Miscellaneous Hacks - Let PHP Live! (Allow PHP code in templates)

I got frustrated that the vBulletin template system limited me in this way so... I wrote a hack around it.

Just use <? <?php <?= as you would normally in the templates.

I'd like to see PHP based templates in the future, vBulletin! <if> is useless if I can just type <? if ?> !

Things to Remember

You cannot break up PHP blocks.

<? if (0): ?>
Hello!!!
<? endif ?>

will not work, and you'll get a nice error message about how it didn't. If it's really a concern for anyone, I can try to get it working. In my opinion, that's not a big deal. I think PHP support sans breaking up blocks in 10 lines of hack code is pretty nice, myself.

That's a limitation of eval anyway

Variables aren't always the same in PHP mode!

While you can use $vboptions[bbtitle] in your main code and get it working, vBulletin is doing behind the scenes voodoo on stuff.

To access $vboptions[x]: $GLOBALS['vbulletin']->options['x']

[leestrong7]

Interesting, Ill wait untill someones got this working though

[Phalynx]

Thanks for sharing.

[King Internet]

Originally Posted by leestrong7

Interesting, Ill wait untill someones got this working though

Not much to get working... you import the XML file, the end. Nothing to configure. Code only runs when templates are compiled.

[D.Ilyin]

hm.... intresting..... installed....

[epic1]

Damn, could have used this when I was struggling to get some PHP scripts to work with 3.6 in the beginning, lol.

I'll still take this for a spin for when I next need to do some PHP stuff. Thanks!

[Kirk Y]

I think, as probably do the vB Coding Team, that the ability to use PHP in Templates is a Security Risk. What if you've got an Administrator on your board who gets bored and decides to execute some harmful code?

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

What if you've got an Administrator on your board who gets bored and decides to execute some harmful code?

I do not put people in power who I can not trust.
Do you ? If you do, make sure you back up.

[Ntfu2]

awesome, i only tested with a simple echo statement but it worked like a charm :yesway:

[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by Zachariah

I do not put people in power who I can not trust.
Do you ? If you do, make sure you back up.

I trust all my Administrators. But just because you trust someone doesn't mean that they wouldn't for some reason get upset and retaliate.