Passing $vbulletin to custom pages

[obsidianreq]

I'm writing a custom page for the User Control Panel for a client...

I have the page and template created. I defined a special include in global.php to pull in a form on said page. However, I can't access $vbulletin for the life of me from this page.

I have global.php included on the page, but it makes no difference. I need a way for the form to be able to access items such as the UID. Putting the form into the template itself isn't an option.

A little help, please?

[Mythotical]

Not quite sure what your trying to accomplish here whether you mean $vbulletin as in $vbulletin->db or $vbulletin as in you define what that variable does. Could you specify please?

[obsidianreq]

Such as $vbulletin->session or $vbulletin->userinfo

[Mythotical]

Hmmm, that is interesting. Usually it works when you include the global.php file.

Did you include it this way:

PHP Code:

require_once('./global.php'); 


[obsidianreq]

Yeah... here's what I have.

global.php

ob_start();
include('./updateForm.php');
$dpo = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
require_once(CWD . '/includes/init.php');

In the template, I have

$dpo

instead of $HTML

And on updateForm.php

chdir("/my/site/addressy/www/vbulletin");
require_once('./global.php');

Do a var_dump of $vbulletin and it's null...

--------------- Added [DATE]1262699927[/DATE] at [TIME]1262699927[/TIME] ---------------

The template is membership_details and the actual page i membership_details.php

[Mythotical]

This might be ridiculous to have you do but I'm curious to see if it changes anything.

Change this line:

PHP Code:

include('./updateForm.php'); 


To:

PHP Code:

require_once('./updateForm.php'); 


If nothing changes then maybe you might want to place the global.php call in the main file your trying to access.

[obsidianreq]

Haha. I actually tried that this morning after I posted that code. Didn't change anything, sadly.

I managed to get the user ID from $_COOKIE, so I suppose this works for now.

[Mythotical]

The file with this code:

PHP Code:

ob_start();
include('./updateForm.php');
$dpo = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
require_once(CWD . '/includes/init.php'); 


Is that file in the same directory as your vB forum?

[obsidianreq]

Originally Posted by Steve M

The file with this code:

PHP Code:

ob_start();
include('./updateForm.php');
$dpo = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
require_once(CWD . '/includes/init.php'); 


Is that file in the same directory as your vB forum?

I included that on global.php

[Mythotical]

So you edited vBulletin's global.php file? If so, remove that code and use it in a plugin instead for global_start plugin hook location. Also remove include('./updateForm.php'); from that as you are having issues because your causing it to go in a circle. If you didn't edit vBulletin's global.php file then honestly I can't say for sure why its not working other than you must have something somewhere causing it to stop working.