Some basics of vB3(mini howto)

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by PtP

My apoligies for thinking you are a guru

I am just a simple student who is still learning things himself

[colicab-d]

can this be done Zachery?

say I have a var called $a and i want it evald on its own so that I can use it in the templates how do i assign just a value to that and still eval? i.e value 22

[khaleel]

Thankyou very much this is good newbs like me who have come from along time experince with phpBB and IpB :squareeyed:

[Seanie]

Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(./global.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/latch/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/latch/public_html/test.php on line 16

.... my forums are in /home/forums/public_html/

is there anyway to get it to work :S

[C.Birch]

read the error it tell's you the prob right away.

open_basedir restriction in effect. File(./global.php) is not within the allowed path

in other words the server setup does not let you pull files from other site paths this is because there might be other sites on the server you dont own and if there not any open_basedir restriction you could pull files from other peoples sites and this could let people hack people or nick personal information.

[Seanie]

Originally Posted by C.Birch

read the error it tell's you the prob right away.

open_basedir restriction in effect. File(./global.php) is not within the allowed path

in other words the server setup does not let you pull files from other site paths this is because there might be other sites on the server you dont own and if there not any open_basedir restriction you could pull files from other peoples sites and this could let people hack people or nick personal information.

i know that now... we've fixed it

[Adrian Schneider]

PHP Code:


$actiontemplates = array(
                            'small' => array(
                                                     'other'
                                                    )
); 


What exactly does this do?

[GeZuS P]

OMG Thanks, I feel like a god now !!!

[PaulioTheGreat]

Hey, i suppose you lot have been asked this loads of times, i am using this code:

<?php
// ## Changes Directory so it can accesss vBulletin IF we are outside the forums folder, if not this is not nessary ##
chdir("./forum");

// ## Error Reporting ( we use error reporting in php so we can control the display of error messages
// ## we will use this because all vBulletin files follow the same error reporting rules) ##
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// ## this action here cache's the templates so that everytime their needed a querry wont be needed to run 
// ## the names in there are just the template names :), there must be a comma after everyone but the last ##
$globaltemplates = array(
'index.php'
);

// ## Grabs global.php this grabs vbulletins global.php so we can use the most basic of vBulletins functions ##
require_once("./global.php");

// ## this calls to print out one main template ##
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('index.php') . '");');
?>

And is there any way of fixing the problems with the javascripts and images WITHOUT adding the vb home code to the relative urls?

Here is the page:

http://www.justonxbox.com/test.php

Also i know the template is called index.php, this is so that when i make my site from these they are easily edited as that will be the name for this page once done etc... etc...

Thanks Paul

[grooveh]

yes, thank you!

[dwh]

Originally Posted by Zachery

You didnt print any templates...

your missing the most important line

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('TEMPLATE') . '");');

You just made some varibles, you didnt tell the script to display a template i suggest trying generic shell

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('GENERIC_SHELL') . '");');

Gosh that would have saved me a lot of time had I known about it. Howdo use it? How do you populate $HTML? Is it a regular variable or aspecial one?

Also, I still don't get actions? Can someone explain the system in more details?

[dwh]

I think I understood actions now. It's no big deal it just pulls outany templates that are defined (somewhere? init.php?) for that action.It's a "shortcut" but it doesn't make any difference as long as youpull out any template you use in globaltemplates you should be ok.Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'd still like to know about the $HTML thing though.

[feldon23]

Originally Posted by dwh

I think I understood actions now. It's no big deal it just pulls outany templates that are defined (somewhere? init.php?) for that action.It's a "shortcut" but it doesn't make any difference as long as youpull out any template you use in globaltemplates you should be ok.Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'd still like to know about the $HTML thing though.

I'm using this code and to get images and javascript to load, I'm having to use ugly search-and-replace code that replaces

href=" with href="../forums/

and

src=" with src="../forums/, etc.

There's got to be an easier way.

The huge problem I am running into now is that by including global.php, and by extension init.php, cookies are being established. That's not what I want. Is there a way to load templates without all that other stuff happening?

What I may need to do is create a cron task that dumps the evaluated contents of the templates I need to flat HTML files and then include those.

[Razz]

If your using the action templates as shown in the original post:

PHP Code:

$actiontemplates = array(
                            'small' => array(
                                                     'other'
                                                    )
); 


along with:

PHP Code:

if (empty($_REQUEST['do']))
{
    $_REQUEST['do'] = 'small';
} 


Then you will need to set a default action template like below:

PHP Code:

$actiontemplates = array(
                            'small' => array(
                                                     'other'
                                                    )
);

$actiontemplates['none'] = &$actiontemplates['small']; 


This should prevent uncached templates on initial page visit if $_REQUEST['do'] is empty. Just change "small" in the last line to the default template array such as "home" or "main".

[Razasharp]

Hi

I've got the page to work, but I'd like to use a custom header and footer because the links do not show correctly at present - I've created the new templates for them and called them in my 'test' template instead of the standard ones. But it doesnt work :-(

Can someone give me a quick run-down of how it can be achieved? thanks.