VB Login & Info on Non-VB Page

This is nothing too big, I just thought it might help some people out so I'm putting it up here.

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DEMO
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You can see exactly what I did at:
http://www.forumfreedom.net/

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DESCRIPTION
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If someone is logged in on your board, but they are on a non-vb page, this will display their username, amount of PMs (and if they have more than 0 it will be bold), and an option to logout (properly, using their logout hash so that it does it the first time), and has a couple more options. What I've done in mine is added two extra usergroups, Premium and Platinum, and if they are either of those then it tells them what usergroup they are in. In the install file, there are two different steps to take, one to install that part and one to not. So, if you have two usergroups that are premium and platinum accounts that people pay for, this will work good for you. You can of course add more premium usergroups easily. Otherwise, just install the other step and it will still work good . The code is simple, but I recommend knowing how vbulletin works before installing it. You will need to change some things in the code, but I think that it's worth it if you need something like this. This doesn't edit any code in vbulletin.

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Install Time: Depends, if you already have a page with everything going then this should only take a few seconds, unless you have to troubleshoot it.

Difficulty: Medium, I say this because there are a few things you might have to change. It's easy to install if you know what you are doing.

PLEASE CLICK INSTALL!

[TF|Scorpion]

I updated my forums to 3.5.1 but the problem still occurs! Is there a solution for this please? I tried both codes, "premium" and "normal" but both gave me the same exact error!

[Sn3s]

i have vb 3.5.1 and im having this error msg :

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare construct_usercp_nav() (previously declared

help please

[Dark Riku]

Originally Posted by Mu5icMan

the way around that error is to remove the line 'chdir' and put the non-vb page in your forums directory. That's what i did.

YOu didnt have to do you... you could just do this...
<?PHP
chdir("forum/directory/");
require('./global.php');
chdir("../back/to/folder/you/want/");
?>

And to Quozt:
Make sure your code is on the VERY top line... the VERY top. Above all head and everything. Should solve your problem.

THis hacks works on 3.5.1 Its very easy to use if you have any php knowledge.
Once someone figures out the stats on non-vb page, i can add some to this code, make it kind of a welcome panel

[adamgessel]

I checked it over and over, and as long as you do everything right, then it should work

If not I can help you for $5 payable via paypal. You will have to pay only after I am done and everything is working.

[garrynz]

Works fine for me with 3.5.0, but I am getting a "Call to a member function on a non-object" in my error logs.

[TF|Scorpion]

Originally Posted by adamgessel

I checked it over and over, and as long as you do everything right, then it should work

If not I can help you for $5 payable via paypal. You will have to pay only after I am done and everything is working.

Why should i donate 5 bucks for a coding mistake that didnt make sense and is in the original vb files?

[malfuncion]

works fine for us. we are using 3.5.2. now i am wondering how if possible, i can put like; users online, birthdays, ect like the portal page does. i.e. left col, right col, center col. anyone?

edit- where can i find a list of all the variables such as,

$vbulletin->userinfo['pmunread'];

is there a b-day variable and whatnot?

[sesmatik]

I am using vb 3.5.2 working 3.5.2 please answer

[Smiry Kin's]

get a new demo please! page suspended!

[Snetty]

Originally Posted by Smiry Kin's

get a new demo please! page suspended!

I have 2 sites that both use this, check them out in place of the real demo.

www.mousepilot.co.uk

and

www.british-mercenaries.co.uk