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littleguy409

May 13 2005, 05:21 PM

I dunno which forum this should go in so I thought I'd just stick this in here.

I'm trying to visually integrate Mambo with Invision board 2.0.3.

Well it supposed to be pretty simple, I just load all the needed backbone files of mambo into my own script and divide the layout in to two and store them in two variables which can then be concatanated with $ibforums->skin['_wrapper'] in /sources/classes/calss_display.php

At least that's the theory. :-" My script works well on it's own

eg:

if I do

CODE

<?

$variable = '<h1>Hello World </h1>';

include ('integration.php');

$output = $left.$variable.$right;

echo $output;
?>

it prints hello world with no problem and that text is wrapped around in the mambo skin, all the CSS and everything. That's a perfect integration.

But when I do the same thing in invision, whole system chokes. As soon as I load my script into /sources/classes/calss_display.php, it outputs a blank screen. Nothing in the browser (Even before I join my two variables with the wrapper). No PHP errors, just a blank page with <html><body></body></html>

The way my script works is by executing mambo functions and grabing the output in to a buffer using ob_start and ob_end_flush.

Any sort of help is very welcomed !!

here's my integration code

HTML

<?php
/**
* @version $Id: index.php,v 1.9 2005/02/16 02:03:33 eddieajau Exp $
* @package Mambo
* @copyright (C) 2000 - 2005 Miro International Pty Ltd
* @license [url=http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html]http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html[/url] GNU/GPL
* Mambo is Free Software
*/

/** Set flag that this is a parent file */
define( '_VALID_MOS', 1 );

// Load every single function file that has something to say in our matter
include_once( 'globals.php' );
require_once( 'configuration.php' );
require_once( 'includes/mambo.php' );
include( 'includes/frontend.php' );

if (file_exists( 'components/com_sef/sef.php' )) {
require_once( 'components/com_sef/sef.php' );
} else {
require_once( 'includes/sef.php' );
}
require_once( 'includes/frontend.php' );

//--------------------------------------

// Initialize needed classes and variables

$option = trim( strtolower( mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, 'option' ) ) );
$Itemid = intval( mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, 'Itemid', null ) );
$database = new database( $mosConfig_host, $mosConfig_user, $mosConfig_password, $mosConfig_db, $mosConfig_dbprefix );
$database->debug( $mosConfig_debug );
$acl = new gacl_api();
$grp = $acl->getAroGroup( $my->id );
$my->gid = $grp->group_id;
$my->usertype = $grp->name;

// mainframe is an API workhorse, lots of 'core' interaction routines
$mainframe = new mosMainFrame( $database, $option, $mosConfig_absolute_path );

$mainframe->initSession();

//--------------------------------------

// two functions collect output buffers in to two variables.
// buffers are sent from ob_start

$left = "";
$right = "";
function holdleft($buffer){
global $left;
$left = $buffer;
}
function holdright($buffer){
global $right;
$right = $buffer;
}

//--------------------------------------

// Collect left
ob_start('holdleft');

defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );
// needed to seperate the ISO number from the language file constant _ISO
$iso = split( '=', _ISO );
// xml prolog
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'. $iso[1] .'"?' .'>';
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<?php
mosShowHead();

if ( $my->id ) {
initEditor();
}
$collspan_offset = ( mosCountModules( 'right' ) + mosCountModules( 'user2' ) ) ? 2 : 1;
//script to determine which div setup for layout to use based on module configuration
$user1 = 0;
$user2 = 0;
$sandbox_area = 0;

//user1 combos
if ( mosCountModules( 'user1' ) + mosCountModules( 'user2' ) == 2) {
$user1 = 2;
$user2 = 2;
} elseif ( mosCountModules( 'user1' ) == 1 ) {
$user1 = 1;
} elseif ( mosCountModules( 'user2' ) == 1 ) {
$user2 = 1;
}

//right based combos
if ( mosCountModules( 'right' ) and ( empty( $_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task'] != 'edit' ) ) {
$sandbox_area = 2;
} else {
$sandbox_area = 1;
$user1 = $user1 == 1 ? 3 : 4;
$user2 = $user2 == 1 ? 3 : 4;
}
?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; <?php echo _ISO; ?>" />
<link href="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/templates/rhuk_solarflare/css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/images/favicon.ico"/>
</head>
<body>

<div align="center">
<div id="main_outline">
<div id="pathway_outline">
<div id="pathway">
<?php mosPathWay(); ?>
</div>
<div id="buttons">
<?php mosLoadModules ( 'user3', -1); ?>
</div>
</div>
<div id="search">
<?php mosLoadModules ( 'user4', -1 ); ?>
</div>
<div class="clr"></div>
<div id="header_area">
<div id="header">
<img src="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/templates/rhuk_solarflare/images/title_back.png" width="500" height="100" alt="SolarFlare"/>
</div>
<div id="top_outline">
<?php
if ( mosCountModules( 'top' ) ) {
mosLoadModules ( 'top' );
} else {
?>
<span class="error">Top Module Empty</span>
<?php
}
?>
</div>
</div>
<div id="left_outline">
<div id="left">
<?php mosLoadModules ( 'left' ); ?>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content_area">
<div id="content">
<?php
if ( mosCountModules ('banner') ) {
?>
<div id="banner_area">
<div id="banner">
<img src="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/templates/rhuk_solarflare/images/advertisement.png" alt="advertisement.png, 0 kB" title="advertisement" border="0" height="8" width="468"/><br />
<?php mosLoadModules( 'banner', -1 ); ?>
</div>
<div id="poweredby">
<img src="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/templates/rhuk_solarflare/images/powered_by.png" alt="powered_by.png, 1 kB" title="powered_by" border="0" height="68" width="165"/><br />
</div>
</div>
<?php
}
if ( mosCountModules( 'right' ) and ( empty ($_REQUEST['task'] ) || $_REQUEST['task']!='edit' ) ) {
?>
<div id="right_outline">
<div id="right">
<?php mosLoadModules ( 'right' ); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}
?>
<div id="sandbox_area_<?php echo $sandbox_area ?>">
<div class="sandbox_area">
<?php
if ( mosCountModules( 'user1' ) ) {
?>
<div id="user1_<?php echo $user1; ?>">
<div class="user1_outline">
<?php mosLoadModules ( 'user1' ); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}
if (mosCountModules( 'user2' )) {
?>
<div id="user2_<?php echo $user2; ?>">
<div class="user2_outline">
<?php mosLoadModules ( 'user2' ); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}
?>
<div class="clr"></div>
<div class="content_outline">
<?php

ob_end_flush();

// Clean the buffer and be ready to start the righthand side.
ob_clean();

// Collect righthand side output
ob_start('holdright');

?>


</div>
<div class="clr"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clr"></div>
</div>
</div>
<?php include_once( $GLOBALS['mosConfig_absolute_path'] . '/includes/footer.php' ); ?>
<?php mosLoadModules( 'debug', -1 );?>
</body>
</html>

<?php

// Finished !
ob_end_flush();

//echo $left;
//echo $right;

?>

littleguy409

May 16 2005, 02:53 PM

Anyone ?

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