How to include to an existing file?

[AnnaFan]

Hello,

I want my vBulletin 3 to be included in an existing PHP file (table). How do I do that? Thanks.

[Jake Bunce]

Normally you would add your opening and closing table code to the header and footer templates, respectively:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> Common Templates (in the menu)

Also in that same section, you can add PHP code like this to the phpinclude_start template to include the output of another file on your server:

ob_start();
require("yourheader.html");
$variable = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Then you can use $variable in your templates and it will evaluate to the output of yourheader.html.

[AnnaFan]

I'm a bit confused how to do that.

Well, this is the site where I want to include the forums.

It must be included in this tag:

<tr width="100%" height="400">
   <td colspan="2" id="table"><div align="center">vBulletin 3 comes here!</div></td>
</tr>

[Jake Bunce]

From the page source, put this code at the bottom of the headinclude template:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="menu.js"></script>

<SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="menu/milonic_src.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>

<script	language=JavaScript>
        if (parent.frames.length) {	top.location=document.location;}
	if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=menu/mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
	else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=menu/mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
</script>
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="menu/menu_data.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="menu/contextmenu.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>

Put this code at the top of the header template:

<div align="center">
  <table width="780" height="400" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
      <td id="outborder"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2"><img src="logo.jpg" width="780" height="100" /></td>

          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#000000" height="25">
            <script>
            with(milonic=new menuname("Main Menu")){
            style=background;
            top=118;
            left=139;
            alwaysvisible=1;
            orientation="horizontal";
            position="relative";
            aI("text=Home;url=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/index.php;status=Back To Home Page;;image=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/menu/home.gif;");
            aI("text=Purchase;url=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/purchase.php;status=Purchase;");
            aI("text=Records;showmenu=Records;status=Records;onsubimage=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/menu/on_downboxed.gif");
            aI("text=Free Picks;showmenu=Free Picks;status=Free Picks;onsubimage=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/menu/on_downboxed.gif");
            aI("text=Statistics;url=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/stats.php;status=Stats;");
            aI("text=Calendar;status=Calendar;showmenu=Calendar;onsubimage=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/menu/on_downboxed.gif");
            aI("text=Players;url=/menusample.php;showmenu=Players;onsubimage=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/menu/on_downboxed.gif");
            aI("text=Community Forums;url=http://forums.tennis-handicapping.com;status=Community Forums;");
            aI("text=About;url=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/;status=About;");
            aI("text=Contact;url=http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/contact.php;status=Contact;");
            }
            drawMenus();
            </script>
            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td id="navigation3" width="466"><div align="left">
							
	Welcome Guest! 
        Please <strong><a href="register.php?PHPSESSID=d461b14c5e097963a1d33cf2c90c6c74" onfocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">register</a></strong> 
        or <strong><a href="index.php?PHPSESSID=d461b14c5e097963a1d33cf2c90c6c74" onfocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">login</a></strong>.
        						</div></td>

      			<td id="navigation3" width="220"><div align="right">
							Registered Members: 25						</div></td>
      		</tr>
      		<tr width="100%" height="400">
      			<td colspan="2" id="table"><div align="center">

Put this code at the bottom of the footer template:

</div></td>
    			</tr>
      </table></td>
    </tr>

  </table>
  <p><div align="center"><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">Copyright &copy;2003-2005 Tennis-Handicapping.com. All rights reserved.<br />Online since July 19, 2003</font></div></p>
</div>

No doubt there will be some code tweaking involved. For example, you will need to update the relative paths in this HTML code so they point to the right place.

[AnnaFan]

Except for the footer everything works fine.

[Jake Bunce]

It looks to me like everything is working:

http://forums.tennis-handicapping.com/

Though you might want to edit the default header and footer code to make the forum fit better into the layout.

[AnnaFan]

So my own copyright from my site (at the bottom) gets killed by the footer template?

[Jake Bunce]

Your page source contains this:

<?php include("http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/php/copyright.php"); ?>

PHP code will not parse in the footer. You need to evaluate the output of that file to a variable using the method from my previous post.

[AnnaFan]

I have this in the phpinclude_start

ob_start();
include("http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/php/copyright.php");
$your_code = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Output in footer

<p>$your_code</p>

[Jake Bunce]

Can you post the entire contents of your phpinclude_start template?

[AnnaFan]

/*
// Example of how to include a seperate file:

ob_start();
include("http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/php/copyright.php");
$your_code = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

// Now place a reference to $your_code where you want the resulting HTML to be displayed.
// This will most likely be the header or footer template.
*/

[Jake Bunce]

Your code is commented out. Remove the red code:

[color=red]/*[/color]
// Example of how to include a seperate file:

ob_start();
include("http://www.tennis-handicapping.com/php/copyright.php");
$your_code = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

// Now place a reference to $your_code where you want the resulting HTML to be displayed.
// This will most likely be the header or footer template.
[color=red]*/[/color]

[AnnaFan]

I'm a bloke and haven't see that. You are right, Sir. Thank you.