Integration with vBulletin - Smarty Integration With Vbulletin - BETA

This modification will allow you to use Smarty tags in your Vbulletin templates and even allow you to write PHP code in your templates.

I have tested this for the last 3-4 months before I posted it here and am pretty confident that it is all working properly but it should be fully tested on your site before released into production. I am still considering it BETA software.

This does require one small source code edit and there really is no way around it that I can find. There is no hook in the fetch_template() function at this time, so it is required.

After you install the modification, you can enter tags like this in your templates:

<%

## Whatever smarty code you want

%>

Or for PHP:

<%php%>
echo "Hello World! The timestamp for now is " . TIMENOW;
<%/php%>

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[Jafo232]

Ok, and I assume you uploaded the files to their proper places, and set the directory permissions on the templates_c folder to 777?

Could you paste the code exactly as you put it in the template here (not the entire template please).

[alessai]

yup uploaded templates_c and smarty inside the forum folder (vb) and i did set the permissions to 777
the code is

<%php%>
echo "Hello World! The timestamp for now is " . TIMENOW;
<%/php%>

[Jafo232]

Sorry so many questions, but you did install the product file too right? And you have plugins turned on in your vbulletin options?

[alessai]

yes its activatied

p.s. ask as much as u want i really want the php thing works

[GCC LLC]

Have you had any experience using this on a load balanced server setup? I have 2 web front end servers and a shared (can use either CIFS or NFS) filesystem but when I enable this plugin, the servers all seem to slow down quite a bit. Do you know if I absolutely need to have the templates_c directory shared between all web servers? It seems that when smarty compiles to a remote filesystem that is where the slowdown occurs. I know this isn't a problem related specifically to your plugin, but thought I'd ask here anyway. BTW, my link between servers is all at 100mbps so there is plenty of bandwidth there to take care of things, but I may be limited by either the NFS or the CIFS services throughput. Your thoughts?

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by alessai

yes its activatied

p.s. ask as much as u want i really want the php thing works

Look in your templates_c directory, are there any files in there other than index.html?

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by GCC LLC

Have you had any experience using this on a load balanced server setup? I have 2 web front end servers and a shared (can use either CIFS or NFS) filesystem but when I enable this plugin, the servers all seem to slow down quite a bit. Do you know if I absolutely need to have the templates_c directory shared between all web servers? It seems that when smarty compiles to a remote filesystem that is where the slowdown occurs. I know this isn't a problem related specifically to your plugin, but thought I'd ask here anyway. BTW, my link between servers is all at 100mbps so there is plenty of bandwidth there to take care of things, but I may be limited by either the NFS or the CIFS services throughput. Your thoughts?

Hmm, probably more of a Smarty question. I am not very experienced in the load balancing area but if you want to, you can try using a local directory for the templates_c. You would have to edit the plugin code. The plugin named "Start Up Smarty", find:

$smarty->compile_dir = DIR . '/templates_c';

You can change that to whatever you wish, example:

$smarty->compile_dir = '/some/other/path/onyour/server';

Just make sure the directory is writable.

[alessai]

i found :
%%1E^1E8^1E8F45E3%%db%3Anewpost_quote.php
%%40^403^40326BD9%%db%3Aeditor_jsoptions_size.php
%%67^676^67664761%%db%3Aeditor_jsoptions_font.php

and no index file

[Jafo232]

Hmm, then it is processing it..

Can you put that PHP code in the header template and confirm it still isn't working?

[alessai]

still doesnt work,,,,
i use 3.6.8,,, is it possibe that the server disabled some things that affecting the addon ? or another addon ?