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[TAH-Max]

Hi all!

I tried to put PHP code in the footer template for vBulletin and the output is not displayed in the footer. Does anyone have any ideas how to get this to work?

Thanks
Max

[FW-Mike]

Could you paste the top bit of your code?

[TAH-Max]

Huh? <?php is the top line

[andhosting]

From vbulletin.org:

These are PHP codes, you can not put them directly inside templates unless you dont want them to be displayed as a code. To parse them you have to put them in .php files. Since you are trying to use them inside header/footer, you may try to put them in global.php for instance. Assign their values in the file, then use the variable in your template.

eg. in global.php use:
$users_date=vbdate("h:i",time());

Then in footer use
$users_date

You can also put them into phpinclude template, it's a template which is parsed..

Just change the code in his example to whatever PHP you want to include. Hope that helped.

[TheForumHost]

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[TAH-Max]

Hi

I'm not a PHP guru...actually I don't know much at all about PHP. I'm just using vBulletin with phpAdsNew. I need to put the following in my footer template and am struggling to figure out how to create a variable of it...Can you help?

<?php
if (@include(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT').'/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php')) {
if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
$phpAds_raw = view_raw ('zone:1', 0, '_blank', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
echo $phpAds_raw['html'];
}
?>

Thanks

[TheForumHost]

you can't do it "raw deal" like that.. vB is very self driven and does not play well with third parties UNLESS it is a hack. check www.vbulletin.org for them. I recommend using Arrow Ads, It is what I use for my vB site that I sell banner space on. I PM'd you earlier about a spnsorship you were looking for, If you decide to pick us as your sponsor, I would be happy to help you install Arrow Ads.