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%>

If you find this useful, please:

Click Install

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[Jafo232]

I cannot think of any reason why it would not work on your server at this point. If you have the product installed, and have edited and saved functions.php, I cannot think of any reason why it is not working.

If you have a cache of some type installed on VB, you may want to try disabling it.

[Reeve of shinra]

i dont have much experience with the smarty template system but this is deffinitely a unique mod and gets a big thumbs up and a MOTM nod.

[Jafo232]

Thanks, I know this won't be a huge plugin for the masses, but I hope power users will understand the implications of it. Thanks again.

[Jafo232]

alessai, any luck?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Just a note: The default vBulletin template system does not allow including PHP for security reasons (except a very few predefined functions that can be used in conditionals). Allowing PHP in templates will reduce security!

[Jafo232]

I do not see how including PHP in templates will reduce security any more than allowing javascript in templates..

[Jafo232]

I should also add, that if the PHP really bothers you, you can turn it off in Smarty.

[mySaowt]

Great add-on for sure. I started a simpler version to re-create another version of the archive using Smarty caching. I will play around this one and see.

[Jafo232]

Let me know how it turns out for ya.