How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

That is because they are custom templates. If you want to show them also as default, you will have to set them manually in the database to belong to styleid -1.

This can however mean that they get removed on a vB upgrade.

/me didn't have his coffee yet, so use the above only on a testboard.

[MRGTB]

Does that also mean then if you make some manual edits to some of the default templates, like when you add a new mod that requires some edits in FORUMHOME templates, the chances are an update to an higher version can mess things up becuase they were default templates edited,

Out of interest how would you go about making them changes in your database. Would you go into the template section and edit each template and change the ID.

[JMH11788]

I have this hack working perfect for my forum rules, but I tried making another page today using a template called ARTICLES and a .php file called articles.php. I modifed the template and .php file correctly, but when I go to http://forums.theoverclocked.com/articles.php, I get that error. Can anyone help?

EDIT: Nvm...appears to be working now....wierd

[Selene]

thanx

[derekivey]

I still can't get it to show the page in a certain style, it always shows it in the style the user is using. Any ideas?

[MRGTB]

Sorry can't help you there, I only use the default style here, so I don't have that problem.

But I also would still like to know how you edit your database so the new template displays a default template for in the edit template page.

[James Grant]

This is a really useful bit of code, but i want to change the style to something different too :ermm:

[TylerL]

Am I the ONLY one with this error?

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/myovercl/public_html/sudburyskate/skatespots/index.php on line 43

PHP Code:

  <?php

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'index'); // 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(
    'skatespots',
);

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array(

);

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
chdir('$vboptions[homeurl]/');
require('./global.php');

// #######################################################################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #######################################################################

$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'Sudbury Skate Spots'';

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '"; ');
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('skatespots') . '"); ');

?>

Created a template called 'skatespots'. The file is located at:

http://www.sudburyskate.com/skatespots/index.php

[Adrian Schneider]

PHP Code:

$navbits[$parent] = 'Sudbury Skate Spots''; 


should be

PHP Code:

$navbits[$parent] = 'Sudbury Skate Spots'; 


(it had an extra quote)

Also,

PHP Code:

chdir('$vboptions[homeurl]/'); 


won't work, as $vboptions is set after global.php is ran, and of course even if it was set, you can't use variables inside single quotes.

Originally Posted by James Grant

This is a really useful bit of code, but i want to change the style to something different too :ermm:

Assuming you are on 3.0.x: (mine is 3.0.7, may be a little dif)

global.php - find:

PHP Code:

$styleid = intval($styleid); 


Above it, add:

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'yourscriptname')
{
    $styleid = X;
} 


(where yourscriptname is what you have defined at the top of your page)

[cnczone]

Has this been redone for VB 3.5?

[Adrian Schneider]

Originally Posted by cnczone

Has this been redone for VB 3.5?

Tis the exact same for both.

[JohnBee]

I would l like to use vB templates to design a dynamic page (with changing content)
specificaly the page is for news and would have a: Page 2 >> Page 3 >> type of arrangement. but I want to keep the vB header and footer active.

Normally this is not a problem on a regular .php page because I can use php includes but using vBulletins php include variable in the php_include_start template I am limited to one variable. The news page links are generated on the fly with there own unique ID's.

Is there any way to call php includes from an external file or something to get this working? can this addon do this?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

[AndyA]

Great I've got the page showing http://www.throttlejockey.co.uk/forum/info.php but am I right in thinking that any text is entered into the template and not the page itself ?

How do I get links or images to work on my new page ?

[BigIke]

Originally Posted by AndyA

Great I've got the page showing http://www.throttlejockey.co.uk/forum/info.php but am I right in thinking that any text is entered into the template and not the page itself ?

How do I get links or images to work on my new page ?

Yes. What you want to put on the actual page goes into the template. However, whatever goes into the template must be html. So you can't put http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...4/P9060045.jpg that url and expect to have the image come up, you must use html like this:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v185/andyaveyard/Tan%20Hill%20Meet%204-9-04/P9060045.jpg"></img>

[keymistress]

erm... for those who are using this mini mod for sub-domains, you have to add these two steps for it work:

find

PHP Code:

require_once('./global.php'); 


and add this before it

PHP Code:

define('CHDIR_PATH', '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/yourdomain.com/subdomains/forums/httpdocs'); //just an example, please change to your own forum's full path
chdir(CHDIR_PATH); 


next you'll need to copy the login.php from your forums folder and paste it in your sub-domain directory. also find

PHP Code:

require_once('./global.php'); 


and add this before it

PHP Code:

define('CHDIR_PATH', '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/yourdomain.com/subdomains/forums/httpdocs'); //just an example, please change to your own forum's full path
chdir(CHDIR_PATH); 


after that the mod will work for your sub-domain... just something i discovered while trying it for my own site... hope it helps!