PHP into Templates [Archive] - vBulletin Community Forum

Sergio68

Tue 24th Oct '06, 12:50pm

I'd like to built a personal vBMenu into the navbar and I'm following this example : http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/templates_vbmenu_example

<if condition="$show['popups']">


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td id="MyMENU" class="vbmenu_control">
<a href="#">Second Multiple Popup Control</a>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</td>
</tr>
</table>



<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="MyMENU_menu" style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
<tr>
<td class="thead">This is my example vBMenu</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="index.php">Home Page</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="usercp.php">User CP</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>


<else />


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="index.php">Home Page</a></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="usercp.php">User CP</a></td>
</tr>
</table>


</if>

What I need to do now is to generate a dinamic menu with PHP reading a Data Base. How can I insert <?PHP ?> code into Templates ? Is it possible?

Steve Machol

Tue 24th Oct '06, 3:02pm

Sergio68

Tue 24th Oct '06, 4:50pm

Thx, next time I'll search and then I'll ask, later... eventually :D

Sergio68

Thu 26th Oct '06, 8:56pm

Please see these instructions for including PHP, TXT or HTML in a template:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/templates_externalfiles
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1066718#post1066718

Ok, I did it as told me on the manual.

I created a Plug-in for global_start with these contents:

ob_start();
include('products.php');
$products = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

I turned it on.

I created the products.php file with this simple code :

<?php
echo"Hi ! This the message that show the working Plug-in";
?>

Then I inserted the $products variable into this page (http://www.bodyweb.it/prodotti.php) on the central table, but nothing is showed :confused:
Any suggestments?

Lats

Thu 26th Oct '06, 9:01pm

Try assigning the text to a variable, say $my_variable, then display that variable in your template

Sergio68

Thu 26th Oct '06, 9:13pm

Did it, as you can see nothing is showed : http://www.bodyweb.it/prodotti.php

The variables are between the asteriscs.

:confused:

Sergio68

Thu 26th Oct '06, 9:15pm

That's the template :

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - Prodotti</title>
$headinclude
<script type="text/javascript" src="./forums/clientscript/vbulletin_global.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./forums/clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js "></script>
</head>
$header
$navbar
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" class="tcat"><div align="center">Prodotti disponibili </div></td>
</tr>
<tr height="5" >
<td width="50%" height="5" align="center" valign="top" class="alt1">
<div align="center"><b>Marche</b>
<br />
<br />
</div></td>
<td width="50%" height="5" align="center" valign="top" class="alt1"><div align="center"><b>Categorie</b></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="198" colspan="2" valign="top" class="alt1"><div align="center"><br />
<br />* $products * $my_variable *<br /><br /><br /><br /></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
$footer
</body>
</html>

and this is products.php example file :

<?php
$my_variable="try this text";
echo"Hi ! This the message that show the working Plug-in";
// include 'admin/variabili.php';
// include "$ecommpath/prodotti.php" ;

?>

Lats

Thu 26th Oct '06, 9:19pm

That echo should be causing an error I believe.

Comment that line out.

Sergio68

Thu 26th Oct '06, 10:00pm

Did it, nothing.
I suppose I did something wrong in the vbulletin setting, nothing is passed to it or may be something is missing couse we are outside the "forums/" directory.

Lats

Thu 26th Oct '06, 10:07pm

If it wasn't loading correctly, you would see a bunch of errors on the page. I tried this using the forumhome template and it works well.

You do have the plugin active don't you?

Sergio68

Thu 26th Oct '06, 10:21pm

Yes, plugin active but no errors are showed, that's weird.

Sergio68

Thu 26th Oct '06, 10:28pm

It should be something from the main dir missing couse here it works : http://www.bodyweb.it/forums/prodotti.php but no echo from php file or HTML is showed.

Please don't tell me that I can only pass variables...

Lats

Thu 26th Oct '06, 10:34pm

Errr, you can only pass variables.

You also have some javascript errors on your page - cross_miioroll has no properties

Sergio68

Thu 26th Oct '06, 10:52pm

Errr, you can only pass variables.

The manual says : "Most PHP files that you might wish to include in your forum contain echo or other output statements in your PHP file, it will break vBulletin because it is still in the process of initializing when it loads your PHP file. All echo and other output commands must be output buffered using ob_start, ob_clean, etc. commands. The output of your PHP script will be buffered for later use and inserted into a variable. All other statements in the PHP script will execute normally."

So all the output should be showed, isn't it ? Echoes included.
This is why we got a start, a buffering and a cleaning.

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/templates_externalfiles

Lats

Thu 26th Oct '06, 11:03pm

I'm not familiar with that method - anything I've ever done builds up a variable for display later on in the template.

Sergio68

Thu 26th Oct '06, 11:09pm

If I can't show all the complete output then I have to do built again my php code.

The code is an e-commerce engine wich I call between an header and a footer , I could just use the vbulletin header/footer and all could be ready.

Sergio68

Mon 30th Oct '06, 5:29am

It seems I can show the buffer output now, I don't know how but it works.

Something weird is going on anyway, I included in the template the PHP file with the

ob_start();
include('./products.php');
$products = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
as told.

This is the file products.php

<?php
$my_variable="1";
echo"2";
include ('textprova.txt');
echo"4";

?>

This is textprova.txt

echo"3";

In the template i show this variables :

$my_variables (that contain One)
and
$products (that should show the buffered output from the included file.

That's what I see :

1 2 echo"3"; 4
instead of
1 2 3 4

Does it make any sense ? :rolleyes:

Sergio68

Tue 12th Dec '06, 6:30pm

Ok, I solvede my problem by using directly the code into the page, without using the template.

That's the http://www.bodyweb.it/prodotti.php page now :

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('GET_EDIT_TEMPLATES', true);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'releases');
$phrasegroups = array();
$specialtemplates = array();
$globaltemplates = array();
$actiontemplates = array();
// require_once('./includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php');
chdir('/srv/www/www.bodyweb.it/forums/');
require_once('./global.php');
// $vbulletin->options['homeurl'];
$navbits = array();
$navbits[''] = 'Prodotti';
$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');
// eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('prodotti') . '");');
echo"$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir='$stylevar[textdirection]' lang='$stylevar[languagecode]'>
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - Prodotti - </title>
$headinclude
<script type='text/javascript' src='./forums/clientscript/vbulletin_global.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='./forums/clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js '></script>
</head>
$header
<br />
<table class='tborder' cellpadding='6' cellspacing='1' border='0' width='100%' align='center'>
<tr>
<td colspan='2' class='tcat'><div align='center'>Prodotti disponibili </div></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td height='198' colspan='2' valign='top' class='alt1'><div align='center'>";

include('../ecomm/prodotti.php');
echo"<br /></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
$footer
</body>
</html>";

?>

Including "../ecomm/prodotti.php" that can read the data base.

What's the problem now ?
If you click on one of the left link the variable it's unread by the selected page, for example : http://www.bodyweb.it/listamarche.php?marca=Eas

Sergio68

Tue 12th Dec '06, 9:18pm

Done, it was related to register globals.