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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!

----------------------------------

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 03-23-2004, 08:12 PM
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sorry to be a hassle, but can you please tell me what I'm supposed to do here?
my templates are named index_fonts, index_psds...etc like that, what would I change this code to for it to work correctly?
PHP Code:
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'xxx') 
{ 
    eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('TEMPLATE_XXX') . '");'); 
} 
thanks alot
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Originally Posted by AshAbed
sorry to be a hassle, but can you please tell me what I'm supposed to do here?
my templates are named index_fonts, index_psds...etc like that, what would I change this code to for it to work correctly?
PHP Code:
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'xxx') 
{ 
    eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('TEMPLATE_XXX') . '");'); 
} 
thanks alot
Change TEMPLATE_XXX to index_fonts, etc.
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Old 03-23-2004, 11:19 PM
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ok.. sorry about this, but http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php? is the page, I added
PHP Code:
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'xxx') 
{ 
    eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('index_fonts') . '");'); 
} 
and I don't see index_fonts template when I go to
http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php?do=fonts
or
http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php?do=index_fonts
thanks
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Old 03-23-2004, 11:49 PM
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I think you must try this code:

PHP Code:
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'fonts') 
{ 
    eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('index_fonts') . '");'); 
} 
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Old 03-24-2004, 01:15 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AshAbed
ok.. sorry about this, but http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php? is the page, I added
PHP Code:
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'xxx') 
{ 
    eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('index_fonts') . '");'); 
} 
and I don't see index_fonts template when I go to
http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php?do=fonts
or
http://www.maddpc.com/~ashraf/index.php?do=index_fonts
thanks
If you use that code, then go to ?do=xxx
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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"?
Even if I'm the only one who is interested in this problem I post my solution anyway:

If the events should show up:

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test'); (where test is the name of the nonvb-page)

should be

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'index');
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Ok i am having one hell of an issue, I made a index page for a site i am building but when your not logged into the forum the homepage doesnt show up. This page is out side vb and in the home directory. any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: i put it back into vb and still logged out user cant see it how do i give them permissions to veiw this page?
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linux server files are case sensitive...

it's all lowercase /forum/test.php - still give me a blank page...
Quote:
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What's the template name? Use UPPERCASE not lowercase.
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got it!!!! test at the bottom of test.php is uppercase there your template needs to be "TEST" uppercase
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Alright gary...thanks for the tips thus far. He's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to create an article system of sorts. My database table will have the following fields: Author, Date, Article, Title, and ID. Now, what I'd like to do is have something like:

articles.php?do=viewarticles&artid=4

And that would call the article in the database with the ID of 4. At any rate, how would I do that without having to make a new template for every article.
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AutomatikStudio,

Just a suggestion. It may be easier to use a variation of one of the portal hacks.
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Alright gary...thanks for the tips thus far. He's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to create an article system of sorts. My database table will have the following fields: Author, Date, Article, Title, and ID. Now, what I'd like to do is have something like:

articles.php?do=viewarticles&artid=4

And that would call the article in the database with the ID of 4. At any rate, how would I do that without having to make a new template for every article.
Basically just use a generic 'shell' template which has generic stuff that all the pages will have. Then just use variables in the templates, I'm sure you can go from there
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n/m got it.
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can u make vb code work with this ?

otherwise this is like HTML pages i guess...gotta use HTML tags.
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is it possible to get the member age (if specified by the user in in his options) to show on the page...and is it possible to get the contact column from memberlist.php to work on this custom page? if so...how?
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