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tanuki · 2015-07-29, 10:13 AM

Hello guys, need some help with custom page here. The navigation bar seems to no get displayed. Here's the code in placeholder.php


<?php
/**
 * MyBB 1.8
 * Copyright 2014 MyBB Group, All Rights Reserved
 *
 * Website: http://www.mybb.com
 * License: http://www.mybb.com/about/license
 *
 */

define("IN_MYBB", 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'placeholder.php');
require_once "./global.php";
add_breadcrumb("Placeholder", "placeholder.php");








global_header();


echo "This is a placeholder page";


global_footer();








function global_header()
{
	global $headerinclude, $context, $header, $mybb;

	echo
'
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
';
	echo'
<title>'.$mybb->settings['bbname'].' - Placeholder</title>
';
	echo $headerinclude;
	echo
'
</head>
<body>
';
	echo $header;
}

function global_footer()
{
	global $footer;

	echo $footer;
	echo
'
</body>
</html>
	';
}


?>

Hello, anyone? I am trying to make a raw custom page because if i use the other method (the one with template), I won't be able to execute PHP codes. What I'm trying to achieve is to retrieve data from mysql database and make a table in the custom page.

KevinVR · (This post was last modified: 2015-07-29, 10:39 AM by KevinVR.)

This is a dirty quick fix that you might be interested in:

<?php

define("IN_MYBB", 1); 
require "./global.php"; // (1)

// Edit $message to change the message!
$message = '	html here';

error($message, 'Title here');
?>

tanuki · (This post was last modified: 2015-07-29, 11:25 AM by tanuki.)

That won't do for me. Any other way to fix this? How did the navigation bar not get displayed in the first place? I thought the function add_breadcrumb should get the job done.

One other thing the function multipage doesn't work even with correct parameters supplied. Could you reproduce this?

Sazze · (This post was last modified: 2015-07-29, 12:11 PM by Sazze.)

Try

<?php
/**
 * MyBB 1.8
 * Copyright 2014 MyBB Group, All Rights Reserved
 *
 * Website: http://www.mybb.com
 * License: http://www.mybb.com/about/license
 *
 */

define("IN_MYBB", 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'placeholder.php');
require_once "global.php";

global $headerinclude, $header, $theme, $footer;

add_breadcrumb("Placeholder", "placeholder.php");

global_header();

echo "This is a placeholder page";


global_footer();

function global_header()
{
    global $headerinclude, $context, $header, $mybb;

    echo
'
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
';
    echo'
<title>'.$mybb->settings['bbname'].' - Placeholder</title>
';
    echo $headerinclude;
    echo
'
</head>
<body>
';
    echo $header;
}

function global_footer()
{
    global $footer;

    echo $footer;
    echo
'
</body>
</html>
    ';
}


?>

KevinVR · (This post was last modified: 2015-07-29, 12:15 PM by KevinVR.)

@Akay your answer doesn't work; you need to parse the page.

If you go to the source code, you'll find "<navigation>". Your page isn't parsed.

In inc/functions.php you'll find

/**
 * Parses the contents of a page before outputting it.
 *
 * @param string The contents of the page.
 * @return string The parsed page.
 */
function parse_page($contents)
{
	global $lang, $theme, $mybb, $htmldoctype, $archive_url, $error_handler;

	$contents = str_replace('<navigation>', build_breadcrumb(), $contents);
	$contents = str_replace('<archive_url>', $archive_url, $contents);

This is what you should use.
Instead of echoing everything, put the html in a variable. Then set that variable equal to parse_page($html). Echo this variable and it'll work.

tanuki · (This post was last modified: 2015-07-29, 05:38 PM by tanuki.)

@KevinVR, what you said totally makes sense and explain what really happen. However I can't put myself into doing what you asked. Could you point me in the right direction here? Use this more cleaned up placeholder.php:

<?php
define("IN_MYBB", 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'placeholder.php');
require_once "./global.php";

do_header();
echo "this is a placeholder page";
do_footer();

function do_header()
{
    global $headerinclude, $context, $header, $mybb;
    echo '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>';
    echo'<title>'.$mybb->settings['bbname'].' - Placeholder</title>';
    echo $headerinclude;
    echo '</head><body>';
    echo $header;
}

function do_footer()
{
    global $footer;
    echo $footer;
    echo '</body></html>';
}
?>

EDIT: Actually, the pagination function multipage does work. I just forgotten to echo it. Now, this navigation bar is my only problem.

.m. · 2015-07-29, 05:46 PM

^ see this reply

tanuki · 2015-07-29, 08:40 PM

This is what I came up with:

<?php
define("IN_MYBB", 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'placeholder.php');
require_once "./global.php";

do_header();
$my_page = '<navigation>';
output_page($my_page);
echo "this is a placeholder page";
do_footer();


function do_header()
{
	global $headerinclude, $context, $header, $mybb;
	echo '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>';
	echo'<title>'.$mybb->settings['bbname'].' - Placeholder</title>';
	echo $headerinclude;
	echo '</head><body>';
	echo $header;
}

function do_footer()
{
	echo '<br />';
	global $footer;
	echo $footer;
	echo '</body></html>';
}
?>

The result was the navigation appear inside container div - because i output it after $header. $header already comes with <div class="container">, so there's no way for me to output the $my_page var before it. Is is possible to divide $header into different separate sections, like header_welcomeback_somethig $header_searchbox?

KevinVR · (This post was last modified: 2015-07-29, 08:59 PM by KevinVR.)

(2015-07-29, 08:40 PM)tanuki Wrote: This is what I came up with:
<?php
define("IN_MYBB", 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'placeholder.php');
require_once "./global.php";

do_header();
$my_page = '<navigation>';
output_page($my_page);
echo "this is a placeholder page";
do_footer();


function do_header()
{
	global $headerinclude, $context, $header, $mybb;
	echo '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>';
	echo'<title>'.$mybb->settings['bbname'].' - Placeholder</title>';
	echo $headerinclude;
	echo '</head><body>';
	echo $header;
}

function do_footer()
{
	echo '<br />';
	global $footer;
	echo $footer;
	echo '</body></html>';
}
?>
The result was the navigation appear inside container div - because i output it after $header. $header already comes with <div class="container">, so there's no way for me to output the $my_page var before it. Is is possible to divide $header into different separate sections, like header_welcomeback_somethig $header_searchbox?

You don't understand what you need to do. The <navigation> is there automatically, from the header. If you use your first PHP code, open the file in chrome and show the page source. You will find <navigation> inside of it. But it should be a breadcrumbs.

Now the parse_page($entire_page_in_html); will take care of replacing <navigation> with the breadcrumbs.
What do you have to do?

Do not echo anything at all -- put every single thing inside a variable called $entire_page_in_html (for example).

Then after that is done =>

echo parse_page($entire_page_in_html);

I will post what I think is a solution (--I quickly fixed it, I didn't test it--) but you should try to make it for yourself, to learn from it.

It's possible there's still some small error inside, but have a try:

define("IN_MYBB", 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'placeholder.php');
require_once "./global.php";
add_breadcrumb("Placeholder", "placeholder.php");

$html = '';

$html .= global_header();


$html .= "This is a placeholder page";


$html .= global_footer();

echo parse_page($html);




function global_header()
{
    global $headerinclude, $context, $header, $mybb;

    return '
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
' . '
<title>'.$mybb->settings['bbname'].' - Placeholder</title>
'. $headerinclude .
'
</head>
<body>
'. $header;
}

function global_footer()
{
    global $footer;

    return $footer . 
'
</body>
</html>
';
}

just tested-works.

tanuki · (This post was last modified: 2015-07-30, 05:07 AM by tanuki.)

Thank you. I see what you mean now. This is the final code:

<?php
define("IN_MYBB", 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'placeholder.php');
require_once "./global.php";
add_breadcrumb("Placeholder", "placeholder.php");



do_header();
echo 'This is a placeholder page';
do_footer();



function do_header()
{
	global $headerinclude, $context, $header, $mybb;
	echo '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
	<html xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<head>
	<title>'.$mybb->settings['bbname'].' - Placeholder</title>
	'.$headerinclude.'
	</head>
	<body>';
	global $header;
	echo parse_page($header);
}

function do_footer()
{
	global $footer;
	echo $footer;
	echo '</body>
	</html>';
}
?>

Thank you, KevinVR and the rest.

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