Pass phpbb variables through templates...

[scionlife]

My site is coded around the phpbb forum system and in my site header is code that runs phpbb sessions so that even my static pages have access to phpbb variables.

Unfortunately, because PP starts a session itself I cannot run my standard header code as it causes an error... can't start a second session inside of my header. SOOO..... here is what I have and maybe you can tell me how to deal with it...

1. I have commented out the lines in pp-inc.php that create and print the header (the header variable creation, opening html tags through the end of the if/else statement that prints the header) so that the standard HTML will not print.

2. I have added an include statement to menubar.tmpl that opens my php file containing the header code for the site (and edited that code so that any calls from the gallery won't start a phpbb session)

Now I need to use some phpbb variables in my header.php file... and they SHOULD be available somehow, but I am not sure how. I tried $username[0], etc... but they come up blank.

Q1: Is the phpbb session started BEFORE the menubar.tmpl template is loaded?

Q2: How can I call the following variables from phpbb within the menubar.tmpl template:
- user_id
- username
- session_logged_in
- user_new_privmsg

Thanks,

Darren
Scion Life

[Chuck S]

Code discussions can take place over at http://www.photopostdev.com as here at support we only support the code as it is written.

Our phpbb integrations the user and stylesheet. There is no integrated header like VB

[scionlife]

Thanks, posted over there.

[scionlife]

It doesn't seem that anyone is monitoring that forum and this is a fairly simple request that I need in order to fully integrate PP with my site. Can you please either answer the question or have someone reply to my post on the dev site? Thanks.
http://www.photopostdev.com/showthread.php?t=1270

Darren
Scion Life

[scionlife]

By the way, I am not asking for the rewrite of the code, just the variables that the phpbb user info has been assigned to in your script.

[Chuck S]

Photopostdev.com is not part of photopost.com so no one from here monitors that site.

If all you want to know is how we define username and userid I can answer that

$User['username'] $User['userid']

[scionlife]

BINGO, that was all I needed. With the $User[] variable known I can pass the user information through the menubar template to my header and it can control the buttons at the top of my site that allow logging in/out, message panel link and profile link.... you guys might want to check it out because it basically gives forum control to the entire site... thanks again.

www.scionlife.com/gallery

Darren