Templating ... a simple guide

[Highway of Life]

No problem.

Sort?!?

OH, well... you would want to run a small query and left join the ranks table to pull the rank image and text.

[DarsVaeda]

if i need custom database-tables i don't get around using php, do i?

[Handyman]

to create custom database tables, you wouldn't need to use php… unless you wanted to use them.
So no, you wouldn't get around it.

[DarsVaeda]

i mean if i create a new table and want to work with the data in my templates, i would need php for that, right?

[Handyman]

i mean if i create a new table and want to work with the data in my templates, i would need php for that, right?

yes Darth.

[geckzilla]

edit: I ended up putting my own <!-- URLENCODE whatevervar --> into the template functions. Somehow I think this will bite me in the ass later.

Hi, I have an odd question... might there be any way to, say, do something like this:

<!-- URLENCODE -->{SOME_PHPBB_VARIABLE}<!-- ENDURLENCODE -->

A friend and I are creating some wild template which uses some flash elements and all has gone well up until the point where I want to send some PHPBB variables to the swf via the query string. In cases such as when things like ?f=22&t=1481are included in the variable I'm sending through the query string, it interprets that & as being the start of a new variable rather than part of the variable itself and is truly a nightmare to think about working around.

I don't mind modding the board software to achieve this though I really would like to avoid it. I kind of doubt what I want is already built in. I thought the <!--PHP--> tags would be a godsend but as it turns out you can't include phpbb variables within the php tags.

Any ideas?

[Luk4ward]

Try adding...

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'USER_RANK'                => ($user->data['user_rank']) ? $user->data['user_rank'] : '',  

to the functions file.

Hi

im trying to add on my header a profile menu with the avatar so i tried the avatar mod on index and using your advice i added into functions before line:

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if (!$online_userlist)
		{
			$online_userlist = $user->lang['NO_ONLINE_USERS'];
		}

the code:

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		// Avatar on Index and Default Avatar for Guest MOD --Version 2 Beta
    $avatar_img = $user_avatar_size = $user_avatar_thumb = $size = '';
    if ($user->data['user_avatar'] && $user->optionget('viewavatars'))
    {
       switch ($user->data['user_avatar_type'])
       {
          case AVATAR_UPLOAD:
             $avatar_img = $phpbb_root_path . "download.$phpEx?avatar=";
          break;

          case AVATAR_GALLERY:
             $avatar_img = $phpbb_root_path . $config['avatar_gallery_path'] . '/';
          break;
       }
          $avatar_img .= $user->data['user_avatar'];
          $avatar_width = $user->data['user_avatar_width'];
          $avatar_height = $user->data['user_avatar_height'];

          $user_avatar_thumb = '<img src="' . $avatar_img . '" style="' . $size . '" alt="" />';
          $avatar_img = '<img src="' . $avatar_img . '" width="' . $avatar_width . '" height="' . $avatar_height . '" alt="" />';
       }
//  Avatar on Index and Default Avatar for Guest MOD --Version 2 Beta

and before:

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'S_USERNAME'			=> $user->data['username'],

the code:

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// avatar mod
		'USER_AVATAR'   => ( $user->data['user_avatar'] ) ? get_user_avatar($user->data['user_avatar'], $user->data['user_avatar_type'], $user->data['user_avatar_width'], $user->data['user_avatar_height']) : '',
                'USER_AVATAR_THUMB' => ( $user->data['user_avatar']) ? get_user_avatar($user->data['user_avatar'], $user->data['user_avatar_type'], ( $user->data['user_avatar_width'] > $user->data['user_avatar_height']) ? 60 : (60 / $user->data['user_avatar_height']) * $user->data['user_avatar_width'], ( $user->data['user_avatar_height'] > $user->data['user_avatar_width']) ? 60 : (60 / $user->data['user_avatar_width']) * $user->data['user_avatar_height']) : '',           		
                // avatar mod

and it is not working....Please help, thx in advance

[TheBrandon]

Wonderful Guide.

Most of it I knew, but its easy to follow for those who do not.

[Ethrel]

OK. I have no idea where else to turn, so I am turning here. I hope this is the correct place, otherwise please direct me!

OK. So, I am trying to build a module for the ACP. Through the documentation and looking through the modules already there I have figured out how things are supposed to be, but it is still not working. Makes me think that I am doing something wrong.

When I go to the module I created in the ACP, it displays everything. There is the problem, the if-then-else block logic is not being executed on the template, meaning the sections for everything are displayed. Is there some special setting somewhere to allow it, or do I need some variable or something? Nothing I seem to do works. If I view the page source, the comments with block logic are still on the page, whereas they do not show in the source when I view the other modules. Again, my only guess is that for some reason the template file is not running through whatever parsing it runs through to get the block logic.

The most confusing part of it all is the fact that the variables I set in $template->assign_vars ARE parsed (they show up), yet the block logic isn't?

EDIT3: In the interest of length, I have removed the code. Saves some length while reading this sh**.

[EXreaction]

You don't split those up on to 3 lines. It has to be exactly like shown in the first post,

<!-- IF () -->A<!-- ELSE -->
B
<!-- ENDIF -->

You can not put the <!-- IF --> or <!-- ELSE -->, etc on multiple lines.