need to add usercp content

[moonlightcheese]

i need to add an extra nav option in the usercp and add an additional page for changing user options, which i've added as a table to the database.

i'm assuming i need to change the USER_SHELL template and add some code to profile.php for the additional page... right? what's up with all the $navclass stuff and $session and $vbphrase? do i need to add the info for the new page to an include file somewhere?

i'm completely unfamiliar with vbb... but well-versed in php+mysql.

[moonlightcheese]

i got as far as editing a few things in the USER_SHELL template and some other stuffs. here's a post i made at vbulletin.org... they refered me here since they don't officially work with code modifications.

didn't know where else to ask these questions... i've asked a lot of questions about vbb over the last couple months and got no answers and a bunch of redirections. hope someone here can answer...

i've been working on adding a little plugin to vbb for folding stats. when i added this code to USERCP_SHELL:


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i get this:
http://linkforcecorner.com/uploader/files/4/vbbproj.png

and the pretty baby blue CSS is missing. whats up with that?

since the $vbphrase that i added doesn't populate correctly, i just added the text in next to the variable. how can i get the $vbphrase variable to work? i tried to add the $vbphrase with:



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how can i define the 'folding' navclass properly. apparently something is wrong.