc. are loaded relative to your forums a dir. The easiest way to solve this is to add
Code:
<base href="http://www.yoursite.com/forums/index.php" />
between your head tags (before calling any external files).
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Originally Posted by SirAdrian View Post
All the images, stylesheets, etc. are loaded relative to your forums a dir. The easiest way to solve this is to add
Code:
<base href="http://www.yoursite.com/forums/index.php" />
between your head tags (before calling any external files).
perfect, thanks
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Greetings! My thanks to the originator of this thread, and for the moderators and devs who are keeping us going.

I've followed the instructions, and I think it's performing exactly as it was meant to, but not quite like I need it to. So, I have two additional questions.

1. I'm an html beginner, a bit beyond n00b, and I think this is an html issue. Anyway, how do I get the html map to fill the page, and not remain limited to one line the way these instructions were originally set up?
The current output is here: http://www.the-sentinels.net/forum/DarkfallMap.php
My Darkfall.php and DarkFallMap templates are in the attachments here.

2. How do I limit access to this php page to certain usergroups, preferably in the Admin Control Panel? I suspect the latter involves making this a product/add on, and I am sure not ready for that.

Thanks in advance for any help.
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File Type: txt DarkfallMap Template.txt (17.0 KB, 15 views)
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some small things:
1. your html code is false.
You have "2 body parts"

everything between:
Code:
<!-- Thanks to Exploiter.org -->
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
......
  </head>
shout be under $headinclude
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Originally Posted by Dagothar View Post
Greetings! My thanks to the originator of this thread, and for the moderators and devs who are keeping us going.

I've followed the instructions, and I think it's performing exactly as it was meant to, but not quite like I need it to. So, I have two additional questions.

1. I'm an html beginner, a bit beyond n00b, and I think this is an html issue. Anyway, how do I get the html map to fill the page, and not remain limited to one line the way these instructions were originally set up?
The current output is here: http://www.the-sentinels.net/forum/DarkfallMap.php
My Darkfall.php and DarkFallMap templates are in the attachments here.

2. How do I limit access to this php page to certain usergroups, preferably in the Admin Control Panel? I suspect the latter involves making this a product/add on, and I am sure not ready for that.

Thanks in advance for any help.
The HTML in your template is the problem. There are a lot of errors that need correcting before you will know for sure what's causing it. See these errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...idator%2F1.606

Try correcting them one at a time, revalidating as you go, starting with the topmost error. You will find that often errors cascade, and fixing something as simple as a misplaced tag will correct dozens of others. But until you fix these you'll continue to have problems.
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2. How do I limit access to this php page to certain usergroups, preferably in the Admin Control Panel? I suspect the latter involves making this a product/add on, and I am sure not ready for that.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=usergroup
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ragtek View Post
some small things:
1. your html code is false.
You have "2 body parts"

everything between:
Code:
<!-- Thanks to Exploiter.org -->
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
......
  </head>
shout be under $headinclude
Quote:
Originally Posted by Digital Jedi View Post
The HTML in your template is the problem. There are a lot of errors that need correcting before you will know for sure what's causing it. See these errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-sentinels.net%2Fforum%2FDarkfallMap.php&charset=(d etect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&ss=1&group=0&v erbose=1&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.606

Try correcting them one at a time, revalidating as you go, starting with the topmost error. You will find that often errors cascade, and fixing something as simple as a misplaced tag will correct dozens of others. But until you fix these you'll continue to have problems.
Ahh, cool. Thanks guys. I'll follow both of your tips.
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So when I create my own page, can I have the main portion of it all in html coding?
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