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[mrTip]

EXCELLENT! Thank you SOOO much for your help. I cannot tell you how much I want to syndicate news -- and now we've done it!

Thanks again. For your paitence too.

[calorie]

Glad you have it working.

[mrTip]

Hello,

I have yet another question. Is there a way to display a custom message if the board is offline? Because if the board is offline, it replaces the WHOLE page with the "vBulletin Message - Board Offline" page, which is not good.

Smilies also seem to have some trouble displaying themselves. They try and pull the images from images/smilies, but because my page is in the '/beta/' directory, it pulls it from /beta/images/smilies, which is an invalid URL. How can I correct the image path for the smilies on my syndicated news page?

[calorie]

Custom Message:

// plugin at global_start hook

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'news_index' AND !$vbulletin->options['bbactive'])
{
	// either turn board on or set custom message
	// $vbulletin->options['bbactive'] = 1;
	// $vbulletin->options['bbclosedreason'] = 'msg';
}

Smilie Image Path:

// set a replacement variable

images/smilies/ => http://www.domain.com/forum/images/smilies/

[mrTip]

Err, where should I put that 'custom message' piece of coding? I have it right under the require_once(global.php), but it doesn't seem to be turning the board on.

EDIT: I'm a complete n00b to modding vB, so I have no idea what do to with that smilie image path piece of coding. Again, thank you for your paitence!

[calorie]

1) Go to vB ACP -> Plugin System -> Add New Plugin:

Product: vBulletin
Hook Location: global_start
Title: news_index active
Plugin PHP Code: code is below
Plugin is Active: Yes

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'news_index' AND !$vbulletin->options['bbactive'])
{
	// either turn board on or set custom message
	$vbulletin->options['bbactive'] = 1;
	// $vbulletin->options['bbclosedreason'] = 'msg';
}

2) Go to vB ACP -> Styles & Templates -> Replacement Variable Manager -> Add New Replacement Variable:

Style: your choice
Search for Text: images/smilies/
Replace with Text: http://www.domain.com/forum/images/smilies/

Tip: also check out the vB online manual

[mrTip]

Plugin works and I think the replacement variable manager works too, but it doesn't seem to be replacing the URL of the smilies on that news script.

[calorie]

If you are going to use a replacement variable, try the following:

/* do one of the following */

$pagetext = process_replacement_vars($pagetext); // and then you echo

/* or */

eval('print_output($pagetext);'); // does process_replacement_vars and echoes for you

/* or */

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('your_template') . '");'); // where your_template has $pagetext in it

Otherwise be rid of the replacement variable and do something like:

$pagetext = str_replace('images/smilies/', 'http://www.domain.com/forum/images/smilies/', $pagetext); // and then you echo

[Star*]

thank you gents

[tassoman]

Hi to all, I'm trying to write a method for a MVC framework. But when i'm writing the news method i get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in /var/www/forum/htdocs/includes/functions.php on line 1041