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Create a New Page in phpBB2

Submitted by Reiji Kurosaky, Feb 2007.
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Hello,



First of all, this tutorial is an extension of the one writed by DoobDee here.



Now, let´s proceed to the tutorial, to make an example, I´ll teach you how to create a TOS (Terms of Services) page.



First of all, let´s start with the PHP file:
Code: (tos.php)
  2. /*
     
  3. * Filename: tos.php
     
  4. * Version: 1.0.0
     
  5. * Author: xxx
     
  6. */
     

  7.  
  8. define(‘IN_PHPBB’, true);
     
  9. $phpbb_root_path = ‘./’;
     
  10. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘extension.inc’);
     
  11. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘common.’.$phpEx);
     

  12.  
  13. //
     
  14. // Start session management
     
  15. //
     
  16. $userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
     
  17. // You can change the page you are on, but this page must be defined in includes/page_header.php, viewonline.php, admin/index.php and includes/constants.php.  For the purpose of the tutorial we will leave it as the index page.
     
  18. init_userprefs($userdata);
     
  19. //
     
  20. // End session management
     
  21. //
     

  22.  
  23. $page_title = ‘OWN TITLE‘;
     
  24. $lang_file = ‘LANG FILENAME HERE WITHOUT EXTENSION‘;
     
  25. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘includes/page_header.’.$phpEx);
     
  26. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘language/lang_’ . $board_config[‘default_lang’] . ‘/’ . $lang_file . ‘.’.$phpEx);
     

  27.  
  28. $template->set_filenames(array(
     
  29.        ‘body’ => ‘PAGENAME.tpl‘) // Your template name.
     
  30. );
     

  31.  
  32. $template->pparse(‘body’);
     
  33. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘includes/page_tail.’.$phpEx);
     

  34.  
  35. ?> 

Let´s explain this code:

Code:
  1. define(‘IN_PHPBB’, true);
     
  2. $phpbb_root_path = ‘./’;
     
  3. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘extension.inc’);
     
  4. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘common.’.$phpEx);  
This is included in all php pages of phpBB, it defines the path of the forum and includes the extension file phpBB uses and the common expresions of phpBB.
Code:
  1. //
     
  2. // Start session management
     
  3. //
     
  4. $userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
     
  5. // You can change the page you are on, but this page must be defined in includes/page_header.php, viewonline.php, admin/index.php and includes/constants.php.  For the purpose of the tutorial we will leave it as the index page.
     
  6. init_userprefs($userdata);
     
  7. //
     
  8. // End session management
     
  9. // 
This is self explanatory, it manage the session of the user.
Code:
  1. $page_title = ‘OWN TITLE‘;
     
  2. $lang_file = ‘LANG FILENAME HERE WITHOUT EXTENSION‘;
     
  3. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘includes/page_header.’.$phpEx);
     
  4. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘language/lang_’ . $board_config[‘default_lang’] . ‘/’ . $lang_file . ‘.’.$phpEx); 
This is configurable, you can change here the language name and the page title, then it includes the phpBB header and the language file used.
Code:
  1. $template->set_filenames(array(
     
  2.        ‘body’ => ‘PAGENAME.tpl‘) // Your template name.
     
  3. );
     
This include the template page of your tos page.
Code:
  1. $template->pparse(‘body’);
     
  2. include($phpbb_root_path . ‘includes/page_tail.’.$phpEx); 

With this code you include the footer of the page.

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