vB info on the main page of a site?

[BrownieDX]

Like the webmasters have done here, I want to put a table cell on my site which contains the user's info about his vB account, as well as the last 5 posts. I know how to get the last five posts, but how do i get the user's info?

[GlobalFusion]

Easy.

As long as you have called global.php, all that info is available to you.

$bbuserinfo[musername]
$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] etc etc.

Probably better to make a template then serve the page as a VB page.


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First, create a PHP page


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Then upload it where its needed. (root dir to make things simple)

then in your AdminCP, in the Style Manager - create a new Template



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Be sure to keep your names matching (template name in your PHP file refers to the new template you just made - so keep the name the same)


And then, furthermore, you can easily add the 'Who's Online' data to you includes/functions_online.php file so you dont get the 'Unknown Location' in the WOL.


BTW - this is based on a VB 3.0.8 installation (just realised the initial post date - oops)

[Wordplay]

or you could always just use vbadvanced, that pretty much has all the tables you'll need.

[Dean C]

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