Using Vbulletin Conditionals

[timtamboy63]

Hi Guys,
Thought i'd write a tutorial on using vBulletin conditionals, i got some spare time

What is a conditional?
Basically, its an <if> tag that checks if something is true or not.
Whatever the conditional is wrapper around is only executed/seen if the condition is met, hence the name conditional

Some Common Conditionals:
First of all Note that these conditionals havent been found by me, etc. I just googled for em
Anyway hers a few that i find useful

<if condition="is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, X, Y, Z)"></if>

Anything wrapped in this conditional would only display to members of usergroups X,Y or Z. OBviously u can add more to the array.

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">

Lets say you've got your ad on your header but you only want to display it on your index page. This is what this conditional does. To find out the name of the page, you have to look at the php file itself and look for

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'index');

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid'] == 667">

This would only show the content to one user, in this case user 667

<if condition="in_array($forumid, array(X,Y,Z))">

What this does, is display the content in only a certain forum, with X,Y,Z being replace with the forum id

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['birthday_search'] > '1980-01-01'">

What this does is check the birthday of the user. Obviously replace 1980-01-01 with the birthday you want. Very Useful in adult sections.

<if condition="can_moderate($forum['X'])">

This checks if the user is a moderator of the current forum. Replace X with the forumid

<if condition="$threadinfo['postuserid'] == $bbuserinfo['userid']">

This checks if the user is the thread starter or not. Still havent found ause for this one

<if condition="!$GLOBALS['FIRSTPOSTID']">

This is used to place something directly under the first post. Especially useful for ads, etc

Else and Not

Okay now for something a little more complex. With all these conditionals you can use an <else> tag to execute different information if the condition isn't met.

So for example:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['birthday_search'] > '1980-01-01'">
<!---Adult section stuff here-->
<else>
Too Young
</if>

This would Display Too Younf if the user didnt meet the required age

There is also the ! character. If you put that infront of the =, the conditional will check if the condition is not met.
So for example

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid'] != 667">

Would display information to everyone BUT userid 667.

Some Common Screwups
I know i definately did this one a lot
Basically, Template Conditionals will only work in templates. Full Stop
I tried using em in bbcodes, was wondering why they didnt work
But yeah, now you know.



Finally got this finished, enjoy
-timtamboy63

Oh and let me know if u need any help

timtamboy63 Reviewed by timtamboy63 on 4th Sep 2009. Using Vbulletin Conditionals Hi Guys, Thought i'd write a tutorial on using vBulletin conditionals, i got some spare time :) What is a conditional? Basically, its an <if> tag that checks if something is true or not. Whatever the conditional is wrapper around is only executed/seen if the condition is met, hence the name conditional Some Common Conditionals: First of all Note that these conditionals havent been found by me, etc. I just googled for em :P Anyway hers a few that i find useful Rating: 5

[CyberHacK]

Nice Tutorial, I already knew most of this, but some I didn't so thanks

[Maz]

Nice tutorial will help me out it the future

[Sp32]

conditionals are amazing, learnt how to manipulate those a few weeks ago

[timtamboy63]

Yeah, there great,
If anyone wants more just google search "Vbulletin Conditionals"