vBulletin Conditional Validation

Template conditionals (<vb:if>, <vb:else>, <vb:elseif>, and {vb:if}) allow a lot of power within the vBulletin template system. The general philosophy here is to support a limited subset of PHP logic that is sufficient for most purposes. The default behavior is to exclude functionality unless there is a specific reason to include it. The reason is that there are a lot of complicated expressions allowed within PHP and this makes validation more difficult to validate safety in th...

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Introduced in version 4.0 the vBulletin Markup system includes a rich of tags and shortcodes for creating dynamic templates. The template syntax was designed to retrieve and format information from vBulletin without having to write PHP Code. Used alongside HTML, CSS, and Javascript, it allows a developer to create dynamic experiences within vBulletin. vBulletin's Template Syntax will take into account the user's settings such as...

vBulletin has several different template types that come with different permissions. These template types are created as security measures to prevent arbitrary PHP code from being executed on vBulletin Cloud. Full Templates This is the type used by vBulletin's default templates and is accessible in self-hosted (download) copies of the software. Full Templates have full access to all of vBulletin's Markup. Full Templates are not accessible on vBulletin Cloud. Limited Templates Introduced in vBulletin...