vbHome (lite) - your vBulletin(powered) main homepage

[d3nnis]

hmm till now i still have problems in the poll section in the homepage... i already set which section whereby users can poll... but i did a test in these section and post a poll, it does comes out on the homepage.

Does the poll works this way?

1. Select which section of the forum for users to post poll, in admin panel

2. Once users post a thread with a poll in that selected section, poll appears on the homepage?

[d3nnis]

Today at 02:41 PM d3nnis said this in Post #3251 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=430280#post430280)
hmm till now i still have problems in the poll section in the homepage... i already set which section whereby users can poll... but i did a test in these section and post a poll, it does comes out on the homepage.

Does the poll works this way?

1. Select which section of the forum for users to post poll, in admin panel

2. Once users post a thread with a poll in that selected section, poll appears on the homepage?

by the way i can only get the poll working on the homepage by specifying which userid can poll. I rem reading one thread that by placing userid as zero... everyone can vote including guest... but it doesn't seems to be working for me.

[bassworld]

Hi can anyone help? I have been using vb home for a while now. I have just upgraded my postnuke and now something weird seems to of happened to my portal. The style seems to of dissapeared and images are missing.
Can anyone Help me?

www.talkguitar.com.

Gerard

[Blindchild02]

Still... no one has answered my problems...

08-21-03 at 07:21 PM Blindchild02 said this in Post #3196 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=427763#post427763)
i have a question...

look at my forums - www.xamira.net/forums

how would i get the outer border on the front page - www.xamira.net

and where would i add it :\ plz help

And here's SS's


08-27-03 at 11:57 PM Blindchild02 said this in Post #3236 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=429167#post429167)

http://www.deanguitars.com/psupload/pics/1.gif
this is the forums.. with the outerborder, and the inner border


http://www.deanguitars.com/psupload/pics/2.gif
this is the main page, with the inner borer, and not the outer...

[TECK]

I already answered to you. is the HTML code.
Look at the CSS file to identify the border colors.

[Blindchild02]

i dunno how :( im a noob with CSS :\

[Logtenberg]

Two questions,

1. Does the poll feature on vbhome (http://www.avsforum.com/)built into vbhome light? If so, does it take the latest poll and feature it or can the administrator choose what poll to feature?

2. I don't want any copyright and link at the bottom of my page, what do I have to pay to get rid of that?

[Alien]

1. Yes that is built-in. It takes the latest poll in a specific forum (or you can choose to allow any forum) and you can select which userid's who post polls can have them displayed on the front page.

2. Same as vbulletin copyright removal.. Approximately $600...

[jhead]

Does this or any other VB thread archive work with NON-Apache servers? Ours is Compaq Proliant running win2000.

Having difficulty finding anything that would work... Help Please!

[TECK]

The script will work on IIS also, but not the archive add-on.

[ExSIK]

Database error in vbHome 2.3.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS total
FROM thread
WHERE forumid IN( ) AND dateline>0

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND dateline>0' at line 3

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Wednesday 03rd of September 2003 02:37:56 AM
Script: http://www.exsic.org/forum/
Referer:



I do not what is wrong i did everything it said to do

[d3nnis]

Today at 12:36 AM TECK said this in Post #3255 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=430730#post430730)
I already answered to you. is the HTML code.
Look at the CSS file to identify the border colors.


Hi Teck, to let everyone(members and guests) to poll in the homepage, i set the userid as 0 rite? if so... how come it didn't appear on the homepage... It only appear when i select a specific userid.

by the way... something funny happen... I already change my default template to another template(i have 2 template) but everytime i login from the homepage, its still using the old default template instead of the new one, however, if i login via the forum itself, it will use the new template. Why is this so?

[Logtenberg]

I tried having vbhome used on a folder in my site and not the root:

i.e.

mysite.com/forum/folder/vbhomelite-home.

my forum is in:

mysite.com/forum/

I get this error:

Warning: main(./forum/admin/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
in /home/heya/public_html/forum/folder/global.php on line 744

Help!

[b00tsauce]

I guess there's no vbhome lite version for VB3 is there? I've been looking to see, but I can't find it.

The thing is, I REALLY need VB3 for my project to work, and I really like vbhome, but Im wondering if there's a workaround.

Anyone?

[[BA]Techie]

Ya i really need it to work for vb beta 5...... there anyway this could work?

[StrykerContact]

I really need help, for some reason all the links and everything points to one of my old removed forums instead of my new forum. I just installed this fresh I fallowed every instruction corrrectly, why does every link point to my old forums that I didn't even enter in any of the files, how does it even know that address, help.

[TECK]

Today at 01:45 AM b00tsauce said this in Post #3264 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431140#post431140)
I guess there's no vbhome lite version for VB3 is there? I've been looking to see, but I can't find it.

The thing is, I REALLY need VB3 for my project to work, and I really like vbhome, but Im wondering if there's a workaround.

Anyone?
There is a work around... you have to code all files from scratch. ;)

[d3nnis]

Today at 10:43 AM TECK said this in Post #3267 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431149#post431149)
There is a work around... you have to code all files from scratch. ;)


Teck i know you don't offer support for vbhome anymore but just a simple question...

how come i use userid 0 (i rem reading from your forum to let everyone including guest to vote), my poll doesnt' appears on the homepage?

[b00tsauce]

Today at 02:43 AM TECK said this in Post #3267 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431149#post431149)
There is a work around... you have to code all files from scratch. ;)


Well, that sucks. Is there an alternative to vbhome that is pretty much the same, but for VB3?

[destro19]

keep getting PARSE ERROR ON LINE 3
can any one help?

[Roody]

Still looking for an answer to this questions.

Question (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&postid=431314#post431314)

[TECK]

Today at 05:30 AM b00tsauce said this in Post #3269 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431181#post431181)
Well, that sucks. Is there an alternative to vbhome that is pretty much the same, but for VB3?
Unfortunatelly no. In few months, you will have cPublisher out... ;)

[TECK]

Today at 06:03 PM Roody said this in Post #3271 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431316#post431316)
Still looking for an answer to this questions.

Question (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&postid=431314#post431314)
08-29-03 at 09:20 PM Roody said this in Post #1 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=429549#post429549)
I upgraded my forums to 2.3.2 and now everytime I add a new article on my vbHome site I am forced to run vbhlinstall.php. Teck wanted me to post in here so I am doing so.

Can someone tell me how I can fix this so articles show up on my vbHome site without me having to run vbhlinstall.php everytime?

Thx
Roody, check the newthread.php file to make sure is coded properly. That's where is your error... and make sure you use a good php editor not some crazy software like dreamweaver, etc.

[LightBringer]

TECK, will you be moving this hack to vb3.0 when it's released?

[Roody]

Today at 01:53 PM TECK said this in Post #3273 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431324#post431324)
Roody, check the newthread.php file to make sure is coded properly. That's where is your error... and make sure you use a good php editor not some crazy software like dreamweaver, etc.


I replied to the above link Teck. Any help would be appreciated. Thx

[Roody]

Today at 03:29 PM LightBringer said this in Post #3274 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431343#post431343)
TECK, will you be moving this hack to vb3.0 when it's released?

That's what his Cpublisher will be for.

[limey]

Teck do you know what the issue is with my archive not parsing URLs? I will be a Cpublisher customer...please need some expertise on this one.

[StrykerContact]

Today at 02:08 AM StrykerContact said this in Post #3266 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431144#post431144)
I really need help, for some reason all the links and everything points to one of my old removed forums instead of my new forum. I just installed this fresh I fallowed every instruction corrrectly, why does every link point to my old forums that I didn't even enter in any of the files, how does it even know that address, help.

I know your busy tech but I had a question on the last page that never got answered so please check that out for me, I quoted it for you to make your life eaiser :).

[destro19]

ok I figured out the parse error. now im stuck on this part

STEP 4
Open vBulletin Admin Control Panel and a new {imageshome} replacement variable to your full website URL, like that:
Replacements > Add

and enter the following information:REPLACEMENT SET
(your choice here)
CODE TO FIND
{imageshome}
CODE TO INSERT
forum/images

Change the code to insert to match your forum location. Save the replacement variable.

I can not figure out this. am I thinking to hard.

[d3nnis]

Today at 02:53 AM TECK said this in Post #3273 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431324#post431324)
Roody, check the newthread.php file to make sure is coded properly. That's where is your error... and make sure you use a good php editor not some crazy software like dreamweaver, etc.


teck can u help me? why i set userid as zero , my poll doesn't appears on the homepage?

I remember reading on your forum to let guest and members vote... i just need to set the userid to zero...

anyone else where experience can help me? :bunny:

[b00tsauce]

Yesterday at 06:51 PM TECK said this in Post #3272 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431322#post431322)
Unfortunatelly no. In few months, you will have cPublisher out... ;)


cPublisher? Does it tie in any way with vB? How far to completion?
Sounds interesting.

[TECK]

Yesterday at 05:12 AM b00tsauce said this in Post #3281 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431462#post431462)
cPublisher? Does it tie in any way with vB? How far to completion?
Sounds interesting.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55933
Feel free to comment there anything.

[Megadeuce]

06-03-03 at 02:50 PM Miratos said this in Post #2964 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=403850#post403850)
Well, the gods know I am not really qualified to help anyone here, but I'll try.

Poison Fly - I don't really know what you are asking. I made a post in my 'site news' forum and it shows up, with the icon, subject and body of the post on the index.php in my main/root directory. All I did was set options to 'yes' and save them in vbulletin options.

Mirri - Go to vbulletin Options, front page and make a change, then save. Verify your articles forum ID matches the one you have set in vbulletin options and then run the vbhlinstall.php and reindex your articles.

dvd4arab - I suspect if you want a style like vbportal or vbhome, you'll have to make changes to templates or php files.

GXON - go to vbulletin options and front page, make a change and then save your changes. That fixed the problem for me.

Future - It is forum/admin -- that is apparently reversed. upload the index.php, global.php and backend.php into your main/root directory, not under the forum directory. You can actually install those 3 files under a subdirectory though, but just not in a directory where you already have an index.php or it won't work right.

Well, don't hold me on it, I tried. Hopefully it helped.



THANKS FOR YOUR POST REGARDING GXON'S PROBLEM FOR: THE DATABASE ERROR.

[lasto]

ive just installed this and installed perfect first time but one minor setback it dont use the boards colors it defaults to purple.so where do i alter this

Also im not sure of this but are Latest Forum Discussions suppose to go down the far right column instead of under the Visit our sponsor Link as they dont look right there.

Teck nice hack by the way as well.

[Megadeuce]

lasto,
I can't see my forums or threads. I don't see my board colors or styles either

How did you set up the replacement variable? The instructions are conflicting. it said to set it at the full website url but has forums/images in the field.

[lasto]

i just set it up liek this

my board is in a folder called vb2

so my replacement was

vb2/images

[Red Blaze]

I got this error :(

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: allowedforums() in c:\appserv\www\visualxp\index.php on line 15


Help!!!


Thanks!

[destro19]

Ok I got Vbhome lite installed and it worked for a day. the next day the front page post dissapeard? what happend?

[atomic fireball]

Hi TECK, excellent, excellent, hack. We're incorporating this hack into our board, and everything is running smoothly. I did have a quesstion in regards to modifying the home page:

We currently have vBhome pulling news from a "new & announcements" forum (#27). Everything is fine, and the articles show up fine.

However, is it possible to have vBhome Lite display the full articles from our news forum (as it is currently), but then have some way of pulling ONLY the thread titles from a *different* fourm area on my site? (See, we want to have something like, "Latest DVD Reviews..." and then show the last 10 or so DVD reviews on our site, pulling from our DVD Reviews forum, #2.)

BUT, we don't want the full review posted on the main page. (We DO want the full post of the news/info to be posted on the main page.) so we can't just turn off the article display.

It would be like:

Article display: ONLY forum #27
Recent articles: ONLY forum #27
Recent reviews: only forum #2

Is this possible?
If so, any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!

[DiscussAnything]

Yesterday at 04:19 AM destro19 said this in Post #3288 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431891#post431891)
Ok I got Vbhome lite installed and it worked for a day. the next day the front page post dissapeard? what happend?


in your admin panel, set the article cutoff date (or whatever its called) to something more than a single day....

[lasto]

works fine for me except one annoying thing

colors defualt to an old style i had (default) so i changed it to the style im using at moment and all boxes disapear and i see the text on a white background

[Kane Da Don]

i followed the instructions on the html thing it had and i am having problems witch i dont know how to fix just look at the picture to see i am running vb2.3.0

1. Want to know why i dont get text showing in the article thing
2. why is their a white spot their
3. how do i center the buttons and the logo normally

thank you for your time

[gmarik]

09-04-03 at 09:51 PM TECK said this in Post #3272 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431322#post431322)
In few months, you will have cPublisher out... ;)


Can you tell about more about cPublisher? Screens or description?

P.S.

http://216.194.97.66/archive.html
Can't access it. Where ary the add-ons for this great tool? I want to make a radio ....

[THE REAL BLAZE]

I get this error message after uploading all the editied files and running the install,


SELECT COUNT(*) AS total
FROM thread
WHERE forumid IN( ) AND dateline>1063179504

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ') AND dateline>1063179504
' at line 4

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Wednesday 10th of September 2003 11:43:37 PM
Script: http://rapblock.com/forums/
Referer:


I'm positive i did everything correctly, ANY SUGGESTIONS?

[TECK]

Yes, read the readme file or search the thread, it was answered 300 times. ;)

[d3nnis]

anybody can help about the poll section on the homepage? How to let everyone vote including guests?

[Kane Da Don]

sorry i am not going to look throught 220 pages and or 3296 thats ok thanks any way it looked pretty good to bad i dont know php that well :)

[THE REAL BLAZE]

Ok Now I Got A Real PROBLEM, I have this error

Warning: main(.//admin/config.php) [function.main]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/hiphop/rapblock.com/global.php on line 744

Fatal error: main() [function.main]: Failed opening required './/admin/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /hsphere/local/home/hiphop/rapblock.com/global.php on line 744

I have the store hack installed, thats it.....what should I do?

[TheDPQ]

Got it to work. Really, amazing script. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Kane Da Don : Heres something to look at :)
Tips for People
1. Save the OPTIONS in your admin CP before testing the script
2. lol make sure you load index.php into your root and not your forum dir.
3. Set the 'Articles time cut' to a bigger date. IF your article area is blank its probably because there's no new articles to post
4. If the articles show up (titles) but not the message ... try running the indexer from the installer file.

Yes lots of random stupidity on my part but I got it working and it was overall rather easy. I just had to search through 100 posts to find out what I was doing wrong. So hope these tip helps.

Once again, amazing script. Thanks for sharing it with us all.

[Kane Da Don]

Got it to work. Really, amazing script. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Kane Da Don : Heres something to look at :)
Tips for People
1. Save the OPTIONS in your admin CP before testing the script
2. lol make sure you load index.php into your root and not your forum dir.
3. Set the 'Articles time cut' to a bigger date. IF your article area is blank its probably because there's no new articles to post
4. If the articles show up (titles) but not the message ... try running the indexer from the installer file.

Yes lots of random stupidity on my part but I got it working and it was overall rather easy. I just had to search through 100 posts to find out what I was doing wrong. So hope these tip helps.

Once again, amazing script. Thanks for sharing it with us all.

thank you for your help TheDPQ i did all of those except i think 3 and probably 4 but i already uninstalled it and installed MyVBindex 3.2 i think it is the current one it was a bit faster for me to do since i am dumb on php right now and probably spelling here lol but thank you any way i got the other one working fine and how i wanted it to look its a bit faster for me

[TheDPQ]

Your loss, good luck though.

[MuSuL]

Ok, I install it....Its awsome, some I have read all 3301 posts to this and I got confused about a few things...

#1. When I did step 2 in the install for newthread.php I now get this error "Parse error: parse error in /export/home/vman/www/forum/newthread.php on line 281" whenever I press "New THread" in any of the forums....

Also, Is there a way to add a banner topsite html program to the home page? Im trying to show whats in the site as well as have a TopSite Banner Page all in one, but Im not sure how to do that....

Thanks!

[MuSuL]

OK I corrected the first part of the question, no more Parse Error...

But How about the second one?

Also, what template do I use to re-arrange the home page, like if I want boxes on both side and the topsite banner viewed in the center...if that makes any sense....

[Blizzb]

File corrupted

[TheDPQ]

I do not have much experience with VB templates right now, so my main method of finding what i need is looking at the HTML and doing a search.

I wanted to add something in the middle colum. I saw that it started with '<td class="txttop">'

I see that this shows up in the HOME template! Add my code right after <td class="txttop"> and wa-la . I have something above the articles now.
http://www.thedpq.com/index.php

Granted you only always be lucky and find something that only has one template match and only shows up once in a template. heh. But you slowly learn the templates a little better this way.

[Blizzb]

Why are all the ZIP files corrupted?

[MuSuL]

I do not have much experience with VB templates right now, so my main method of finding what i need is looking at the HTML and doing a search.

I wanted to add something in the middle colum. I saw that it started with '<td class="txttop">'

I see that this shows up in the HOME template! Add my code right after <td class="txttop"> and wa-la . I have something above the articles now.
http://www.thedpq.com/index.php

Granted you only always be lucky and find something that only has one template match and only shows up once in a template. heh. But you slowly learn the templates a little better this way.


Thanks, Ill give that a try, I guess vbHome is a trial and error until you like the way it looks...Ill just mess around with it until I get it right,BUT i have another problem, How do I get it to match my tren_z skin of the whole site, right now its set to the original, then when I change the option in the admin cp to match, it matches only some of the site, still the upper protion is original and the mid-bottom is like my whole site...

[TheDPQ]

Again, searching is fun. I know i have a txtop class but where the hell is that set? Searching for it find a template with some css called 'home_headinclude'

You'll have to set that for each new template now i guess. I would assume since many vbhome pages look alot different then the rest of their forum/gallery/whatever eles they link to...they decided it was best to have its own head tag. This way anything you do/include isn't being loaded on the rest of the site anywhere. Your free to play and customize.

[cristian]

the very useful sounding vbHome forums seem to be completely down ?

I can't access it , it always says access forbidden... can anyone else see these forums?

[Highlander]

here my vbHome Version a littel bit extended and templates are edited by myself :)

http://spielplanet2.de/portal.php

[kid_ttvn]

I install, everything OK.

But avatar not show on vbhome!

help me!
Thanks.

[MuSuL]

Ok, Im still not getting it, on how to set up the portal page. Im not sure what templates to modify, etc...

This is what Im looking to so. Have the Portal page match my skin, then have it also have a TopSite Webring Banner TopSite...How would I do this!...This is still new to me and I need some guidence...Thanks!

To make it more simple, Im looking for colums on both sides for the discussion board to show, then in the center colum have the TopSite Banner WebRing displayed!....Hope that help...

MuSuL

[cablemirc]

okay. i've installed the script on my test site.

i can't get any articles to post. maybe i'm doing somthing stupid, but please help me.
here's the board, http://cptemp.hostspace.us/index.php

i'll post in the Web Site News section (forum 32)
I am UserID 1

User ID 1 is allowed to post new articles. forum 32 is the forum that new articles are supposed to be pulled from. there are 6 posts i made in that forum, and none of them show up as articles.

however, it shows as a new "forum discussion", but not as an article. no headers for articles, no nothing. i read as much of the thread as i could reasonably be expected to, and after 2 hours, i found nothing.

i tried running the indexer.. no avail.

please help!

[Roody]

Roody, check the newthread.php file to make sure is coded properly. That's where is your error... and make sure you use a good php editor not some crazy software like dreamweaver, etc.

I could find no issues Teck. I know you and I spoke about this over at teckwizards, and you told me it was a small addition. Any ideas on how I can fix this and what you told me before?

[cristian]

everything is installed really fine - expcept that i dont seem to be getting anything in the $article[message] object...

i presume this should be displaying the bodytext of the article up until the max chars... odd

[d3nnis]

everything is installed really fine - expcept that i dont seem to be getting anything in the $article[message] object...

i presume this should be displaying the bodytext of the article up until the max chars... odd


run article indexer in the setup :D

[d3nnis]

I install, everything OK.

But avatar not show on vbhome!

help me!
Thanks.


did u allow avatar in your admin panel -> vbulletin options -> frontpage

[hume]

i want to change skin or style for vbhomelite 4.2
how can i do that? help me !

[cablemirc]

okay. i've installed the script on my test site.

i can't get any articles to post. maybe i'm doing somthing stupid, but please help me.
here's the board, http://cptemp.hostspace.us/index.php

i'll post in the Web Site News section (forum 32)
I am UserID 1

User ID 1 is allowed to post new articles. forum 32 is the forum that new articles are supposed to be pulled from. there are 6 posts i made in that forum, and none of them show up as articles.

however, it shows as a new "forum discussion", but not as an article. no headers for articles, no nothing. i read as much of the thread as i could reasonably be expected to, and after 2 hours, i found nothing.

i tried running the indexer.. no avail.

please help!

bump.. help please. i planned on buying full version, but certainly not if i can't get the lite version to work.

[TECK]

i want to change skin or style for vbhomelite 4.2
how can i do that? help me !
Edit the CSS settings, some of them are set to default colors because VB does not have those values linked to variables.
That explains the actual standard colors from VB and not your curent skin.

[TECK]

bump.. help please. i planned on buying full version, but certainly not if i can't get the lite version to work.
Check the newthread.php code, that's why you cannot post a new article properly.
Make sure you use a good php editor.

[[BA]Techie]

Techie]I know i should have read all the articles and etc. But theres 222 pages to this hack so i'll just ask it here. Does this work with vb beta 6? because i would really like to install it on a site with beta 6. Help is appreciated :)

[cablemirc]

Check the newthread.php code, that's why you cannot post a new article properly.
Make sure you use a good php editor.

here's my newthread.php file.

what's wrong with it? i edited it per the directions
if someone can fix it, and email to admin@cablemirc.com, i'd be much obliged
thanks!

http://www.projectprotege.com/newthreadphp.zip
(if for some reason the attachment did'nt work)

[jluerken]

Will there be a version for vB 3.x ?

[cablemirc]

here's my newthread.php file.

what's wrong with it? i edited it per the directions
if someone can fix it, and email to admin@cablemirc.com, i'd be much obliged
thanks!

http://www.projectprotege.com/newthreadphp.zip
(if for some reason the attachment did'nt work)


i'd even be happy that if someone running 2.3.2 can show THIER (working and edited) newthread.php

[cablemirc]

Check the newthread.php code, that's why you cannot post a new article properly.
Make sure you use a good php editor.

actually, that was'nt it. the "forum id" was assumed to be the "forum order id" that i used when i set up the forums in the CP.. hovering over the actual link for the Web Site News forum, i found it's "true" forumid. it works now.

[[BA]Techie]

Can someone now answer will there ever be a release for vb3.x ? Or will this work with vb 3.x?

[cablemirc]

Techie']Can someone now answer will there ever be a release for vb3.x ? Or will this work with vb 3.x?


from what i understand, there will be no version for vb 3.x
all the features of vbhome (lite) will become part of cpublisher (lite), the free version of his upcoming stand alone product.

teck... i really like vbhome (lite). i'd love support for editing the page layout, and would be interested in the full version. if i bought it so late in the game, are you going to offer a decent discount for current vbhome customers? is there still a support forum somewhere for vbHome? where do i buy a full version with support?

[TECK]

from what i understand, there will be no version for vb 3.x
all the features of vbhome (lite) will become part of cpublisher (lite), the free version of his upcoming stand alone product.

teck... i really like vbhome (lite). i'd love support for editing the page layout, and would be interested in the full version. if i bought it so late in the game, are you going to offer a decent discount for current vbhome customers? is there still a support forum somewhere for vbHome? where do i buy a full version with support?
It will be available at cpublisher.com, when ready. Discounts are planned only for HiveMail users, so far.
We need to contact Jelsoft also and ask them if they would like to associate with our team.

[Dep]

when will the cpublisher.com site be up and running

[vfxtalk]

Installed it today on a test server on v2.3.2 ..all is VERY well :) ..thanks TECK...have the following question if its cool:

- I have added a few menu/nav buttons in the CP header code of the forum, how do i mirror these for the vBHome index page ?

- How do i configure the colours etc for the vBHome index page/header and footer areas ? I have read TECK say its in the cp.css file but i cant change the text colour ...

- If i have a picture in an article post, is there a way to have the image aligned left, and have the text continue to the right of it....or do we have to have an image, and then lots of vacant horizontal space and then the text ?

Thats about it for now :) Cant wait for cpublisher, but guess ill have to :p

Cheers

Paul

[DiscussAnything]

- I have added a few menu/nav buttons in the CP header code of the forum, how do i mirror these for the vBHome index page ?


You can add them to the 'home_header' template in the Home Page Templates group


- How do i configure the colours etc for the vBHome index page/header and footer areas ? I have read TECK say its in the cp.css file but i cant change the text colour ...


Colors are all defined in the home_headinclude template in the same group as above. You'd have to hunt down the class you're trying to edit and make the changes there


- If i have a picture in an article post, is there a way to have the image aligned left, and have the text continue to the right of it....or do we have to have an image, and then lots of vacant horizontal space and then the text ?


If you have html enabled you should be able to add align="left" to your img code. The text will wrap around it then. Add a hspace="10" or vpsace="10" to seperate the text and image a bit. If you're not using html, you might have to create a new vbcode that does this for you...

[vfxtalk]

Thanks a lot mate!!! Great stuff!! ... i have enabled HTML in the source forum that i am using with vBHome, what exact syntax do i need to use to get an imagine aligned left, and the relevant text aligned right, also, how do i let vBHome know that it needs to use HTML ?? (do i need to ??)...

Cheers again for your help

Paul

[vfxtalk]

OK, update, i have my source forum working beautifully with HTML, how do i get vBHome to mirror the same HTML format ?? I have enabled HTML in the Admin CP for the source forum, how do i enable it for vBHome ...any clues ??

Cheers

Paul

[bombz84]

Hey everyone. I'm having one hell of a problem getting my 'login' to work with this hack.

Whenever I try to login from my homepage, it takes me to my forum homepage. When I return to my homepage, it always says 'Welcome, Visitor.' and never displays login information.

Can anyone help me with this problem? I've tried for days and nothing's worked.

I run VB 2.3.2 and installed this hack (version 4.2) clean (not an upgrade).

Thanks a ton!!

http://www.communityhack.net

[vfxtalk]

new wishlist item ;)

Is it possible to have vbhome support 'sticky threads' ?? ie: if i make a post sticky, will it stay at the top of the order on the vbhome page ??

Cheers again

Paul

[cablemirc]

unable to have users post replies/comments
they are able to go through the motions, and it adds to thier post count, but nothing shows in the news forums. only admins and moderators have been able to reply, even when i set "registered" users to be able to post and reply, etc etc in forum permission settings.

using vbulletin 2.3.2, thanks.

[cablemirc]

okay, figured that one out.. helps if the forum isn't moderated. :P


this one's the PIMA now... the template header has a miscoded URL that's not duplicated elsewhere in the script.... or something..

http://www.clubprotege.com/index.php...

obvoiusly, as you can see, it's all up and running...
in the source code for the page, you find

}
.bgheader {
background-image: url('http://www.clubprotege.com/forum//forum/images/menu_background.gif');
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
}

I OBVIOUSLY botched a replacement somewhere...
i know i set forums home as http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/
i know i set imagehome as /forum/images/
hence the problem.

but where do i got to fix both of these? i looked in replacements, but when i change /forum/images/ to just /images i lose the buttons.... i suppose it's a conflict between the two. any guesses?

[steppin]

Will this work for 2.2.6

[X-Sector]

Hey, ?? where is the download file? sorry to bother you beacuse lm newbie to this site.

[X-Sector]

I have installed a vBhome, When l visit my home page. The vBhome are working well but the only problem is some images are not working... i.e

http://www.x-sector.net/{imageshome}/top_calendar.gif

Like this.

[X-Sector]

Oh yeah, I just changed the code {imageshome} to forums/images, then when l visit my homepage... the images still not working.. I check the images links, they still has a {imageshome} formats. Why is that?

[X-Sector]

and where is the Articles Indexer option?

[xQuEeNzNaZcHox]

I searched the thread, yet i cannot find an answer to this error:

Database error in vbHome 2.3.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS total
FROM thread
WHERE forumid IN( ) AND dateline>1065301280

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND dateline>1065301280' at line 3

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Saturday 04th of October 2003 05:51:34 PM
Script: http://forum.winsectors.com/
Referer:

[X-Sector]

Hey, it worked.. i had sorted the problem out, it look pretty cool. Goob job man :)

[hollabizzack]

can i just hire some one to do this?

[Floris]

To install it ?
Email me on info@vBulletin.nl to explain what you want.

[MuSuL]

Can someone please give me a detailed example on how to make forums appear on the home page with pictures, like for advertisement or how to re-arrange the home page to my liking...I can't seem to figure this one out...I know this is a stupid question, but I do need some explaination on how to set up the portal...

Thanks

[deathemperor]

well, i got an only problem:
the articals do display in the home page, BUT they show nothing. There is no words in those articals :( , yet i set 6000 per one.
what do i do, masters ?

[iamwhitey]

i get this error

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/whitey/public_html/index.php:2) in /home/whitey/public_html/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1714

on my main page www.pittspeed.com

[gmarik]

Its there add-on for polls - I want to display random polls, and if the user has rated, those, which he has not seen,

And is there a possibility to add my own blocks to the left side? Maybe some instructions for doing that?

[Lee Wisener]

I have installed a few hacks but I am fairly new to vbulletin.

Can anyone explain this part a bit clearer for me.

Open vBulletin Admin Control Panel and a new {imageshome} replacement variable to your full website URL, like that:
Replacements > Add

and enter the following information:REPLACEMENT SET
(your choice here)
CODE TO FIND
{imageshome}
CODE TO INSERT
forum/images

Change the code to insert to match your forum location. Save the replacement variable.

The rest I understand but this has lost me completely, sorry!

[deathemperor]

I have installed a few hacks but I am fairly new to vbulletin.

Can anyone explain this part a bit clearer for me.

Open vBulletin Admin Control Panel and a new {imageshome} replacement variable to your full website URL, like that:
Replacements > Add

and enter the following information:REPLACEMENT SET
(your choice here)
CODE TO FIND
{imageshome}
CODE TO INSERT
forum/images

Change the code to insert to match your forum location. Save the replacement variable.


The rest I understand but this has lost me completely, sorry!
well, do this, buddy:
login to your adminCP--> look at the left side, roll down to the end--> what out the "Replacements"--> chose add in "Add | Modify | Add Set " -->"Code to find" type in {imageshome--->"CODE TO INSERT" type in forum/images .
Type wisely the url of your beloved board.
Clearer ?

[hollabizzack]

for a price can anyone install this for me e-mail blockboy@huhbrah.com

[deathemperor]

what ? a price ?
i dont think this is too hard for everyone to install like that :(
just follow the instruction in the readme html file, it should be ok

[xxxdesigns]

Ok i've been looking all over this forum but havent found the answer to this:

from the manual: "First, click on vBulletin Options link. You will see a new group created by the installer, called vbHome Page"

I did two reinstalls on a fresh vb 2.3.2 setup and the option just aint showing in my admin menu?

Any ideas?

[gmarik]

It's called "Front Page" ...
And everything works ok.

[Red Blaze]

for a price can anyone install this for me e-mail blockboy@huhbrah.com


I'll install it for you for 100,000 bucks!
*looks around* what? I need the money. :rolleyes:

It's way easy to install, but if you insist I'd do it for you. But I do need the money. ^^;; No no no, not that 100,000 bucks. :p YOu tell me and I'd think about it. lol

About the vbhome. I have the journal hack installed, can we insert something that states the top 5 (or more) journal entries? Thanks in advance.

[X-Sector]

www.x-sector.net

did u see it? all the images gone? why is that? my forums are workin fine. Anybody help me please :(

[MuSuL]

What I did was replace the {imagefolder} with the true path... /forum/images

Hopes that helps...It did for me!

[deathemperor]

well, i got an only problem:
the articals do display in the home page, BUT they show nothing. There is no words in those articals :( , yet i set 6000 per one.
what do i do, masters ?what about my problem ? could anybody give me some helps ?

[X-Sector]

What I did was replace the {imagefolder} with the true path... /forum/images

Hopes that helps...It did for me!

I did but they aren't not link to my images, I mean.. on the main page of my forums has a different templates between my forums and my main page (vBhome)

How do l change the vBhome templates to my forums templates?

Thanks

[Lee Wisener]

Spot on thanks for that.


well, do this, buddy:
login to your adminCP--> look at the left side, roll down to the end--> what out the "Replacements"--> chose add in "Add | Modify | Add Set " -->"Code to find" type in {imageshome--->"CODE TO INSERT" type in forum/images .
Type wisely the url of your beloved board.
Clearer ?

[NyCwill]

what add-ons are ther for vbhome?

[deathemperor]

I did but they aren't not link to my images, I mean.. on the main page of my forums has a different templates between my forums and my main page (vBhome)

How do l change the vBhome templates to my forums templates?

Thanks
simple, just check the last one in Front Page ( in VB options )
it will use your forum template, though not really nice :(
so, anybody else got the problem as me ? look like there is no help for me :sad:

[X-Sector]

simple, just check the last one in Front Page ( in VB options )
it will use your forum template, though not really nice :(
so, anybody else got the problem as me ? look like there is no help for me :sad:

I did, lol, Umm... I didn't copy the vB codes from my forums to add on my vbhome. Because i didn't know where is it? where is that?

[MuSuL]

I did but they aren't not link to my images, I mean.. on the main page of my forums has a different templates between my forums and my main page (vBhome)

How do l change the vBhome templates to my forums templates?

Thanks

Let me try and explain here...

First..
~ goto your AdminCP
~ Scroll down the menu on the left until you find Templates
~ Press Modify

At this point you will see a default line and a with a name of a skin (If you are using one) If no skin, then just expaned the default!

~ Once expanded, look for "Home Page Templates" and expand it. This is all the files for your protal.

~ Once expanded, then look for "home_header" and edit it

You should see a line like this....

<TD WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=22 align="left" valign="top"><IMG SRC="{imagesfolder}/tren_z_header_btm_forum_name.gif" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=22 ALT=""></TD>



Remove the {imagesfolder} and replace it with the path so it looks somthing like this...

<TD WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=22 align="left" valign="top"><IMG SRC="forum/tren_z/tren_z_header_btm_forum_name.gif" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=22 ALT=""></TD>

As you can see where ever there is a {imagesfolder} you will replace it with
forum/tren_z

Do not add the FULL PATH, just the file location...

Hope that helps alittle more...

If not, I tried and maybe I did not understand you...

MuSuL

[MuSuL]

simple, just check the last one in Front Page ( in VB options )
it will use your forum template, though not really nice :(
so, anybody else got the problem as me ? look like there is no help for me :sad:

As for the text not showing up. I too am having the same problem at this point in time!

[deathemperor]

well, let's wish somebody know why and solve this for us ^ ^
are two guys enough for a help ?

[dontpanic]

deathemperor1st, if you've configured the options for vBHL in the Admin CP correctly (correct forum numbers) and your articles are not displaying properly still, you need to run the installation php file again and select to INDEX ARTICLES.

what about my problem ? could anybody give me some helps ?

[dontpanic]

deathemperor1st and MuSul, I am not going to read back pages of the thread...what exactly is the problem(s) you are having...I might be able to help. You can see a perfectly functioning and slightly modified install of vBHL at my site: www.mcseworld.com

[deathemperor]

deathemperor1st, if you've configured the options for vBHL in the Admin CP correctly (correct forum numbers) and your articles are not displaying properly still, you need to run the installation php file again and select to INDEX ARTICLES.
wow, this really help !
thanks you so much !
I've once seen that, but didn't try :p
everything is now ok, just something about my home is not correct to my style :D
thanks again
it helped, MuSuL ^_^

[dontpanic]

OK, well what's not right with your style. Post a link to your site...

wow, this really help !
thanks you so much !
I've once seen that, but didn't try :p
everything is now ok, just something about my home is not correct to my style :D
thanks again
it helped, MuSuL ^_^

[X-Sector]

Let me try and explain here...

First..
~ goto your AdminCP
~ Scroll down the menu on the left until you find Templates
~ Press Modify

At this point you will see a default line and a with a name of a skin (If you are using one) If no skin, then just expaned the default!

~ Once expanded, look for "Home Page Templates" and expand it. This is all the files for your protal.

~ Once expanded, then look for "home_header" and edit it

You should see a line like this....

<TD WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=22 align="left" valign="top"><IMG SRC="{imagesfolder}/tren_z_header_btm_forum_name.gif" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=22 ALT=""></TD>



Remove the {imagesfolder} and replace it with the path so it looks somthing like this...

<TD WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=22 align="left" valign="top"><IMG SRC="forum/tren_z/tren_z_header_btm_forum_name.gif" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=22 ALT=""></TD>

As you can see where ever there is a {imagesfolder} you will replace it with
forum/tren_z

Do not add the FULL PATH, just the file location...

Hope that helps alittle more...

If not, I tried and maybe I did not understand you...

MuSuL

I know that but all the templates on my homepage doesn't seems same as my forums. Or do l have to copy the whole vB codes and paste it in my index.php (vBhome) if so, then where is the vB codes?

[MuSuL]

I know that but all the templates on my homepage doesn't seems same as my forums. Or do l have to copy the whole vB codes and paste it in my index.php (vBhome) if so, then where is the vB codes?


I just need some help here...Are you running a skin?
When I first installed vBHome the portal was default, then I modified the "Use Specific Template Set" in the AdminCP...It does not exactly match the rest of the site, but the color is the same....

[Skyline_GT]

HOw come I get this !!
http://www.gamerzonline.net/forum/archive/

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.


Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@gamerzonline.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.



Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.28 Server at www.gamerzonline.net Port 80

[MuSuL]

deathemperor1st and MuSul, I am not going to read back pages of the thread...what exactly is the problem(s) you are having...I might be able to help. You can see a perfectly functioning and slightly modified install of vBHL at my site: www.mcseworld.com


The text in the archives were not showing up, then I re-installed the install program for vBHome and it worked, the problems was corrected, thanks tho!

MuSuL

[MuSuL]

How Do I create a third colum. I see others with 3 colums instead of two...I would like to add more templates to the portal, but how?

[DiscussAnything]

you need to rework the HTML. I've done that on www.chopperweb.net . Just takes some time to figure out exactly how to table is made up across different templates, but once you have it, it works fine

[Robert Basil]

when will the cpublisher.com site be up and running

It's vaporware.

[TECK]

It's vaporware.
What do you mean?

[Robert Basil]

What do you mean?

What I mean is you have been talking about it forever and have nothing to show for it, not even a website that works.

Most of us have given up on waiting.

[TECK]

Thanks for explaining.

[Floris]

What do you mean?

vaporware

Vaporware is software or hardware that is either (1) announced or mentioned publicly in order to influence customers to defer buying competitors' products or (2) late being delivered for whatever reason. Most computer companies have from time to time delivered vaporware, either by calculation or unintentionally.

source:whatis.com

[TECK]

Thanks Floris. :)

[Asso]

cpublisher it's a vaporware?! i need it! Teck release a vBhome 3.0.0 plz!

[Sharg]

What I mean is you have been talking about it forever and have nothing to show for it, not even a website that works.

Most of us have given up on waiting.

I think he is simply waiting vb3.0 final.
There is no point to release a version for 2.32, and no point for a beta vb 3.0.

Sharg

[chorton]

Forgive me if I posted this in the wrong place. I will gladly go to a thread that may have more info that would help me.
I Have a fresh install of vBulletin Version 3.0.0 Beta 7.
Yesterday I downloaded a copy of vbhome (lite)
I started at the top of the read me file However I do not have any of these lines in the template.php file.
I only see one template.php file inside my forum..so I am stuck in the water until someone helps me out.

[Robert Basil]

I think he is simply waiting vb3.0 final.
There is no point to release a version for 2.32, and no point for a beta vb 3.0.

Sharg

The how about at least having a link that works? Looks pretty bad when everyone has a link to http://www.cpublisher.com on the bottom of their pages when he does not even have a "coming soon" website dont ya think?

P.S. Your www link does not work as well. ;)

[Robert Basil]

Forgive me if I posted this in the wrong place. I will gladly go to a thread that may have more info that would help me.
I Have a fresh install of vBulletin Version 3.0.0 Beta 7.
Yesterday I downloaded a copy of vbhome (lite)
I started at the top of the read me file However I do not have any of these lines in the template.php file.
I only see one template.php file inside my forum..so I am stuck in the water until someone helps me out.

vbhome will not work with Vbulletin 3.X

[TECK]

What I mean is you have been talking about it forever and have nothing to show for it, not even a website that works.

Most of us have given up on waiting.
Let me rephrase this for you: You are not satisfied and have given up, not most of people, you cannot speak on behalf of people since you are not on that position yet.

Sportbikeworld, what it's bad for you might be ok to others.
You are entitled to your own personal opinions to say them, here on the forums, loud and clear, I respect this. But why you are the only guy complaining about a non-working site link? Why "most of people" don't? It's weird...
If you are not satisfied with the way we market our product, when it will be released, feel free not to buy it, nobody it's forcing you to use it. The Net is full of reliable software and I'm sure you will find something much better them our "vaporware".

cpublisher it's a vaporware?! i need it! Teck release a vBhome 3.0.0 plz!
I'm currently working on the retail script, at my own pace.
I will also have the cpublisher.com site up and running once the new product is in beta stage.
Until then, I will not open a site with a "comming soon" message, it's useless.

People, who use the cpublisher.com link, will have to wait until the product is in beta stage, before they can see it online. The others can simply choose one of the other portals available here at VB.org site, or on the net.
Also, there will be no screenshots, etc. about the new software, due to previous bad experiences.
I only posted an installer screenshot for people.

[chorton]

vbhome will not work with Vbulletin 3.X
Interesting..when i look at the bottom of this page it appears to be the same version I just installed. Am I missing something here? If i look at the home page of vbulletin.org it APPEARS to be pulling in content from the board..so I assumed the home page of this site was written with vbhome..Guess I will just wait for the release from TECK or vbportal..

[X-Sector]

I just need some help here...Are you running a skin?
When I first installed vBHome the portal was default, then I modified the "Use Specific Template Set" in the AdminCP...It does not exactly match the rest of the site, but the color is the same....

Same here, I need some help too.. can somone install a vbulletin home portal for my forums. AIM me at Storm8668. Thx

My forums version is 2.3.2
My skin is neXus blue...

Please help, what did l do wrong?

[manflesh]

Just installed VbHome. Links in the index.php do not work and are trying to point to root directory instead of the actual forum directory. Also, how do you customize the index.php page. I see many other sites that have two or three columns of info from their forum. How do I do all of this.

http://www.utahpaintball.net/index.php

Thanks in advance.

[TurboFC3S]

Man, this vbHome is driving me nuts! It's anything but a simple install. I'd love to get it working, but I'm about to give up.

[TurboFC3S]

Hey Teck, do you do consulting at all? Would you be willing to in order to have your vbHome up and running on a huge site with over 2 million posts?

[X-Sector]

Please help, anybody? please..

www.x-sector.net

Take a look, the portal images and templates aren't linking to my forums templates and such. How could l do like that?

Please...

And.. I don't know where could l find a specific template set ID at my forums template ID. Help!

[Blindchild02]

go to Admin CP > Styles > Your style

and then make sure the images path is the WHOLE url to ur board..

like http://www.yourboard.com/forum/images (etc..)

[gmarik]

Hey Teck, do you do consulting at all? Would you be willing to in order to have your vbHome up and running on a huge site with over 2 million posts?

It seems you need professional help. I could consult you, if needed.

[X-Sector]

go to Admin CP > Styles > Your style

and then make sure the images path is the WHOLE url to ur board..

like http://www.yourboard.com/forum/images (etc..)

I did... I have checked it and it should be work

[X-Sector]

is up to you to add the rest. is fully customizable, all you have to do is copy-paste the vBulletin code into the index.php file.

Coolness... where do you copy the vbulletin code? and which index.php ?
Thanks

[X-Sector]

Anybody helps? please

[MuSuL]

Here is my new problem. So I re-installed the install program which fixed the text. The text now shows up in the articles...But NOW everytime there is a update on the portal, the text vanishes....I have to re-install the install program each time....WHY? HELP!

Thanks

[Dep]

well im giong to w8 to see what teck is like hes done a great job with vblite home i think its one of the best portal about and i think the only one where u hardly have problems install unlike some others which mess up your forum in 1 way or another

[X-Sector]

Please... someone answer my questions?
Did l miss summut? take a look at my vbhome and the forums.

AIM me at Storm8668 for help

[TheLab]

Does anyone knows how i can bump an article to top?
Its quite urgent, thank you :)

[Gio Takahashi]

The installation was not as simple as I thought, but I blame that on the bad html coding of the navbar (we have the most nifty navbar, created by my friend) I was able to fix that. The homepage is GREAT, Teck, I love it.

www.unitedempire.net

I will definitely customize it to the way I want it.

[BarelyHangingOn]

Edited:
Never mind figured it out.

Burtman

[NyCwill]

Since the support forums for vbhome lite is no more, where can I get addons??.... I want to know how to add a left column?

[phpnewbie]

i don't know i was set
Maximum Characters per article is 500 but i can't see the news in homepage pls help me thanks !

[TECK]

Since the support forums for vbhome lite is no more, where can I get addons??.... I want to know how to add a left column?
I would kindly ask all add-on users to release them as vbHome add-ons here, in this forum, as new threads.
Just give credit to the author... if you did not make the add-on.
Here it is an example:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?threadid=56617

Make sure you add it in Portal software section. ;)

Cheers,
Floren.

[docvader]

I've successfully installed this in my site, www.russbo.com/main.html, and have redirected all links to my maindisplay ("_parent") on my initial page, which is a frames page. However, there are two parts of this that I cannot get to refer to the parent frame: the log in panel, and the search box input. When using the log in or search box parts of VB Home Lite on my initial frames page, the results pop up in that small frame, and not in the maindisplay parent frame.

Got all the other parts of it to work appropriately; I'm just stuck on these two aspects. Can anyone point me in the right direction so that I can alter the html to redirect these two results to the main display (parent frame)??

Thanks very much.
rich
www.russbo.com

[ryans]

how do you make it so your forums are always in the vbhomelite section?

[Roody]

how do you make it so your forums are always in the vbhomelite section?


Once you install vbHome it will put a new link in your VBulletin Options. Inside the vbHome section in VBulletion Options you will have the ability to assign forumid's to the forums you want appearing on your homepage.

Anyway, I hope that answered your question. :)

[Roody]

Please help, anybody? please..

www.x-sector.net

Take a look, the portal images and templates aren't linking to my forums templates and such. How could l do like that?

Please...

And.. I don't know where could l find a specific template set ID at my forums template ID. Help!


Im not seeing the problem you are having. I guess Im a little slow..can you explain it more in detail or did you get it resolved already?

[Roody]

Here is my new problem. So I re-installed the install program which fixed the text. The text now shows up in the articles...But NOW everytime there is a update on the portal, the text vanishes....I have to re-install the install program each time....WHY? HELP!

Thanks


Here is an answer I know. I have dealt with the same issue many times myself, and it's pretty much ongoing. In your vbhome software inside of:

upload/admin

you will find a file called vbhlinstall.php

Upload that file to your forums/admin directory then run that file. Inside there click the option up top for "Articles Indexer". It will verify you have vbHome on your system then update your articles. Sadly, I have to do this EVERYTIME I update my homepage.

[NyCwill]

how can I add like a stat tabling in vb home?... like top 10 poster, top 10 thread, etch.....

[Anitah]

Sorry if this was asked before.

The affiliate links don't appear on the homepage. I have them enabled and they did work before but somehow they don't appear anymore.

What do I need to check in the templates to locate the problem?

A few other questions while I'm at it. Let's see if I can explain this clearly.

1. The polls do a funny thing on the home page. At times it gives you a selector, other times it shows the results, but when it does the bar images don't appear. I changed {images] in replacements to point to the directory, but that did nothing.

2. I have made a separate forum for polls, hoping that only those would appear on the homepage, but all forum polls seem to bump the homepage polls. Is there any way to change that so that only the polls designated for the homepage appear?

3. I have a private forum, and although the forum threads do not appear, any polls in that forum do.

4. I wanted non-registered users to be able to be able to comment and see the results of the poll when they open the thread, so I set permissions to open the thread for them. Although they can see the results when they check "poll results" on the homepage, they don't appear on the thread. Is there a way to adjust that?


Well that's it I guess. Hope I've made myself clear. Maybe it will help to see it.

http://www.channelvip.com/index.php

I want my title to be "super hacker" one day ;)

[xxxsaint]

sorry for the stupid question ,but I"ve looked EVERYWHERE and can't find where he is pulling the code for the background color of the homepage , mine is purple , I want it black - what gives ????????????????

[xxxsaint]

nevermind , found it , it's in home_headinclude

[Killer Angel]

I was wondering how you could have the forum display at the bottom of vBHome Lite like this...

http://www.thundersplace.com/forum/?s=

[ronb]

Can this hack be used on version 2.3.0?

[Gio Takahashi]

Mine is vB 2.3.2 and it works good, Yes it should work o.O

[ronb]

Did you follow all the steps listed in the instructions? Did you need to make any changes?

[Gio Takahashi]

yes I did follow all the steps in the instructions. I think the admin cp files had to be changed....Why what happened?

[klaattu]

Ok I have installed it ....
One problem I have is that the darn php file that gives me the full URL path to my admin folder is not in my (download archive), so I keep guessing my full url.....ence I get the failed opening requiered bal bla bla global php file

where is that darn file....

Fatal error: Failed opening required './/home/httpd/vhosts/clioclub.com.mx/httpdocs/foro/admin/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/httpd/vhosts/clioclub.com.mx/httpdocs/global.php on line 745

here is the message notice the folder is foro not forum (jn spanish....)

any hints where is the missing file?

[klaattu]

One quick question My images are not woerking and I guess my replacements URL is bad any hints?

[diablito]

I think I've fully understood the install instructions for the hack, but I've a little problem that I'm not able to solve reading this thread...I've done quiet a bit of searching, but can't find problem situations 100% similar to mine.

I have vBulletin installed in a directory "forum" in my root web directory; on my Apache web server, that will be /var/www/html/forum.

As far as I can see, vbHome must have it's index.php and global.php in the root
directory, above the forum directory. However, in the root directory I already have a index.php and a global.php, that belongs to another site I'm running - I can't just overwrite these.

Any idea how to implement vbHome under these circumstances?

--
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[TECK]

Change the vbHL index.php and global.php to home.php and homeglobal.php
Make sure you replace the global.php references to homeglobal.php, everywhere in vbHL files.
It will solve your problems.

[ronb]

yes I did follow all the steps in the instructions. I think the admin cp files had to be changed....Why what happened?


I haven't installed the hack yet. My main concerns is that we have to put the global.php and index.php files in the root. We're using a global.php3 file in the admin directory. There's also a global.php in there that isn't used. If i put these files in the root will they be seen.

Also in step 3 we have to change the default admin path. I'm not sure what to change it to.

Step 4 requires a replacement set. What values go in the replacement set itself and for the other 2 do i enter the values as shown.

I'm trying to understand each portion of these instructions so i don't bring the board to it's knees!

[klaattu]

Ok I got it working now, It soo Cool, Thanks Teck you are the MAN!

On a side note maybe the readme =file has the addition to the global.php file badly parsed casue that was my problem opened it in BBedit and zapped the bugs (one extra space) and Voila!! everything works cool.

[MindTrix]

Not sure about your php question, but im pretty sure it wont bring your board to its knees. I've installed the portal and it worked fine apart from a mysql question which i fixed easily. Only problem now is the styles arent showing properly on forum home inside table is showing ok, but bckground of page is still purple :p

Anyways ronb im sure you will like the portal it is brilliant. Maybe install it on a test board first so you can get used to it etc?

[ronb]

Ok I got it working now, It soo Cool, Thanks Teck you are the MAN!

On a side note maybe the readme =file has the addition to the global.php file badly parsed casue that was my problem opened it in BBedit and zapped the bugs (one extra space) and Voila!! everything works cool.


Can i ask where that bug is? what code has the space in it that needs to be removed?

[ronb]

Not sure about your php question, but im pretty sure it wont bring your board to its knees. I've installed the portal and it worked fine apart from a mysql question which i fixed easily. Only problem now is the styles arent showing properly on forum home inside table is showing ok, but bckground of page is still purple :p

Anyways ronb im sure you will like the portal it is brilliant. Maybe install it on a test board first so you can get used to it etc?


i would like nothing better than to but we have no test board or server. What are you not clear about the php. i know i'm not always explaining things clearly. I don't want the main board to be reading the global.php in the root when it needs to read the global.php3 in the admin directory.

Also will the front page have the same skins as the main board does. I'm assuming we'll have to configure that right. Am i making sense? lol

[MindTrix]

I meant i do not understand all of this php and php3 etc because i am still learning myself (basically i dont know the difference between php and php3) so sorry i cant help you with php related questions. As for the skins, you will have an option in your admin cp after installing the portal, to either asign one skin only to the portal, OR, let multiple skins be used at once, so basically whatever skin the user has selected, the portal will be in the same layout/colors etc as the skin

[ronb]

I meant i do not understand all of this php and php3 etc because i am still learning myself (basically i dont know the difference between php and php3) so sorry i cant help you with php related questions. As for the skins, you will have an option in your admin cp after installing the portal, to either asign one skin only to the portal, OR, let multiple skins be used at once, so basically whatever skin the user has selected, the portal will be in the same layout/colors etc as the skin

oh ok. So you really didn't have much trouble installing this front page right. BTW i know how you feel. I came in late as an admin on the board and am learning as i go that's why i was afraid i was saying the wrong thing. I'm a programmer by trade but not on web design so i'm taking a crash course. More like crashing head first at times! that's why i'm asking so many questions, i'm cautious.

thanks

[MindTrix]

I pick up easy, and kind of learning ;)

Yeah the installation was a breeze! Surprisingly how easy it was actually as there was not many steps to follow.

Only problem i had as i said was a mysql error when trying to access the portal. To solve this i just changed the portal options in the admin panel to anything really, and it fixed it. Havent had any problems since.


Maybe you should download something like phptriad or phpdev5 to install a local host on your pc. That way you could test it out.

[diablito]

Change the vbHL index.php and global.php to home.php and homeglobal.php
Make sure you replace the global.php references to homeglobal.php, everywhere in vbHL files.
It will solve your problems.

I just did. Result:

Warning: main(./homeglobal.php) [function.main]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/codforum/admin/vbhlinstall.php on line 7

Fatal error: main() [function.main]: Failed opening required './homeglobal.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/html/codforum/admin/vbhlinstall.php on line 7

This error message occurs when running http://<sitename>/admin/vbhlinstall.php in my browser.

I've gone through all the vbHL files many times and double-checked that all instances of global.php is replaced with homeglobal.php.

Just to be sure: the vbHL index.php and global.php (which I have renamed to homeindex.php and homeglobal.php) shall NOT replace the vBulletin index.php and global.php files, but recide in the main html dir above the vBulletin dir, right? I did the file copying like this:

/var/www/html: homeindex.php, homeglobal.php and backend.php
/var/www/html/forum: printarticle.php and vBulletin newthread.php
/var/www/html/forum/admin: vbhlinstall.php and vBulletin template.php
/var/www/forum/images: arrow.gif, article.gif, articleemail.gif and articleprint.gif
/var/www/html/images/polls: bar.gif, bar-bk.gif, bar-l.gif and bar-r.gif

I'm really feeling noobish here... :/

[ronb]

I'm in the process of installing this home page. i did all the steps except the last one. How do i run the vbhlinstall.php script installer?

[MindTrix]

@ ronb

You have to link to it in your browser like this

www.<yoursite>.com/forum/admin/vbhlinstall.php

Gdluck

[ronb]

@ ronb

You have to link to it in your browser like this

www.<yoursite>.com/forum/admin/vbhlinstall.php

Gdluck


I feel so stupid! thanks

[MindTrix]

Dont worry about it ;) Have fun

[ronb]

Dont worry about it ;) Have fun


How will i know when it is done and if it's done correctly? Right now we have it as private so the members don't see it until we're ready to show it. Also the numbering of the forums concerns me. I created a new forum as per the instructions and it's not number 1

[ronb]

I just installed the home page hack. When i try to get to the home page i get this error. What can i do to correct this?

Database error in vbHome 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS total
FROM thread
WHERE forumid IN( ) AND dateline>1068609534

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND dateline>1068609534' at line 3

The code it's failing on is in the index.php which is in the hack zip file. here's the code:

$newheadlines = $DB_site->query_first("
SELECT COUNT(*) AS total
FROM thread
WHERE forumid IN( $articleforum ) AND dateline>$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]
");

i'm not sure why it says line 3 because this is found on lin 45 but who cares. I think it doesn't like th ( ) value. Does anyone know what should be in $articleforum?

[MindTrix]

ronb, soz i didnt reply to ur previous thread, i wrote a huge reply telling you things and well then vb.org messed up as i sent it, so it didnt get posted, so, sorry about that. As for your mysql error that is the one i had and fixed. Go to your admin panel and choose vBulletin options then scroll down too FRONT PAGE.

Now just change most the options on that list, doesnt matter what too just mess around ( i did lol) then save the changes, Now go to the portal page, should be working now.

Lemme know ok?

[ronb]

What i did was clear the cache (ctrl and F5) then i got the home page. Now i need to get our boards skin and logo up top. It's a trial and error thing now.

I had a hard time posting this too. Sorry you lost all your typing. There's not much more annoying tahn that unless you include a wife that never stops yapping!

I had to..lol..

[diablito]

I was wondering how you could have the forum display at the bottom of vBHome Lite like this...

http://www.thundersplace.com/forum/?s=

Nobody answered this - I also wonder how to do this.

[ronb]

I'll go one better on the question. How did they fill out that page? I have no templates filled out on top and nothing in the middle. What do i need to do to get that to work. Also i'd like to have the skin and logo from the board on this home page too.

[MindTrix]

Im not even sure that it is a vbhome portal. Also note at the bottom near the copyright it says

Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.18 Alpha

Which isnt even out yet :s

[ronb]

I need a little help with the set up of the home page. I'm not all fluent with php so be kind to me! lol here's what the home page looks like now. http://www.sculptedbyiron.com/index.php

As ypu can see it's not at all complete. Id like to get our logo up top if possible. Also why are all the 'X' boxes up top. i'd like to change the skin to something more readible and fill in the center if the page.


What do i need to change and to what. As you can see i'm a bit lost. I'll admit it!

[MindTrix]

Your images are beeing linked too

http://www.sculptedbyiron.com/forum/tren_z/

So im guessing it should be

http://www.sculptedbyiron.com/forum/images/tren_z/????

Basically when you did the replacement as told in the instructions maybe you added a wrong path? If so just go back and replace your old replacement with a new one.

As for the styles, check your vBulletin options, in your admin cp and scroll to the bottom where you will see FRONT PAGE options, the last 2 options on there are to do with your styles.

[atomic fireball]

ronb, to customize the look of your front page, you'll need to edit the templates.

For the home page, go to Home Page Templates in your Admin Control Panel, and then edit the Home template.

For your graphics not showing up, that means that the header for your home page is not pointing to the correct image folder. You'll need to check the image path in home_header to ensure that the images point to the spot where your graphics are located.

Editing your home page is possible with vbHome Lite, but it takes a bit of work with the templates to get the look that you're going for. Backup the original templates, and then play around with the editing to see where it takes you. Good luck.

[ronb]

ronb, to customize the look of your front page, you'll need to edit the templates.

For the home page, go to Home Page Templates in your Admin Control Panel, and then edit the Home template.

For your graphics not showing up, that means that the header for your home page is not pointing to the correct image folder. You'll need to check the image path in home_header to ensure that the images point to the spot where your graphics are located.

Editing your home page is possible with vbHome Lite, but it takes a bit of work with the templates to get the look that you're going for. Backup the original templates, and then play around with the editing to see where it takes you. Good luck.


bear with me. When you say edit the templates what am i editing? An example would be fine so i know what i'm looking for. I'm a programmer so i'm not lost just not that familiar with php.

[diablito]

Are u sure you added the replacement {imageshome} as described in the install instructions? Check that u did, and that u did enter the path to the imagefiles right.

[ronb]

Are u sure you added the replacement {imageshome} as described in the install instructions? Check that u did, and that u did enter the path to the imagefiles right.


I was just looking at that and i did create it and it's pointing to images folder. the code i have is forum/tren_z. In tren_z there are images there. this forum folder is in the root.

Just for the hell of it i changed the imageshome replacement to look at images/tren_zx. Tren_zx does not exist. I thought i would get an error but i didn't! It may not be reading that replacement imageshome.

Fortunately i'm going home now!

thanks for your help.

[ronb]

Your images are beeing linked too

http://www.sculptedbyiron.com/forum/tren_z/

So im guessing it should be

http://www.sculptedbyiron.com/forum/images/tren_z/????

Basically when you did the replacement as told in the instructions maybe you added a wrong path? If so just go back and replace your old replacement with a new one.

As for the styles, check your vBulletin options, in your admin cp and scroll to the bottom where you will see FRONT PAGE options, the last 2 options on there are to do with your styles.

Folder tren_z is in the forums folder as is the images folder. Using the link:http://www.sculptedbyiron.com/index.php brings up the shell of the home page but nothing much else. In the index.php i'm pointing to imageshome replacement which has in it in the code to insert fields forum/images.

I am so damn confused!

[diablito]

Well, I've also concidered implementing a custom style for my vbulletin/vbhome lite page - looks like I have to edit some templates in addition to the style install.

I'm going to buy a skin form vbskins.com. The skin comes with support for vbportal, but vbHome is not mentioned.

If there's anyone here that have some experience with what kind of hacks I need to do, I would be very thankful if you could share this information with me/us.

I think RonB's problem is similar, since tren_z is a custom styleset, which isn't supported by vbHome Lite out-of-the-box.

[ronb]

Well, I've also concidered implementing a custom style for my vbulletin/vbhome lite page - looks like I have to edit some templates in addition to the style install.

I'm going to buy a skin form vbskins.com. The skin comes with support for vbportal, but vbHome is not mentioned.

If there's anyone here that have some experience with what kind of hacks I need to do, I would be very thankful if you could share this information with me/us.

I think RonB's problem is similar, since tren_z is a custom styleset, which isn't supported by vbHome Lite out-of-the-box.


Here's an update on what i've done. We have everything pointing to php. etc. We have a version of tren_z that we call tren_z_expanded. We put the imageshome replacement in there and i see the user cp etc buttons. I still do not see our logo and other things. Also there a black blank box in the middle. I need to put different things such as news etc in there and i don't know how. I see in the globa.php file it looks for home_header template where the global.php3 file we use for the board is looking for template home. I may change these and see what happens.

[destro19]

how can I get my vbskin ro show up on my vbhome?

[ronb]

We have finally got the home page to look somewhat nice. I have one rather dumb question. We're showing the tabs on top such as user cp, chat etc. These tabs are not working because they're picking up the wrong url. Instead of getting for example www.sitename.com/forum/index.php3 they're getting www.sitename.com/index.php3. The folder forum is being dropped. My question is where does this link come from? Yeah i know i'm not familiar with this language. If i can at least get pointed in the right direction i may be able to get this to work.

Also all our recent threads are being shown in a left hand column and in the middle of the screen. I want to put other info in the middle. What is sending the recent posts to both screens?

ots of questions huh

[MindTrix]

First question = Edit your template, and edit, vbhome i believe or FRONT PAGE something like this, then edit the header template in that set.

As for your threads, check your vbulletin options, and scroll to the bottom and look under the FRONT PAGE section.

Should be like the 1st 2 sections there i think.

[calvinnguyen]

Is this work for vb3 beta 7? Thanks

[ronb]

First question = Edit your template, and edit, vbhome i believe or FRONT PAGE something like this, then edit the header template in that set.


As for your threads, check your vbulletin options, and scroll to the bottom and look under the FRONT PAGE section.

Should be like the 1st 2 sections there i think.

WHich template do i edit? We have alot of them. I don't recall seeing vbhome either. The header template we're using has the correct code in it which is why i'm confused. The home_header template is being used also so why would that link not be picked up. It almost looks like the correct link is being overridden.

Thanks for your help.

[MindTrix]

Calinguyen -- I dont believe this will work at all with vb3. Check the authors website too see whether he has a vb3 version on there.

ronb-- If you mean what template do you edit for the 1st question, click TEMPLATES on the bottom left of ur screen, then choose modify. From the list of styles choose the one you wish to edit and then scroll down until you see a section titled FRONT PAGE (i believe thats what it is called) This is where all the templates for the portal are.

[ronb]

Calinguyen -- I dont believe this will work at all with vb3. Check the authors website too see whether he has a vb3 version on there.

ronb-- If you mean what template do you edit for the 1st question, click TEMPLATES on the bottom left of ur screen, then choose modify. From the list of styles choose the one you wish to edit and then scroll down until you see a section titled FRONT PAGE (i believe thats what it is called) This is where all the templates for the portal are.

I don't see a front page template. We have a category called forum home templates. Is that the same thing?

[MindTrix]

Nope its a couple under that, i dont have the portal installed myself thats why im un-sure of the correct name. Its something like HOME PAGE or FRONT PAGE something like this.

[ronb]

Nope its a couple under that, i dont have the portal installed myself thats why im un-sure of the correct name. Its something like HOME PAGE or FRONT PAGE something like this.


I'm looking under the group of templates we use which we call tren_z_expanded and i see nothing like that within that category. Ours must be called something else. Damn

[ronb]

we have alot of templates that begin with home_xxx. That's all i see

[MindTrix]

How about take a screenshot?

[ronb]

How about take a screenshot?

I'll try but i don't have a photo editor here at work.

[ronb]

Here's a copy/paste version:

Custom templates
birthday_greeting_email [edit] [remove]
birthday_greeting_pm [edit] [remove]
birthday_greeting_thread [edit] [remove]
forumdisplay_sponsoredby [edit] [remove]
forumhome_dropdownbit [edit] [remove]
forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost_sponsor [edit] [remove]
forumhome_todayloggedinuser [edit] [remove]
forumhome_todayloggedinusers [edit] [remove]
showthread_replybox [edit] [remove]
staffmessage [edit] [remove]
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activateform [change original]
activate_requestemail [change original]
aim [change original]
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announcebit [change original]
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coppaform [change original]
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footer [edit] [revert to original] [view original]
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forumjump [change original]
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gobutton [change original]
header [edit] [revert to original] [view original]
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home_nopermissionloggedin [change original]
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home_pollresults_closed [change original]
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home_userloggedin [change original]
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home_welcomeguest [change original]
home_welcomeuser [change original]
icq [change original]
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lostpw [change original]
mailform [change original]
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navbar [change original]
nav_joiner [change original]
nav_linkoff [change original]
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phpinclude [change original]
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reportbadpost [change original]
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sendtofriend [change original]
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showpost [change original]
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signupadult [change original]
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smiliebit [change original]
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standardredirect [change original]
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[MindTrix]

yup its all the ones begginin with home. Usualy they have their own little section in the templates where they are all grouped. Dont know why yours arent.

[ronb]

Right now we're using the home_header which has the right link in it. Here's the code in the template for the chat room that appears at the top of the page:

<TD WIDTH=77 HEIGHT=22 align="left" valign="top"><a href="chat.php3?s=$session[sessionhash]"><IMG SRC="forum/tren_z/tren_z_header_chat.gif" WIDTH=77 HEIGHT=22 ALT="" border="0"></a></TD>

this is correct because this is the same code we have for the main page for the chat room and that works. Weird huh

[MindTrix]

very very very weird :p Blah thats why i hate portals :) Shame, cause TECK the author of this portal isnt around much nowdays :(

Try reading the errrrrrm 232 :p pages on this thread see if anyone else had the same problem. Or use the search thread option on the top right of this page.

[ronb]

very very very weird :p Blah thats why i hate portals :) Shame, cause TECK the author of this portal isnt around much nowdays :(

Try reading the errrrrrm 232 :p pages on this thread see if anyone else had the same problem. Or use the search thread option on the top right of this page.

Did that already that's why i'm at the end here. This is really annoying.

Thanks again

[MindTrix]

Sorry i couldnt help :(

[ronb]

No problem. I thank you for trying

[MindTrix]

Your best bet is too ask here mate

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=30

[atomic fireball]

Right now we're using the home_header which has the right link in it. Here's the code in the template for the chat room that appears at the top of the page:

<TD WIDTH=77 HEIGHT=22 align="left" valign="top"><a href="chat.php3?s=$session[sessionhash]"><IMG SRC="forum/tren_z/tren_z_header_chat.gif" WIDTH=77 HEIGHT=22 ALT="" border="0"></a></TD>

this is correct because this is the same code we have for the main page for the chat room and that works. Weird huh

No, don't use the same code. See, your home page should be on TOP of your forums, thus the exact same header links won't work. For example, your home page is at the root directory for your domain. www.yourdomain.com. Where as your forum is something like www.yourdomain.com/forum.

You'll need to customize the home_header to include the proper links to HOME, not your forum. They will be different.

It might be easiest to do this:
If you haven't done so already, make sure you have a replacement in the Home Page grouping where: {imageshome} is replaced by /forum/images

Then, any proper image link in your home_header template will look like this:

"{imageshome}/icon.gif"

By creating a proper replacement, which includes the addition of "/forum" your iamges should appear in the correct path.

The key thing to remember is that header and home_header will be different paths, since this portal is not in the same directory as your forum.

Hope this helps.

[Ryangel]

Think i must have lost touch with php. I cant seem to figure out why the article does not pull the content from the thread and display it.

Check out this link to see what i mean.

http://sgstudents.com/index3.php

hmm. *ponders*... *blankly*

[diablito]

Thanks for an excellent hack, I'm starting to get rid of the "first-timer" problems here.

However, there's a little problem that I can't figure out:

When I first installed vbHome, the articles and latest discussions showed up fine, but nothing under Recent Articles. I tried to figure it out, but with no luck. So I disabled it.

After running vbHome for some days, this started to irritateme a bit, I really would like to have the recent articels showing up. So I enabled it again. Then my first article suddenly showed up, but not my 4 or 5 articles posted after that.

I've run the article indexer from vbhlinstall.php, but that didn't help.

I would also like to add a Recent articles showing only threads from a spesific forum(s), is there a hack for this around?

Any ideas, anyone?

[fengshui-123]

Sorry, I am new comer, too long a list to go through, can someone let me know the download link of vBHome? Thanks.

Just found it on the first page.

[mariannet]

UPS!
Love this hack and have been using it for a while. Now my kids want christmas and I have made a style for this. I want this style to be standard on the homepage but can't remember how to specify this?

[MindTrix]

I think its in this portal, or the other one i get confused. If i am right it will be in your admin control panel underneath vBulletin options. Scroll down to the bottom where the FRONT PAGE part is and i think its one of the last options.

I could be thinking of the other portal though.

[Mr L]

Hi,

Apoligies for this "stupid" question, but how do I change the colours of the scroll bars?

I have edited the "home_headinclude" template to put the code that I require that I believe is...

SCROLLBAR-BASE-COLOR: {categorybackcolor};
SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: {categoryfontcolor};

...however it remains the defauly gray option and does not use the new colours.

Thanks in advance.

[WoodiE]

I released a cute hack: Article Source
For a demo check my front page. If you are a licensed member, grab it here (http://www.teckwizards.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=599).


Being that Teckwizards.com is dead, does anyone have this hack for the "article source"???



-WoodiE

[CtrlAltDel]

anyone know why when i upgraded to 2.3.3 the box that says 'hello' and shows how many new posts since you were last on the board stopped working?

[cablemirc]

anyone know why when i upgraded to 2.3.3 the box that says 'hello' and shows how many new posts since you were last on the board stopped working?

funny to see you over here too, fellow vBgarager...
yeah, you have to go back into the admin control panel and reset the option to show it. that option was reset.

[zsmom]

I just installed the hack and had to tweak a couple things to get the colors, styles & image paths working so everything is good except I have these errors at the top:

Warning: Unknown(./vbs_counter.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/global.php(930) : eval()'d code on line 6

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening './vbs_counter.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/global.php(930) : eval()'d code on line 6

Any ideas??? Thanks!

[7harmonicz]

Ive been trying to figure out how to get the skin I have installed on my board to work in my home page? I know its probably a stupid question, but Im confused, can someone help?

[MindTrix]

Log into your admin cp, click vbulletin options and scroll to the bottom of the page. Should be around there.

[Text-ghost]

i got this message after i had installed it

Warning: main(./forums/admin/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/rocket2/public_html/forums/global.php on line 744

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './forums/admin/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/rocket2/public_html/forums/global.php on line 744

[PhoenixBB]

Anyone know how I can get my birthday box back?

I had birthdays on the Portal for ages, with no proble. I noticed the other day it was gone. The templates are still there, and the $birthdaybits is still there, yet nothing appears on the portal. I tried pasting the table into the home page, but didn't work.

A weird thing: I had a look in the database and there are only 3 files for templateset id -2 (which is what the birthday code called). One was 'maxloggedin' and the other was 'onlineloc'. I don't appear to have either of these templates, but no matter. The the othe one was the 'birthdays'. However, there was not only thousands of them, but they were all pointing to the profile of this one user and all were dated the same date in Sept.

Is it possible I got hacked? If not why on earth did I end up with thousands of templates for that one user. I have deleted him (he's never posted) and deleted all those templates from the DB. But I still can't get my birthdays back on the Portal. :(

Anyone know how I can fix?

Thanx

[bozzy]

can somebody help me...my forum and root sit on the same level. that is how i want it. my board is at www.unrulypolitics.com and I would like to install this hack...do i just change the vbhome index to index1.php or something? thanks

[midnightz]

can somebody help me...my forum and root sit on the same level. that is how i want it. my board is at www.unrulypolitics.com and I would like to install this hack...do i just change the vbhome index to index1.php or something? thanks

Hi,

That won't work, the DNS for your site and the way the intenet is set up will not permit that. You will need to move you files for vbulletin into its own directory, ie. Forum/ then edit your paths and then install vbhome at root level.

DNS refreshes to root index.html and if you have a index.php (well on my servers) then it defaults to the .php extension. Some cp software for servers such as cPanel can allow redirects that are quite intricate, but not even in your case. its best to move the files.

My 2?

midnightz

[bozzy]

uh i was afraid of that. thanks for the input.

[midnightz]

uh i was afraid of that. thanks for the input.

no problem

[bozzy]

Okay, I moved the forum scripts to a forum directory, and installed this hack, following the instructions to a T. I got an error when going to the vbhome index:

"Fatal error: Cannot redeclare archive_nopermission() (previously declared in /home/bozzyswo/public_html/unrulypolitics.com/global.php:378) in/home/bozzyswo/public_html/unrulypolitics.com/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2588"

Somebody tell me what the heck this means. else this hack is useless.

[bozzy]

PS-- I just love the fact that the readme file has no troubleshooting info. How dare somebody release a hack and not support it! ;-)

[bozzy]

I wish somebody else has this problem and knows what to do...