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Want to create your very own vBulletin powered page which includes the header, footer, and the user permissions system as well?

Well now you can

Want to know how it will look? Take a look at the attached screenshot below!

Now includes the Who's Online modification!
Also, instructions included on how to create your own pages that are integrated with current vBulletin files!

I'm going to give you a generic page but you can easily modify the contents of the page by changing the template

So here we go

Instructions:

Create a new file, whatever you want to call it (let's say test.php).
Open up test.php and add the following (replace TEST with whatever template you want to show):
PHP Code:
<?php

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

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test'); // 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(
    'TEST',
);

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

);

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

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

$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'Test Page';

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

?>
Be sure to change 'TEST' to the actual template name, and change 'test' to the filename. Also, change 'Test Page' to whatever you want to show in the navbar, such as 'Viewing Member Profile' (just an example).

Now create the template, called TEST with the following content:
HTML Code:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header

$navbar

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
    <td class="tcat">Title</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="alt1">Text</td>
</tr>
</table>

$footer
</body>
</html>
All done
Now check it out by going to test.php

Who's Online Modification

Now if you want to show who is browsing this new page of yours, just open up includes/functions_online.php and find:
PHP Code:
    case 'bugs.php':
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'bugs';
        break; 
Below, add:
PHP Code:
    case 'test.php':
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'test';
        break; 
(Be sure to change the values to your own!)

Then find:
PHP Code:
        case 'modcplogin':
            $userinfo['action'] = $vbphrase['moderator_control_panel_login'];
            break; 
Below add:
PHP Code:
        case 'test':
            $userinfo['action'] = 'Viewing Test Page';
            break; 
All done!

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Also if you want to create your own pages 'within' current vBulletin files, do the following:

Open the file you want, and then right before the final ?> in the source code, add the following:

PHP Code:
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'xxx')
{
    eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('TEMPLATE_XXX') . '");');
} 
Replace 'xxx' with whatever you want ?do= in the query string to be (for example, replace 'xxx' with 'showprofile' so then someone would type in example.php?do=showprofile to view this template.) Then of course, change TEMPLATE_XXX to your template name, it's that simple!


edit by Lynne: If running 3.8.4 or above, see this post to take care of the PHP 5.3.0-related problems - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1171
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umm Gary, would you prefer me to PM these questions to you?
im suprised this thread has made it to 5 pages, this isnt even a hack... if you would like to learn you could try a link in my sig, also this could have bee much better done with a call to GENERIC_SHELL template using a second template
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Who is online system new variables should be in ACP MySQL DB, not the PHP files, I think ... for quicker eiditing ...
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Who is online system new variables should be in ACP MySQL DB, not the PHP files, I think ... for quicker eiditing ...
Actually you need to add a few new lines of code to make whos online recgonize where you are
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umm Gary, would you prefer me to PM these questions to you?
Closest thing I can think of is this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=36600
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How would you get a straight HTML, non-vbulletin related page to show up on "Who's Online" on another forum (on the same server of course).

I'm assuming you must reference it to a PHP snippet of code that records Who's Online, but how would I go about doing it?
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How would you get a straight HTML, non-vbulletin related page to show up on "Who's Online" on another forum (on the same server of course).

I'm assuming you must reference it to a PHP snippet of code that records Who's Online, but how would I go about doing it?
Just type in <?php require_once('global.php'); ?> at the top of the file (global.php being the one in forum so change accordingly.)
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Originally Posted by Gary W
*sigh* please don't bash hacks unless they truly don't work and it wasn't the installer's fault

Take a look at this screenshot, that's how it should look: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=17205

Also, I never said I had included a printable version now did I?
Gary W

I am sorry if it looked like I was bashing the hack. That was the furthest thing from my mind. I just can not get the navbar thing to work. I followed your instructions and paisted the php code into the correct files. But I can not get the navbar to work.

You can look at my file buy going to this link. There is no navbar. Could you give me some advice?
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/test.php

I guess there was a misunderstanding about the printable version because in the previous post I asked two questions and your response was "already is there". So I asumed that was the answer to both questions. So I guess that was my bust?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....9&postcount=40
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Gary W

I found out what happened. It was my fault that the navbar was not showing up. I deleted ths $navbar in the template by mistake. I am sorry about the misunderstanding.

But I would still like to see a option for a prinatble version added if it is possible.
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I just get a blank page;

I have put the test.php file in my forum root e.g. /forum/test.php

And I have created the template...

All I get is a blank page...???
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I just get a blank page;

I have put the test.php file in my forum root e.g. /forum/test.php

And I have created the template...

All I get is a blank page...???
What's the template name? Use UPPERCASE not lowercase.
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I'm intrigued by this. I keep coming back to it, wondering if this is something that could be combined with Coppermine or with 4images to get the gallery integrated with the forum. I'm currently running 4images; it allows me to login etc. but logs me out as soon as someone else looks at the forum or the gallery. Drives me nuts. I'd like it to have the navbar across the top, but replace the search functionality with the gallery search (which I've done already once before I scrapped and started over -- basically built a search that looks like vbulletins but calls 4images code)

That gallery is installed into a different directory, but I see you've got the code here for the diff directory.

There is a hack that unfortunately no one is paying attention to anymore here that linked the user login/cp of vb3 to the 4images... so now what I'm curious about is getting basically this to work the other way around -- make the login/etc. work with the gallery.

Hmm... I suppose if I were to copy all the 4images html into these templates it may work.
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great! I have been looking to get my custom pages to display correctly on who's online!

Thanks!
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is it possible to make it so test.php?page=xxx works? thanks
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is it possible to make it so test.php?page=xxx works? thanks
Yes it's possible but it would be harder to explain and to make it work properly; why not just create a new file?
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I try to put the "whats-going-on"-content of the forumhome-template into a custom template. Works fine - besides the "calender events". Is there any way to put the events on an "vBulletin-powered page"?

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