XMB Forum Software - **resolved** custom page help

resolved custom page help

gagf - 3-29-2012 at 09:13 PM

I have added a custom page to my forum. It was installed correctly and everything is fine but how do i add information to it? What file would i edit? I installed this strictly using th readme but now i don't know what part to edit to have the info i want. I am making a contact us page, is there another program i can use to create the page and then edit a file to insert what i create

I basically want a page that looks like my forum with the header and footer areas there, but everything between the header and footer i want to be able to edit

Kellter - 3-29-2012 at 09:25 PM

edit the template you made for the custom page and find



Replace above with whatever html/php you want for the page.

gagf - 3-29-2012 at 10:34 PM

So anything i need to do can be done through admin panel? Do you know of any online website generator that would allow me to create the content like bolder/larger text i want on the page. I would like to have something like this. the advertiser content would use half the page and the supporter area would use the bottom half of page

advertiser area
content here (about half page for each)

Supporter area
content here

gagf - 3-29-2012 at 10:51 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Kellter

edit the template you made for the custom page and find



Replace above with whatever html/php you want for the page.

I tried that and that does not seem to work. icreated a page with some info using html and no luck . i replaced download links go here with the page i created and i get nothing

kuba1 - 3-29-2012 at 11:16 PM

maybe you might post the actual template you created .... or give us a url? It might help if we had some idea of what you were doing to create the template.

gagf - 3-29-2012 at 11:40 PM

in the readme file it said to create new template (which i did) i created a template called contact.php. the install directions said to rename file and upload to server which i did

this is what is in my template

Code:

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="$tablewidth" align="center">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="$bordercolor">
<table border="0" cellspacing="{$THEME['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="$tablespace" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="category"><font color="$cattext"><strong>Download</strong></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="tablerow" bgcolor="$altbg1">

download links go here

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

The file i renamed and uploaded is what appears as a page this is it

Code:


<?php
// get required global info
define('X_SCRIPT', 'contact.php');
require 'header.php';

// load navigation text
nav('contact');

// load templates used
loadtemplates('contact');

// load css
eval('$css = "'.template('css').'";');

// load header
eval('$header = "'.template('header').'";');

// load page you want here
eval('$pagebody = "'.template('contact').'";');

// load footer stuff
end_time();

// load footer
eval('$footer = "'.template('footer').'";');

// transmit response entity
echo $header.$pagebody.$footer;
?>

kuba1 - 3-30-2012 at 12:19 AM

Quote:

i created a template called contact.php

I think you needed to create a template called "contact" NOT "contact.php"

PS: please enclose html and php code in a code bbcode ... I fixed your reply so you could see how to do it.

gagf - 3-30-2012 at 01:43 AM

this was the instructions

Instructions:

1. Rename download.php to the name you would like for the new page.

2. Edit download.php and replace all instances of the word "download" with the new name.

3. Upload the file to your server.

4. Go to Administration Panel -> Templates and create a New template with the same name.

5. Enter any custom HTML in the template. Ours looks like this:

Should my original download.php file and my template file be 2 different names?

gagf - 3-30-2012 at 01:49 AM

got it thanks

kuba1 - 3-30-2012 at 02:18 AM

so ... this is resolved, right??

gagf - 3-31-2012 at 12:16 AM

Quote: Originally posted by kuba1

so ... this is resolved, right??

yea