mYvBindex v3.1

[Intex]

XtremeVigilante - check out this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=373224#post373224) and that should fix it for you.


Today at 12:38 PM XtremeVigilante said this in Post #1000 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=375453#post375453)
hi can anyone help me with this hack i just installed it but i get this error

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\myvbindex.php on line 13

Warning: main(./global.php) [function.main]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\myvbindex.php on line 17


Anyone know how i can fix this?

[XtremeVigilante]

thanks Intex that has fixed the problem :)
and thhanks for the quick reply

[Hostc]

Question, When we upload styles for Vbulletin will the portal change to that style? :)

[Tigga]

Intex - Just creating a new page with the header and footer is fairly easy. I'm not sure I follow you as to why you need to preserve the forum permissions though if it's just going to be a page with the header, footer, and some html... If you just need a page with the header and footer though, the easiest way would be to create a new file with the following content:
<?php
error_reporting(7);

$templatesused = 'yourcustomtemplate';

chdir('/path/to/your/forum');

require('./global.php');

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('yourcustomtemplate')."\");");

?>

You would enter the path to your forum in the chdir part (or if the file is placed in your forums directory then that line isn't necessary and can be removed). Then you would create a new template and enter all the html in there, and just use the variables $header and $footer just like in every other template. And of course you can call the template whatever you want, you just need to be sure to change the 2 places you see yourcustomtemplate in the file to whatever you named the new template. I'm assuming there's something more that you needed to be able to do with these pages since you mentioned the forum permissions, so if you could elaborate a little more as to what you're trying to do with those then I'll be glad to try and help. :)


Yuber - You could try opening your myvbindex file and looking for:
require('./global.php');

Right above that add:
$stlyeid=1;

Then you would just change the 1 there to whatever styleid you want it to be. I'm not sure how well that will work though as when I tried it, it kept that style when I went to other pages even though I had another one selected. :ermm:


Hostc - If the style is only different in the colors and etc, then the new style will work fine. If the new style also has a new template set with it, then you will also have to install the index templates with that template set (I think). I'm not positive about that though as I only use one template set and just have different colors and such with my other styles. I'm pretty sure though that you will have to also add the index templates to the new template set. I'm sure there would be an easier way than to just copy and paste them all into the new set, so if you add some new styles and need some help let me know. :)

[xtremeathlonxp]

I have installed this hack but can't seem to get the links to go to my forums from the index page how can this be accomplished.

[Hostc]

Tigga, Vbulletin 2.30 Final has been released. You may want to check and see if it works with it ;)

[refertech]

[i]03-29-03 at 04:42 PM Tigga
[B]refertech - Well actually I live in Marietta right now, but that's close enough. :)



Thats cool Tigga,
I'm in Newnan south of town, dont meet man people here, that are this close to home.

[o0stephane0o]

I´m using it on a vbulletin 2.3 and it looks like it works fine but there is no way i can get the weather bit working.
Images just won´t display and i have no information at all, 0 degrees, 0 humidity..
It looks like i´m not receiving any information at all.
Any idea what could be the problem?

[refertech]

Have you looked Here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=372833#post372833) and Here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=374135#post374135).

[Tigga]

xtremeathlonxp - I'm not sure what links you're talking about... If you're talking about making one of the buttons a link to the forums, you would need to edit your index_header tempalte and change the link there.

Hostc - I saw that 2.3 Final was released earlier today, but I probably won't upgrade until sometime next week (got a very busy week ahead). I'm running RC3 already though and there weren't many file changes between the versions, so there shouldn't be any problems. If anyone does have a problem with 2.3.0 though let me know and I'll look into them.

refertech - Yea, I think you're the only other person I know on here from GA. :)

o0stephane0o - Did you try applying the fix posted here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=374112#post374112)? Be sure to make those changes to both myvbindex.php and weather.php and it should fix the problem.

[o0stephane0o]

Yes I did but unfortunatly, it won?t work.
I have read all the messages about it and it looks like something ?s wrong.
I?have tried it on two different servers, i also tried the wheather hack separatly but still have the same problem.
Can someone help me?
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
:)

[o0stephane0o]

Ok, it does works but it´s very strange, i have installed the 3.01 and spain doesn´t work.
The cities aren´t even there but if you check the php files, thay are in the script. it looks like the tables aren´t altered or created.
Can someone check (if he has the 3.01 running) if the spanish cities like madrid or barcelona appears and works fine cos i promise you, here in spain, we Do not have in Murcia or Madrid - 18 Degrees lol

[o0stephane0o]

Yes, now I am sure it doesn´t work with Spain, I have checker it with other site that have vbindex installed.
Spain doesnt work, maybee Tigga can do something about it?

[o0stephane0o]

Wow, big problem in deed, here is the mail I have sent to JJR512
Read carefully if you have installed the weather hack.
Hi, I really love your hack and I think it´s great but unfortunatly, I cannot make it work with Spain. I tried with the V3.0 and the v 3.01. I also tried with the VBulletin 2.29 and 2.30 but I get the same problem.
I have checked your webiste to see if it was working but it didn´t. So try to put any cities in Spain like Madrid or Barcelona. It just says they aren´t there but when you check your tables, they are all there.
And if you go to the nbc page, it does works there. Any idea of what could be the problem?
I hope you can help me with this problem because if soemone wants to ++++ around, he only has to chose Spain and you will get a SQL Error.
Quite annoying.
Hope you will have the time to answer me. If I can help, do not hesitate in contacting me.
Thanks you.

[Snapperhaed]

04-01-03 at 01:04 AM Hostc said this in Post #1006 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=376136#post376136)
Tigga, Vbulletin 2.30 Final has been released. You may want to check and see if it works with it ;)

Works fine with 2.3.0

Snap

[Tigga]

Just an FYI, v3.2 has just been released. It includes a couple of small bug fixes and a few new options. Upgrading from 3.1 or 3.0 should take less than a minute, so get to upgrading! :p

[Tigga]

By the way, did anyone get the update I sent out? The page went to a "Cannot find server" message after I sent it, so I just wanted to make sure everyone received it.

[Zachery]

i got an error on line 480

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/digitalk/public_html/myvbindex.php on line 480

i just updated

[mv540]

aye aye aye. ..all these updates... :confused: , so little time, ill stick with the portal i have. As the saying goes, if it aint broke, dont try and fix it..lol..

[Tigga]

That's weird... Line 480 of the scirpt is just:

$adminopts = '';

There's no extra $ sign above or below that. Try re-uploading the file and see if that helps. If not let me know.

[Zachery]

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/digitalk/public_html/myvbindex.php on line 16

Warning: main(./global.php) [function.main]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in /home/digitalk/public_html/myvbindex.php on line 19

i have this error now. all i did was reupload

im still running 2.2.9 i dont plan on upgrading till i have to, if the 2.2.9 means anything

[Tigga]

Did you change the path in your myvbindex.php file? (Sorry, I guess I should have added that in the upgrade instructions)

[Zachery]

hmm lol probally not, also your gonna wanna change the version number at the top still says 3.1

[Tigga]

Thanks for pointing that out. I also need to change the path back to something random rather than leaving the path to my fourms there. I'll update the first post in just a minute. :)

[FleaBag]

Great work on version 3.2 Brian, thanks! :D

[Zachery]

ok one last thing look at http://www.digitalkore.net/ and http://www.digitalkore.net/myvbindex.php i dont remember how to get it to look like it should

[Tigga]

FleaBag - Thank you. :)

Faranth - Is it just that the signatures are not being displayed with the news? If so just edit your myvbindex options and turn signatures on in news posts (a few people didn't seem to like that, so I added an option to completely disable them)

[Zachery]

no not that, my header vblogo and the buttons, im not worried about sigs

i know i changed sumthing before but i dont remember what

[Tigga]

Oh, and I just noticed your header too... Did you maybe change it to pull your regular forums header instead of the index_header template? It appears as though a <br> is missing after the logo or something like that. Which version did you upgrade from? I'm not sure why the header would change though unless you upgraded from v3.0...

[Zachery]

no i didnt i upgraded from 3.1 to 3.2 well i have alot of differnt header buttons, :\ i think its a file edit to myvbindex.php but i dont remember where

not poiting to the right place?

[Tigga]

That's really confusing... It shouldn't have anything to do with the php file as nothing was changed to pull the header. I don't understand though how one file could be showing something different like that when it's the same template. You could maybe try looking for this in your myvbindex.php file:

eval("\$index_header = \"".gettemplate('index_header')."\";");

And replace it with:

eval("\$index_header .= \"".gettemplate('index_header')."\";");

Hopefully that'll work. :)

[Zachery]

no such luck

[350Chevy]

Heya Tigga,

I just upgraded to 2.3.0 final from 2.3.0 RC3 and the news stopped showing on the front page. Soooo.. I decided to upgrade from MyVBIndex 3.1 to 3.2. Now the news and polls show on the main page if you're not logged in but there's no HTML. If you sign in there's no news and no poll shown. I'm thinking this may have something to do with the high number of the forums (news is 106 and polls are 108)... Dunno.. very strange..

[Tigga]

Try running the template installer that's included in the myvb_install.php file. For some reason vBulletin deletes all templates that aren't there by default, so that's why I included the template only part in the install file. ;)

[350Chevy]

nm... I fixed it running your install file.. hehe.. Yes.. I'm stupid. :P

[Tigga]

Hehe... No problem at all. I'm still not sure why vBulletin deletes templates like that (other than the fact that it's easier for them to do it that way). I guess there's no reason for them to make things harder on themselves though since they don't support hacked boards.

[TheGunOwner]

Very nice hack sir!

[gmarik]

Great, the new updates are awesome!
Keep it on!

[Asendin]

anyone know why the weather wont show up for me ??

http://www.ianwh.com/


thanks in advance

[attroll]

Did you insert the text into your myvbindex.php and did you also turn it on in your admincp panel?

[Asendin]

Today at 11:28 AM attroll said this in Post #1040 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=377517#post377517)
Did you insert the text into your myvbindex.php and did you also turn it on in your admincp panel?


someone turned it off, lol


thanks

[o0stephane0o]

Does anyone know what is the error and how i can solve it?
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/psx/public_html/cgi-bin/myvbindex.php on line 608

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to www.msnbc.com:80 in /home/psx/public_html/cgi-bin/myvbindex.php on line 608

[Tigga]

That means the script is having a problem connecting to msnbc's server to get the weather info. The weather seems to be working for me though, so if it's still giving you problems let me know. And you also should be able to turn that option off and solve the error for now if you're still getting it.

[attroll]

This may be off the subject now. But is there a way to make it so that one of the index_custom's will only be able to be viewed by admins when they are on myvbinxdex page.

[o0stephane0o]

Very strange, I have uninstalled the whole forum, deleted the sql base and reinstalled everything and still getting the same error.
I have then tried in another server and get the same error.
Maybee msnbc had changed something in his config?
Would be a pity, such a great hack, I have installer the vbindex and love it but the weather hack brings something so nice to it.
Hope someone will find a fix ;)

[o0stephane0o]

By the way, I have also another question for tigga ;)
Is there anyways to change the dates into another language?
In the vbindex.php files, they appears in the news like Apr 05th and in the rest of the site like saturday 05 April etc
How could I translate the dates and time into any languages?
I have found some in calendar php and some more in the templates but I cannot find the missing ones.

[o0stephane0o]

Ok, I don?t know if someone want to use some days in french butI have modified a bit the calendar hack of wajones so the day appears in french...
Here is the code:
Look for:
$dayname_s = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>S</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_m = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>M</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_t = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>T</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_w = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>W</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_f = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>F</smallfont></td>";
if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==1) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_s$dayname_m$dayname_t$dayname_w$dayname_t $dayname_f$dayname_s";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==2) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_m$dayname_t$dayname_w$dayname_t$dayname_f $dayname_s$dayname_s";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==3) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_t$dayname_w$dayname_t$dayname_f$dayname_s $dayname_s$dayname_m";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==4) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_w$dayname_t$dayname_f$dayname_s$dayname_s $dayname_m$dayname_t";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==5) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_t$dayname_f$dayname_s$dayname_s$dayname_m $dayname_t$dayname_w";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==6) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_f$dayname_s$dayname_s$dayname_m$dayname_t $dayname_w$dayname_t";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==7) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_s$dayname_s$dayname_m$dayname_t$dayname_w $dayname_t$dayname_f";

And replace by:

$dayname_di = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>D</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_lu = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>L</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_ma = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>M</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_me = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>M</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_je = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>J</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_ve = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>V</smallfont></td>";
$dayname_sa = "<td width=\"*\" bgcolor=\"{firstaltcolor}\" align=\"center\"><smallfont>S</smallfont></td>";
if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==1) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_di$dayname_lu$dayname_ma$dayname_me$dayna me_je$dayname_ve$dayname_sa";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==2) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_lu$dayname_ma$dayname_me$dayname_je$dayna me_ve$dayname_sa$dayname_di";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==3) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_ma$dayname_me$dayname_je$dayname_ve$dayna me_sa$dayname_di$dayname_lu";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==4) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_me$dayname_je$dayname_ve$dayname_sa$dayna me_di$dayname_lu$dayname_ma";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==5) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_je$dayname_ve$dayname_sa$dayname_di$dayna me_lu$dayname_ma$dayname_me";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==6) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_ve$dayname_sa$dayname_di$dayname_lu$dayna me_ma$dayname_me$dayname_je";
} else if ($bbuserinfo[startofweek]==7) {
$calendar_daynames = "$dayname_sa$dayname_di$dayname_lu$dayname_ma$dayna me_me$dayname_je$dayname_ve";


I hope it will be usefull to someone.

[Red Blaze]

Heck the weather always gave a problem, I just uninstalled the weather. Everything else works fine. :)

[Yuber]

Thanks Tigga. Don't forget to update the subject to the Hack Thread.

[Amongthethugs]

03-29-03 at 08:06 PM Tigga said this in Post #973 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=375129#post375129)
Amongthethugs - It's possible to pull more than one poll, but that's something I'll have to play with and post instructions for later when I have the time. As for pulling news from more than one forum, you would just change your News Forum ID in the admin options to "XX OR forumid=YY" - And you would just change XX and YY to your forum id's.

ok so say I want to pull news from forum id 3 and 8 then where in my options page in admin i change the 3 that is there now to 3 or forumid=8 ?

also i created index_custom3 and in the index template I added $custom3 but nothing loads from the index_custom3 template

[o0stephane0o]

You should do the following i think but backup your database in case it messes it up..
Create a new template called index_custom3 with the same content as the previous 2.
then modify the myvbindex.php file like that:
look for:
// Custom Boxes
$custom1 = '';
$custom2 = '';
if ($showcustom1) {
$getbgrow = getrowcolor();
eval("\$custom1 = \"".gettemplate('index_custom1')."\";");
}
if ($showcustom2) {
$getbgrow = getrowcolor();
eval("\$custom2 = \"".gettemplate('index_custom2')."\";");
}
Replace by:

// Custom Boxes
$custom1 = '';
$custom2 = '';
$custom3 = '';
if ($showcustom1) {
$getbgrow = getrowcolor();
eval("\$custom1 = \"".gettemplate('index_custom1')."\";");
}
if ($showcustom2) {
$getbgrow = getrowcolor();
eval("\$custom2 = \"".gettemplate('index_custom2')."\";");
}
if ($showcustom3) {
$getbgrow = getrowcolor();
eval("\$custom3 = \"".gettemplate('index_custom3')."\";");
}


And then execute the following sql request:

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO setting VALUES (NULL,50,'Show Custom Template 3?','showcustom3','0','Show your third customized template.','yesno','30');");

Then put in your myvbindex.php $custom3 wherever you?d like your third custom template to be.

I haven?t tested it but i guess it should work.
I repeat again, backup before doing any changes...

Let me know how it went..

[o0stephane0o]

Tigga, i still have the same problem with the weather hack,
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/psx4gued/public_html/forum/index.php on line 389

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to www.msnbc.com:80 in /home/psx4gued/public_html/forum/index.php on line 389

any idea how to solve it?

[Tigga]

attroll - Yes. Assuming you wanted to do this to your Custom 1 template, here is what you would do... Open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
if ($showcustom1)
Change that to:
if ($showcustom1 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6) {

Amongthethugs - You would just change your News Forum ID (first option under the myvbindex opts) to 3 or forumid=8
As for creating more custom templates, see the instructions in this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=327859#post327859).

o0stephane0o - As for changing the date format, there are 3 places in the myvbindex.php file you should look for:
$thread['date'] = vbdate("m-d-y $timeformat", $thread['dateline']);

$dateposted = vbdate("M d, Y - g:i A",$news['dateline']);

$lastvisit = vbdate("m-d-y g:i a", $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']);

You should be able to change the date format in those three places, and if there are any I've forgotten let me know.
As for the weather... What version of myvbindex are you running? Have you tried applying both of the fixes listed in JJR512's thread? If those don't work, please post here or PM me with a link to your site.

[o0stephane0o]

Ok great, I just want to change the language of the date and time, I mean, instaed of 8th April something like 8 de Abril or 8 avril...
I have installed the v3.2 and it still not working but i will try on another server in case the problem is due to the actual one.

[Intex]

Tigga - quick question:

I'd like to have one of the news items posted stuck at the top. This would be for a general website introduction that will always appear there, then other news posts below. Is this possible without altering the database date / time post for that thread everytime a new news post is created that would take priority position?

Thx.

[Tigga]

Intex - Yes, it is possible to have "sticky" news posts. Just open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC $newsmax");
Replace that with:
ORDER BY sticky DESC,thread.threadid DESC $newsmax");

[PKRWUD]

I used one of the custom templates to put an item there.

Speaking of which, how do we add more custom templates? I know how to make the template, but the control panel only has options for two. Is there a way to add more?

[Tigga]

Yup, see this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=327859#post327859). ;)

[PKRWUD]

You're the best!

[Intex]

Thx Tigga :).


Yesterday at 07:08 PM Tigga said this in Post #1056 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=381098#post381098)
Intex - Yes, it is possible to have "sticky" news posts. Just open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC $newsmax");
Replace that with:
ORDER BY sticky DESC,thread.threadid DESC $newsmax");

[PKRWUD]

I lost weather again, and am getting the following error warning on my homepage:

Warning : fsockopen() [ function.fsockopen ]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/pkrwud/public_html/myvbindex.php on line 588

Warning : fsockopen() [ function.fsockopen ]: unable to connect to www.msnbc.com:80 in /home/pkrwud/public_html/myvbindex.php on line 588


Any thoughts?

[PKRWUD]

Okay, this got worse. At some point this evening, my website could not be accessed at all, through the myvbindex page. It took me a while to realize that by redirecting traffic to the forum home page instead, you could get to the forums, but the myvbindex page still came back as data cannot be accessed from this address, or something similar. On a hunch, I went into my control panel, and turned off the weather option. Low and behold, after cancelling the redirect, myvbindex page now works again, just like old times, minus the weather.

Does this mean that weather is gone for good? Any thoughts at all?

[Tigga]

That's really strange. The weather's working fine on my site and a few others I checked. Which version of mYvBindex are you running? If it's below 3.2, try uploading the weather.php file in that version, go to it, and click on "Force Update". If that doesn't work, try applying the fix lemarsu posted here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=372943#post372943) in the Weather Mk thread.

[PKRWUD]

I made lemarsu's change that same week (that it was posted), and all was well until yesterday or the day before, when the weather stopped working, and the error warning appeared above the header on, and only on, my myvbindex page. I am using version 3.1. I will find the upgrade, and do as you suggest. Thanks for looking into it for me.

:)

[PKRWUD]

Uploading the weather.php file from the 3.2 download corrected the problem. I don't understand why, but that's why I'm an automotive mechanic, not a computer mechanic. lol.

Thanks again so much for your help!!!

Take care,
~Chris

[certify]

Part of my news are empty which leads to No post specified. Everything was working normal until now. I tried to upgrade to 3.2 but that does not help either. :(

http://www.bmwclub.com.my/

[PKRWUD]

Please disregard my last post. It is not fixed afterall. I got the same fsock open warnings, so I re-downloaded the new weather.php file, then uploaded it to my vBulletin folder, ran it, and selected forced update, and now I get this warning:

Warning : fsockopen() [ function.fsockopen ]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/pkrwud/public_html/vbulletin/weather.php on line 36

Warning : fsockopen() [ function.fsockopen ]: unable to connect to www.msnbc.com:80 in /home/pkrwud/public_html/vbulletin/weather.php on line 36

I am going to just turn off the weather in the cp before my myvbindex page gets blocked out again. If you can think of anything, please let me know.

pkrwuds@pacbell.net

[jjj0923]

question:

My version of myvbindex.php says 2.0 in the source code.

why upgrade instructions should I follow?

[Tigga]

PKRWUD - Check your PMs. ;)

certify - That's really strange. Have you changed something to have it pull news posts from more than one forum? Have you installed any other hacks lately that could have affected it?

jjj0923 - There have been MANY changes since v2.0 of this hack. I would recommend uninstalling v2.0 (using the uninstall file included with that version) and then doing a fresh install of v3.2. Then once you install 3.2, go back to the install file and click on "Click here to update your news posts". That will update all your news posts, so as long as you do that you shouldn't have any problems.

[o0stephane0o]

The error your are getting is dut to your serve configuration, I´ve been trying and trying ten times and I had the same error, once the vbindex would work, later it woundt anymore.
I finally changed and trie on my hard driuve and it works perfect..

[PKRWUD]

My site is on a shared server. What can I do?

[o0stephane0o]

Change server...
That´s what I had to do..

[kerpen]

I tried this but it loads incredibly slowly even when there's very little load on my server. Any idea why? Even when I disable many feaqtures to reduce queries it takes a really long time. Page is ehre:
http://cross-x.com/home/indextest.php

[Tigga]

That's strange. It should load in less than 1 second most of the time. Could you put your board in debug mode and show me the results of an explain=1 on that page?
In case you're not sure what I mean, you would open your admin/config.php. Right before the ?> at the end of that file, add the code:
$debug="1";
Then upload that file and go to the url - http://cross-x.com/home/indextest.php?explain=1
If you wouldn't mind doing that and pasting the results of that page here I'll be glad to take a look and see if I can figure out why it's loading so slow.

[Airs]

12-04-02 at 05:29 AM Tigga said this in Post #196 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=327859#post327859)
alkatraz - No, that wouldn't be hard at all. At the very bottom of the myvbindex.php file look inbetween the following lines:

if ($showcustom2) {
$getbgrow=getrowcolor();
eval("\$custom2 = \"".gettemplate('index_custom2')."\";");
}
And:
$getbgrow=getrowcolor();
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('index')."\");");

?>

In that space you can add code for it to call more custom templates. You would just add something like the following:

eval("\$custom3 = \"".gettemplate('index_custom3')."\";");

The variable $custom3 there can be called whatever you would like and would be what you would use in the index template to call that template. Then the part index_custom3 should be renamed to whatever you are calling your new template. Also, if you would like to be able to use the $getbgrow function in that template to alternate between your firstaltcolor & secondaltcolor, you should add the following above that code as it is with the others.

$getbgrow=getrowcolor();


Hi im using the recent version of myvbb and i tried this and it dosent work it is pretty simple and im very sure i did it right..but it dosent show up in the admin panel? what am i doing wrong? thnx in advance!.

[Tigga]

With that method of adding more custom templates, there's no need to turn them on or anything in the Admin CP. Just add the variables in the index template and it should work fine. Or if you particularly want to be able to turn them off let me know and I'll post instructions on how to do that.

[Airs]

Today at 06:05 AM Tigga said this in Post #1076 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=383233#post383233)
With that method of adding more custom templates, there's no need to turn them on or anything in the Admin CP. Just add the variables in the index template and it should work fine. Or if you particularly want to be able to turn them off let me know and I'll post instructions on how to do that.


Not sure if you understood me right >< what i wanted to do was add extra templates so i could write up more content to link from the main page to another index with a diffrent nav pertaining to the section etc..etc..u know running everything off myvbb. But i have no idea how to put more templates in the myvbb template area ><

[kerpen]

Today at 05:15 AM Tigga said this in Post #1074 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=383222#post383222)
That's strange. It should load in less than 1 second most of the time. Could you put your board in debug mode and show me the results of an explain=1 on that page?
In case you're not sure what I mean, you would open your admin/config.php. Right before the ?> at the end of that file, add the code:
$debug="1";
Then upload that file and go to the url - http://cross-x.com/home/indextest.php?explain=1
If you wouldn't mind doing that and pasting the results of that page here I'll be glad to take a look and see if I can figure out why it's loading so slow.

Thanks:

http://cross-x.com/indextestexplain.html

I commented out the new posts query and it made a big difference.

[Tigga]

Airs - I'm still not sure I follow you here... Are you just trying to add more "boxes" to your myvbindex page that will have links in them? Or are you saying you want more pages like the myvbindex page but with different content replacing the news or something to that effect?

kerpen - Check your PMs. :)

[PKRWUD]

Tigga-
Just wondering if you got my PM. The problem came back.

Also, because I just felt like being really stupid, I tried what you suggested above (the debug thing), and it wiped out my admin/config file, and did something else so that my server decided I was instantly 800mb's over my limit, which made it so that I couldn't copy my backup admin/config file to the admin folder. It was a very lively 10 minutes before I decided to try moving it instead of copying it. That worked. Anyway, check your PM's.

:)

[MuSuL]

Ok, I won't read 72 pages for a quick answer so give a break guys.
I've installed it and it works fine. Problem is for the "latest threads", I don't want what I have in my moderator forums to show up. The forums are hidden from members. I couldn't find a way to hide those threads....any help?

[PKRWUD]

Actually, that's an excellent point. I'm not sure if it's been covered or not, but I have made it a point of telling my moderators to keep that fact in mind when they start a new thread in my staff only forums.

If there is a solution for this, I'm all ears too!

Take care,
~Chris

P.S. Tigga, thanks for trying to solve my weather problem! I understand, and that's cool. I appreciate your taking the time to look into it personally.

[chitown]

i put the correct forum # for my news forum and the middle is still blank, what am i missing?

[Tigga]

MuSuL - By default the script will only pull threads that your users have permission to view. If it's still pulling threads which users shouldn't have persmission to view, you most likely don't have your forum permissions set correctly. Go in your Admin CP, click on "Forum Permissions", and then double check that your private forums are set not to allow users to view threads for each usergroup that shouldn't have permission, and that "Use custom settings" at the top is selected. I'm about 99% sure that if the permissions are set correctly that it will work fine, but someone is having that problem would like me to take a look let me know.

PKRWUD - No problem at all. Be sure to read about the permissions above and if you can't get it sorted out I'll be glad to take a look at things.

chitown - Did you read the FAQ section in the readme file? ;)

[chitown]

permissions are fine, i have changed the id of the forum to just about every forum id # and none of them show up

[Tigga]

<i>Taken straight from the readme file.</i>

Q. I installed the script and it seems to work, but no news topics are showing up in the center.
A. mYvBindex adds an extra colum to your post table to determine whether or not the post is the first in the thread. Any posts that were made in your news forum before you installed this script will not be displayed. You can update these posts by uploading the myvb_install.php file to your forums/admin folder and selecting the option to update your news posts.
If you are having problems getting posts to display that were created After you installed myvbindex, be sure that your News Forum ID is set correctly and that you modified your newthread.php file and uploaded it to your server.

[chitown]

found that thanks for the feedback

[Airs]

Yesterday at 11:33 PM Tigga said this in Post #1079 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=383548#post383548)
Airs - I'm still not sure I follow you here... Are you just trying to add more "boxes" to your myvbindex page that will have links in them? Or are you saying you want more pages like the myvbindex page but with different content replacing the news or something to that effect?

kerpen - Check your PMs. :)


the second one ;p.

[Tigga]

Ahhh, ok. :)
If you'll refer to this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=348560#post348560), it will show you how to add one seperate page in place of the news. Then if you'll look at the instructions I posted here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=349929#post349929) to Matrix, that will tell you what you would need to do to add more than one seperate page after you've added the first. It should be pretty easy to figure out from those instructions, but if you have any problems let me know.

[Alien]

I'd really like to see a "source" add-on with this, so when you're creating a thread you can cite the source that will be displayed on the front page.. I know vbhome has a similiar add-on available on that. Would love to see one here too. (I use both scripts on several sites I work on).

-Jason

[MuSuL]

Yesterday at 06:56 PM Tigga said this in Post #1084 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=383812#post383812)
MuSuL - By default the script will only pull threads that your users have permission to view. If it's still pulling threads which users shouldn't have persmission to view, you most likely don't have your forum permissions set correctly. Go in your Admin CP, click on "Forum Permissions", and then double check that your private forums are set not to allow users to view threads for each usergroup that shouldn't have permission, and that "Use custom settings" at the top is selected. I'm about 99% sure that if the permissions are set correctly that it will work fine, but someone is having that problem would like me to take a look let me know.



Yep, you nailed it alright. I just figured the forums would have inherited from the parent. I did the use custom setting on each and it works perfect. Thanks, I like this hack.

[KelteN]

For some reason, after installing this hack I can no longer use the "Update Counters" option. When I click on it, it just gives me a blank page. Maybe it wasn't due to this hack, but has anyone else had this problem?

[Tigga]

Alien - I just took a look at Teck's "article source" hack and it doesn't look like it would be too hard to implement it with mYvBindex. The only difference would be the modifications to the news part in your index.php file, and if you're at least a little fluent with PHP, then it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. If you have problems getting it to work though let me know and I'll post what the changes would be.

MuSuL - Glad to hear it's working right. :)

KelteN - That would have to be a problem with another hack you've installed as this script wouldn't affect any of the files you use to update your counters. I'd recommend uploading a fresh admin/misc.php file and see if that helps. If not, my next best guess would be it's something in your admin/functions.php file (that's just a guess though. ;))

[Alien]

Tigga: Hey. :) Yeah I'd appreciate the help, I've just barely began coding myself.. Like MAJOR n00b here, so I could use the pointers to help learn!

Thanks!
-Jason

[Tigga]

Ok, here's the changes you would make to your myvbindex.php instead...

Near the top of the file, look for:
index_polledit,';

Change that to
index_polledit,home_articlesource,';

Then look for:
votenum,votetotal,postid,pagetext

Replace that with:
votenum,votetotal,articlesource as sourcetitle,articlesourceurl as sourceurl,postid,pagetext

Then look for:
eval("\$newsbits .= \"".gettemplate('index_newsbits')."\";");

Right Above that Add:
$articlesource = '';
$articlesourceurl = '';
if ( !empty( $news['sourceurl'] ) )
{
$articlesourceurl = ' href="' . $news['sourceurl'] . '" target="_blank"';
}
if ( !empty( $news['sourcetitle'] ) )
{
eval( '$articlesource = "' . gettemplate( 'home_articlesource' ) . '";' );
}

Then you would follow the rest of the steps in Teck's install file, except you would add $articlesource wherever you would like that to appear in your index_newsbits template instead. That should be it. :)

[Jacko]

hi there,
excellent hack and i currently have it running perfect at:

www.realmods.net

with weather to come and a few more modding of the templates still to come also.

here are some things i am after to add:

- Reviews
Bit like the way news work but members can post there reviews which will be moderated by admins, then it displays the start of the thread title and linked from the main page.

- Counter (added to the footer)
Probably dead easy to do but i am thick at any kind of code and i dont want anything but PHP, i have tried but it doesnt work if i try to include the .php file in the template.

- gallery
Users can upload or link a maximum of 10 pictures which will be displayed in the gallery pages and linked on there user profile. Each image will have the author, image name and image description and when image is clicked it opens the image up in a new page full size, as images displayed on the gallery page are thumnails.

any of these easy to do? and if so can anyone either help me do them or could do them for me etc. or a way to update it..

would be great additionas to do :rolleyes:

cheers. :beard:

[Jacko]

or any other hacks that i can use to incorporate the features i need ??!

[Tigga]

Well a "reviews" section probably wouldn't be too hard in your case. Since you don't appear to be using the latest threads portion of the script, you could fairly easily turn that into a reviews section instead. You would just make a new forum for your reviews and make sure permissions are set correctly so you can moderate new threads. Then just open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
WHERE open<>10 $iforumperms

Replace that with:
WHERE open<>10 AND forumid=XX
(you would just replace XX there with the forumid of your reviews forum)
Also, in that same line of code you will see "ORDER BY lastpost". If you wanted the threads to be displayed in the order they were created rather than by when the last post was made, you could replace that with "ORDER BY threadid". That should be enough to get you started on that.

As for a a counter system, see this post (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=30257) on vbulletin.com and it should help you to include the file for the counter.

As for a photo gallery hack, there's at least one or two released here. Some other solutions you might look at would be http://photopost.com, http://4homepages.de, http://gallery.menalto.com/, There's a million other image gallery scripts out there as well, so just look around. ;)

Hopefully I'll have my advanced version of this script finished up in a few months. It will include everything you asked about here and a lot more, but it'll be a little while before it's finished, and it won't be free. ;)

[Jacko]

personally i dont mind paying for it at all. if you need any beta testing of anything to do with myvbindex dont hesistate to contact me via ICQ or mail.

and thank you for the info i will look into it all now.

edit
__________

ok i now got the reviews showing up on the main page, is there anyway that they only get displayed after they have been moderated, i have a thread which is yet to be authorised yet it is showing up on the main page.??

again cheers.

[Red Blaze]

I don't mind paying for it at all either. Well, depending how much it's gonna be really. =s I'm not loaded. XD

[Ryu]

i have some problem the avater is not show
http://www.rpg-station.com/
:tired: :tired: :tired:

[all-the-vb]

Nice work.


:cool:

[Jacko]

Yesterday at 09:39 PM Ryu said this in Post #1101 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=385680#post385680)
i have some problem the avater is not show
http://www.rpg-station.com/
:tired: :tired: :tired:


thats because either you havnt set the file permissions on the avatar correclty or that isnt the URL for the avatar:

http://www.rpg-staion.com/forum/images/avatar/avatar10.gif

any help?

[Ryu]

Today at 09:24 AM Jacko said this in Post #1103 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=385849#post385849)
thats because either you havnt set the file permissions on the avatar correclty or that isnt the URL for the avatar:

http://www.rpg-staion.com/forum/images/avatar/avatar10.gif

any help?


where can i edit it ?

[Jacko]

Today at 08:11 PM Ryu said this in Post #1104 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=386055#post386055)
where can i edit it ?


when you upload the file you have to set the permissions in your FTP program. you need to set it to be able to read for all.

[Tigga]

Ryu - I tried going to your site to see if I could figure out what was wrong, but I'm getting a "Page Cannot be Displayed" error on every page but your index. :ermm:
Either way, if you'll tell me what the url is to your avatar where it's working properly I'll try to figure out where the problem is coming from.

[refertech]

Just poping in to say hello to Tigga. :)

Mark

[Tigga]

Hey Mark. :)

[glo]

Hi Tigga,

i can see that certain things to be turned off and not used ie weather and calender etc?

Does it also allow me to place the certain parts of myvbindex3.2 into my existing index page or is myvbindex3.2 only able to be used as a complete index page?

Is the mailing list part of vB or part of myvbindex 3.2?

And lastly, does the current online user only account for users on the forums and the index page, or can it include other non-vb pages?

Thanks in advance! :chinese:

[Tigga]

glo - I'm assuming you looked at my website and that's where some of these questions came from... You can't really place parts of myvbindex into your existing index page. It would pretty much have to be replaced with the script, or it could be used as something besides your main index page.
There is a way you could also turn this into a "portal" similar to the way I've done it on my site. If you were interested in doing something like that you should be able to find the instructions by searching this thread for "portal" (though if you can't find it let me know and I'll help you out).
The mailing list on my site is part of another simple script, seperate from vBulletin and mYvBindex.
The current online user part only accounts for people that are on your forums or on your index page. If you used the instructions to turn the script into a portal then it would also account for users on any page that was powered by mYvBindex or vBulletin.
To see exactly what is/isn't included with mYvBindex, just check out the screen shots in the first post. ;)

[Ryu]

Yesterday at 08:18 PM Jacko said this in Post #1105 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=386058#post386058)
when you upload the file you have to set the permissions in your FTP program. you need to set it to be able to read for all.


i have chomd the index.php to 666and steel not working :cry:

[Jacko]

not the index. the actual image file should also be set to that. and the folders leading to the image.

[WitchyT]

I'm having a little trouble. After my news forum had over 10 threads, which was the default limit in the admin CP, I couldn't have any new threads (news) after that show up on the main index. I tried testing it on another forum already filled with 10 plus threads, and nothing works. Does anyone think I didn't install it correctly? Help would be muchly appreciated. :D

I changed the limit to 100 to even 0, and still nada.

Ermm not sure if I remember what version I installed. Is there any way to know that because I didn't keep a record. Suggest to upgrade?

[Tigga]

My best guess would be that you accidentally removed the changes you made to your newthread.php file. Try looking in the readme file for the modifications to newthread.php and make sure those have been changed. If that's not the problem though let me know.

Nice site btw, I like the color scheme and design. :)

[WitchyT]

Thanks. I'll post if I have any further problems. :D

[WitchyT]

Ok, I'm having problems because I installed the hidden posts hack (http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/index.php?s=&action=showhack&hackid=130). I tried fixing it myself, but I get nowhere with newthread.php. Here's what I have so far that I have no idea how to fix to make room for the h.p. hack.:

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,at tachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipad dress,iconid,visible,hidden) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconi d','1','$hidden')");

Instead of the default newthread php coding of:

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,at tachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipad dress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconi d','1')");

[Tigga]

Actually I think you may be able to make the news work without even editing the newthread.php file. If you would like to try this out, here is what you would do...
Open your myvbindex.php file and look for the news query:
$getnews = $DB_site->query("SELECT thread.threadid,thread.title,replycount,postuserna me,postuserid,thread.dateline,views,thread.iconid, votenum,votetotal,postid,pagetext,allowsmilie,show signature,signature".iif($shownewsavatar,",avatarpath,NOT ISNULL(avatardata) AS hascustom,customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline ","")." ".iif($shownewsicon,',thread.iconid as iconid,icon.title as icontitle,icon.iconpath as iconpath','')."
FROM thread
LEFT JOIN post ON (thread.threadid=post.threadid)
LEFT JOIN user ON (user.userid=post.userid)
".iif ($shownewsavatar,"LEFT JOIN avatar ON (avatar.avatarid=user.avatarid)
LEFT JOIN customavatar ON (customavatar.userid=user.userid) ","")."
".iif ($shownewsicon,'LEFT JOIN icon ON icon.iconid=thread.iconid','')."
WHERE forumid=$newsforum AND isnews='Y'
ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC $newsmax");
Replace that with:
$getnews = $DB_site->query("SELECT thread.threadid,thread.title,replycount,postuserna me,postuserid,thread.dateline,views,thread.iconid, votenum,votetotal,MIN(postid),pagetext,allowsmilie ,showsignature,signature ".iif($shownewsavatar,",avatarpath,NOT ISNULL(avatardata) AS hascustom,customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline ","")." ".iif($shownewsicon,',thread.iconid as iconid,icon.title as icontitle,icon.iconpath as iconpath','')."
FROM thread
LEFT JOIN post ON (thread.threadid=post.threadid)
LEFT JOIN user ON (user.userid=post.userid)
".iif ($shownewsavatar,"LEFT JOIN avatar ON (avatar.avatarid=user.avatarid)
LEFT JOIN customavatar ON (customavatar.userid=user.userid) ","")."
".iif ($shownewsicon,'LEFT JOIN icon ON icon.iconid=thread.iconid','')."
WHERE forumid=$newsforum AND open<>10
GROUP BY thread.threadid
ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC $newsmax");
There was a problem before with random posts sometimes being displayed on the homepage if the newthread.php file isn't modified, but I'm pretty sure if the query was done that way it should work. If not let me know and I'll see what you would need to change in your newthread.php file instead. :)

[WitchyT]

Oh. Thank you! It worked. :D

[WitchyT]

Actually, another problem *lol* (after taking your suggestion)

Take a look here. I made a screen cap:

http://smallville-torch.com/forum/capst.jpg

[Tigga]

Um... Not sure I see the problem. I noticed the images weren't appearing in the screenshot, but are ok on the site, but that was it...

[WitchyT]

Ooh, weird. It's okay then. LOL I'll just change the character limit in the news.

[WitchyT]

I hate to be doing this again *lol* I'm having issues with your suggestion so I was wondering if you could help me hack my copy of newthread.php?

[Tigga]

You should probably edit your post and remove the attachment since you're not allowed to post full vB files here. ;)

To fix your newthread.php file you would need to chage this bit of code:
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,at tachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipad dress,iconid,visible,hidden) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconi d','1','$hidden')");
To this:
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,at tachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipad dress,iconid,visible,hidden,isnews) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconi d','1','$hidden','Y')");

Then you should upload the myvb_install.php file and select the option to update your news posts. That should update all the posts in that forum.

[Red Blaze]

Hey Tigga I was thinking. I'm not sure if this was asked before but, in the top 10 thread list, is there a possible way to make a "take to last post" link some where and "Who" made the thread instead of who the author of the thread was?
Do you know what I'm asking for? ^^;

EDIT: Never mind, I found a way, just a matter of copying links from threadbits and adding $bburl/ in front. Real cool, I'm a semi-hacker! XD

[Tigga]

Yep. I actually added in the mouse hover effect in v3.2, mostly so people could change that though the templates without any hacking. I've changed it to show the last post time and poster on my site as well, and moved the thread starter and time into the mouse over effect. :)

[jjj0923]

Licensed VB users beware of an individual with the an email address of tonyxp@msn.com asking you to supply the myvbindex hack to him. He wrote me and said he does not have permission to download the hack and asked me if I'd supply it to him.

I'll give you one guess as to my answer....."why don't you have permission?" :)


- jeff

[Tigga]

Heh... He emailed me 3 times today asking for the hack. I tried to ask him for the url to his site and he replied with this:

I don't own a live website or a license copy of vb right now. I just want
to install php things on my box at home to learn php purpose. If you could
help me out, I really appreciated.

I had already informed Erwin of him emailing me, so I'll be sure to point out your post as well jjj0923. :)

[Dean C]

Tigga I never showed you the design i did and the implementation of myvbindex. Take a look at www.diamondchitchat.com. I got paid quite a bit for designing/implementing this so i'm quite proud to show it off! :)

Just a side note though. please ignore the blue input fields and textareas ;). I never would use such disgusting things but the client changed it after we had finished so what can you do ;)

All the best
- Dean

[Tigga]

Nice design Mist. :)
I don't think I'd agree that the input fields look bad with the blue there though. I kinda like the blue there, but I do agree with you that it doesn't look quite right on the submit buttons.

[Jacko]

looks bang on mate. tigga, anything planned for an update at all?? dont mind beta stuff for you if ya want. i got your hack running sweet on my 2.2.9 and i am in the mood for addons :)

[mv540]

well i took the risk in installing this on a test site that i made. shes a no go...i followed the steps and even back tracked file by file to make sure i didnt miss anything. then when i get to this part http://yoursite.com/forum/admin/myvb_install.php nothing happends. sites now dead...good thing i backed it up. :rolleyes:

everything seems to be in its right place, but its not installing...

[Tigga]

Jacko - Well unless any bugs are found (which I don't think there are any) then this will be the last version of mYvBindex for vBulletin 2.x. With vB 3.0 right around the corner (hopefully) I don't see much of a point in tweaking this version much more.

mv540 - Are you saying the install script messed up your forum? There's no way this would happen, especially if you didn't even make it though any of the steps for the installer (nor would it mess up anything if you did make it though the installer). Can you tell me what version of PHP, MySQL, vBulletin, and mYvBindex you're running? What exactly happens when you go to the install file - Do you get a blank white page, an error, or what?

[mv540]

just get page not displayed

[mv540]

im using vb 2.3.0 and php im not sure. ive got the older vbindex working on my other site though. and the php and mysql would be the same i would imagine, im not sure what versions those are..

version for vbindex is the one i downloaded from this thread

my mistake of mentioning that my site got screwd, i thought it was but appears to still be there..the install doesnt seem to be kicking in

[Tigga]

As long as you uploaded the myvb_install.php file to your forum/admin directory and you're going to the correct url, there's no reason you should get that error. If you're sure that's been done correctly and you would like me to take a look at it you can set me up a temporary admin account at your forum and a temporary FTP account. If you want to do that and PM me with the info I'll be glad to take a look and see what's wrong. Other than that though, I don't see why you would be having problems so it's hard to tell what the cause is without being able to test it out myself.

[mv540]

ok after backtracking one last and final time...this is what happend...

when attempting to install, it didnt work do to a typo.

http://yoursite.com/forums/admin/myvb_install.php

i forgot to add the dam "s" at the end of forum...lol. incase anyone else runs into this problem be sure the directory folders have the correct spelling..:rolleyes:

sorry to bug ya guys, thanks for the help...

[Tigga]

I knew it had to be something like that. Glad you figured it out. :)

[mv540]

im stuck again...this im almost certain i do not understand

i read the instructions which relates to my problem i think...

Q. I get an error like this when I first try to install the script:
Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/yoursite/html/myvbindex.php on line 27
A.The path to your forums directory is set wrong. Create a file called info.php with the following content:

<? phpinfo(); ?>

Then upload that file to your server and go to it in your browser. You will see a list of options that were set by your host. One of them is called:

_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]

Copy that path, paste it over what you currently have for your path in the myvbindex.php file, and reupload your myvbindex.php file.

---------------------------------------------------

here is my error that im getting

when i finished uploading it said click here to go to admin cp..i did and got a white page. so i went in manually to adjust the ID'd and suck for my poll and news sections.

but im not getting the portal showing up..

when i go to http://mysite.com/myvbindex.php

error":Warning: ChDir: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/hsphere/local/home/me/mysite.com/myvbindex.php on line 16

[Tigga]

Did you edit the path in your myvbindex.php file? If it was the same as the error you posted above, the path should be:
/home/hsphere/local/home/me/mysite.com/forums

[mv540]

bingo, huston we've got portal visual & communication!

thanks tigga :cool:

[mv540]

how do i make it so that when people log in, it takes them to the main portal page (ie: mysite.com/index.php) instead of directly into the forums? (ie: mysite.com/forums)

thanks in advance :glasses:

[Tigga]

It should already take them to the index page if you followed the instructions in the install file and made the modifications to your member.php file. ;)

[mv540]

i made the proper modifications as instructed, but it doesnt seem to be working correctly..where can i start looking for this redirecting problem?

thanks tigga..

[Tigga]

If you made that modification to member.php and uploaded the file then it will work as it's supposed to.

[mv540]

//header("Location: $url");

$url = str_replace("\"", "", $url);
eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_login")."\",\"\$url\");");
} else {
$bbuserinfo=getuserinfo($userid);
eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_login")."\",\"\$url\");");
}

does this look right?...should it be double like that?..looks like the code inputs twice... :bored: i just went over the proceedures to see if everything is correct in member.php...but im alittle confused about the code showing up twice here...

[Tigga]

Yes, that's the way it should look. It's not doing anything twice as there is an } else { statement before the last line.

[mv540]

i appreciate your help tigga, but what else can i look at cause it doesnt appear to be directing them to the portal after sign in..thanks

[Tigga]

If you'd like to PM me with the FTP info and url to your site I'll take a look and see what the problem is.

[mv540]

..as of for the second part for the member.php editing, does this look correct?

$session['sessionhash']=md5(uniqid(microtime()));
$session['dbsessionhash']=$session['sessionhash'];
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO session (sessionhash,userid,host,useragent,lastactivity,st yleid) VALUES ('".addslashes($session['sessionhash'])."','0','".addslashes($session['host'])."','".addslashes($session['useragent'])."','".time()."','0')");
vbsetcookie("sessionhash",$session['sessionhash'],0);

eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("error_cookieclear")."\",\"\$url\");");

[mv540]

Today at 09:17 PM Tigga said this in Post #1148 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=389009#post389009)
If you'd like to PM me with the FTP info and url to your site I'll take a look and see what the problem is.


will do :cheeky:

[Tigga]

Um, ok... I don't see the problem. I just registered at your site and logged in/out just fine, and was redirected to your main index page as I should have been.
I did notice though that your "Want to Register?" and "Forgotten your Password" links there don't work... If you don't allow guests to view your forum or index page you should edit your username_loggedout template and change those 2 links to the full url to your forums.
You are also having an issue with cookies as well. What do you have set for your "Cookie Domain" and "Path to save cookies" in your main Admin CP options?

[mv540]

while you were having a look i made a change which seem to have fixed the redirect problem....

these are the changes i made from when i asked if everything looked ok....

i made the modification from this......

//header("Location: $url");

$url = str_replace("\"", "", $url);
eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_login")."\",\"\$url\");");
} else {
$bbuserinfo=getuserinfo($userid);
eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_login")."\",\"\$url\");");
}

to this....

}
//header("Location: $url");

$url = str_replace("\"", "", $url);
eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_login")."\",\"/index.php?s=$session[dbsessionhash]\");");
} else {
$bbuserinfo=getuserinfo($userid);
eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_login")."\",\"/index.php?s=$session[dbsessionhash]\");");
}

then the redirect problem seemed to have corrected itself.

as of for the cookie problem ive had that since day one..lol
i have no idea whats wrong...

here are my cookie settings in my admin cp...

GZIP compression level 1
Cookie Domain .mydomain.com (noted the 2 dots)
path to save cookies is /

is that correct?

[mv540]

Today at 09:43 PM Tigga said this in Post #1151 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=389023#post389023)
If you don't allow guests to view your forum or index page you should edit your username_loggedout template and change those 2 links to the full url to your forums.


can you give directions to doing this step, im still fairly new using vb...

thanks again for your patients tigga! cheers!

[Tigga]

The fix you did for the redirect problem should work, but the only drawback to doing it that way is that your users will be redirected to your homepage anytime they log in. I guess that wouldn't be an issue in your case though since they have to be logged in to view the site. :)
You cookie settings do seem to be correct. You could try changing the Cookie Domain and just leave it blank. The .mysite.com seems to work best for most people, but in a few cases it seems to work better if it's left blank instead.

As for changing that template, just edit that template in your Admin CP. You should see the 2 links there, so just add /forums/ in front of the url to each of them.

[mv540]

ok, one last and final check for any problems....this is very weird..at the log in page where you enter your name and password, all links work fine, but then the minute you click on the home button and then try to click on anything else, it gets page not displayed,

Will altering what you have instructed fix this problem?

im still alittle confused on what to add here...can you please advise...here is the info from the username_loggedout template. i dont want to mess things up so im asking you just to be certain. Can you please use example of my domain and where it should go?

<tr valign="top">
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Your User Name:</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="username" value="$bbuserinfo[username]" size="25">
&nbsp;&nbsp;</normalfont>
<smallfont><a href="register.php?action=signup">Want to register?</a>
</smallfont></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Your Password:</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><input type="password" class="bginput" name="password" value="" size="25">
&nbsp;&nbsp;</normalfont>
<smallfont><a href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=lostpw">Forgotten your password?</a>
</smallfont></td>
</tr>

[sjau]

Hello,

I have vB 2.3.0 and install worked all fine. No error what so ever (with weather also).
However I don't see any enhancements in the AdminCP. Isn't there supposed to be a new section?

Can you help me on that?

Thx!

[Tigga]

This is what you should have for that template...

<tr valign="top">
<td bgcolor="#1C5780"><normalfont><b>Your User Name:</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="#1C5780"><normalfont><input type="text" class="bginput" name="username" value="$bbuserinfo[username]" size="25">
</normalfont>
<smallfont><a href="/forums/register.php?action=signup">Want to register?</a>
</smallfont></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td bgcolor="#13486D"><normalfont><b>Your Password:</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="#13486D"><normalfont><input type="password" class="bginput" name="password" value="" size="25">
</normalfont>
<smallfont><a href="/forums/member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=lostpw">Forgotten your password?</a>
</smallfont></td>
</tr>

As for the links at the top, those are all in your header template. My suggestion would be to edit the links in that template as well and add /forums/ in front of each link there as well.

[Tigga]

sjau - Did you run the myvb_install.php file? If so you should see the new options at the very bottom of the main vBulletin Options page.

[mv540]

well i must say i really appreciate this tigga, thanks again for all your help. ill give it a shot and return with the results...

vb.org rocks! :glasses:

updated: SHES A SUCCESS TIGGA!...awsum! tanx :rambo:

[mv540]

tigga need help again..lol...we seem to have fixed all the links problem before a member signs in...but now when someone signs in, it takes them to the portal page like i wanted it to..but when links are clicked on in the portal page (ie: comment on a post, latest posts, buddy list etc etc etc....) it redirects people back to the log in page asking to enter name and password again even though it was already done.. :(

any suggestions ?

do i need to add /forums/ infront of everything in the myvbindex templates?...thats gonna take quite a long time... :cry:

[Tigga]

That sounds more like it's a problem with cookies. Did you try my suggestion of leaving the cookie domain blank?

[mv540]

yes cookies area as instructed left blank! :nervous:

[Tigga]

mv540 - Would you mind setting the account I registered to an Admin? If you would do that I'll take a look, test a few things, and see if I can figure out why it seems to be tossing cookies.

Also, what was the cookie domain set to before you installed mYvBindex? Did you change it after installing?

[sjau]

Tigga,

I did run it and as I mentioned before hand it did not print out any error. Maybe I'm the first one to test it on 2.3.0?
I also had another admin check the admin panel and he didn't see any enhanced options there either.

sjau

[mv540]

sure np....i dont think anything was there before installing myvbindex...i tried adding the domain (ie: .mydomain.com) for the cookie domain as per instructions in the admin cp..but like you said leaving it blank was best..cookies seem to be working great right now, atleast after signing out you cant get back in by clicking home..lol..but still something must be triggering the error..

ill switch you now..

[Tigga]

Ok, that's really odd... After trying some things on the homepage the cookies seem to work. What's weird though is if you go to the url http://www.yoursite.com, it seems to be different than if you go to http://yoursite.com (without the www). To see what I'm talking about, try going to your index page with the www's in the url and click on the "logout" link that's part of mYvBindex (not the button at the top, but the link). It doesn't work there because that uses your forum's url setting in the Admin CP, which doesn't have the www in front. However, if you click on the logout button in your header (which uses the url you are currently at) then it logs you out as it should. The only difference in those 2 links is that one of them has the www's in front of it. It really doesn't make sense why that would affect anything. Either way, I editing your index_welcometext template and changed the logout link so it would be the same as your logout button (basically removed $bburl and replaced it with /forums/) and it seems to work as it should. If it gives you any problems try clearing your cookies in your browser and it should work just fine. If not though let me know and I'll look into it further.

[mv540]

thanks ill play around with it abit...touch base with you shortly :)

[mv540]

nice work tigga..you got the links to work correctly in the portal...but now my log out inside the site & the portal logout isnt working. when i click on logout, it brings me back into the forum.

i think we are getting close to solving this though.. :cool:

[mv540]

its fixed tigga!...shes working now....i added .mydomain.com in the cookie area which was supposed to be left blank...works great..it logs out now when selected....but ill test it out abit more... :)

i think the template you edited corrected the problem :cool:

[Tigga]

Yep, it seems to be working fine as far as I can tell. That's still REALLY odd that it was behaving like that. I'm not quite sure why it was a problem, but at least it works now. :)

[mv540]

Today at 12:03 AM Tigga said this in Post #1170 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=389124#post389124)
Yep, it seems to be working fine as far as I can tell. That's still REALLY odd that it was behaving like that. I'm not quite sure why it was a problem, but at least it works now. :)

thanks man your the best...if you ever need a favor let me know :cool: ;) ill leave you registered at the site...pop in and say hello from time to time

[glo]

HI Tigga,

Does your hack give you control of the layout?

[Tigga]

glo - Yes, everything is completely template based, exactly the way vBulletin is. :)

[mv540]

tigga one last and final question...sorry to fill up this topic guys with my boring problems...but ive been searching for info on "view new posts" problem that im having for the past hour, came up empty handed. Thought maybe tigga, since he was on a roll, could help a guy whos really down on his luck today.

I want to increase the days for the new posts to remain. they dont seem to stick around to long.

thanks!

[mv540]

hello? anyone?

[Tigga]

Are you talking about the "View New Posts" link on the forums, or the Latest Threads section on mYvBindex?

[sjau]

Hiya Tigga,

it's just again me to bother you :) Thx for solving the other problem. I really was looking in the wrong spot.

Anyway, is there a simple way of embedding different myvBindex pages for different usergroups?

You see, I will host a Diablo 2 and a Counter Strike Clan and it would be nice if they both had their different news board, their different polls and different layout.

Is that possible?

[mv540]

Today at 02:33 AM Tigga said this in Post #1176 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=389210#post389210)
Are you talking about the "View New Posts" link on the forums, or the Latest Threads section on mYvBindex?

i guess i would need to alter both, one for my forum and one for the vbindex

thanks tigga

[Tigga]

sjau - Yes, that is possible with a bit of hacking. To do that you would open your myvbindex.php file and look for:

// News

Right above that you would want to add something like this:
if ($bbuserinfo['usergroupid']=='XX') {
$newsforum = 'A';
} elseif ($bbuserinfo['usergroupid']=='YY') {
$newsforum = 'B';
} else {
Then you would want to look for:
$DB_site->free_result($getnews);
unset($news);
And right below that add:

}


In the first bit of code you added you would need to change the variables accordingly. You would change the 'XX' and 'YY' there to the usergroupid's you want a different news forum for. Then you would change the place you see 'A' and 'B' to the forumid of the news forums you want for those usergroups. Then if you need to have more than two different groups that will see different news, you would add something like this, right above the } else { statement at the end there:

} elseif ($bbuserinfo['usergroupid']=='ZZ') {
$newsforum = 'C';

That should be about it. Any usergroups that you have specified above will see news from the forum specified, and anyone not in one of those usergroups will see your news from your default news forum.


mv540 - Off the top of my head I'm not sure what would need to be changed to have the new topics stay around longer. I'm pretty sure that goes by the last time a user visited your site, but I don't remember for sure. You could probably find an answer if you asked in the General Hacking Discussion forum though.

[sjau]

Hiya Tigga,

thx for that quick reply... I try to get some kind of modular hack. I know PHP but I have not all too good skills at it.
Maybe you want to integrate this then somehow....

[Tigga]

The instructions above shouldn't be that hard to follow. If you're having problems with part of them let me know and I can most likely help you out. :)

[sjau]

Thx Tigga,

I'll try my best. Just one more question. Is it possible to de/activate features in the myvbindex.php file that are turned on/off in the admin CP?

Can the myvbindex.php file also reside OUTSIDE the main forum pages? If so I could give FTP access to the clans for each webfolder where they then can upload layout graphics and modify their own myvbindex.php file.

[Mythril]

Hi Tigga I have a small question. Is it possible to addon custom pages such as staff.php with your own html in the middle and have the side blocks with the file?

[Heffe2000]

I'm trying to get my latest posts to show who posted last on the thread, but when I make the changes posted in an earlier message, the date changes to a date in 1969, and the last poster name doesn't change (I made all changes that were listed in the message previously).

I'm using version 3.1 if that helps any...

[Tigga]

sjau - By de/activating the features shown in the Admin CP, are you saying you would like to remove some of them? And yes, the file can be placed in any folder you would like.

Mythril - If you'll refer to this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=348560#post348560), it will show you how to add one seperate page in place of the news. Then if you'll look at the instructions I posted here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=349929#post349929) to Matrix, that will tell you what you would need to do to add more than one seperate page if needed.

Heffe2000 - If you followed the instructions in that post then you shouldn't have any problems. I would recomend undoing the changes you made and make sure it was done correctly. Or if you want to upgrade to v3.2 of the hack this is already included. You will have to change the place of some of the variables since it shows the last poster and time when you hold the mouse over the thread, but it would just be modifying some HTML in the template. :)

[sjau]

Tigga,

it's cool to run the file from every folder. However I have one more question (I'm really sorry, I just wanna get it as perfect as possible!!!):

As I mentioned above I will host at least two clans. This means there is a main category "Clan Center" and one of the Clan has a sub-category "=wOw=". Within this category there are the clan forums.

It will not easily be possible to tweak your index file that much that it will display the 10 newest "=wOw=" threads?

If you just don't have a solution at hand I will have to look for one then..

Anyway, thx again for that great script!

[Tigga]

sjau - That wouldn't be hard to do, but what you would need to do depends on exactly how you're using the script. I'm assuming you're planning on using 2 seperate files placed in seperate folders. If that's the case, you would just need to open your myvbindex.php file and look for:

WHERE open<>10 $iforumperms

And replace that with:

WHERE open<>10 AND forumid=XX
(replace XX there with your =wOw= forumid)

I'm not sure I see what you're trying to do with using the script in different folders though... The style, graphics, and most everything visual is controlled by the templates and nothing in the actual php file. There's probably a way you can accomplish this though styles, but I don't see the point in having more than one script installed in different folders. Of course it's possible that I'm misinterpreting what you're trying to do, but I was just making sure you weren't wasting time on something that wouldn't work right. :)

[glo]

Hi Tigga,

On your own site, the image that is in the centre column, just inserted into a template?

[Tigga]

Yes, that image is just placed in the index template above the $newsbits variable.

[glo]

Would it then be possible to replicate my main page (http://www.glo-racing.com/v3/main.html)

[sjau]

Hiya Tigga,

thanks for your help. I will try to accomplish that on the weekend.

You see, for the two clans I'm hosting I would like to have clan individual entry pages since both clans have each their own entry pages.

This way clan 1 will have displayed the 10 newest threads regarding their clan while clan 2 has the 10 newest threads regarding clan 2.
The will be in different locations for each clan. They also have some webspace available where they can add other things. They could for example host their whole website there.

[madhouse]

Hi tigga ,

Tried adding additional custom boxes but even with modifing the index.php(named to that from myvbindex.php) and add the templates , plus added $custom3 , 4 , and 5 .. It does not want to show them.

Also any way to add these extras to the admins panel so they can be turned off or on?

[jarvis]

Tigga,

It's good to see that you are still working on this script.

So here's my situation... I am myVbindex 2.0. Do I need to re-install, and will I lose my 'multiple instances' that you helped me setup before.

(reference: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44691&perpage=15&highlight=myvbindex&display=&pagenumber=21 )

I want to take advantage of your maintenance releases, but I want to understand what work lies in front of me.

Thanks!!

[ivanmcp]

Hi Tigga,

I was wandering if the 'Latest Forum Topics' feature can display message body as well as title (which it does).

Reason I ask is that I have been using Tubedoq's 'Last 10 posts' hack, which gives an option to turn message body to be displayed on/off. It also has an option to say how many letters do be shown; like your does for the message title. I have configured myvbindex 3.2 and it works a treat. But in order to lure visitors to the forum, I like to show them a bit of a message body as well on my home page.

[Tigga]

glo - Yes, it should be possible replicate that page. Everything is controlled by templates, so it should just be a matter of modifying the html in the templates to fit your needs

madhouse - If you'll refer to this post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=341569#post341569), it will tell you how to add the options to turn those templates on/off in the Admin CP.

jarvis - It's been quite a while since v2.0 and I don't think I even have a copy on my computer to compare 3.2 to anymore. Unfortunately I think your best bet would be to uninstall the script, and then do a new install of 3.2. You should be able to follow the same instructions though to have multiple instances of the script working, but if you have any problems let me know and I'll be glad to help.

ivanmcp - I'm not sure if there would be a way to do that without having quite a few additional queries on your homepage. I tried testing a few methods but didn't see a good way to do that without a lot of queries, or quite a bit of extra work. If you don't mind having an additional query on the page for each thread you have displayed then I can tell you how you could do it that way, but I wouldn't recommend it.

[ivanmcp]

Tigga,

If you don't mind having an additional query on the page for each thread you have displayed then I can tell you how you could do it that way, but I wouldn't recommend it.

I would not mind seeing what is involved. But if you have no time, I think I can bring Tubedoq's script in there somewhere. I am not worried about additional queries, as I am not including many of the boxes on my test page of mYvBindex. I only use Calendar, Poll, Weather, News and Latest Forum Topics boxes.

For some reason, I preffer myvbindex to the other alternatives. If I can create my vision using mYvBindex, I will have to reward your effort that you put into this thing. Man, looking through this thread, you never get tired of constant 'technical support'. I wish I knew the way to search through this thread alone, and not the whole board, as it is getting far too long now. You need forum of your own :).

Enough of praise, off to play with templates. Once finished, I'll invite you to have a look. :)

[Tigga]

Thanks for all the compliments ivanmcp. :)
Just for future reference, there is a "search thread" feature. It's at the bottom of every thread here. ;)

Well to pull the contents of the post as well, here's what you would need to do... Open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
$lastposttime = vbdate("$timeformat",$thread['lastpost']);
Right Above that Add:

*Edit* The codes got messed up since there were so many vB code's in there, so I'm attaching it in a text file for you.

(I just borrowed the str_replace options from tubedogg's hack. ;)) Then at the very top part of that code you'll see $maxpostchars='50'. You would just change 50 to however many characters of the post you want it to display before it replaces the rest with "...". Then you would just add $pagetext in your index_threadbit template wherever you would like to display the text. It should be pretty easy, but if you have any problems let me know.

[ivanmcp]

Thanks for that, I will check it out later on today.

And as far as search this thread option is cencerned, lets all say it together, on 3:

1 ..... 2 ..... 3 ...... DDOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

edit: nice hack, but should be placed somewhat higher. One never scrolls down to the copyright notice.

[ivanmcp]

Thanx Tigga,

It worked first time, and as you said, it was easy. It is not often that I can make something work in a first go.

I am cracking on with work on my site...

[Tigga]

Glad to hear it's working ok. When I tested it on my site the queries were rather small, so hopefully there won't be too much of a performance hit. :)
And I agree the Search Thread option might be better if it was placed somewhere else. I don't think I even saw it until I saw someone else that posted about using it.

[Alien]

Tigga: Hey, thanks so much for the help with the source add-on! I'll give it a try!

-Jason

[glo]

"clicks install" ;)

Hi Tigga,
Thanks for the hack! :D Im going to play around with the layout to suit my website.

If I wanted to shuffle them around is there any easy way to do it?

[DarkDraco07]

Hey, i just recently moved to a new server and everything was working fine. since i moved the vbindex page hasnt been working. is there something i forgot to change?

[Tigga]

glo - No problem. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. :) What exactly do you mean by "shuffel them around"?

DarkDraco - What error is it giving you? Did you change the path to your forums folder in your myvbindex.php file?

[glo]

Hi Tigga,

What i mean is...

Ideally I would like 2 have only 2 columns, The News in the centre and the user cp, active users, custom templates and polls all on the right column instead of the left hand side.

As I dont want to use the Latest Forum topics.

[Tigga]

Ahh ok. Yes, you can do that by editing the index template and changing the table structure there.

[ivanmcp]

Login to your forum admin, click on Templates (bottom left), then Modify.
If not expanded, click on Expand, then find mYvBindex Templates and click [expand].
From there, click on index [edit] . This is the default template, where I commented all the columns:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<!-- end no cache headers -->
<META NAME="title" CONTENT="$hometitle">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="">

<TITLE>$hometitle</TITLE>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$index_header

<table width="100%" cellspacing="10"><tr align="left" valign="top">

<!-- LEFT COLUMN -->

<td width="165">

$welcometext

$buddylist

$loggedinusers

$search

$custom1

$currentpoll

$currentweather

</td>

<!-- END LEFT COLUMN -->

<!-- MIDDLE COLUMN -->

<td valign="top">$newsbits</td>

<!-- END MIDDLE COLUMN -->

<!-- RIGHT COLUMN -->

<td valign="top" width="170">

$custom2

$stats

$calendar

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#0A293E" width="100%"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%">
<tr id="cat"><td bgcolor="#1D6AA0"><smallfont color="#000000"><b>Latest Forum Topics</b></font></smallfont></td></tr>
$threadbits</table></td></tr></table>

</td>

<!-- END RIGHT COLUMN -->

</tr></table>
$index_footer
</body></html>

So, to move eg. weather box to the right column, just type $calendar in your left column where you want it to appear.
To copy all right hand column items to the left, you just move everything from right column between <td> and </td> tags, and then delete those (<td> and </td>).

This will leave you with only two columns.

[DarkDraco07]

hey Tigga, back on my old forum i changed the file to index.php. i made about 3 copies of this index.php for different pages in folders. they all worked fine. since i moved to the new site i dont get an error, it tries to load the page for like 10 minutes at a blank page then it gives me a page not found. www.darknemesis.com check it out

[Tigga]

That's odd that it would just give you a blank page like that. The best thing I could suggest would be to double check that all the templates are there. There's not anything else I can think of off the top of my head, so if you would like to set me up a temporary admin account at your forums and possibly FTP access to your server I'll log in and take a look. Oh, and I can't see anything on your site right now as you have your forums closed. I'm seeing the closed message on your homepage though, so that would mean parts of the script are actually working right.

[Shawnn]

I'm getting this error

Warning: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 606 is not allowed to access /home/virtual/site101/fst/var/www/html owned by uid 0 in /home/virtual/site101/fst/var/www/html/index.php on line 16

Warning: Unable to access ./global.php in /home/virtual/site101/fst/var/www/html/index.php on line 19

Is this because my shared hosting is in safe mode and you have to turn of safe mode for the Vbindexpage to work?

[Tigga]

As far as I know safe mode shouldn't have an effect on the script. What did you set in the chdir part of your myvbindex.php file?

[glo]

Yesterday at 01:09 AM ivanmcp said this in Post #1207 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=391771#post391771)
Login to your forum admin, click on Templates (bottom left), then Modify.

So, to move eg. weather box to the right column, just type $calendar in your left column where you want it to appear.
To copy all right hand column items to the left, you just move everything from right column between <td> and </td> tags, and then delete those (<td> and </td>).

This will leave you with only two columns.


Thanks Ivanmcp

[Shawnn]

Yesterday at 08:44 PM Tigga said this in Post #1211 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=392043#post392043)
As far as I know safe mode shouldn't have an effect on the script. What did you set in the chdir part of your myvbindex.php file?


I have my chdir as www.nytech.ca/forums

[Tigga]

Shawnn - You need to put the path to your forums there, not the URL. Try /home/virtual/site101/fst/var/www/html/forums

[Shawnn]

thanks that did the trick :cool:

[certify]

I wanted to have news taken from 2 forums, anyway how do I do that?

[Tigga]

Shawnn - Glad you got it working. :)

certify - Yes. In your News Forum ID field, just put
XX OR forumid=YY
(Replace XX and YY with your news forum id's.)

[reismarktq2]

Two major problems I need help with ASAP.

The regular part of the script installed OK, but I ran into a stonewall when I tried to install the weather script (the install script keeps giving me a "This page cannot be displayed - Cannot find server or DNS Error"). I have made the necessary changes to the functions.php file, so that shouldn't be causing a problem...

Also, Latest Forum Headlines is checking threads in forums that have been designated as private... I DON'T want it to do that.

Help!

[Harken]

I did a fresh install...first time ever...and i just ended up with a blank page..i did check the path on myvbindex.php and its correct..
if you would like to look goto home.udgnet.com

[Goat Boy]

Here is where I am at, everything is installed and looks good except for 1 problem I cannot figure out so I have to post, Once I am on myVbindex page I cannot get to the main forums page to view all of my forums, I have been bashing my head trying to figure it out but cannot find where I went wrong.

[Tigga]

reismarktq2 - I think you're the 4th person now to complain about this problem... If you're sure that you've uploaded the weather_install.php file to your admin directory and you are going to the correct url, then I'm not really sure what the problem would be. If you would like to set me up a temporary admin account at your forums and a FTP account then I'll be glad to take a look and see if I can figure out what the problem is. Other than that though there's not much I can do.

Harken - Did you run the install file and do you see the index templates in your Admin CP?

Goat Boy - What do you mean you can't get to your forums? You can't find a link, or your forums page won't load? Can you post here or PM me with a link to your site?

[glo]

Today at 08:04 AM Goat Boy said this in Post #1220 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=392871#post392871)
Here is where I am at, everything is installed and looks good except for 1 problem I cannot figure out so I have to post, Once I am on myVbindex page I cannot get to the main forums page to view all of my forums, I have been bashing my head trying to figure it out but cannot find where I went wrong.


You can get to the forums by clicking a link from the "latest Forum Topics" .

Alternatively, modify your header to include a link to the forums.

[reismarktq2]

Tigga: Please check your PM's...

[Tigga]

Looking into it now. :)

[Goat Boy]

Yesterday at 08:31 PM glo said this in Post #1222 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=392913#post392913)
You can get to the forums by clicking a link from the "latest Forum Topics" .

Alternatively, modify your header to include a link to the forums.


I can click on the new posts in the "latest Forum Topics", to the forums but when I would like to view the foums as a whole that is where my problem lies.

GB

[Harken]

yes and yes...i checked..

[Goat Boy]

Ok Tigga figured out my 1st problem Thanks, I have 1 more question, is there a way to have myvbinbex.php and index.php in the same root folder but have myvbindex.php load first when you go to the webpage with just typing in www.yoursite.com/forums?

[Jacko]

ok tigga i have found 2 problems.

1. When i add smilies to my forum and use them in a news post it doesnt show any of my new smilies??

2. When the main index.php checks for a users Private Messages it pops up and says you have a new message. so i click ok and it sends me to:

www.realmods.net/private.php?s=

instead of:
http://www.realmods.net/forum/private.php?s=

how do i fix this??

[Tigga]

Harken - I'm really not sure why you would get a blank page like that if all the templates are installed and installed... If you would like to set me up a temporary admin account & FTP account and PM me with the details I'll gladly take a look to see what the problem is.

Goat Boy - There may be a way you could redirect users to your myvbindex page rather than the index page, but I'm not too familiar with redirects so I'm not sure how easy that would be to do. Alternatly you could rename your original index.php file and change the places in vBulletin and it's templates that calls your index.php page. I've never had a reason to do anything like that, so I'm not sure how hard it would be.

Jacko - When you put in the path to the smilies are you putting in the full path to them (ex /forums/images/whatever.gif)?
Thanks for pointing out the PM thing. I've been meaning to put instructions for that in the readme file for a while now and have forgotten every time I made an update. To fix that you just need to look in your head_newpm template and find private.php in two places. Replace that with $bburl/private.php both times.

[Goat Boy]

The redirect is a good idea but I do not have that option with my current webhost :( I created a seperate directory and having it working thanks for your time Tigga, you are a busy man!.

GB

[Roxie]

Sorry, I tried to read all 80 pages. Does this work with 2.3.0?
Thanks in advance.

[Goat Boy]

It is working for me using 2.3.0. You did better than me, I could only read through 30 before I got bored.

GB

[Roxie]

Hey, thanks for the fast reply.

[Tigga]

10-17-02 at 05:20 AM Tigga said this in Post #1 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=310698#post310698)
Tested and stable with vBulletin v2.6+

You didn't have to read 80 pages. Just the first post. ;)

[jarvis]

Tigga,

I reinstalled and upgraded to 3.x, however some strange behaviour with news posts.

All replies/comments to a news post are showing up as individual news posts?

Has this been covered?

What I did was change the

WHERE forumid=41 OR forumid=42 OR forumid=39 OR forumid=47 AND isnews='Y'

to pull news from multiple forums.

Thanks!

[Jacko]

Yesterday at 07:22 PM Tigga said this in Post #1229 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=394188#post394188)

Jacko - When you put in the path to the smilies are you putting in the full path to them (ex /forums/images/whatever.gif)?
Thanks for pointing out the PM thing. I've been meaning to put instructions for that in the readme file for a while now and have forgotten every time I made an update. To fix that you just need to look in your head_newpm template and find private.php in two places. Replace that with $bburl/private.php both times.


sorted :)

excellent and quick reply and straight to the point (am still yet to get a PM on my main page though, maybe cause no-one wants to PM me :()

[Jacko]

i get the following error messahge when trying to enable HTML in the news forum??

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.9:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE forum
SET
styleid='1', title='Site News', description='All the sites news posts are viewable in here.',
active='1', displayorder='2', parentid='1', parentlist='13,1,-1',
allowposting='1', cancontainthreads='1', daysprune='30',
newpostemail='', newthreademail='',
moderatenew='0', allowhtml='1', allowbbcode='1',
allowimages='1', allowsmilies='1', allowicons='1',
styleoverride='0', allowratings='1', countposts='1',
moderateattach='0', allowdollaroffers =
WHERE forumid='13'
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 'WHERE forumid='13'' at line 11

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Wednesday 14th of May 2003 02:16:59 PM
Script: http://www.realmods.net/forum/forum/admin/forum.php
Referer: http://www.realmods.net/forum/admin/forum.php?s=&action=edit&forumid=13

and ideas??

[Jacko]

right its not just the news forum its all of them.. hmm maybe post this in another forum..?! :(

[Tigga]

jarvis - That's odd... Was it giving you problems before you changed the newsforumid part? You could try changing that query to something like this:
WHERE isnews='Y' AND forumid=41 OR forumid=42 OR forumid=39 OR forumid=47
If that doesn't work let me know.

Jacko - That's something to do with a hack you've installed. I can tell you it's something to do with the "allowdollaroffers = " part, but that's about it...

[Angelus]

Hello.
I did not want to read now 83 sides.
Therefore I write my request times at the risk that it was already times answered.

One can change that somehow that one can from the index gentleman out with a Vote co-ordinate and then to the inquiry is not linked, but to the index side back comes. And the same also with that log in.

Naturally one is not to that to then co-ordinate from the forum with the index to come.
Thus nevertheless already a little distorted the whole.

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Und jetzt noch mal auf Deutsch. Die Google ?bersetztung ist echt grausam ;)
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Hallo.
Ich wollte jetzt nicht 83 Seiten durchlesen.
Daher schreibe ich mein Anliegen mal auf die Gefahr hin, dass es schon mal beantwortet wurde.

Kann man das irgendwie ?ndern, dass man aus den Index herraus bei einem Vote abstimmen kann und dann nicht zu der Umfrage gelinkt wird, sondern zu der Index Seite zur?ck kommt.
Und das gleiche auch auch mit den einloggen.

Nat?rlich soll man dann nicht nach den abstimmen vom Forum auf den Index kommen.
Also doch schon ein wenig verzwickt das ganze.

[Tigga]

Angelus - I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time making out what you're trying to say. I'm guessing you're having some kind of a problem with the poll section and users logging in? If you could try to explain the problem again and possibly post a link to your website here I'll try to help.

[Cygnus]

and I read as much of the thread as I could before posting...

I can no longer log out from the boards. I have messed with the options in my profile but nothing is working.

No one else can log out, either.

Help?

[Cygnus]

Nope... resolved it by going with one dot on the cookie:

survivoraddicts.com

I have myvbindex.php on a master domain and the boards on a subdomain.

Works flawlessly and looks great! Very nice work!

http://www.survivoraddicts.com/

[Cygnus]

One small issue and maybe a setting that I am overlooking will do the trick.

I am not logged in and there is a thread that is happening in our Moderator's Forum which I would rather not show up on the "Latest Forum Topics" on myvbindex.php. Is there some way to exclude certain boards from showing up there? (When I click on the link it doesn't allow me to see it but I would rather exclude the entire board if I can.)

Any way to do this?

[Tigga]

Check that your forum permissions are set correctly, and double check that the "Use custom settings" radio button is selected at the top (that seems to be something that's very often overlooked). As long as all the permissions are set correctly it will only pull threads the user has permission to see.

[Cygnus]

That seems to have done the trick!

Great hack, man. Way up there... with the Arcade. Well done!

[Littlebit]

Oddly enough, I'm havng a bit of trouble logging out and am having it mentioned to me by a few users now too. I've done so many changes though and can't pinpoint why. I've also added PhotoPost and intergrated it with vB...could something be messing up my cookie stuff with MyvBindex? If I log out via vB's index and then go to myvbindex...it has me still logged in.
Tigga, could you lend me a hand with it? I'm stumped with what happened.
Everything is only on one domain for me.

[Tigga]

Hrmmm... What do you have set for your "Cookie Domain" and "Path to save cookies" options and/or what have you tried setting those to? I'm assuming you've tried clearing your cookies as well, right?

[Littlebit]

I have domain at: .mysite.com
path: /
I now think it's having to do with the damn PhotoPost intergration. I cleared all cookies and logged in and out fine...until I visited the photo gallery...it's like it's placing a separate set of cookies or something weird. I guess I should visit their forums and try to figure this out.

[Tigga]

If you can log in from the forums and index page fine then it would definitely be a problem with PhotoPost. I vaguely remember having some kind of problem like that when I used PhotoPost, but I've written my own photo gallery since then and it's been a while since I've used it.