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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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insted of braggin why not help the poor chap? He is asking for help.
I wasn't bragging, notice I quoted myself stating "I no longer need help with this".
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i did this hack for the .js files

"$vboptions[bburl]" in headerinclude

along w/ the chmod('/vbulletin/'); for globals.php

but the breadcrumbs still don't work properly... it's weird since a "view source" shows an absolute path to the .js files (so what could possibly be wrong?)

2ndly,
i'd like to create more pages outside of the forum index, is it possible to have database driven pages for these things (instead of creating a new test_x.php for each, which is totally unreasonable). the use would be to somehow integrate my current article system w/ vbulletin so that i can use all the vbulletin functions on those pages.
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Hi, i did the test example and it worked great cheers, how ever i dont want to call the template from its own file, instead i want to call the template within an exisiting one...

Does anyone know how to do this... Lets say for argument sake we are are going to call the template and display it under the navbar... Therefore i would need the correct code which i would then place in the navbar template..
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That works great! Thank You!
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How can I get this to work in a separate folder? I used this code:
PHP Code:
// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
chdir('/home/public_html/forums/');
require_once('./global.php'); 
But I have the CSS saved in a file and it's broken now. How do I resolve this issue?
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Originally Posted by ogden2k
How can I get this to work in a separate folder? I used this code:
PHP Code:
// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
chdir('/home/public_html/forums/');
require_once('./global.php'); 
But I have the CSS saved in a file and it's broken now. How do I resolve this issue?
if your css has broken, just go to your ACP and go to edit style or templates and save it, vb3 will save a new css file in your server.

the code you used is correct.

Quote:
Hi, i did the test example and it worked great cheers, how ever i dont want to call the template from its own file, instead i want to call the template within an exisiting one...
eval('$varible_NAME = "' . fetch_template('template_NAME') . '";');

if you want to have something under navbar (or anything else) in your custom (non-vb) files place that line in the file and in the template which was created with:

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('TEMPLATE_NAME') . '");');

call out $varible_NAME, you can place it everwhere you want to.

and in vb3 files, well...just repeat the process ^^



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2ndly,
i'd like to create more pages outside of the forum index, is it possible to have database driven pages for these things (instead of creating a new test_x.php for each, which is totally unreasonable). the use would be to somehow integrate my current article system w/ vbulletin so that i can use all the vbulletin functions on those pages.
pay attention: the file names could be whatever you want, it doesn't have to be exactly like the template names. It's just easier for you if you use the file names same as templates. so it's possible to create your own database driven pages, if you notice that's how people making hacks ^^
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No, there is nothing wrong with my CSS. I save the CSS as a file and the java script does not work either when I try to use subdomain.binarydreams.us/index.php with the code I mentioned.
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Originally Posted by SVTBlackLight01
OK. To answer my own question, on line 32, I replaced

Code:
require_once('./global.php');
with this

Code:
chdir('/home/site/public_html/testvb/');
require('./global.php');
With this code, I can get the page to "display" properly but the "links" are not correct. They are pointing to the "root" directory but my forum is in a folder/directory titled "forums."

Any ideas?
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Thanks for a great thing. It?s work fine with 3.0.6
Like this

Is it possbile to have a include site insted of the text.

If it works how should i do to have the ReviewPost included

http://www.saltvattensguiden1.se/produktguide/

whats the code to do this?
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Originally Posted by ResaleBroker
With this code, I can get the page to "display" properly but the "links" are not correct. They are pointing to the "root" directory but my forum is in a folder/directory titled "forums."

Any ideas?
You will have to change all your links to include the full URL like this
Code:
a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php?$session[sessionurl]">
wrang,

Reviewpost has an option to use the vBulletin styles by default. You don't need to use this hack.
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