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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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how to make mod could to made and pm me that mod Please
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There is no mod here , its just html

Design the page in html and use this article to build a vb powered page and paste the html code in the new template
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Thanks my page is finally using the vbulletin login systen due to this =D thanks a lot, members areas working anyone that need help fell free to send me a private message I wont probably reply on here
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Using this method, is there anyway I can pass the content of the page into the template from the script? Essentially, I'm wondering if I can replace the value "Text" with something that is generated by the php script. Any hints would be appreciated.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by amcd View Post
Templates are not supposed to execute code. This is not just with vbulletin, but the entire concept of templating is separation of presentation from code (business logic).

Execute the php before calling the template, keep the presentation data in certain variables, and use the template just to show those variables.
Quite clear, can you please make an example ?

Suppose I have some pages I need to execute and show : page1.php, page2.php, page3.php
I should create some templates : template1, template2, template3
Then insert the variables : $show1 (containing the html execution of page1.php) into template1, $show2 (containing the html execution of page2.php) into template2 and so on.

But how can I generate/fill (for example) the variables and insert them into the template when I link the user to mysite.com/forums/page2.php ?

--------------- Added [DATE]1216770050[/DATE] at [TIME]1216770050[/TIME] ---------------

Found, may be, I should add a plugin :

Code:
ob_start();
  include('./page2.php');
  $show2 = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();

Is it ?
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Is there a way to do this outside of the forums directory?
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Originally Posted by Sergio68 View Post
Quite clear, can you please make an example ?

Suppose I have some pages I need to execute and show : page1.php, page2.php, page3.php
I should create some templates : template1, template2, template3
Then insert the variables : $show1 (containing the html execution of page1.php) into template1, $show2 (containing the html execution of page2.php) into template2 and so on.

But how can I generate/fill (for example) the variables and insert them into the template when I link the user to mysite.com/forums/page2.php ?

--------------- Added [DATE]1216770050[/DATE] at [TIME]1216770050[/TIME] ---------------

Found, may be, I should add a plugin :

Code:
ob_start();
  include('./page2.php');
  $show2 = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();

Is it ?
And.... what about a change in my page1.php :

PHP Code:
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('test') . '");'); 
with
PHP Code:
Direct execution of template+php code 
It's most probably not safe, but, is it working ?

--------------- Added [DATE]1216816873[/DATE] at [TIME]1216816873[/TIME] ---------------

Ok, I apologize for all this asking and answering by myself , I've tried and it's working.
Can be a big shortcut, no templates, no plugins, but it's obviously less safe.
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Can be a big shortcut, no templates, no plugins, but it's obviously less safe.
Then it is not really a vb-powered page, is it?
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Then it is not really a vb-powered page, is it?
LOL May be, right. That's what I'm trying to figure it out, I'll be still able to use VB variables, IFs and so on or should I just please myself with the look and style of the forum ?
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How can you get your page to auto adapt to the current theme a user is running (ie. font and panel colors)?
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