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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!

----------------------------------

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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Quote:
Originally Posted by iKwak
Is there a way that you can add new pages on your index directory rather than the forum directory?
This should get you started.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....2&postcount=23

All your menu links will need to be absolute instead of relative too.
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I used your code :

PHP Code:
chdir('/usr/home/mydomain/www/forum');
require('./global.php'); 
But it still does not function properly, i am still getting js errors and images are not showing.
I have this .php file outside my forum directory too.

any help ?
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Anybody,

I can't get phrases created via the phrase manager to show up? Any ideas what i might have done wrong ? here is the info in my template if it helps

As always Thanks for any assistance :0
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I am trying to make a rather large template (950 lines of code), for a page using this "hack" and when I try to save and reload the template in the Control Panel it won't refresh like it saved and the changes don't load when I go to the page. Is there a maximum template size limit that I am bumping into?
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great
love it
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cinq
I used your code :

PHP Code:
chdir('/usr/home/mydomain/www/forum');
require('./global.php'); 
But it still does not function properly, i am still getting js errors and images are not showing.
I have this .php file outside my forum directory too.

any help ?
All the js references in the headinclude template need to have an absolute path.

Code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="$vboptions[bburl]/clientscript/vbulletin_global.js"></script>
<if condition="$show['popups']"><script type="text/javascript" src="$vboptions[bburl]/clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js"></script></if>
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I'd like to do something a little different with this:

I have a PHP file as instructed, but I only want to include a header and footer (I've already set up templates for those). For the main page I want to include another page.

This is what I tried in the PHP file:

Code:
<snip>
$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('extrapage_top') . '");'); 
include("extrapage_contents.html"); 
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('extrapage_bottom') . '");'); 
?>
Except it only shows the information from the template extrapage_top.

It doesn't show extrapage_contents.html, nor does it show the code from the template extrapage_bottom.

What am I doing wrong?
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Includes have to go in the phpinclude_start template. Use the example as a guide:

Code:
// Example of how to include a seperate file:
// ob_start();
// require("yourheader.html");
// $header = ob_get_contents();
// ob_end_clean();
All you have to add to your template is the variable for the page you want to include ($header in the example).
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Excellent - worked like a charm. Thanks!
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Great. Glad to help.
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Can cany one please tell my how i can add login,latest treads and that sort of things to the vb powerd page.
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Hi

Is it possible for this to work when the forums in a subdomain on the same server?

I have tried it using PHP includes (storing the root php file in the forums dir) and that works, however permissions dont seem to work and when i use permissions via the templates(<if> statments) it doesnt recognise that Im logged in...


thanks in advance for any help
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great hack

however i am having a few issues when i try to align the tables in the body. if i try to align the table on the left the time stamp will appear on the right in stead of the bottom of where it should be. in the attached image you can see how i made two tables side by side and the time stamp appears in between the two tables. no matter what i try in the code nothing seems to move it. i will attach the code too. Any help will be appreciated thanks.


HTML Code:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]&nbsp:: Links</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">Links</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="alt1"><p>Great links and friends of Mysite.org.<br>
        </td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="48%" align="left">
<tr>
	<td class="tcat">Discussion Boards</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="center">
	<td class="alt1"><br><a href="http://www.site1.org/" target="_blank">Description</a><br><br><a href="http://www.site2.com/" target="_blank">Description2</a><br><br><a href="http://www.site3.com/" target="_blank">Description3</a><br><br><i>more to come...</i><br>
        </td>
</tr>
</table>


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="48%" align="right">
<tr>
	<td class="tcat">Other Sites</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td class="alt1"><br><a href="http://www.site1.org/" target="_blank">Description1</a><br><br><a href="http://www.site2.com/" target="_blank">Description2</a><br><br><a href="http://www.site3.com/" target="_blank">Description3</a><br><br><i>more to come...</i><br>
        </td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
<br>
<br>
$footer

</html>
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Installed the test pages "Test"

Its all white and nothing shows?

Whats up, anyone?
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