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)

<?php
 
/*
 
 * Filename: tos.php
 
 * Version: 1.0.0
 
 * Author: xxx
 
 */
 
define('IN_PHPBB', true); 
 
$phpbb_root_path = './'; 
 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); 
 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx); 
 
// 
 
// Start session management 
 
// 
 
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX); 
 
// 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.
 
init_userprefs($userdata); 
 
// 
 
// End session management 
 
//
 
$page_title = 'OWN TITLE'; 
 
$lang_file = 'LANG FILENAME HERE WITHOUT EXTENSION';
 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_header.'.$phpEx);
 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'language/lang_' . $board_config['default_lang'] . '/' . $lang_file . '.'.$phpEx);
 
$template->set_filenames(array( 
 
        'body' => 'PAGENAME.tpl') // Your template name.
 
);
 
$template->pparse('body');
 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_tail.'.$phpEx);
 
?>

Let´s explain this code:

Code:

define('IN_PHPBB', true); 
 
$phpbb_root_path = './'; 
 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); 
 
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:

// 
 
// Start session management 
 
// 
 
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX); 
 
// 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.
 
init_userprefs($userdata); 
 
// 
 
// End session management 
 
//

This is self explanatory, it manage the session of the user.

Code:

$page_title = 'OWN TITLE'; 
 
$lang_file = 'LANG FILENAME HERE WITHOUT EXTENSION';
 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_header.'.$phpEx);
 
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:

$template->set_filenames(array( 
 
        'body' => 'PAGENAME.tpl') // Your template name.
 
);

This include the template page of your tos page.

Code:

$template->pparse('body');
 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/page_tail.'.$phpEx); 

With this code you include the footer of the page.

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