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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 06-23-2010, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by jdrakopo View Post
I'm having trouble getting this working.
Am getting the following errors (below).

=======
Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: navbar in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3957

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/bostonwh/public_html/adhub1.php(42) : eval()'d code on line 1

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: adhub1 in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3957
=======


The last part of my custom php file (named adhub1.php) is as follows (see just below):
(and I do have a template named 'adhub1'.)

Any ideas ?
I must be missing something simple.
Thanks.

// ############ START MAIN SCRIPT ################
$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'adhub1';

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('adhub1') . '");');

?>
You haven't seen the posts before your, or?*g*
This is for vB3 and not vB4
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I see.
Thanks.

I was led to this thread by another one (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228112)... but see that this is for vb3 and that one appears to have tailored the work for vb4.
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Hi I am using VB 3.84, I have followed the instructions but getting this error when i go to the page, any ideas, thanks

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The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
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If I turn Gzip off in VBadmin then the custom page shows up, but then I have no compression and a slow site, how can i get the custom page to show up with th egzip enabled? Thanks

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Hi I am using VB 3.84, I have followed the instructions but getting this error when i go to the page, any ideas, thanks
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Originally Posted by Lynne View Post
You can try adding the base url tag to your <head>:

HTML Code:
<base href="http://www.yoursite.com/forums/" />
Thank you for this tip! It helped me in a somewhat different context but was exactly what I needed.
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Hi my friends

I want to see members use online. Create a new page on the outside, but more of how to root forum.

Sample
web.com/forum/index.php << root forum
web.com/new/index.php << my add new sub folder
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Can anyone explain how to use this approach to get an OScommerce installation (that lives outside the forums directory) to use vBulletin header/footer/navbar templates and usergroup permissions?

I have an OScommerce installation that I'd like to wrap with my vb header, navbar and footer template and have the user permissions tied in so that the header navigation that is displayed differs from usergroup to usergroup. I just can't figure out where to plug in some of the php code in the OScommerce files.
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I didn't get a thing . Is there some good tutorial ,step by step i mean.
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I didn't get a thing . Is there some good tutorial ,step by step i mean.
you probably named something wrong. I had the same problem and realized that I had missed a TEST that I needed to rename, and that my template name needed to match the template call exactly, including case.

look very closely and make sure all the names match up to what they need to be. I just got this working nicely on 3.8.3
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ok so if i want to make this work outside of the forums directory, how do you change the navbits so it doesn't link back to the forum?
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