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

[amcd]

you have to eval temp2 and store the result in a variable before you try to print_output from temp1. see how navbar is processed in the example in the first post.

[Eddymvp]

I had this page working for about 2 years, and all of the sudden it stops working and if i'm not login it ask me to login and when I log-in it says

"username, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:... etc".

Like I said I had this working for 2 years and it stops working and I haven't changed any of the code on the page.

How can I get this back to work?

Can someone really help me out with this. I can't figured out why I'm getting permission deny on my custom page. I did follow all the steps propertly.

[CarlitoBrigante]

If you want, send to my e-mail (carlito@psfantasy.com) a copy of the file that is giving you issues. Of course, being able to see your exact setup would make debugging this very easy - maybe you could give us more details?

[edgecutioner]

umm how do i limit the page to be viewed ONLY to registered members?

[wolf32]

Did everything right but am just getting a blank page. Any suggestions?

Template Name: About_Us
Code:

PHP Code:

 <?php 

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

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'http://www.u-connex.com/About_Us.php'); // 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( 
'About_Us', 
); 

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

); 

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################ 
require_once('./global.php'); 

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

$navbits = array(); 
$navbits[$parent] = 'About Us'; 

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

?>

[amcd]

A blank page usually means that display_errors is off in php.ini. Either switch that on or set the error_log variable to a file writable by nobody.

Originally Posted by edgecutioner

umm how do i limit the page to be viewed ONLY to registered members?

put this just below the 'START MAIN SCRIPT' comment

if ($vbulletin->userinfo->userid==0)
{
    print_no_permission();
}

[Adrian Schneider]

It should actually be $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . To simplify the code, and fix:

PHP Code:

if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
    print_no_permission();
} 


[edgecutioner]

Originally Posted by SirAdrian

It should actually be $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . To simplify the code, and fix:

PHP Code:

if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
    print_no_permission();
} 


Originally Posted by amcd

A blank page usually means that display_errors is off in php.ini. Either switch that on or set the error_log variable to a file writable by nobody.


put this just below the 'START MAIN SCRIPT' comment

if ($vbulletin->userinfo->userid==0)
{
    print_no_permission();
}

thanks for the code guys!

EDIT: Works perfectly!

[wolf32]

Originally Posted by amcd

A blank page usually means that display_errors is off in php.ini. Either switch that on or set the error_log variable to a file writable by nobody.

My error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING
in /big/dom/xu_connex/www/About_Us.php on line 2

Anyone???

[Antivirus]

What's your code?

[wolf32]

I posted it about halfway up the page ^^^^.

[Antivirus]

Try changing THIS_SCRIPT to just about_us, no complete url address

[wolf32]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

Try changing THIS_SCRIPT to just about_us, no complete url address

Aggg!! Same error.

[Adrian Schneider]

Your code parsed fine for me, so post your exact code.

[RockMTP]

Hi all!

This looks like exactly what i need!

The only problem is I just spent an hour editing the php & template and then trying to get them to work without much luck! I don't know much about doing this kind of thing as you could probably guess.

I changed all the 'Test' areas to 'MORE'

I added the php to the root

I created the template and added 'MORE' where applicable

I made sure the global path was correct

and nothing worked! Have I overlooked something!

Originally Posted by dpakman91

alright, hopefully someone can help me with this:

i have some large files i want to make available to certain usergroups, but not other. the files are way too large to upload as "attachments" with vb so i would have to upload them via ftp and then just post a link in a thread...of course this means the only way to prevent people from downloading it is to prevent them from seeing the thread at all, which is not my intention.

with this new way of making a vb page, is there any way to do what i am trying to do?

any help would be great.

Originally Posted by Gary King

Try something like:

PHP Code:

<?php

require_once('./global.php');

if ($_REQUEST[filename])
{
    if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 6)
    {
        header("Location: $_REQUEST[filename]");
    }
}

?>

Be sure to change the path to the global.php and the usergroupid as well (currently it's 6 for admins only).

Also, save this code in a file such as download.php and then you can use the file by linking to it like http://www.example.com/forum/downloa...=something.php which will download www.examlpe.com/forum/files/something.php if the user is an administrator.

The above is exactly what I want to do. Can someone tell me where I should add the new php code please. Also how would I FTP into these pages...just a little confused at the moment!

Thanks