vBulletin Extensions for Contentteller CMS (extended integration)

[Philipp]

Contentteller is an open source content management system that supports the user database integration with vBulletin. The vBulletin extensions for Contentteller are a plug-in collection that tightens both vBulletin and Contentteller even more together.

http://www.contentteller.com/en/images/vbextensions.jpg

The vBulletin extensions in detail:

vB Theme
This first extension can copy the color scheme of an existing vBulletin theme to a Contentteller stylesheet. This works quite well if your theme is using the default elements. Some of the custom 3rd party vBulletin themes are not fully compatible with this.

vB News
As the name indicates, this module syndicate a forum directly on your Contentteller based news pages. The module imports frequently the latest threads from a selectable forum to the Contentteller news database, so the news appears on both your forum and your front page. All replies will be displayed as comments.

Additionally, there are 11 side blocks to display content from your vBulletin forum directly on your Contentteller website:

vB Forum Menu
This is a side block that displays a list of the forums

vB Latest
This side block displays the latest threads of your vBulletin forum

vB Top
This side block will display the top threads of your vBulletin forum

vB Blog Latest
This side block shows the latest vB blog entries (requires vB blog)

vB Project Latest
This side block shows the latest issues from your vB project database (requires vB project tools)

vB Project Menu
This side block shows a list all your projects (requires vB project tools)

vB Poll
This side block will display the latest poll in your vBulletin database

vB Birthday
This side block shows today?s birthdays.

vB What?s new
This side block shows the number of posts since last visit

vB Search
A forums search box

vB Stats
This side block shows members, threads, and posts numbers of your forums

Installation:

Step 1: You need to install vBulletin 3.6/3.7/3.8 first

Step 2: Get the latest version of Contentteller. The free open source version is available over Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/contentteller/). For an installation guide see How do I install Contenteller with a Windows based machine? (http://www.contentteller.com/en/contentteller/knowledgebase_entry/how_do_i_install_contenteller_with_a_windows_based _machine.html) or How do I install Contenteller with a FTP client? (http://www.contentteller.com/en/contentteller/knowledgebase_entry/how_do_i_install_contenteller_with_a_ftp_client.ht ml)

Step 3: Choose vBulletin 3.6, vBulletin 3.7, or vBulletin 3.7 in Step 12 of the installation and fill in all configuration settings of your vBulletin installation. It is important that the integration is enabled before you install the vBulletin Extensions.

Step 4: Unzip the attached zip archive and upload the content of "upload" to the directory where you have Contentteller installed.

Step 5: Login to the Contentteller admin section (/cadmin) and select Modules => Install New Module => vbextensions => Submit.

Step 6: The vB Extensions are now installed. You can configure it under vB Extensions in your Contentteller admin section.

Change log
Version 1.01 (2009-01-03)
- Fixed a few HTML entities glitches in the vB blocks
- Fixed a small typo in vbpolls.php

Version 1.0 (2009-01-01)
- Initial release

[Tianuc]

Support for UTF-8?

[Philipp]

UTF-8 should work fine

[Tianuc]

Want to support UTF-8, this is a very good product. :up:

[Philipp]

From what I can see in your screenshot, some stories will not show up correctly? I assume you have already set the website charset to UTF-8 under Manage Websites (in Contentteller admin) ?

[Tianuc]

I vbulletin is UTF-8 version - vB Chinese

1.Comment not support UTF-8
2.The database does not support UTF-8

I assume you have already set the website charset to UTF-8 under Manage Websites (in Contentteller admin) ?

yes

[rolandogomez]

Does this work with VBSEO? Thanks, rg.

[Magnumutz]

Looks like a nice product.
Hope it's going to have a nice development :)

[F0xy]

this looks really promising.

[Philipp]

I vbulletin is UTF-8 version - vB Chinese

1.Comment not support UTF-8
2.The database does not support UTF-8

I will look into it. The characters on screenshot #3 seems fine?

Does this work with VBSEO? Thanks, rg.

Yes and no. You can install Contentteller and a vBSEO-enabled forum on the same site but you can't use vBSEO to rewrite Contentteller based pages.

In case you install both on the same site, you need to rewrite all Contentteller generated pages to /contentteller. This is already the default setting.

The entry in .htaccess should look like this:
RewriteRule ^contentteller|contentteller/|contentteller/(.+)$ contentteller.php [L,QSA]

A better way in term of SEO is setting up a separate subdomain for either the CMS or the forum. This is the best way after both can generate XML sitemaps.

[Daniel_HBK]

it's like vBadvanced Portal but it's very good :)

[M4GN3T]

Damn looks nice, gonna take a look at this bro ;)

[oninuva]

Okay I installed it, you can see it here..

www.ModdingFiles.com/en

[Philipp]

I just updated the ZIP to fix issues with HTML entities in the side blocks and a typo in vbpolls.php

Support for the Chinese language will take a little longer after there are a few issues that need to be addressed.

[M4GN3T]

it can't read my database cuz it auto adds .forum at the database name, how to fix?

[Philipp]

Where did this happen? What is the exact error message?

[Wolf42]

Thank you Philipp! Just updated to version 1.01.

Just an idea for the next version: include prefixes (if possible). ;)

[M4GN3T]

Where did this happen? What is the exact error message?

The MySQL database of the vBulletin installation has encountered the following problem:
The MySQL database server has returned 1146: Table 'databases_website.forum' doesn't exist while executing SELECT forumid, title FROM forum WHERE parentid = '-1'

SELECT forumid, title FROM forum WHERE parentid = '-1'

Please try it in a few minutes again. We apologise for any inconvenience.


The '.forum' part was added by the script itself, how can i change this?

[Philipp]

That's odd. It shouldn't add anything to the database name.

You can change the forum database name in the Contentteller admin section under:
Main => Manage Websites => Edit => Forum database name (optional)

[M4GN3T]

That's odd. It shouldn't add anything to the database name.

You can change the forum database name in the Contentteller admin section under:
Main => Manage Websites => Edit => Forum database name (optional)

There it shows the normal database name look:

Forum database name (optional):
databases_website

[Philipp]

I can take a look if you send me a PM with the URL and admin login of your Contentteller installation.

[M4GN3T]

I can take a look if you send me a PM with the URL and admin login of your Contentteller installation.

I now get this :/

The MySQL database server has returned 1146: Table 'databases_website.session' doesn't exist while executing SELECT userid FROM session WHERE sessionhash = 'e0449b9552d04d9f48f53724ba9f9724'

It seems like it just past the tablename instead of databasename :/ i will reinstall plug-in to c if i did something wrong.

[Philipp]

Is your vBulletin installation using a table prefix?

If so, you need to add it under Manage Websites as well:
Manage Websites => Edit => Table prefix (optional)

[M4GN3T]

Is your vBulletin installation using a table prefix?

If so, you need to add it under Manage Websites as well:
Manage Websites => Edit => Table prefix (optional)

I have installed everything again and i finally suceeded. I was hoping that the 'Copy vBTheme' realy copied my theme including header and footer but it didn't :(

I think i will skip this one, i rly was hoping to find the right CMS but i hope next time better or maybe you will improve it and i will use Contentteller.

Thanks for the help ;)

[Nadeemjp]

i think this is a repalcement of vbadvanced CMPS. am i right?
if so, then what is the difference between the both?

i am using vbadvanced CMPS and if this modification provides better functions, i am willing to swap.

can someone help me?

[M4GN3T]

i think this is a repalcement of vbadvanced CMPS. am i right?
if so, then what is the difference between the both?

i am using vbadvanced CMPS and if this modification provides better functions, i am willing to swap.

can someone help me?

Well a huge postive thing about Contentteller is definetly the news module. The one of vBCMPS is not really looking that proffesional. And Contentteller removes that impression of everything being forum based.

[Philipp]

I have installed everything again and i finally suceeded. I was hoping that the 'Copy vBTheme' realy copied my theme including header and footer but it didn't :(

I think i will skip this one, i rly was hoping to find the right CMS but i hope next time better or maybe you will improve it and i will use Contentteller.

Thanks for the help ;)

No, as posting in the description it will only copy the color scheme to the Contentteller stylesheet.

I will see if I can enhance this in one of the future releases but there are at least 2 potential issues:
1) vBulletin and Contentteller are using two different stylesheets
2) vBulletin is using a table based layout while Contentteller is using mainly DIV-based CSS tables.

i think this is a repalcement of vbadvanced CMPS. am i right?
if so, then what is the difference between the both?

Yes and no. It mainly depends on your needs. vBadvanced CMPS and Contentteller are completely different products.

vBadvanced is a product that was exclusively developed for vBulletin. It basically adds CMS/portal features to vBulletin. Contentteller on the other side is a standalone CMS that can interact with the vBulletin database.

To get a better idea what you can do with CMS systems like Contentteller take a look at http://www.techspot.com. TechSpot is actually running Storyteller, the predecessor product of Contentteller, along with vBulletin.

[1Turk]

Very nice portal system "Philipp"
thanks :)

[john_robot]

fixed.

[Playa82]

Nice Product, but i prefer this one:

http://www.vbadvanced.com/

Free, more add-ons, better look.

[WebmasterSimds]

This is perfect, now I am not tied down to any specific vb stuff. it lets me intergrate other things into my site than just VB stuff. thanks for this one. its perfect!!