User Privileges on non-vB pages

[inthezone]

I put the code on a page called test.php. If I open the browser and go to test.php in the browser session before I go to my forum index, I get the following error:

PHP Code:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at '/home/virtual/www/public_html/test.php:23)
in '/home/virtual/www/public_html/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1628 


the member verification notes ("You are not logged in", "Welcome back, $username") still display, but the above error appears.

If I visit the forum index, however, then reload test.php after that, the error message will be gone. Why is this?

[Sebastian]

you have to put:

PHP Code:

chdir('/forums/');
require('global.php'); 


all the way at the top of the file, below <?php


if you are sending another header on the php file then you need to put that code above below it.

[inthezone]

It worked. I had a header include for the page which I had above the chdir and require code, but I moved it to the top and it seems to be working. Thanks

Two more questions...

1) How do I get the sessionhash to appear on non-vB pages?

2) Is there any way to access the cookied non-vB pages if I turn off the board through the Admin CP?

[Sebastian]

1) once you include the code above any of your pages you can add this to your links:

PHP Code:

file.php?s=$session[sessionhash] 


2) if you include global.php into any script when you turn off the board it'll cause any of those pages to shut down as well.

[inthezone]

I have test.php in a different directory than my forums, so when I close the board and go to test.php as a non-admin user, it gives me the "Please call back later" page but all of the URL and image paths are incorrect for obvious reasons (e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/forums/images/ will resolve to http://www.mydomain.com/images/ on this error page). Is there any way to get around the incorrect paths without moving test.php into the /forums/ directory?

[Brad]

Set the images folder to the direct path. Set all smilies to the direct path.

[inthezone]

But what about all of the URLs left on the page? For instance, http://www.mydomain.com/forums/usercp.php shows up as http://www.mydomain.com/usercp.php

Can this be circumvented without having to do a massive editing of the templates?

[Sebastian]

go in the admin cp, and change the image path for the template.. for instance, if its forums/images change it to /forums/images


or /full/path/to/forums/images

the above should work since that is how i have it setup on my site.. just add a forward slash / to the path.

as for the links, its not really that much to edit.. all you have to edit is the template header for the links, just add a / to the links. It only takes 2 minutes

if you are integrating your forums with the rest of the site it takes a few minutes, you can't expect to hit one button and have it integrated, its well worth the couple seconds it takes.

[glo]

02-23-03 at 07:06 AM Mist said this in Post #4
Saw something about cookies in this thread:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=43014

Hi Mist,

Couldnt find the reference about cookies in that thread!

Could you help me out!

Which is better? Cookies or sessions?

What does vbulletin use as standard?

[SVTBlackLight01]

02-25-03 at 06:16 PM Logician said this in Post #8
If you are ready to manually edit/update permissions per .php file without any user interface for administration, yes you can just insert:

PHP Code:

require('./global.php'); 


at the begining of your .php file (assumed its in the forum dir), then check the permissions with "if" commands like:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid']>0) 
{
//do something
}
else
{
//do another thing
} 


etc.

How do you include more than one usergroup?