Creating new links in phpBB issues

[wired076]

I have created two new links on phpBB forum but when I click and go into the photo album and then click on either of these links it doesn't go to the correct location.

I believe to get around this issue it involves creating some php link variables that store the location of those folders and then use that variable name in place of a standard link.

Could someone please advise me on how to do this?

http://wired.is-a-geek.net/monkeygun/new/

The first link is the contact and the other is the USERGROUP link.

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First think, they need to be accessible anywhere in phpBB, so they need to be added to the header function in the includes/functions.php or hooked in some way.
Find this in the includes/functions.php

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    // The following assigns all _common_ variables that may be used at any point in a template.
    $template->assign_vars(array( 

everything in that assign_vars function is global.

Now if your link is your_site.com/forum/new_folder

Then you need to add something like this

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        'NEW_LINK'                => append_sid($phpbb_root_path . 'new_folder/'), 

or

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        'NEW_LINK'                => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}new_folder/"), 

[Obsidian]

Uhhh, that's not gonna work topdown. That append_sid() call is not correct, it should be like this:

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            'NEW_LINK'                => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}new_folder/"),  

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erm, fixed it before you posted

[wired076]

First think, they need to be accessible anywhere in phpBB, so they need to be added to the header function in the includes/functions.php or hooked in some way.
Find this in the includes/functions.php

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    // The following assigns all _common_ variables that may be used at any point in a template.
    $template->assign_vars(array( 

everything in that assign_vars function is global.

Now if your link is your_site.com/forum/new_folder

Then you need to add something like this

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        'NEW_LINK'                => append_sid($phpbb_root_path} . 'new_folder/'), 

or

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        'NEW_LINK'                => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}new_folder/"), 

That isn't working.

The code section is:(Contact line is 3636, contact.php is in the root phpBB directory and is a custom phpBB page)

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         $template->assign_vars(array(
            'MESSAGE_TITLE'      => $msg_title,
            'MESSAGE_TEXT'      => $msg_text,
            'S_USER_WARNING'   => ($errno == E_USER_WARNING) ? true : false,
            'S_USER_NOTICE'      => ($errno == E_USER_NOTICE) ? true : false,
            'Contact'           => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}/contact.php"))
         );

The error is

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /var/www/monkeygun/new/includes/functions.php on line 3636

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One thing I see wrong in your code above right away is

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'Contact'           => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}/contact.php"))

'Contact' Should be 'CONTACT'

[wired076]

One thing I see wrong in your code above right away is

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'Contact'           => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}/contact.php"))

'Contact' Should be 'CONTACT'

This has been fixed but error still exists!

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Lets start from the beginning
What did you put where and copy the chunks of code into code blocks labeling each with the relative file.
You should turn on debugging also if you haven't.

[Obsidian]

Something I also spotted beyond that...the PHP file extension is hardcoded and should instead use the $phpEx variable.

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             $template->assign_vars(array(
                'MESSAGE_TITLE'      => $msg_title,
                'MESSAGE_TEXT'      => $msg_text,
                'S_USER_WARNING'   => ($errno == E_USER_WARNING) ? true : false,
                'S_USER_NOTICE'      => ($errno == E_USER_NOTICE) ? true : false,
                'CONTACT'           => append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}contact.$phpEx"),
             ));


It may help clean up the code that way, but we need more context code around those lines to debug further.

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I just noticed this code that I posted has a syntax error

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        'NEW_LINK'                => append_sid($phpbb_root_path} . 'new_folder/'),  

should be

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        'NEW_LINK'                => append_sid($phpbb_root_path . 'new_folder/'),  

Sorry