Some basics of vB3(mini howto)

[dwh]

Originally Posted by Zachery

You didnt print any templates...

your missing the most important line

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

You just made some varibles, you didnt tell the script to display a template i suggest trying generic shell

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

Gosh that would have saved me a lot of time had I known about it. Howdo use it? How do you populate $HTML? Is it a regular variable or aspecial one?

Also, I still don't get actions? Can someone explain the system in more details?

[dwh]

I think I understood actions now. It's no big deal it just pulls outany templates that are defined (somewhere? init.php?) for that action.It's a "shortcut" but it doesn't make any difference as long as youpull out any template you use in globaltemplates you should be ok.Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'd still like to know about the $HTML thing though.

[feldon23]

Originally Posted by dwh

I think I understood actions now. It's no big deal it just pulls outany templates that are defined (somewhere? init.php?) for that action.It's a "shortcut" but it doesn't make any difference as long as youpull out any template you use in globaltemplates you should be ok.Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'd still like to know about the $HTML thing though.

I'm using this code and to get images and javascript to load, I'm having to use ugly search-and-replace code that replaces

href=" with href="../forums/

and

src=" with src="../forums/, etc.

There's got to be an easier way.

The huge problem I am running into now is that by including global.php, and by extension init.php, cookies are being established. That's not what I want. Is there a way to load templates without all that other stuff happening?

What I may need to do is create a cron task that dumps the evaluated contents of the templates I need to flat HTML files and then include those.

[Razz]

If your using the action templates as shown in the original post:

PHP Code:

$actiontemplates = array(
                            'small' => array(
                                                     'other'
                                                    )
); 


along with:

PHP Code:

if (empty($_REQUEST['do']))
{
    $_REQUEST['do'] = 'small';
} 


Then you will need to set a default action template like below:

PHP Code:

$actiontemplates = array(
                            'small' => array(
                                                     'other'
                                                    )
);

$actiontemplates['none'] = &$actiontemplates['small']; 


This should prevent uncached templates on initial page visit if $_REQUEST['do'] is empty. Just change "small" in the last line to the default template array such as "home" or "main".

[Razasharp]

Hi

I've got the page to work, but I'd like to use a custom header and footer because the links do not show correctly at present - I've created the new templates for them and called them in my 'test' template instead of the standard ones. But it doesnt work :-(

Can someone give me a quick run-down of how it can be achieved? thanks.

[NxTek]

Can that be used for this (from another post) -

I've seen a few scripts that prompt a user to login, but nothing that would redirect the user to the internal login page on non-vB pages.

I have a directory structure like this -

/forums
/ads
/games
/faqs
/blog
and so on.

I want to use vB security throughout my entire site, even outside the actual /forums dir.

If you would go straight to /blog/blog.php for example, a piece of code would detect whether the visitor is logged in or not.

If so, display the page normally.

If not, redirect them to the exact same login screen that's invoked when you go to http://www.onlinepokerlistings.com/forums/calendar.php.

Ok, after logging in, the visitor would be directed back to /blog/blog.php.

It would work exactly the same as normally requiring a login to see a vB page, but in this case it's outside of vB.

[hexosex]

Where the hell are the templates stored? :O I just cant find them on the installation i have here... Can anyone help please?

[Adrian Schneider]

In the database (you should access them from vBulletin).

AdminCP > Style Manager > (pick a style) > Edit Templates

[lem]

I have this system setup for my site locksmithcafe.com. However, when I log out of the forum and go to locksmithcafe.com it gives me the following error:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/httpd/vhosts/locksmithcafe.com/httpdocs/index.php
Line: 9

whats up with that do you think?

Here is my index.php page:

PHP Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Welcome to the Locksmith Cafe!</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php 
// OUR CONTENT BEGINS ON LINE 48 -----------------------------------------
// ## Changes Directory so it can accesss vBulletin IF we are outside the forums folder, if not this is not nessary ## 
chdir("./forum"); 

// ## Error Reporting ( we use error reporting in php so we can control the display of error messages 
// ## we will use this because all vBulletin files follow the same error reporting rules) ## 
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); 

// ## this here defines the "this_script" function, which if you use template conditionals, it will come in handy :) ## 
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'page'); 

// ## this action here cache's the templates so that everytime their needed a querry wont be needed to run 
// ## the names in there are just the template names :), there must be a comma after everyone but the last ## 
$globaltemplates = array( 
'headinclude',
'header', 
'navbar', 
'footer' 
); 

// ## Grabs global.php this grabs vbulletins global.php so we can use the most basic of vBulletins functions ## 
require_once("./global.php"); 

// ## ok this next set of lines "eval"'s our templates so they can be called inside the template we will print out ## 

eval('$h_include = "' . fetch_template('headinclude') . '";'); 
eval('$header = "' . fetch_template('header') . '";'); 
//eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 
eval('$footer = "' . fetch_template('footer') . '";'); 

//eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('headinclude') . '");');

echo $h_include;
echo $header;
//echo $navbar;
// ********************************************************************************
// place our content here *********************************************************

echo '
<h3>Welcome to the Locksmith Cafe!</h3>

<br><br><br><br>
<h3>Find a Locksmith in Your area!</h3>
';
include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/search.html';
// end our content ****************************************************************
// ********************************************************************************
echo $footer;
?>
</body>
</head>

Any ideas?

thanks

Lem

[hexosex]

You are trying to start another page that is trying to set the http headers after they have allready been set. I had this problem and got around it with some php http posts that then caught the output stripped out the headers and then set them on final output!

Contact me gary@behindtheweb.co.uk if you need any more help on this problem. I'd be happy to help.