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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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Old 03-21-2004, 05:20 PM
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You'd have to copy the code in the file to produce the results for that; easiest thing to do would be to copy all of the contents of the index.php but remove the print_output() line.
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That's what I had done.
It shows the statistics, online-users and birthdays. But the events are not shown .
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Is there any chance to get the "Quick-Links" of the navbar running on "vBulletin-powered pages"? That would be nice.

Sorry, my fault. forgot the $navbar.
But the other problem exists nevertheless.
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Quote:
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Is there any chance to get the "Quick-Links" of the navbar running on "vBulletin-powered pages"? That would be nice.

Sorry, my fault. forgot the $navbar.
But the other problem exists nevertheless.
Well I haven't looked into how the code creates the events data, but I suppose it would require more than index.php then. I will look into it when I have time, or maybe someone else could give it a go
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary W
Yes it's possible but it would be harder to explain and to make it work properly; why not just create a new file?
I was using vBadvanced and had 100+ pages running through it, they're all saved as index_(pagename), I was hoping to be able to do this without making a page for each and keeping them named as index_pagename
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Put the following, probably best place would be at the very end right before the ?>

PHP Code:
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'xxx')
{
    eval(
'print_output("' fetch_template('TEMPLATE_XXX') . '");');

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http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php
the index page works fine, I added the extra code you put to the end of index.php but when I put something like http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php?page=psdmain I'm not brought to the template index_psdmain, how would this be done?
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Quote:
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Well I haven't looked into how the code creates the events data, but I suppose it would require more than index.php then. I will look into it when I have time, or maybe someone else could give it a go
That would be great. I'll take a look as well, but I tried various things yesterday and none was working.
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http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php
the index page works fine, I added the extra code you put to the end of index.php but when I put something like http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php?page=psdmain I'm not brought to the template index_psdmain, how would this be done?
Have you gotten this to work? This could be useful for me as well.
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Have you gotten this to work? This could be useful for me as well.
unfortunatley I haven't, I'll work on it and tell you how it goes
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is tehre a way to have it seach pages that are not off the forum?
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Have you gotten this to work? This could be useful for me as well.
I've placed instructions in the first post a few days ago
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Thank you Gary W for the tutorial, I needed that!

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I've placed instructions in the first post a few days ago
OK. I have it working now. Thanks.
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No problem glad it worked
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