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

[refertech]

I'll be installing 3.5 to night Teck's. Thanks man. Oh and I didnt get a email either. Nor do i always get a email when someone replies here, only sometimes. :(

Mark

[TECK]

there is a minor typo i made in the file.. redownload the file.. and make sure you clean your browser cache before.
then, upload the index.php file only.

[TimeX]

No email update for me either.

[TECK]

i dont know why is not owrking for all members. some of you receive it some dont. the solution will be when i open my forums... i will have there an announcements forum. all you have to do is subscribe to the forum and you will receive updates for sure...

sorry guys. soon. in about 2-3 weeks. i'm restoring my code now since the HD crash.

[Seby]

I have a few requests for hacks or news features (if Teck will add them).

At first it would be cool to have a daily devider thing, as you can see on my site, www.cscentral.com. There is a devider after ever day telling you what day the newsposts have been made, then the newspost just has the time it was posted, not again the day, I think the news look a lot better that way.
Another request, you should be able to choose for each newspost individually what should be shown in the post and what will be show after you hit read more. I mean that you have one field for the newspost when posting news and one field for the read more part. If you leave the read more part empty there wont be a read more link, if there is something written in it then there will be one. I think that would be a good addition and doesnt cost another query, does it? (I know you are picky about them teck ;).

Please let me know what you think,

Thanks,
Sebastian

[TECK]

seby, the first part is an archive thinghie, and i like the idea. i will make a separate file where it will list the thread titles, by day.

second idea, it will be never done. your forgetting the important thing: you post in vBulletin, not in a news script like you have in your site.
in other words, to make it the way you want you will hack a ton of files in vBulletin. none of the vbHome users will like this idea.

there is an option for you, check the first post for the commercial version of this script. those options are included there.

[Marshalus]

Addon Request
I'm not sure exactly how to do this, but if Teck or someone would like to help me, or maybe just do it for me that would be great ;)

What'd I'd like to do is when you move our mouse over the Latest Topics section, it will display the ALT tag and show the full subject of the topic.

Example: "Download my late..." is displayed because you have it set to cut off at a point, but when you move your mouse over the link it would show "Download my latest version of vbHome (lite)!" in the yellow ALT tag thingy.

Can this be done? I don't think it'd be very hard and I don't think it'd add any queries to the page. Could be wrong though.

BTW, nice work with 3.5. Is it easy to upgrade if im running 3.3 right now?

Edit: I got this to work, see post below!

[Marshalus]

Humm, well, I underestimated myself, and I got it to work.

Open index.php
Find the line that says $thread[title] = unhtmlspecialchars($thread[title]);

Below it add $thread[titlealt] = $thread[title];

Then open the home_threadbits template and add title="$thread[titlealt]" to your link.

It'll look something like this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

It didn't seem to add a query. Teck, let me know if there is an easier way to do this, or any problems by doing it this way. I think this is about as simple as it gets ;)

[TECK]

yep, you are correct. another hack to be added to the first post. :)

[Marshalus]

w00t!

[LeeCHeSSS]

TECK, check PlurPlanet's new "hack" in the Full Releases forum (seems more like a bunch of hacks packed together). He blatantly uses parts of both vbIndex and vbHome without giving due credit.

[NTLDR]

Originally posted by LeeCHeSSS
TECK, check PlurPlanet's new "hack" in the Full Releases forum (seems more like a bunch of hacks packed together). He blatantly uses parts of both vbIndex and vbHome without giving due credit.

I sent TECK a PM about that hack. I guess the code he used for the latest thraeds and news was ripped from vBhome without permission. Along with chunks of origional code he isn't allowed to post and a load of other hacks he probably doesn't have the right to include in there.

Heres the link: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44691

[TECK]

well guys, i really dont care anymore.
when i released vbHome for the first time, people thought.. wow is cool.. but hey, wait.. i will ripp some other hacks toghether and release "a better" version then TECK's.. hihi, i will show off my ripping skills...

let them be happy. people who want a serious piece of code will always choose vbHome (lite).

ahh i forgot, plur's hack, have in the installer the record number of
37,906 queries, that's thirty-eight thousands!!!!
not that is bad... but is the first time i see a such large number of queries performed in one shot. :)

[TECK]

marsh, i will post your hack with a minor change ok?
to have it done properly...

Originally posted by Marshalus
Humm, well, I underestimated myself, and I got it to work.

Open vbHL index.php
Find:
$thread[title] = unhtmlspecialchars($thread[title]);
BELOW, add:
$thread[titlealt] = $thread[title];
Then open the home_threadbits template and add:
title="$thread[titlealt]"
to your link.

It'll look something like this:
http://www.federationstudios.net/images/news/altstuff.gif

[TECK]

marsh, i added the link to first post and made the right corrections. i want you guys in the feature to make a zip file, encrypted with the member password, if it shows a larger code change, not like the one above.

is the best way for now to protect the code copyright. thanks.

[Seby]

hey teck, this VirtuaNews script is really great, thanks for the hint, pretty expensive though :(

[TECK]

well you wanted a pro version. other similar scripts that do less then that charge 800$ for it.
btw, vBulletin is more expensive then VirtuaNews, so i dont see why you call it expensive?

[TECK]

smoothie, it looks that my tips to optimise your global.php, help you fix the problem you had with the extra queries performed.
you are back to 16queries now while logged in... it looks solid.

congrats. :)

[Smoothie]

Teck-

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. :)

[Frostin]

nice hack..... why all the password and stuff???? I can understand keeping the code in licensed party hands... but I jsut wanted to try it out on my test board... but I cant do that cause thats not my licensed board?!!?

ol well... nice work anyways

[Seby]

Well Teck, I paid my vb with donations from my users, but I don't want to ask them again since the purchase of vb was only a few months ago so the VirtuaNews are expensive for me ;)

BTW: I am using your news catch from vbhome (lite) at my site since 10 minutes or so, I use a custom copyright note at the bottom of my site since I dont use the full script, is that alright with you? Or do I have to add the full copyright note?

[abu mohammed]

Sir, I have a licens to the web WWW.arabminber.net. You can check out yourself. I really want to use your script if Possible. I do agree to all the terms mentioned. For sure ur copyrights will not be moved.

thank you

[abu mohammed]

Sir, I have a licens to the web WWW.arabminber.net. You can check out yourselve. I really want to use your script if Possible. I do agree to all the terms mentioned. For sure ur copyrights will not be moved.

thank you

[bouncer18]

Teck: how would one go about splitting the 2 columns into 3 to get more of a phpnuke type look/feel?

[Goldknight]

Teck, I didnt get update email either.. I dont know that you already update your hack. Anyway thanks!

Also I have to uninstall multinews hack due to conflict problems as I stated before in my old post but excellent work with 3.5.

[LeeCHeSSS]

bouncer, I can help you with that...

[Goldknight]

LeeCHeSSS, why not post at here? More than several has been ask for two or more columns, once post and they will not ask bother anyone about this again?

Only suggestion...

[LeeCHeSSS]

Because it's not as simple as "Find and replace"

Another bugfix: in index.php find: if (strlen($thread[title])>$threadmaxchars) and replace with: if (strlen($thread[title])>$threadmaxchars and $threadmaxchars!=0)

This fixes that when you "disable" truncating of article-titles it still replaces the last two letters with "..."

[TECK]

abu mohammed, password sent. thanks for installing my script.

leechesss, good job, as usual. i missed that one, thanks.
i will update the file now...

[Seby]

what about me Teck?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=310784#post310784

[TECK]

Originally posted by Seby
Well Teck, I paid my vb with donations from my users, but I don't want to ask them again since the purchase of vb was only a few months ago so the VirtuaNews are expensive for me ;)

BTW: I am using your news catch from vbhome (lite) at my site since 10 minutes or so, I use a custom copyright note at the bottom of my site since I dont use the full script, is that alright with you? Or do I have to add the full copyright note? yes. the copyright must be there, intact.
look at the copyright rule:
6. You are allowed to add, remove or modify any part of the included code.

you are allowed to modify, edit or remove the script. but you are still using my script. so the copyright must stay the way it is. you can only remove the version.

edit: you removed the most important part, the vBulletin copyright.
why do i have to repeat myself a million times to all of you? don't you know that vbHome (lite) is based on vBulletin functions???
i think the best way is to close again this thread, right? and discontinue the development, what do you think guys?

i'm tired of people who always complain about the same problem over and over again...
can you read this???
DO NOT INSTALL MY SCRIPT IF YOU DONT LIKE THE COPYRIGHT NOTES THE WAY THEY ARE!!!
is it clear enough???

[supreemball]

hi teck.. just wondering if the vbhome lite contest is still going on.. www.somethingleet.com/index.php is my entry :)

[TECK]

supreemball. you should upgrade to v3.5 before i remove the file...
i plan on stopping again support on this thread.

i'm almost done finishing a version that uses 13queries with all options enabled. i will not release it, since people dont care about my wishes.
you will be able to see it on my website.

[bouncer18]

ohh tech

what about me and leechless
:(

if it wasnt for you, we would have 1242 queries!!!!

with all options off even!

[bouncer18]

Leech: sounds good man.

If ya want, take your time.. just email me instructions or something?

I am TERRIBLE at html and tables.. so as much info as you can share would be great

[TECK]

Originally posted by bouncer18
what about me and leechless
:(there are no exceptions. everyone will suffer because others dont get it. sorry guys.
you will have to stick with 3.5
is a damn good script that beats any copycats out there...

[TECK]

heh, someone just rated the script today, "1". like i do care...
the moron who rated the script 1, doesnt probably even know how to edit a simple piece of html and he cant modify an extremly simple install process like that...

then he rates the script 1.. lol.
go buy some books buddy, and learn a little html and php.

[nokia8860]

TECK.

Sorry to see this happen to such a great script. I will update to v3.5 and keep rocking the vbhl!!!!!

[TECK]

np. as i said before, there will be no further relases for this version. case closed.
i spend to much time helping others, and they simply dint give a damn about it.
i'm gonna remove the password right now.

keep in mind that the copyright rules still stay in place. i doubt it someone will keep it... i dont give a damn anymore.
is your lost, guys, not mines.

[bouncer18]

I wanna thank everyone for helping everyone else (smoothie, leechless) sad to see this thread have to die...

I guess its time to un-bookmark this thread..

I just dont understand why peeps couldnt just keep a copy write code at the bottom .... or get permission before ripping code, renaming a function here.. template there.. and calling it there own...

Thanks to Teck i have a good understanding how PHP works now. So Teck, if anything you did reach one person and asisted in teaching them something they didnt know before viewing VBHome Light..

Again.. thanks to teck, leech, smoothie and everyone else that was mature and respected tecks wish's... to everyone else..

Hope ya like mass queries....

[TECK]

ok, password removed. enjoy ripping code and removing the copyright.

[hypedave]

whoa whats happened in the last few days, im confused now. Teck are you throwing in the towel again??? :ermm:

[TECK]

yep. this time for good. i will leave the script up, but no more dev on it.. except for my own site.
i almost finished 3.6 with nuke style icons and only 9 queries. you will see it on my site soon. it will run on 13queries while all options enabled.

[hypedave]

this sucks, sorry to hear this. what were the problems??

[TECK]

read the thread.

[Smoothie]

Teck-

I think it sucks. I've been with this thread since it has been re-opened. Almost 1500 posts I've read, re-read, and read some more. A lot of us who have installed this hack have many hours invested. I agreed to your terms. I spent a lot of time working on adding this to my forums. I've uploaded, re-loaded, and edited files till I'm blue in the face.

I've followed every single rule you set. I've respected your wishes, I've helped others when I could. Why should I, as well as others be a victim of this? I understand you're pissed, but crap......

Now, you hang the good ones out to dry........

[Goldknight]

Damn, if anything else I have highly respect for Teck and his excellent hack also his wonderful support.

One thing about people, respect usually lost on them.. it is sad to see these people who not respect people and their hard work just like Teck did. I hope whoever rate "1" and complains about removing copyright think twice before say something stupid.

Teck, I m sorry to see you go and give up on us. Do whatever you think it s right thing, go for it and keep your chin up no matter what. Take care

[bouncer18]

atleast my voting 5 helped raise the stars once again
:)

[nokia8860]

I was looking to update my site and stumbled upon TECK's work at v3 and posted why woolfs poll wont work then TECK came in with v .1 .2 .3 .4 and now .5

All I have to say is I dont understand why some ppl would want to use his work but not give credit. Its these bad ppl that have spoiled it for the rest of us.

TECK I'll say it again thank you for all your hard efforts. I will run vbhl 3.5 in its full copyright glory!

[TECK]

Originally posted by Smoothie
Teck-

I think it sucks. I've been with this thread since it has been re-opened. Almost 1500 posts I've read, re-read, and read some more. A lot of us who have installed this hack have many hours invested. I agreed to your terms. I spent a lot of time working on adding this to my forums. I've uploaded, re-loaded, and edited files till I'm blue in the face.

I've followed every single rule you set. I've respected your wishes, I've helped others when I could. Why should I, as well as others be a victim of this? I understand you're pissed, but crap......

Now, you hang the good ones out to dry........ smoothie, you did this because you liked the script and saw that is way better then other portals. and you kept the copyright on it because it's part of the download agreement.
vbHome (lite) 3.5 is already a script that beats any portal out there that is used in combination with vBulletin.

as you all know, there will always be pirates who will try to cheat. that's the only reason i stopped developing the free version of the script. why spend time on it if people dont listen?
i have other things to do, like taking care of new customers who will pay me to customize their sites, or taking out my wife to shop, instead of hunting bad people...

do you really thing all coders release their work here? NO.
i bet you PPN, FireFly, Xenon or others have tons of hacks (myself, i do) unreleased.
people are forgetting this very simple fact:
is up to me what i do with my code, that i made. me, to look every day for people out to see if they respect my wish? for what? for nothing? i dont have time for this anymore. i'm not goind to make a spy "call home" on it because i'm a man of honor. if i promise something i keep my promise. so i was hoping to see that people will understand that and respect me. they didnt.

you sound upset, but you should be happy that you have this script installed on your server, and not other one with 50queries on it.
i already did alot by working on the curent version to make it run as good as it is now.

[Smoothie]

I am more than upset. Try as you may, there will always be @ss-holes that do not respect your hacks, or wishes. Those that do shouldn't be penalized. I know it pisses you off, just like it pisses me off when people rip my designs and use them on their forums. But, life does go on.

Here's an idea. Those that have complied with your wishes, let us have the upgrades to this script. The others, and you know who they are, let them hang without any more updates.

[Smoothie]

BTW, you're damn right I installed this because its the best..............

[TECK]

we will talk about it more. when my forums will be up. i will have a members area where decent people will be able to get new versions.
is up to me who i will allow in there.

heh, someone else voted another 1. :)
this is really funny... is so easy to see how many "1" votes are there.

[Goldknight]

Great idea, Smoothie

Also Teck, yeah it will be nice if you open only to decent people. Hope you ll have best luck and give some decent people a chance. I m not butter up to you but you re best hacker :)

[Erwin]

TECK - no matter how many people try to "copy" your script, they won't be able to optimize PHP as well as you do. :)

[Marshalus]

Well I still think it's pretty sucky that Teck is throwing in the towel because a few people made him upset. vbHome is one of the best scripts I've ever used, and I wish I'd stumbled on to it sooner.

But, I guess it's his choice. Hopefully I'll be one of the lucky ones to get access to his member forums so I can keep getting updates. I'd pay for full featured script but I'm broke as heck right now.

Anyway, sorry to see a few people wreck this for everyone.

[Smoothie]

heh, someone else voted another 1.
this is really funny... is so easy to see how many "1" votes are there.There are too many immature punks here at vb.org. What about the days of old when people said what they meant, and meant what they said?

[LeeCHeSSS]

I fully respect TECK's decision. I'll keep using vbHome with copyright. If I had been in his shoes, I wouldn't even had left the file for download...

Bouncer, I can help you with your layout. PM me your AIM/ICQ/MSN/Y! contact info if you have any of those instant messengers.

[LeeCHeSSS]

Originally posted by Erwin
TECK - no matter how many people try to "copy" your script, they won't be able to optimize PHP as well as you do. :) Actually, he optimizes mySQL queries AND PHP :)

[Erwin]

Originally posted by LeeCHeSSS
Actually, he optimizes mySQL queries AND PHP :)

What programming language do you think MySQL queries are written in? :)

[LeeCHeSSS]

Originally posted by Erwin


What programming language do you think MySQL queries are written in? :) Everyone knows they are written in latin...! *DOH* :p

[LeeCHeSSS]

And you don't even have time to read the first post?

[Seby]

Originally posted by TECK
yes. the copyright must be there, intact.
look at the copyright rule:
6. You are allowed to add, remove or modify any part of the included code.

you are allowed to modify, edit or remove the script. but you are still using my script. so the copyright must stay the way it is. you can only remove the version.

edit: you removed the most important part, the vBulletin copyright.
why do i have to repeat myself a million times to all of you? don't you know that vbHome (lite) is based on vBulletin functions???
i think the best way is to close again this thread, right? and discontinue the development, what do you think guys?

i'm tired of people who always complain about the same problem over and over again...
can you read this???
DO NOT INSTALL MY SCRIPT IF YOU DONT LIKE THE COPYRIGHT NOTES THE WAY THEY ARE!!!
is it clear enough???

Teck, I didn't want to upset you, I was just asking if it was alright, and you said no so I added the full thing, it isn't a problem really ;) You should keep updating the script, it rocks and you are a great guy, so come on :confused:

[LeeCHeSSS]

Originally posted by Birdie501
i have no problem with keeping the copyright notes, so teck can you give me the script?

Thanks! Rather ignorant aren't we? How about you look at the first post?

[Birdie501]

Oh i am really sorry that i didn't see the link. But I asked friendly so you don't have to be agressive!

So it would be nice if you could be more useful for this community (maybe release a hack) than attack other members!

Regards

[LeeCHeSSS]

I'm not agressive.

I am useful enough to the community as it is now: read the thread (hell, just read the first post) and you'll notice that I have contributed. And I have done that in various threads. I just don't see the need to release pointless hacks in order to receive recognition from all of vB.org's other patrons. I much rather prefer helping solid hacks/scripts improve.

Now, the whole point I was trying to bring across: It is usual on vb.org to post important information about the hack AND the hack itself in the thread's first post. So it would only seem logical to READ the first post (not glance over it when it has more text than the average page in a comic book).

[Birdie501]

So can you read my post carefully too?
I told that i am sorry that i overlooked the link?
If you think i only released pointless hacks, then i wonder why people use it?
But forget it.

[Smoothie]

Does anyone have a fix for a news thread that gets moved to another forum, as the results of this are a blank news article on the vbHL index page.......Teck?????

[LeeCHeSSS]

Originally posted by Birdie501
So can you read my post carefully too?
I told that i am sorry that i overlooked the link?
If you think i only released pointless hacks, then i wonder why people use it?
But forget it. I fully understood your post, I noticed you apologised. And nowhere in my previous post did I say or otherwise imply that YOU release pointless hacks. And yes, I will forget it...

Smoothie: have you tried running the vblindex.php? I haven't looked into it, but as an uneducated guess, it might very well fix your problem.

[Smoothie]

Smoothie: have you tried running the vblindex.php? I haven't looked into it, but as an uneducated guess, it might very well fix your problem.We should have to run that everytime a post gets moved??

[TECK]

smoothie, check your pm's

[Smoothie]

Teck- yes, thanks......

Things would be just dandy here if people just followed Tecks wishes and kept the damn copyright notice on their page.

[Smoothie]

The multipleforums hack no longer works with the update to vbHL....... :(

[LeeCHeSSS]

Smoothie, did you get that problem fixed?

[lemarsu]

Hello

Is it possibel to show more then one poll on the vbHome ?

thanks lemarsu

[tractor-beam]

Has anyone tried to install this hack while still running vbPortal/phpPortal? I don't want to hose up my current front end portla while trying vbHome (Lite)

Thanks!

[Smoothie]

Originally posted by LeeCHeSSS
Smoothie, did you get that problem fixed? The problem of moving threads and having it show a blank article, yes. But, the latest update in the first post breaks the multiple forums hack.

[TECK]

smoothie, check your pm's

[Smoothie]

Multipleforums hack has been updated to work with the latest version of vbHL.

Teck knows his stuff. I have no idea why people wanna piss this guy off.

Teck-
Thanks for your help!

[Smoothie]

Also, Teck has updated the vbHL index.php. Any threads moved from your news forum will not show as blank articles on the main index.

[Goldknight]

Many thanks to TECK for updated multiforum, I m going to install and see what it happen. Many thanks and remme some of us are rooting for you and on your side all the way.

Great hacker as always

[bouncer18]

Man some people just cant read....

tractor-beam: this replaces it.. put it on a test board..
lemarsu : 1 poll only.. if ya want more edit php and sql and play w/ it till you get it working.. No one is gonna help ya do this as far as i know..

[NTLDR]

Originally posted by bouncer18
lemarsu : 1 poll only.. if ya want more edit php and sql and play w/ it till you get it working.. No one is gonna help ya do this as far as i know..

Pretty simple to do, not sure what code TECK uses for the poll but I wouldn't recomend more that one poll to be displayed as I think its probably the largest query (at least time wise) that has to be run, some servers can't handle it from what I've seen. Having said that I don't know what SQL TECK has used ;)

[hypedave]

Originally posted by tractor-beam
Has anyone tried to install this hack while still running vbPortal/phpPortal? I don't want to hose up my current front end portla while trying vbHome (Lite)

Thanks!

just place vbhomelite in another folder, while trying it out,

[TimeX]

OK call me dumb, but I'm still running 3.4 and want to update to 3.5, where do I get the update? When I download the first post attachment it says 3.4 and checking the file says 3.4, even though the link says 3.5. Any help would be very much appreciated.

[nokia8860]

try clearing your temp files the redownload. i just checked and its 3.5

[TimeX]

That worked, thank you. If it only would recognize it was a diff file to start with... :ermm:

[Smoothie]

It's amazing we've come this far in this thread, and how sad of an ending.

[Wij]

Aye,shame,its so good too :/ I finally found somewhere to put the powered by:vbhome text! ( http://www.gamerscomm.net )
Unfortunately there wasnt room to add it on the footer image near the other text,but it is even more clearly visible where it is now tbh(just above footer).

I still need help with something,I still cant seem to move "website poll" and "sites of interest" to the right of the news posts :/

I feel it would look a shed load better like that tbh,but I cant do it aaarrgghh.
But I feel It would need alot more modifying then too as the forum width and current table sizes would make everything a bit squashed up mebbe.


Wij

[TECK]

Wij, you are another example of people not respecting my wish and altering the copyright notice the way they like it.
the copyright must be toghether and the links must be left the way they are. not one piece here and another in another place.
why dont you simply add at the bottom the same way you did with vBulletin part the vbHome part? with the link to my site included?? the way you agreed when you downloaded the script??

you feel good you got a free script that is working better then any other portal out there?

http://www.gamerscomm.net/

[fury]

Just installed this hack on XiBase (http://www.xibase.com/).

Very nice! ;)

Does it intentionally strip out all the newlines from posts when HTML is enabled? If that's not the case, well, it does. ;)

[Wij]

Oh I figured that was perfectly adequate :]

I should have the psd for the bottom right vbulletin copyright soon,I'll add your text/link as soon as I get it,I only have the gif atm and I did make some attempts but nope I need the psd ;]

I've fixed the link to your site for now,but it'll be with the vb copyright sometime tomorrow I would think.

regards

Wij

[TECK]

thank you Wij. i saw you added the link back.

[Asso]

Teck it's possible in the next relase a tool to divide news under different topics (in other words like *nuke)

Thx :)

[Smoothie]

you need to read thru this thread, especially the last 10 pages. There won't be any new releases, at least that's what I understand.

[TECK]

Originally posted by Asso
Teck it's possible in the next relase a tool to divide news under different topics (in other words like *nuke)

Thx :) how big do you want the letters on the first post, to make you read the copyright area? it's currently set at size 5, i can go up to size 7.

[AviationForum]

How will this compare to the new vBCMS that is anticipated to be released with vB3?

[Smoothie]

its free :)

[LeeCHeSSS]

Heh, that's about the only comparison we can make, smoothie :)

I really wonder how people even manage to ask questions like that (no offense intended); it's been said OVER and OVER that there are no final decisions made on the vB CMS. So HOW are we supposed to compare vbHome to it? :)

[AviationForum]

God. What an idiot I am. :rolleyes:

[wooolF[RM]]

]Damn TECK... long time I have been here... I still remember my beta tests of first releases of vbHome! was about 130 queries or so... Hehe ;) I know u still remember it :)

Just wanted to say that this hack is still number one for me at whole vBulletin.org! Thanx for everything you gave to this forum and its users... and our friendship.

I will not talk about all these releases of vbHome with better code with less queries every time and support that u gave to users. Just enough to look at post number one in this thread to understand how much work u put in this hack...

Man, you simply rock! :D

Peoples like you ... ah... U're just the best! :)

Best Greets wooolF[RM]

[AviationForum]

Well said, Woolf.

[Anitah]

I don't know if this came up before because I can't read all 107 posts.

Setup went well, easy as pie, but this error comes up when I try to access the page:

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads, SUM(IF(forumid<>, 1, 0)) AS threads, SUM(IF(forumid=, 1, 0)) AS headlines
FROM thread
WHERE lastpost>1035159939

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ' 1, 0)) AS threads, SUM(IF(forumid=, 1, 0)) AS headlines
FROM thread
WHERE l' at line 2

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Sunday 20th of October 2002 11:10:59 PM
Script: http://www.mysite.com/forum/forum/index.php
Referer:

[Anitah]

Nevermind. It works now :)

Thansk for a great hack! I love it! And I know my members will too.

Cheers.

[TECK]

Anitah, if you installed my script... can you tell me why you didn't click the Install button?
Just curious.

[Anitah]

Oh, I didn't realize.

[Anitah]

TECK, I'm glad you're around. Hopefully you can help me out.

I first installed this on a test board. Had a little problem, as you can see by my previous post. Resolved the problem simply by rewriting the path and uploading the index.php once again. But now installing on my regular board brings another error:

There seems to have been a slight problem with the THE PLACE database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

This doesn't tell me much.



I suspect the problem might be with my path.

Here's what I did in the index.php file:

chdir('/home/mysite/public_html/forum');

Uploaded index.php to my public_html directory.

Presumably www.mysite.com/index.php should bring it up, right?

I have no idea because I'm very dumb about these things.

[TheSaint-AeD]

Dear Readers,

first of all I want to thank Teck a lot for this awesome Hack. The potential of it nearly seems unlimited, and I got lots of ideas how to design and tweak it, but I got some serious problems with the install, as I'm morely some Web Designer than a Hacker, and my Knowlegde of DB and Server Structure isn't that good. I ask you for your help and apologize for any Inconveniance I make to you:

Some general Things:

vB Home Lite url is http://gslallianz.de
my Forums are at the sub-Domain http://foren.gslallianz.de (if you want, take a look at them, they're about 1 Months old )

Here is what I did during Installation Process:

Step 1: I made a copy of http://foren.gslallianz.de/admin/template.php and added
$only['home'] = 'http://gslallianz.de';

(URL of vBHL, not the Forums)

Step 2: Made a copy of http://foren.gslallianz.de/member.php and replaced the passages as told by you.

Step 3: Made a copy of http://foren.gslallianz.de/newthread.php and replaced the passages as told by you.

Step 4: Opened vBHL index.php and edited the passage. As I did not know what to fill in there, I copied info.php on the domain and the subdomain, and it told me the following:

gslallianz.de: /www/htdocs/thesaint/info.php
foren.gslallianz.de: /www/htdocs/cea/info.php

I tried out filling in
chdir('http://foren.gslallianz.de/www/htdocs/cea');
and
chdir('http://gslallianz.de/www/htdocs/thesaint');

Step 5: Edited the Template via the ACP as told.

Step 6: Changed Imagesfolder to http://foren.gslallianz.de/images and deleted $bburl/ in front of https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images (no spaces) in the templates bbcode and standarterror

Step 7: Edited all Smilies

Step 8: Edited the Avatars

Step 9: Renamed Moderators to Journalists

Step 10: Created the new Forum

Step 11: copied index.php to http://gslallianz.de
copied printarticle.php and newthread.php to http://gslallianz.de/forum
copied template.php to http://gslallianz.de/forum/admin
copied the images to http://gslallianz.de/forum/images


Then I wanted to coll up http://gslallianz.de/forum/admin/vbhlinstall.php but all I get is blank pages everywhere. I have no Idea how to solve this Problem, so I told you as detailed as I can, what I did, and hope you can help me.

I apologize for my english, but as I'm from Germany I got some difficulties to describe these Problems.

Sincerely, TheSaint-AeD

[nokia8860]

TheSaint-AeD

Remove the http:// from your chdir setting. It should look like this instead

chdir('/www/htdocs/thesaint/forums');


Let me know if that helps.

[Smoothie]

Step 4 of the readme first explains how to set the correcr path.

[Smoothie]

TECK, I'm glad you're around. Hopefully you can help me out.

I first installed this on a test board. Had a little problem, as you can see by my previous post. Resolved the problem simply by rewriting the path and uploading the index.php once again. But now installing on my regular board brings another error:

There seems to have been a slight problem with the THE PLACE database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

This doesn't tell me much.
Is this a fresh install? Did you follow all the steps in the readme first file?

[HoMiE]

Tried to in stall and get a cgi error

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

can someone help?

[TheSaint-AeD]

Originally posted by nokia8860
TheSaint-AeD

Remove the http:// from your chdir setting. It should look like this instead

chdir('/www/htdocs/thesaint/forums');


Let me know if that helps.

Changed that, but I still get blank Pages on vbhlinstall.php and index.php :(

[Smoothie]

STEP 4:

Open vbHome (lite) index.php file and change the default server path:
chdir('/wwwroot');

to your website full server path, for example:
chdir('/home/website/forum');

If you are not sure how to do this, create a file with the content:
<?php phpinfo(32); ?>

Save it as info.php and upload it onto your /forum folder.
When you open info.php in your browser, you will see there a list of environment options set as default by your host.
One of them is called:
_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]

That's what you are looking for. The path to your folder.
All you have to do now is copy that path onto your vbHome (lite) index.php file.

[mindbuster]

k, i have read the first 20 pages and the last 20 pages, and didnt see anything like this...

Warning: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1829 is not allowed to access / owned by uid 0 in /home/hitman2forumcom/index.php on line 12

Warning: Unable to access ./global.php in /home/hitman2forumcom/index.php on line 16

So what's up with that?

Is it something my host (shared) has disabled?

I did the complete setup until the final step where i should upload the files, i then tried executing the index.php and got the above error!!! *gaasp*

[mindbuster]

Hmm, somehow i got the chdir messed up, corrected it but now i get...

Warning: Unable to access ./global.php in /home/hitman2forumcom/vbhlinstall.php on line 3

....when trying to run the installer....

[wmabon]

TECK,

I installed vbHome (lite) to evaluate, and I've hit a bit of a bump in the road....

I would greatly appreciate your help in getting this up and running.

I read your instructions and I did not have any problems with steps 1-4 (to the best of my knowledge).

For Step 5 I did not find the modifyavatar template and I skipped this step. Perhaps vBulletin, which I paid to do the installation, did not include this file??

Step 6 also did not seem consistent with what I was finding, and I skipped this as well.

Step 7 I modified a few of the smile paths, and this seemed easy enough.

Step 8 I made an avatar image and changed the path to a full path, and this worked ok.

In Step 9 I generated a Journalists user group, but did not understand your comment about usergroup IDs.

I performed step 10

In step 11...

I uploaded the index to: /big/dom/xobesitypolicy/www

which I take to be my root dir.

I uploaded printarticle.php, but newthread.php was not in the installation I downloaded from you, so I skipped that.

template.php was already in my ADMIN dir, and not available for uploading...

I had no problem uploading the images...

For the final step, running the installer, I uploaded vbhlinstall to my root directory and just got a white screen in the browser...

Then when I went to the domain, obesitypolicy.com, I got:


Database error in vBulletin 2.2.8:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads, SUM(IF(forumid<>, 1, 0)) AS threads, SUM(IF(forumid=, 1, 0)) AS headlines
FROM thread
WHERE lastpost>1035299570

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ' 1, 0)) AS threads, SUM(IF(forumid=, 1, 0)) AS headlines
FROM thread
WHERE l' at line 2

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Tuesday 22nd of October 2002 04:57:02 PM
Script: http://obesitypolicy.com/vbulletin/
Referer:


TECK,

Any thoughts would be much appreciated? Can my company pay you to install this properly? My computer skills are pretty marginal. I'm doing this because we're a small organization....

[TECK]

Originally posted by mindbuster
Hmm, somehow i got the chdir messed up, corrected it but now i get...

Warning: Unable to access ./global.php in /home/hitman2forumcom/vbhlinstall.php on line 3

....when trying to run the installer.... run the installed in your /admin folder, the same way like you run your vbulletin installer.

[TECK]

wmabon, i dont need money for this. i will help you. check your pm's

[mindbuster]

Originally posted by TECK
run the installed in your /admin folder, the same way like you run your vbulletin installer.

Thanks, the install went fine with no errors but no extra options in admin cp and i still get an error when trying to run index.php....

Warning: Unable to access ./global.php in /home/hitman2forumcom/index.php on line 16

What could be wrong?

[Carthriller]

What about the Asianxo.com homepage, was this hack used?

[TECK]

phpportals. be aware, the portal have alot of queries.

[Carthriller]

HOw did he put the member stats on the front page, like how many members and users are on?

[K_2]

I get this error when I try to login..

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.8:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads, SUM(IF(forumid<>, 1, 0)) AS threads, SUM(IF(forumid=, 1, 0)) AS headlines
FROM thread
WHERE lastpost>1035340327

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ' 1, 0)) AS threads, SUM(IF(forumid=, 1, 0)) AS headlines
FROM thread
WHERE l' at line 2

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Tuesday 22nd of October 2002 10:47:46 PM
Script: http://www.myforumhere.com/forum/index.php

[ethics]

Forum ID set correctly?

[mikeB]

will this work in 2.2.1?

[Anitah]

Originally posted by Smoothie
Is this a fresh install? Did you follow all the steps in the readme first file?

Yes, it's a fresh install and I followed the steps exactly. Checked and rechecked them and filled in the path in index.php precisely as info.php directed, i.e. chdir('/home/mysite/public_html/forum');

[TheSaint-AeD]

Originally posted by Smoothie
STEP 4:

Open vbHome (lite) index.php file and change the default server path:
chdir('/wwwroot');

to your website full server path, for example:
chdir('/home/website/forum');

If you are not sure how to do this, create a file with the content:
<?php phpinfo(32); ?>

Save it as info.php and upload it onto your /forum folder.
When you open info.php in your browser, you will see there a list of environment options set as default by your host.
One of them is called:
_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]

That's what you are looking for. The path to your folder.
All you have to do now is copy that path onto your vbHome (lite) index.php file.

Thats exactly what I did, but I still get blank Pages. I guess it must have something to do with my domains, as I run my forum on a seperate sub-domain, which contains a seperate DB, and not in a folder on my main domain. Any Hints how to fix this?

[X-Fan]

Also, is it possible to have more than one forum set as the articles forum? With vBPortal, I have separate news, features, and reviews forum, all with months worth of content. I'd like to keep those three forums separate, yet still have the latest articles in all three showing on vbHome.

Plus some of my staff (journalists) are also moderators (and are in my site's moderators usergroup). Is it possible to allow mods the same functionality as admins/journalists with respect to articles?

Any help is appreciated!

[Smoothie]

Originally posted by X-Fan
Ditto. I did a fresh install, followed all the steps exactly, yet despite what the installer said none of the templates were actually added, nor am I getting any extra options in my vBulletin admin.

I just ditched vbPortal in favor of vBHome, but vBHome doesn't appear to be installing correctly. I've just spent the better part of 2 hours editing the paths for my hundreds of smilies and avatars, only to find that I'm now stuck because vBHome won't install. :tired: Did you upload the vbhlinstall.php script installer to your forums/admin folder and run from your browser? Check your templates->modify The home templates should be located under the default templates for each style

[Smoothie]

Also, is it possible to have more than one forum set as the articles forum? With vBPortal, I have separate news, features, and reviews forum, all with months worth of content. I'd like to keep those three forums separate, yet still have the latest articles in all three showing on vbHome.Yes, download the multipleforums hack located in the first post in this thread.

[Smoothie]

X-Fan- just checked your site, looks like you got it running ok...You need to run the vbhlindex.php to get your articles showing

[X-Fan]

Yeah, got it all sussed out :)

Thanks for the tip about the multiforums add-on. I'll grab that straight away!

Is there something similar to allow for multiple usergroups to have the same functionality as journalists, as some of my site's mods are journo's too.

[X-Fan]

Okay, another question. Is there a way to add a rotating banner ad script (with tracking of impressions and click-thrus + CT%) to the top of every page on site, like vbPortal does?

[X-Fan]

And still more questions!

I'm a complete HTML dunce. For the life of me, I can't work out how to get a column on the right.

Ideally, what I'd like is:

* rotatable banner ad up the top
* left hand column containing (each in a separate "block") Welcome box, login/logout, private messages (with PM gauge), statistics (total members, total active/inactive, total threads/posts, threads/posts today, visits today), who's online, latest posts, counter
* right hand column with (each in a separate "block") sponsor ad, PayPal donations link, search box, more recent news (apart from those already displayed on the page), poll, affiliates
* at the top of the center column, a "Welcome to" box

Can anyone please help with getting that set-up. I've had a nightmarish week with a site relocation and upgrade that caused a lot of problems. Removing vbPortal seems to have eased the strain a little, but I'm needing the above to get my site's functionality back. I'll be bald by the weekend at the rate I've been pulling my hair out, so I'd really appreciate any help!!!!!

[X-Fan]

Regarding the multiforums news hack for vBHome, is there a way that the preview of the article displayed on the front page can retain the same formatting (line breaks etc) as the original article? Currently it all just runs together without any paragraph spacing that may exist in the original article.

[TECK]

Originally posted by X-Fan
Regarding the multiforums news hack for vBHome, is there a way that the preview of the article displayed on the front page can retain the same formatting (line breaks etc) as the original article? Currently it all just runs together without any paragraph spacing that may exist in the original article. disable html option. this was done for some older versions of vb that add double <br />'s.

[X-Fan]

If I disable HTML, won't that mean the images I have in the articles will show up as the HTML code instead?

[TECK]

no

[X-Fan]

Okay, cool. Thanks for such a great hack, TECK, and for an alternative for those of us not happy with the load vbPortal puts on a server!

Now if I could only get help with setting up a column on the right!

[slideboxer]

I've installed this one on my board to play around with. I've hacked up my own front end page but I like the options with this one. I am having an issue though... the text from my articles will not show up. You can see it here at http://www.abudokan.com/index-2.php


EDIT: got it to work. thanks.

[Asso]

I agree with X fan, it'll be nice a column on the right like a portal :)

[Goldknight]

X-fan, Asso, and some hackers seem that no one help you with right column at here. I finally got it work by look at myvbindex 1.0 hack by PlurPlanet to get right column look. So suggest you guys to do that same thing.

[NTLDR]

Adding a right column is easy, you add one line of PHP, edit one line of PHP, add one template and edit one template.

[Goldknight]

Yeah it may be easy for some but it is not for newbie with PHP, that s where plurplanet's hack come in to give them the picture how he do that.

Also many kept ask for right column has been ignore, it is enough so I decide to point the right way for them to look at it and learn from it.

[NTLDR]

You don't need to look any further than this hack actually, you just do the same as what TECK has done for the left and change left to right. Then just edit the main template.

[Anitah]

Originally posted by Anitah

I first installed this on a test board. Had a little problem, as you can see by my previous post. Resolved the problem simply by rewriting the path and uploading the index.php once again. But now installing on my regular board brings another error:

There seems to have been a slight problem with the THE PLACE database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

This doesn't tell me much.



I suspect the problem might be with my path.

Here's what I did in the index.php file:

chdir('/home/mysite/public_html/forum');

Uploaded index.php to my public_html directory.

Presumably www.mysite.com/index.php should bring it up, right?



hmm is there a solution?

I'm wondering if the fact that my board is on a subdomain has any bearing on this problem?

[Tigga]

Originally posted by NTLDR
Adding a right column is easy, you add one line of PHP, edit one line of PHP, add one template and edit one template.
Why would you do all that? It can be done simply by using tables and adding a new cell on the right in the home template. Though this isn't my hack, if anyone would like some help with the HTML I'll be glad to help out. Just PM me with the info and what you would like done. :)

[X-Fan]

Originally posted by NTLDR
You don't need to look any further than this hack actually, you just do the same as what TECK has done for the left and change left to right. Then just edit the main template.

Yeah, that's what I did. Muddled my way through it but I've got the start of what will be my site's new home page, thanks to TECK!

http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/

[Smoothie]

Originally posted by X-Fan


Yeah, that's what I did. Muddled my way through it but I've got the start of what will be my site's new home page, thanks to TECK!

http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/ 31 queries, ouch!

[Smoothie]

Just my opinion, but it looks better with the larger main column, and then the smaller one on the left. Especially on pages with a fixed width, the news is too cramped

[X-Fan]

Yeah, a lot of queries I know. I might actually ditch the stats section altogether...

[WoodiE]

I've installed it, now only get a white blank page!?!?!?

-WoodiE

[Erwin]

X-fan, ditch the stats section - would save you a few queries, and it's just a novelty.

[Smoothie]

Originally posted by WoodiE
I've installed it, now only get a white blank page!?!?!?


-WoodiE Check to see if the "Home" templates were installed.

[WoodiE]

Under "Home Page Templates " there are Home templates, but while I was there I also noticed there are TWO of each template listed under "Home Page Templates"!?!?

-WoodiE

[WoodiE]

I know someone would be interested in installing and making this work for me :-D

-WoodiE

[X-Fan]

Okay, I'm stumped. How can I move the "Welcome" box from the left column to the top of the middle column?

I'd also like to insert a "Latest Articles" header before the block of latest articles.

I've tried mucking around with the table configuration, but I must confess I'm hopeless when it comes to tables! LOL!

[Erwin]

X-fan, just copy and paste your template into a WYSIWYG HTML editor like Frontpage or Dreamweaver, and use that if you are unfamiliar with HTML. Once you have made the layout you want, copy and paste it back to the template. :)

[Smoothie]

Originally posted by WoodiE
Under "Home Page Templates " there are Home templates, but while I was there I also noticed there are TWO of each template listed under "Home Page Templates"!?!?

-WoodiE Thats not normal. :confused: Anyway, you read thru the readme text, added your path, and uploaded the index.php to your root directory? How many times did you run the installer?

[LeeCHeSSS]

Running the installer multiple times shouldn't cause this, since TECK has made a check to see if vbHome is already installed...

[WoodiE]

Originally posted by Smoothie
Thats not normal. :confused: Anyway, you read thru the readme text, added your path, and uploaded the index.php to your root directory? How many times did you run the installer?

Yes I have done all that! Still nothing.


-WoodiE

[WoodiE]

I swear this thing is annoying as hell. I just uninstalled the script, and received a database error so i ran the uninstall again and it said it finished.

After that I ran the install and all looked good, it created the templates, then after that i clicked on continue from there i get yet ANOTHER database error:

"Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO settinggroup VALUES (99,'vbHome Page','99')
mysql error: Duplicate entry '99' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Thursday 24th of October 2002 08:13:26 AM
Script: http://www.rcnitrotalk.com/forum/forum/admin/vbhlinstall.php?step=4
Referer: http://www.rcnitrotalk.com/forum/admin/vbhlinstall.php?step=3

Anyone know what the heck is up?


-WoodiE

[TECK]

is because you ran several times the uninstall-install process, before you completed all hacking steps. that's why the errors occur, it's not the first time people have problems like that.
to solve your prob, do these steps:

1. run the uninstall. when you get the database error, press F5 (refresh).

2. in your browser url bar, replace the vbhlinstall.php part with setting.php and hit enter.

3. on the new loaded page, scroll down and at the bottom you will see the vbHome page settings:
vbHome Page [edit] [remove] [add setting]
click on remove and confirm the removal.

4. make sure you completed all hacking steps.

5. run the installer again. you are done.

[DanIAm]

Does anyone have a modified index page they would allow me to use? I installed this hack, but I want to change it to something other then the plain jane version is looks like now. I know very little about HTML and template modification. Please PM me if you can help. Thanks in advance.
Dan

[Anitah]

Teck,

Uninstall says:

YOU MUST REVERT TO ORIGINAL YOUR vbHome (lite) TEMPLATES BEFORE YOU PROCEED!!!

What exactly does "revert to original" entail?

I need to know the steps.

[TECK]

<i>bbcode [edit] [revert to original] [view original]</i>

[Anitah]

Thanks, helps to know that. Do I have to do this to each of the templates in "Home Page Templates?"

Also, without changing a thing, I just tried to run this in my browser once again, just for the heck of it, and came up with a whole new error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_bbarraycookie() in /home/mysite/public_html/index.php on line 163

What's that about?

[TECK]

ya you have to do it for each vbHome template you changed.

you played with the file. that's why. :)

[Anitah]

How did I play with the file? I didn't touch anything.

[Anitah]

Oh sorry, I did. I was trying different paths yesterday, because I think my problem is that I'm either not writing the correct path or I don't have the index.php in the correct directory. My forum is on a subdomain, so the correct placement of the file is confusing me somewhat.

[Anitah]

btw, one of my errors yesterday was:

ERROR 1064 at line 799689: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'replace varchar(255) NOT NULL default ' ',
PRIMARY KEY (id)
} TYPE=MyISAM' at line 4

[TECK]

huh? this is not the vbHome file.

[BeatDown]

Is it possible, and if so can someone enlighten me, to ensure the users do not see polls from forums they do not have access to view?

Currently, if I post a poll in a Private Forum, any user that visits my site's home page will see that poll in vbHome (Lite). They are not allowed to participate in the poll (vB takes care of that), but I'd like for them to not even see the poll.

Is this possible without too much trouble?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[WoodiE]

TECK,

I did exactly as you stated, now instead of a plain white page i get an error:

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_bbarraycookie() in /home/httpd/vhosts/rcnitrotalk.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 163"

What does that mean?

-WoodiE

[TECK]

for get_bbarraycookie(), you probably have a poll that you voted on. the cookie is on your pc still, but since you reset vbHome, the poll is not there anymore. that's why, nothing to worry about. just edit the poll and you are ok. (or post a new one, or delete all your cookies) :)

for the white page, you probably missed some steps. check my irc chan for help.

[WoodiE]

Well I must have missed something, as I just cleared my cookies and have created a new poll...still a fatel error.

I dont know if this helps or not, but I have for my root dir in my index.php as this:

/home/httpd/vhosts/rcnitrotalk.com/httpdocs/forum

as I have the forum installed in a dir called forum. If i change it to just: /home/httpd/vhosts/rcnitrotalk.com/httpdocs w/o forum listed on the end i get a blank white page again.

-WoodiE

ps. I am getting this error AFTER i have just uninstalled then reinstalled it just like you told me to above.

[TECK]

is that the given path on phpinfo(32) file?

[slideboxer]

Using the multiforum news add-on, how can I show the forum title in the article bits on the home page? Thanks.

[LeeCHeSSS]

TECK, I said it before in this thread (which the new users conveniently do NOT read), the error regarding get_bbarraycookie() occurs when you install vbHome on an older version of vBulletin. Try upgrading and the error will vanish :)

[TECK]

true, i forgot about this aspect. in my mind everyone have 228. :) ty danny.

[Anitah]

I just upgraded to 2.2.6. Is this considered an older version?

[LeeCHeSSS]

yes, if you wait for another week or so, then 2.2.9 will most likely be out.

[X-Fan]

Oh great, I've just spent the better part of a week getting my forums back up to scratch after upgrading to 2.2.8, and now 2.2.9 is coming out in a week or so?

Sigh... there must be an easier way for those of us with heavily hacked boards to upgrade without having to reapply every single hack.

[LeeCHeSSS]

yes there is: Araxis Merge or Beyond Compare...

[X-Fan]

Oy vey... don't you start on those two. As I've said many times before whenever someone suggests those two programs, I've tried both and it's always resulted in more errors than they're worth. So thanks but no thanks.

It would be far, far easier if the makers of vBulletin released a manual list of changes to registered owners of the software.

[WoodiE]

If i upgrade to the newest version will I lose all my mods/hacks?

-WoodiE

[X-Fan]

You'll lose any changes you've made to the files, yes. Templates and database tables should stay intact, but you'll have to reapply file changes for every hack you've got installed.

[WoodiE]

oh man, im gonna cry.

[Asso]

TECK i need the password but i can't find thread-request :(

[WoodiE]

OHH YES, after upgrading to 2.2.8 and reinstalling vbHome it works just fine. Now all i need to do is find out how to edit the header to match the rest of the site.

So far so good. I love you TECH! :D


-WoodiE

[LeeCHeSSS]

Originally posted by X-Fan
Oy vey... don't you start on those two. As I've said many times before whenever someone suggests those two programs, I've tried both and it's always resulted in more errors than they're worth. So thanks but no thanks.

It would be far, far easier if the makers of vBulletin released a manual list of changes to registered owners of the software. I've done 2 major updates (2.0.3 to 2.2.4 and 2.2.4 to 2.2.8) with Beyond Compare, and it worked like a charm...

[WoodiE]

One last question, I have 2 private forums for the mods and admins only. How do I make sure that the posts and threads from there do NOT show up on the recent threads on the home page?

-WoodiE

[hypedave]

Hey Teck congradulations, vbhome is in The Top 10 vBulletin Hacks (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44758&highlight=queries)

[Herman]

Very interesting, I may use this, ThnX!

[refertech]

Originally posted by X-Fan
Oh great, I've just spent the better part of a week getting my forums back up to scratch after upgrading to 2.2.8, and now 2.2.9 is coming out in a week or so?

Sigh... there must be an easier way for those of us with heavily hacked boards to upgrade without having to reapply every single hack.

X-Fan

Teck has a very cool solution to this problem. Thanks Teck.

Click Me (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38545)

[X-Fan]

Quick question regarding the Latest Forum Discussions list on vBHome with the multinews forums add-on installed.

Basically, as my site is primarily a news site, I'm wanting those articles that aren't currently featured on the front page to be listed in the Latest Discussions list if they have recent replies.

How is it possible to enable that?

[X-Fan]

Originally posted by refertech
X-Fan

Teck has a very cool solution to this problem. Thanks Teck.


It still involves using Araxis Merge, which I've had result in nothing but errors before (just like Beyond Compare).

Plus, it's new software that requires purchasing after the evaluation runs out, and there was no stipulation when I signed up for vBulletin that extra software would be required to successfully upgrade my forums. That, and I can't afford any more software purchases.

I still think the makers of vBulletin should provide an easy, no hassle, and free method of upgrading heavily hacked forums. Why provide hacks for a message board if it's a pain in the ass to have to re-apply them all with every upgrade?

[Anitah]

It would have helped to know this hack would only work with 2.2.8. before spending a week trying to get it to work with 2.2.6

I upgraded to 2.2.6 four weeks ago. Now we're up to 2.2.9? Does this mean it's pointless to upgrade to 2.2.8? I can't keep up with all these upgrades.

[Smoothie]

Not true. Running 2.2.7 and vbHL works just dandy.

[WoodiE]

Does anyone know how to make private forums NOT show in the Latest Forum Discussions box?

Also is it possible to have a text link at the top left in the welcome box that says "New posts Since you last visit" then shows them all the new posts after they click on it?

-WoodiE

[X-Fan]

Originally posted by WoodiE
Also is it possible to have a text link at the top left in the welcome box that says "New posts Since you last visit" then shows them all the new posts after they click on it?

Sure, just set it as an HREF link and point it to "{yourforumsdirectory}/search.php?s=&action=getnew"

[WoodiE]

I'm retarded, as soon as I posted that I realized what I had to do. :\ Thanks X-Fan for the response.

-WoodiE

[TECK]

Originally posted by X-Fan
I still think the makers of vBulletin should provide an easy, no hassle, and free method of upgrading heavily hacked forums. Why provide hacks for a message board if it's a pain in the ass to have to re-apply them all with every upgrade?
the hacks are not supported by vBulletin. they provide an easy upgrade if you dont have your forums hacked. :)

[TECK]

Originally posted by WoodiE
Does anyone know how to make private forums NOT show in the Latest Forum Discussions box?

Also is it possible to have a text link at the top left in the welcome box that says "New posts Since you last visit" then shows them all the new posts after they click on it?


-WoodiE nokia explains how in this thread few pages before. simply set all your forum perms properly.

[nokia8860]

To prevent your private area forums from showing on the vbhl homepage make sure you select "use custom setting" on each group in your private forum and category. All groups should be RED by the time you are done.

[WoodiE]

My forum was already set as mentioned above, and the private forums were still displayed...

Until I logged out!

TECK - Thanks for such an awesome script. I LOVE IT. I paid for firefly's home page script and dont like it as much as this one! GREAT job man!

-WoodiE

[Anitah]

Originally posted by Smoothie
Not true. Running 2.2.7 and vbHL works just dandy.

But what about 2.2.6? Can someone tell me if they got it to work in 2.2.6? I sure would love to avoid having to do another upgrade at this time.

Smoothie, you seem to know your stuff, maybe you can help me?

I was trying to uninstall, start with a new slate, or prepare to upgrade to 2.2.8, but I get this error:

Droping the fields and removing script elements Removing from table thread the articleid field... Done.
Removing the thread table the articleid index... Done.

Lower down it says:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: ALTER TABLE thread DROP INDEX articleid
mysql error: Can't DROP 'articleid'. Check that column/key exists

mysql error number: 1091

Date: Saturday 26th of October 2002 04:40:07 AM
Script: http://www.mysite.com/forum/forum/admin/vbhlinstall.php?s=&step=11
Referer: http://www.mysite.com/forum/admin/vbhlinstall.php?s=&step=10

(btw, I've removed all the files and reverted the templates to original).

I really just want to complete the uninstall and start new, but I'm stuck on this error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[NTLDR]

Anitah that error means you are trying to remove something that doesn't exisit ;) Its trying to remove the articleid column from the DB when its not there.

[Anitah]

NTLDR. Thanks, I realize that. It probably never installed properly. But the question remains, what do I do about it? How do I bypass this error to complete the uninstall process? Can I delete the tables manually in phpMyadmin? They're imbedded on the database where I can see them, unless someone can tell me specifically where to look?

[NTLDR]

Find this code in the install script and remove it:

$query[] = "ALTER TABLE thread DROP articleid";
$explain[] = "Removing from table <i>thread</i> the <font color='#FF3300'>articleid</font> field... Done.";

$query[] = "ALTER TABLE thread DROP INDEX articleid";
$explain[] = "Removing the <b>thread</b> table the <font color='#FF3300'>articleid</font> index... Done.";

[Smoothie]

Whats left to un-install?

[Anitah]

Originally posted by NTLDR
Find this code in the install script and remove it:

$query[] = "ALTER TABLE thread DROP articleid";
$explain[] = "Removing from table <i>thread</i> the <font color='#FF3300'>articleid</font> field... Done.";

$query[] = "ALTER TABLE thread DROP INDEX articleid";
$explain[] = "Removing the <b>thread</b> table the <font color='#FF3300'>articleid</font> index... Done.";

Ok, I'm gonna try that. Thanks :)

[Smoothie]

Wouldn't it be easier to just remove manually via phpMyAdmin?

[TECK]

Anitah, do not remove nothing from the uninstall script. simply press refresh, when you get the error, it will bypass it.
after that, go to /admin/setting.php and look there at the bottom to see if the vbHome group is still there. if it is, simply remove it, the way i told earlier in this thread to someone else:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=313503#post313503

NTLDR, do not tell to users to remove nothing from the installer script. thanks.
the script is designed to bypass automatically certain steps if there are probs.

[TECK]

i added a link to the uninstall procedure in the first post.

[Anitah]

Ok.

[Anitah]

TECK, that worked. Thanks.

I just want to know one more thing. Before I go to all the trouble of upgrading to 228, is it possible that this could work with 226? I don't know if the older version was really the problem with the installation. If it was I'll upgrade, but if not I would sure like to be able to avoid that hassle right now.

What do you say Tech?

[BeatDown]

Teck, or one of the other smart people here.... :ermm:

Is it possible to ensure users do not see polls from forums they do not have access to view?

Currently, if I post a poll in a Private Forum, any user that visits my site's home page will see that poll in vbHome (Lite). They are not allowed to participate in the poll (vB takes care of that), but I'd like for them to not even see the poll.

I've made each of my Private Categories/Boards permissions for every user group "Custom", so they all show "red" in vB Admin. This does a great job at preventing the private posts from showing up to non-private members.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[TECK]

Originally posted by Anitah
TECK, that worked. Thanks.

I just want to know one more thing. Before I go to all the trouble of upgrading to 228, is it possible that this could work with 226? I don't know if the older version was really the problem with the installation. If it was I'll upgrade, but if not I would sure like to be able to avoid that hassle right now.

What do you say Tech? you find it as trouble upgrading to 228 and preventing hackers to take over your board? is up to you.

BeatDown, the best way to solve your problem is to follow the tip i gave into the readmefirst file.
did you take the time to read it?

[X-Fan]

With the latest threads section, how can I get the name of the last poster and date/time of the last post displayed, rather than the name of the thread starter and date/time the thread was started?

[WoodiE]

TECK,

I am wanting to cache my images on my site so that they are not reloading each time a member goes to a different forum.

HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45038) is what I was told to do to make my forum cache the images. When I do what was said it works perfectly, BUT I lose all the images on the Home page, know of anyway I can fix this? Cached or not?



-WoodiE

[delleriumm]

Someone please help me. I cannot find the file to edit. Below is a pic on what I'm trying to edit. I'm tryin to edit the left side of my site. I would like to add my own links. I would like to maybe rename website poll to cbw poll. I looked & looked and I cannot find the file to edit. Where is says
Visit Our Sponsor
Your banner here...
I would like to to say something totally different so what file do I edit ?

[Smoothie]

look in your Home templates.

[delleriumm]

Like I said I been looking ever place possible & still cannot find it.
If someone can post where to the T =) that would be great.

[WoodiE]

delleriumm,

Goto Templates -> Home Page Templates ->

home_advertisement - to change the advertisement info.

home_link - to change the affiliates info

That should get you want you wanted. Give it a try.

-WoodiE

[Kewl]

So as I understand this this can replace my php nuke frontpage and would I want to do that

thanks

[X-Fan]

Yes, you want to do it, because vBH uses far less queries that PHPNuke/vBPortal do but still give you most of the same functionality!

I switched from vBP to vBH and haven't looked back! Thanks again TECK! Now if only someone can answer my last few questions in this thread! ;)

[BeatDown]

Originally posted by TECK
BeatDown, the best way to solve your problem is to follow the tip i gave into the readmefirst file. did you take the time to read it?

I'm not at the house, so I cannot "verify" the tip you gave, but if memory serves me, it's to have a dedicated user (ie. The Poller). That is a possibility, but I'd like to be able to provide home page polling abaility using several member's logins.

If it's not possible without some fairly heavy modifications or research, then a dedicated User ID is the answer.

[TECK]

for me the code is satisfactory the way it is now and also i said that i will not develop the script anymore.
you will have to code it yourself to do this, is not hard.
if you make the change, release the hack here and i will link it on the first post. cheers.

[Asso]

Thanks again for your work teck, i'm sure that someone will re-relase vBHome :)

[TECK]

i doubt some will dear this, since the code is copyrighted.
yeah, people will ripp the code, is not the first time.

[WoodiE]

I'd pay for updates. TECK your work is top notch and unlike anyother!

-WoodiE

[TECK]

a full version is on the works. for a modic price of $30-$50USD, depending on what you need. when the forums will be up you will see the full version of vbHome.

[WoodiE]

Originally posted by TECK
when the forums will be up you will see the full version of vbHome.


I assume by forums you are referring to TeckWizards.com?


-WoodiE

[TECK]

yes.

[WoodiE]

I've been visiting the site for sometime to see if its up. Do you have an est. time before its finished?

-WoodiE

[TECK]

i was 99% done. my hd crashed about a week ago, so i lost all. i started from scratch again.

[WoodiE]

Ohh man, sorry to hear about your luck.

One word for ya: BACKUP :D try RAID-1

Anyways, I look forward to seeing the site.


-WoodiE

[TECK]

never had a prob with hd's in 10years.. it was ment this way...

[BeatDown]

Originally posted by TECK
for me the code is satisfactory the way it is now and also i said that i will not develop the script anymore.
you will have to code it yourself to do this, is not hard.
if you make the change, release the hack here and i will link it on the first post. cheers.

Ok. No problem. I know that you said you were not going to develop this script anymore, but I thought there may have been something I was doing wrong. I was just making sure.

Thanks for your help and for making vbHome (Lite).

I do await a "Full Version" version as well. :) Look forward to seeing it and the many (I'm sure) differences between it and the "Lite Version".

You do very good work Teck.

Thank You again.....

[Asso]

i'm interested in your pay-version because virtua news is too expansive.
I'm waiting for pay-relase :)

[WoodiE]

i only hope the full version upgrades nicely from the light. :D


-WoodiE

[TECK]

the diff between vbHome (lite) and full version will be the same way like comparing vbulletin lite 1.1 and the full vbulletin version. there is no upgrade script involved.

[WoodiE]

Originally posted by TECK
the diff between vbHome (lite) and full version will be the same way like comparing vbulletin lite 1.1 and the full vbulletin version. there is no upgrade script involved.


If thats the case, then I'm REALLY pumped about seeing the full version. vB lite 1.1 is nothing compared to the full!

Give me a price and I'm there!


-WoodiE

[Pancreas Paul]

ok, I installed this, but on the main page the news isint showing. http://bw.xtreme-host.net

Thats what I mean..What should I do?

[WoodiE]

Pancreas Paul,

Did you use an existing forum as the news forum?

If so I too had that problem, but as soon as I started posting new threads in the news forum they did indeed showed up.

-WoodiE

[Pancreas Paul]

Crap, its still not working. I createrd a new forum and everything... WHATS WRONG :(

[slideboxer]

Paul, I had the same problem but then I installed the multi-forums news hack and all works well now.

[X-Fan]

Quick question time again! I'm using the alt description hack for articles in my news forums, and wanted to know how I can get that to display under the heading of news articles on my vBHome page?