mYvBindex v3.1

[Zachery]

because originally with mYvBindex it tells you to change the cookie domain to effect .domain.com so if it isnt effecting the root where the portal is your not gonna have much luck

[arracing]

Forum1 cookie domain is .teamrevolution.net and path is /forums

My cookie domain was set tho to effect the whole domain. Thats why I couldnt understand why it was not working.

[Zachery]

have you cleared your cookies after making the changes?

[phenomenon]

I read up to about page 30 and didn't see an answer, forgive me for not reading all.

Somewhere in there I saw a request from Tigga for new features. Is it plausible to keep track of a specific thread using mYvBindex? Or would that bog things down too much?

example: we have a very funny fellow who has an "Ask Blahblah" thread, where people post questions and he replies with amazingly comedic things. I'd like to have the latest post from that single thread tracked on the index page. Is that possible already? Did I miss it?

[phenomenon]

<edit>I had a poll problem, but it was a PEBCAK error: Problem exists Between Chair And Keyboard</edit>

second problem: i am trying to modify the $welcometext to sit in the $index_header (basically making it a long thin strip to sit in a central <td>). I edited the mYvBindex header, made a table, made a <td>, entered $welcometext and </td>. Nothing showed up when I tested it.

I was able to copy the code out of $welcometext and alter it to fit in my header, but if I log in as unregistered or logout, I don't get the login/pw script like I do with the $welcometext control panel. I don't understand it well enough to know why $welcometext won't show up when inserted into another mYvBindex template? Any ideas?

Thanks!

[zeidlern]

Today at 01:10 AM phenomenon said this in Post #1755 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=432419#post432419)
<edit>I had a poll problem, but it was a PEBCAK error: Problem exists Between Chair And Keyboard</edit>

second problem: i am trying to modify the $welcometext to sit in the $index_header (basically making it a long thin strip to sit in a central <td>). I edited the mYvBindex header, made a table, made a <td>, entered $welcometext and </td>. Nothing showed up when I tested it.

I was able to copy the code out of $welcometext and alter it to fit in my header, but if I log in as unregistered or logout, I don't get the login/pw script like I do with the $welcometext control panel. I don't understand it well enough to know why $welcometext won't show up when inserted into another mYvBindex template? Any ideas?

Thanks!

There is a order that things are called the the index file. If something is below something else it won't show up.

[phenomenon]

hmm. So if the welcome text is called out of order (for example anywhere before or during the index_header), then it won't work right? Is that what you mean?

[Zachery]

because its not getting evaled

take a look at index.php inside your forums directory and look for $welcometext

this should show a few lines of code that make welcometext get evaled copy whats under it into the end of myvbindex.php before the ?>

that should work

[phenomenon]

I opened the myvbindex.php and found that there is an eval in there --

eval("\$welcometext = \"".gettemplate('index_logincode')."\";");

should I replace that with the forum index eval?

this doesn't make sense to me -- the $welcometext works in the myvbindex index template, but not in the index_header template.

[phenomenon]

Today at 05:30 PM Faranth said this in Post #1758 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=432424#post432424)
because its not getting evaled

take a look at index.php inside your forums directory and look for $welcometext

this should show a few lines of code that make welcometext get evaled copy whats under it into the end of myvbindex.php before the ?>

that should work


doh. nope that didn't work.

[phenomenon]

bah. worked around it. removed the lower half of my header and put it at the top of the index page. Now it works.

The poll doesn't work.

I posted a new poll, it shows up on the index page, but when I click to vote, I get this:

http://beast.markofthebeast.net/beastforumtest/search.php

However, it works fine from within the poll forum. Just not from the index.

ideas?

also, anyone know how to follow a specific thread id?

[Zachery]

lol sorry about the confusion :\ i havent looked at vb2 code in a while im using vb3 now :\

what zeidlern was saying is true youd need to move the $welcometext eval up so it gets evaled before the header

i think :\

[phenomenon]

Ooooh... Ok THANKS!

welp, I already resolved it by moving 3/5 of my header stuff out of the header into the index -- looks the same, just set up diff in the CP.

I'm really confounded by the polls... I set up a new test poll last night. When I vote on my windows box, it redirects me to the search page (search.php).

However, when I vote using Safari or IE 5.3.2 on the mac, it works fine!

I also am still looking for a way to track a specific thread on the home page. I have the code from mYvBindex that shows the latest threads (most recent), but looking through the php, and being an actionscript/flash monkey rather than a php coder, I don't know how to set it up to track a specific thread id.

Basically, one of the people that post on our forum is hysterical, and has a running thread called "Ask TheAsada". I'd like the most recent two replies in the Ask TheAsada thread displayed on the home page.

can someone direct me to another hack that does this? Maybe I can figure out how to hash them together.

my development site is beast.markofthebeast.net -- it's closed to new registrars at the moment while I build the thing, as I don't want my usual community in there until I'm done (they're at www.markofthebeast.net/forums). I'll probably be opening it up pretty soon, though, as the polls problem is really the only thing left.

[Zachery]

ok, well im not sure how to slove your poll problem but im glad everything eless has worked out

[phenomenon]

thanks faranth. I dunno what the heck is up with polls.

so all I need now is help setting up tracking an individual thread. Can someone direct me to previous posts/other threads where I could see how to do this?

[Zachery]

i dunno if its been done, try searching if you dont find it while seraching try looking into requests

[phenomenon]

well I'm stupid. I forgot the </form> in the search code when I re-laid it out, so when you'd vote it would search instead.

it all works now.

[phenomenon]

We're trying to figure out if this is what we're looking to do on our site: basically we want to set up different index pages in different directories that call news from the same vBulletin, but different forum ID's. It LOOKS like this is what this does, but I want to make sure before I break anything.

Example: We're re-developing our gaming site. We have our main page that is general news, etc. Then we have some specific game pages that live in their own directories that we want to have track their own news forums. So our main page is at our yourdomain.com/myvbindex.php, the gaming pages would be at yourdomain.com/games/game1/index_game1.php

would this work?

Mono - Something like that could be done fairly easily. I know I already explained how to do it somewhere in this thread, but I couldn't find it by searching, so I'll just explain it again. :)

If you'll open your myvbindex.php file and look for this line:

// News

Right above that you'll want to place some coding like this:

if ($action=="newpage") {
eval("\$newsbits = \"".gettemplate('index_newpage')."\";");
} else {
Then you'll want to look for this line:
$DB_site->free_result($getnews);
unset($news);
}
Right below that you will want to add another }

Then you'll want to create a template called index_newpage (of course you can call it whatever you'd like, just be sure to change the name in the code above).

Then to link to that page, you would use the url http://yoursite.com/myvbindex.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=newpage
And again the "newpage" part after the action can be changed to whatever you'd like, just be sure to change that in your coding as well.

[Asso]

it works with vB 3?

[kid_ttvn]

help me!
I setup good!
But logo not show on my portal, in forum is show.

Help me fix it.
What template must edit to change URL for logo?

Thank you for help

[phenomenon]

Kid TTVN: I am no expert. However, go to:

Styles

click "Modify"

click "[fonts/colors/etc]"

find the text that says:

image paths

and make sure that

"title image path:" is set to your title image path. (for example, /yourforum/images/yourforumimage.jpg

[Blizzb]

ZIP files corrupted!!!!!

[kid_ttvn]

Kid TTVN: I am no expert. However, go to:

Styles

click "Modify"

click "[fonts/colors/etc]"

find the text that says:

image paths


and make sure that

"title image path:" is set to your title image path. (for example, /yourforum/images/yourforumimage.jpg

Thanks for help!
I know about that but if I change: images/vBulletin_logo.gif to forum/images/vBulletin_logo.gif is at portal: logo show but in forum not show.

When I setup Portal finished: all picture at portal not show. So I must to change all src of image in template.

Now only logo is not show. But I don't know that Template to edit!!!

help me again, thanks.

[Blizzb]

Why do I get "Parse Error on line 12" for myvbindex.php?

[Zachery]

uhh did you open up myvbindex.php and edit it yet?

[Zachery]

Thanks for help!
I know about that but if I change: images/vBulletin_logo.gif to forum/images/vBulletin_logo.gif is at portal: logo show but in forum not show.

When I setup Portal finished: all picture at portal not show. So I must to change all src of image in template.

Now only logo is not show. But I don't know that Template to edit!!!

help me again, thanks.about that

change it to your full domain name


www.mysite.com/forums/images/ (http://www.mysite.com/forums/images/)

that way it will show regardless of where its at





@ Asso

not yet RC1 must be released for a copy to be distributed

altho it is working in beta

www.digitalkore.net (http://www.digitalkore.net)

[Shadow_NL]

I have two problems:

1: Every time news is posted I need to update the news from the install in order to make them show up. Is there a way to make them automatically show up?
2: I'm using the "Multiple News forums from different links - by Tigga" addon, and it used to work fine, but now that I added a news forum with an id which is over 100, all it shows is an empty page: http://www.gamersunited.net/index.php?action=supremestarcraft . Is there a way to fix this?

[Asso]

weel i used mYvBIndex on my old vb2.3.0 powered board. I must say that this hack rocks but now i have vB 3.0.0 and i really need a little portal system like mYvBi.

How long for the stable relase?

[Zachery]

@asso

when the devs released RC1 i belive tigga will release the beta


@shadow

you shouldnt have to run the install to make the news show up :\

and for your invsable page, no clue, i never did any addons :\

[Blizzb]

uhh did you open up myvbindex.php and edit it yet?

Yes... how should I edit?

[Zachery]

word pad ......


if you read the readme there are a list of file edits and template edits to follow

[o0stephane0o]

I have the problem that Shadow NL, The posts I make in the News section don´t appear on the main page but it used to work before. What happened and how can I fix it?

[Zachery]

check to make sure you did all the steps in the install process all file edits, if you have just upgraded your board from 2.X.X to a newer version of 2.x.x you will need to reinstall. follow the instuctions

[phenomenon]

I need quick clarification that I'm not going to have security issues later -- I PM'd tigga a few days ago, but have never heard back, and I'm a bit concerned in the meantime:

I set up an if statement to have multiple 'news' pages. Basically I have a home page that reads from the News forum, then I have game pages that act as portals as well -- they read not only from their own news sections, but their own polls sections, and their own $custom templates. I did all this using and slightly altering the 'if' statement code posted earlier in this thread -- basically updated it to include swapping out custom templates for other custom templates in the if using evals. That code all works fine.

What wasn't working was setting up the $threadbits (the 'latest topics') to read from ONLY ONE SPECIFIC FORUM
on the game - pages. So to be utterly clear: My HOME page reads ALL latest threads (depending on the users perms as set in $iforumperms). The sub-game home page should read ONLY from a single public gaming forum.

There are posts in this thread on how to do this (using AND forumid!=XX in specific places in the permissions code) to exclude forums from ALL threadbits, no matter what home page or sub-home page is being used. However, in order to accomplish what I want to do, which is exclude all forums except the one I want on specific sub-home pages (my game pages), I had to copy and paste the threadbits code into my if statement, then from that specific $threadbits code I had to remove the $iforumperms:
WHERE open<>10 $iforumperms ORDER BY lastpost DESC LIMIT $maxlatethreads");
and replace it with AND forumid=2 like this:
WHERE open<>10 AND forumid=2 ORDER BY lastpost DESC LIMIT $maxlatethreads");

Ok, THIS WORKED FINE -- the sub game home page seems to only read posts from that forum who's id = 2, and from nowhere else. The News page still reads from $iforumperms and shows whatever the user is allowed to see based on their group or settings.

My question is: Is this going to cause a security problem in the future that anyone can think of?

http://beast.markofthebeast.net home page
http://beast.markofthebeast.net?action=swg game page

[Zachery]

AFAIK i dont think it will, im tiggas sorta replacement while hes away working on his house and job and such and im trying to do my best to do support, he did have an addon some where back that would let you do custom pages...

this should work fine

[phenomenon]

Oh sweet, thanks for replying so fast Far!

I know that there are issues with posting another coder's code without their permission. In skimming this behemoth of a thread I must have missed that he's not checking regularly and you took over. Please let me know if I should edit anything out of my post of his code that shouldn't be there.

take care!

[Zachery]

i havent taken over as im no CODER i have just worked with this specifc program enuf to understand most of its problems, im just trying to help :)

[phenomenon]

Aah I see.

You ever integrate Gallery into myvbindex?

[Zachery]

nope :)

altho if you want to see something cool click my sig and look at the very bottom of the page

[phenomenon]

doh, "page cannot be displayed"

I'm behind a proxy server. this is off topic, I'll PM you.

[Zachery]

intresint

im just running the beta of myvbindex

[Marzas]

i'd love to know how to get catergory images to work on this, but when ever i try, it always stuffs up and new tables come up and stuff.

can you give me a working code around the $new[title] block to give me catergory images on the left and right side?

[Zachery]

if your talking about my page?


im using CSS from vb3 and it carrys over to the new code

if you want to add a bg image you should just have to find the <td> and change it into <td background="">

of course add the path to the image

[Marzas]

nuh, the code to have the 2 catergory images.

[Marzas]

you know, one image on the right and one on the left?

[Marzas]

anyone?

[phenomenon]

sorry I have no clue what you're talking about. category images?

[Zachery]

i think he means he wants to add 2 images to either side with a center bg and text in the center

ask over at vBulletintemplates.com

[Marzas]

ahh, but you see i know how to do it on normal catergories, but it seems whenever i do it to the news[title] area, i always get a table which outstreachs the page, and leaves everything weird. just try to do it to your test bored or whatever and see if you can get anywhere.

[Zachery]

im still suggesitn that you go to vBulletintemplates.com there they might be able to help better

[Marzas]

k, what should i ask? should i put my copy of the mYvbindex_newsbit template and ask them to help out?

[Marzas]

k done, just hope i get a reply!

[ViewMy.biz]

Except for the weather portion and what I post below the VBIndex works fine with vBulletin 2.3.2

OK here is the problem: I get this message

Warning: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 502 is not allowed to access /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/hotpage owned by uid 0 in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/hotpage/myvbindex.php3 on line 7

The line it says is in question is the ine that asks to change

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

PLEASE Help

[Zachery]

you didnt define your full path correctly

you need to figure out your full path...

i had a prolbme with this just yesterday with a differnt script ask your admin to find your full path

[ViewMy.biz]

you didnt define your full path correctly

you need to figure out your full path...



can someone give me an example of a full path NOT
URL

[phenomenon]

welp, this is pretty complex, as it changes from host to host.

basically, from what it looks like off the setup on our server, it's going to be the full path you'd have to go through if you were to login to your website using an ftp, for example.

So in one of my host's case, it would be

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/forum

In another host that I use for another site, it would be

/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/MYDOMAINNAME.COM/httpdocs/forum

Does that help?

[phenomenon]

Did a little bit of alteration to get the game>swg sub-home page up with threadbits monitored from a specific forum, as well as the custom templates swapping out for other templates depending on what page you're on.

next up is to set up the about page to link to forum member pages... though it just hit me how easy that is.

http://www.markofthebeast.net/

[spudy]

hi all, can someone please help!

ive installed the hack which is working great.

ive created a NEWS section on the forum but kept it private for only admin to post in.
the hack then grabs the news posts and displays them great on the index page as it should.
This is the problem i have : the news posts are all so being displayed within the LATEST POSTS section and i dont want them to, if a member clicks the link it tells them that they can not read it due to permissions

how do i stop the NEWS posts being placed within the lastest post portal???

thanx in advance

[Zachery]

hi all, can someone please help!

ive installed the hack which is working great.

ive created a NEWS section on the forum but kept it private for only admin to post in.
the hack then grabs the news posts and displays them great on the index page as it should.
This is the problem i have : the news posts are all so being displayed within the LATEST POSTS section and i dont want them to, if a member clicks the link it tells them that they can not read it due to permissions

how do i stop the NEWS posts being placed within the lastest post portal???

thanx in advance
fyi, you might want to give them access to read the new/view the news just not reply

however you could add a line of code to remove specifci forums i belive, if you read back abit i think you could figure it out

[ViewMy.biz]

hi all, can someone please help!
how do i stop the NEWS posts being placed within the lastest post portal???

thanx in advance

I had the same question. However If you marked everthing correctly they should only show up to Admins and moderators.

Try logging out and see if they still show up.

[Zachery]

the way the original hack work is that it would pull from all forums, there is a section around one of theses pages that will make it so only the ones you want show up by excluding some

[Tigga]

First and foremost, MANY thanks to Faranth for helping out where he could while I've been without internet access and have had so many crazy things happening in my life.
I do finally have an internet connection at home again, so I should be around more often to provide support. If anyone still has any outstanding problems that Faranth hasn't been able to solve, let me know and I will do my best to help out. :)

[Zachery]

Thanks Brian it means alot :D

[gmarik]

Can anybody post links to modiefied vBindexes?
I want to make hacks based on it, but don't know where to start from ...

[Zachery]

what kinda hacks do you wanna make for it?

and technally i think you need brians premission

[Tigga]

If he's just planning on making some "mini-hacks" (similar to the ones in the first post) to add more functionability to the hack, then technically I don't think he would need permission... And either way I wouldn't mind. :)
If he's planning on making some other hacks that are based on mYvBindex and it's code, but are not the same hack, then yes, you're right and he would need my permission first. :)

[Super Shadow]

Is there a way to take snippets of code from it and imply it in a website?

[Zachery]

like how?

[Tigga]

Is there a way to take snippets of code from it and imply it in a website?Sure... There are Admin CP options to turn off virtually every option as well though.

[bobII]

I would like to add additional forums to display on the index page, can someone please post the steps in creating those?

I'm using 2.3.2

Thanks in advance,
bobII

[Zachery]

try this


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=340143&postcount=420

if that doesnt work lemme know im currently searching though the thread..

[bobII]

try this


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=340143&postcount=420

if that doesnt work lemme know im currently searching though the thread..

No, that's not it. I want to be able to create new forums then call the variable on the mYvBindex page (index.php) so they display on that page, just like News and Polls does...

Thanks in advance,
bobII

[Zachery]

No, that's not it. I want to be able to create new forums then call the variable on the mYvBindex page (index.php) so they display on that page, just like News and Polls does...

Thanks in advance,
bobII
im still abit confused by what your refering too :\

[bobII]

The mYvBindex uses the News forum, for example to display a set amount of threads on the homepage (mYvBindex.php). You can then login to the admin and set how many threads to display, how many words and etc... I would like to create a new forum or two and display the first 5 threads within the newly added forum on the homepage as well. So, I'm looking for the steps on how to achieve this goal. I know that someone was able to do the same thing I'm asking for, I just cant seem to find it within this thread, I know it's in here somewhere :)

[Zachery]

this would require abit more coding then im able to do ( lol 0 ;)) so youll either hafta wait for Tigga or till some one eles can help :\

sorry

[bobII]

this would require abit more coding then im able to do ( lol 0 ;)) so youll either hafta wait for Tigga or till some one eles can help :\

sorry

Thanks anyway for your help!

[ViewMy.biz]

No, that's not it. I want to be able to create new forums then call the variable on the mYvBindex page (index.php) so they display on that page, just like News and Polls does...

Thanks in advance,
bobII
Hmm on my site http://www.raginpagin.com every thread of every forum (except hidden forums) show up on VBIndex

[Zachery]

Hmm on my site http://www.raginpagin.com every thread of every forum (except hidden forums) show up on VBIndex
he wnats to display lets say 5 threads in the news section from specified forums

[phenomenon]

I would like to add additional forums to display on the index page, can someone please post the steps in creating those?

I'm using 2.3.2

Thanks in advance,
bobII


Hi BobII,

from browsing through plur's code, the only way I can think of doing it (and I'm an amateur) is copying and pasting the code for displaying NEWS, then renaming the eval for the copy of NEWS to $newsbits2, then in the $newsbits2 code, hardcoding the WHERE forumid=$newsforum to a specific forumid.

I assume, though, that this would cause all kinds of unforeseeable problems, because I'm generally a tard.

[Tigga]

As phenomenon said, the best way would probably be to copy the code for the news section, paste it right above (or below) the original code, and then look for this code:

WHERE forumid='$newsforum' AND open<>10

And replace $newsforum with the forum id for your other forum.

[Zachery]

As phenomenon said, the best way would probably be to copy the code for the news section, paste it right above (or below) the original code, and then look for this code:

WHERE forumid='$newsforum' AND open<>10

And replace $newsforum with the forum id for your other forum.
probally cause an increase in querry time and rendering time as well?

[Tigga]

Just an FYI... The vB3 version of this hack (now called vBadvanced Index) is available at vbulletin.nl ;)

http://www.vbulletin.nl/community/showthread.php?p=4071#post4071

[Zachery]

lol, you released it without telling me TIGGA! how dare you :P


/me goes and makes comments and note changes to the beta code

[Lee Wisener]

Can anyone help with a problem I am having with myvbindex?

Everything seems to be working fine apart form the headers.

If you look here:

http://www.w1h.net (note the header, logo, etc)

Now look at:

http://www.w1h.net/myvbindex.php

You will see that its not displaying the header properly

I can see its requesting the wrong logo filename, but a bit nervous about changing anything before getting advice first.

Thanks

[Goat Boy]

All I did was goto Admin CP down to templates then modify, copy the header template and paste it into myvbinex index_header template.

GB

[Lee Wisener]

Did that and it worked and absolute charm.

Thanks very much for replying so quickly.

[paddysplace]

How come vbulletin.nl won't let me download MyvBIndex Advanced? It won't even let me find the page..

[Preech]

I believe it's not on the site.

[Kyle_TX]

It was up for a little while, I'm not sure exactly what happened to it. I was able to snag it, and its working really good. There was a small bug in the install regarding styles. Maybe its getting a workover.

[Zachery]

It was up for a little while, I'm not sure exactly what happened to it. I was able to snag it, and its working really good. There was a small bug in the install regarding styles. Maybe its getting a workover.
its been removed bby request of jelsoft.

[paddysplace]

OK. Thanks! I was pulling my hair out trying to find this.. I guess I'll just have to wait for RC/Gold then?

Regards,
Patrick

[Zachery]

OK. Thanks! I was pulling my hair out trying to find this.. I guess I'll just have to wait for RC/Gold then?

Regards,
Patrick
dunno, tigga may fix it so jelsoft doesnt have a problem with it

[Tigga]

Someone reported the hack to Jelsoft because the code I was using for the online users part was original vBulletin code. I've re-written that, fixed a couple of small bugs, optimized some parts a little further, and added a few new options though. I still want to do a little more testing and make an upgrade script for anyone that downloaded that first version, but the next version should be back up there hopefully sometime this weekend. :)

[Zachery]

Someone reported the hack to Jelsoft because the code I was using for the online users part was original vBulletin code. I've re-written that, fixed a couple of small bugs, optimized some parts a little further, and added a few new options though. I still want to do a little more testing and make an upgrade script for anyone that downloaded that first version, but the next version should be back up there hopefully sometime this weekend. :)tigga drop me an email? zak@digitalkore.net im abit behind on the latest version :)

[Tigga]

Sure, I'll send it to ya after I get home from work tonight. :)

[Goat Boy]

I have had this working on one of my forums with 2.3.0, now I started a new forum with 2.3.2 and I cannot get the multiple news forums to work properly. For News Forum ID I have 5 OR forumid=6 and it still only pulls the news from forum 5 never 6. Did I miss something?

[Rebel38]

Hi Tigga, is there any chance of sending me a copy too please?

if so can you please send it to bush_rebel@yahoo.com

because I've been dying to convert my forums to VB3 but I wont do it without myvbindex.

Thanks heaps in advance
Cheers
Rebel

[attroll]

I would love a copy sent to me also. I have been waiting patiently for for a version that will work with VB 3.

[Zachery]

please check vbulletin.nl for vBadvanced :)

[Elly]

I dontk now if this has been answered already I been searching this thread since I installed this hack wich I love btw.

My news posts do not show on the main page unless I update them thru the installer ... is there a way I can get these posts to show up on their own?

I have done all the necessary edits double checked them, the right forum id is set thru the admin panel.

Please help

Thanks

[Tigga]

<font color="#f1f1f1">Double check that you made the correct modification to your newthread.php file. If the option to update your news posts works, then not modifying your newthread.php file the only reason it wouldn't work.</font>

[Elly]

heh had guessed at were to put the 'Y' wrong .. >.> ... I have the usermoods hack in wich adds coding to the lines that you want changed ... moved the 'Y' to the end of it and it works great now

Thanks for your help.

[Tigga]

Glad to be of help. :)

[liquidblaze]

just great - easy to install .. even for me :)

[X-Sector]

In the newthread.php
I cant find a code called "ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES2
can anybody help? Im using a 2.3.2 vbulletin forums.

[X-Sector]

Hold a second, I found it..

I had installed it with no problem.. but the only problem l have is,

Look at www.x-sector.net/myvbindex.php
the skin templates aren't there and all the images are messed up. How do l add a skin templates on this portal hack? knows what l mean?

Thanks in advance :)

[Zachery]

Hold a second, I found it..

I had installed it with no problem.. but the only problem l have is,

Look at www.x-sector.net/myvbindex.php
the skin templates aren't there and all the images are messed up. How do l add a skin templates on this portal hack? knows what l mean?

Thanks in advance :)
you would need to skin it your self by modifyin the templates :)

[X-Sector]

you would need to skin it your self by modifyin the templates :)

I'm not fully understand how to modify it beacause I am suck at coding. Can you explain me how to do this, steps?

Thanks again :)

[MaxScript]

no problems installing it

but how you edit to go the /forums [files php] to point in the right folder and not the root /

[Zachery]

I'm not fully understand how to modify it beacause I am suck at coding. Can you explain me how to do this, steps?

Thanks again :)uhh it would be rather extensive, youd hafta recode most of the templates to make them look like your skin most likly ^^


no problems installing it

but how you edit to go the /forums [files php] to point in the right folder and not the root /? what do you mean

[X-Sector]

Do you mean.. copy the whole vbulletin codes into the myvbindex.php ? if so.. where can l copy the vb codes

[MaxScript]

uhh it would be rather extensive, youd hafta recode most of the templates to make them look like your skin most likly ^^


? what do you mean


i fixed it , for the type of skin i have

i had to make a new header template & edit vbindex main file

[vBFreak]

nice hack :)

but I think that the Latest Thread table from vBIndex 1 is still the best, there you have a whole table centered and not a small table on the right side :D

Why don't you place that in the other vBIndex hacks? I think that is one of the most important things of the vBIndex hack

I changed that manually for me, but I'd like it if in the next vBIndex this feature is included again :)

[Zachery]

nice hack :)

but I think that the Latest Thread table from vBIndex 1 is still the best, there you have a whole table centered and not a small table on the right side :D

Why don't you place that in the other vBIndex hacks? I think that is one of the most important things of the vBIndex hack

I changed that manually for me, but I'd like it if in the next vBIndex this feature is included again :)
thats a personal opinion :) with this hack and with version 3's (vBa) you can totaly make every thing appear how you want it ^^

[-Shocker-]

I am running a vB 2.3.2 and on the member.php editing part i have both this...

eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_login")."\",\"index.php?s=$session[dbsessionhash]\");");

and this...

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

and i didn't even edit anything. Should i just leave it or should i replace the first one with the second code, so should i have 2 of the second code, or just one of each?

So what should i do?

When i finished installing it (without changing the first member.php code), i got this error...

Warning: ChDir: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/impact/public_html/darkshocker/myvbindex.php on line 8

It is the path and not the full url, so i dont know whats wrong.

[X-Sector]

Thank u so much, all my images r now workin.. check it out at my forum.

Anyway, the little problem l got is..

all the similes and icons on my portal isn't showing up because they are linking wrong. Example

www.x-sector.net/images/wink.gif

its a wrong link, so how do l change it to

www.x-sector.net/forums/images/wink.gif

same as icons aswell. How do l edit like that in the admin cp?

thx again.

[Zachery]

Thank u so much, all my images r now workin.. check it out at my forum.

Anyway, the little problem l got is..

all the similes and icons on my portal isn't showing up because they are linking wrong. Example

www.x-sector.net/images/wink.gif

its a wrong link, so how do l change it to

www.x-sector.net/forums/images/wink.gif

same as icons aswell. How do l edit like that in the admin cp?

thx again.
did you read the insturctions?


theres a specific area that will tell you how to do this, however, i will tell you here as well

go into the smilies and incon manager and prefix your url before them so if it was images/smilies/mad.gif
it would become http://www.mysite.com/forums/images/smilies/mad.gif

[-Shocker-]

Can anyone help me?

[X-Sector]

Exellcent, works great.. thanks so much, great hack
I belevie this hack is much better than the vbhomelite hack ;)

[Zachery]

I am running a vB 2.3.2 and on the member.php editing part i have both this...

eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_login")."\",\"index.php?s=$session[dbsessionhash]\");");

and this...

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

and i didn't even edit anything. Should i just leave it or should i replace the first one with the second code, so should i have 2 of the second code, or just one of each?

So what should i do?

When i finished installing it (without changing the first member.php code), i got this error...

Warning: ChDir: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/impact/public_html/darkshocker/myvbindex.php on line 8

It is the path and not the full url, so i dont know whats wrong.
you didnt define the patch correclty. the path needs to point to your forums directory, not myvbindex.php

[-Shocker-]

It does go to my forums directory and not myvbindex.php.

And on the member.php editing, do i not need to edit anything then since it has both of those codes in there?

[Zachery]

It does go to my forums directory and not myvbindex.php.

And on the member.php editing, do i not need to edit anything then since it has both of those codes in there?
try it out, if it does work, good, if it doesnt edit it, and see if that works ^^

[-Shocker-]

Hmm...nothing seems to be working. The link to my board is http://www.impactanime.com/darkshocker/vb/

So on the 8th line i would put chdir('/darkshocker/vb/'); Does that seem wrong?

I changed to myvbindex.php to just index.php, would that make any difference?

[Zachery]

Hmm...nothing seems to be working. The link to my board is http://www.impactanime.com/darkshocker/vb/

So on the 8th line i would put chdir('/darkshocker/vb/'); Does that seem wrong?

I changed to myvbindex.php to just index.php, would that make any difference?
/home/impact/public_html/darkshocker/ << that seems to be your full path ^^

[-Shocker-]

Oh ok, lemme see if that works. :)

Update:
Yes it does work, THANK YOU!!

But yet...another problem lol. The news doesnt show up in the middle.

[Zachery]

if that doesnt ad vb/ onto the end

[X-Sector]

Check in your vbulletin options, make sure if your news is on, it should be working.

[Zachery]

Check in your vbulletin options, make sure if your news is on, it should be working.
hes gettin an error, not a problem with no news

[eclectica]

I have had this working on one of my forums with 2.3.0, now I started a new forum with 2.3.2 and I cannot get the multiple news forums to work properly. For News Forum ID I have 5 OR forumid=6 and it still only pulls the news from forum 5 never 6. Did I miss something?
I running on version 2.3.2. I have set 5 and 7 as my news forums. Here's how I got it working:

In the admin control panel, I set the News Forum ID to be 5. Then, I edited the index.php file. I found the following code:
WHERE forumid='$newsforum'
and replaced it with
WHERE forumid='5' OR '7'

[eclectica]

In post #1430 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=412050&postcount=1430), the instructions are given on how to modify the index.php file in order to exclude forums from showing up in the Latest Forum Topics section.

This is what I have now in my modified index.php file:
$forums=$DB_site->query('SELECT forumid,parentid,displayorder FROM forum WHERE forumid != 4 AND forumid != 8 AND

displayorder<>0 ORDER BY parentid,displayorder');

My news forums are 5 and 7. Despite the modified index.php file, the posts from forums 4 and 8 still show up in the "Latest Forum Topics" section. I can't figure out why.

[Zachery]

In post #1430 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=412050&postcount=1430), the instructions are given on how to modify the index.php file in order to exclude forums from showing up in the Latest Forum Topics section.

This is what I have now in my modified index.php file:
$forums=$DB_site->query('SELECT forumid,parentid,displayorder FROM forum WHERE forumid != 4 AND forumid != 8 AND

displayorder<>0 ORDER BY parentid,displayorder');

My news forums are 5 and 7. Despite the modified index.php file, the posts from forums 4 and 8 still show up in the "Latest Forum Topics" section. I can't figure out why.
that looks right to me >.> i dont know why it would still be showing them

[eclectica]

Thanks for the reply anyhow. I wanted to block those forums from showing up in the "Latest Forum Topics" because they are only accessible to all registered members, but not unregistered guests. They're not really "private" in the sense that only moderators and administrators would be able to see them. The content of the threads is still blocked for guests. At least it will keep those sections from becoming a private +++++ing & gossip club.

By the way, is this portal hack expected to work on vBulletin 3X series?

[Tigga]

eclectica - If you have your forum permissions set correctly then it will already exclude those forums from guests. Also, the code you posted above is correct. You may want to double check that you uploaded the correct file because there's no way that code would not work.

And the vB3 version of this hack can be found here -
http://www.vbulletin.nl/community/showthread.php?t=479 ;)

[Zachery]

btw congrats on the 800th post ^^

:D

the vb3 version roxors

[pixelpunk]

Is there a way to center news topics on the front page?

[Zachery]

Is there a way to center news topics on the front page?
edit your index template >.>

[eclectica]

I just upgraded my board from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 and it went well. member.php, newthread.php, admin/template.php were not upgraded, so you can take those out of your ftp upload. Otherwise you will have to modify the code in everything again.

The only thing you have to do after upgrading, is to run admin/myvb_install.php, and select "Click here to install ONLY the templates" option.

[Zachery]

I just upgraded my board from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3 and it went well. member.php, newthread.php, admin/template.php were not upgraded, so you can take those out of your ftp upload. Otherwise you will have to modify the code in everything again.

The only thing you have to do after upgrading, is to run admin/myvb_install.php, and select "Click here to install ONLY the templates" option.
this is standard proceadure :)

[liquidblaze]

To have multiple mYvBindex scripts running that will pull the news from different forums, simply follow these instructions...
First open your myvbindex.php file and look for:


seeing its possible to get myvbindex to run from different forums I was asking myself (and now you lot) if its possible to lets say if the user visits the site from domain1.com that the portal only shows news that are "tagged" like [NEWS1]

if the user visits from domain2.com the news should be [NEWS2] and so on.

now I understand that this will need both a http host check and a sql query using something similar to "WHERE title LIKE [NEWS1]" but I personally do not know where I would have to put this?!

another option for this would be to tweak various myvbindex files to reflect the querie above but that would mean that I would have 2 or more vbindex files in the root folder which is something I do not want.

[liquidblaze]

what I basically think needs to be done is have a variable for the title query. as stated above:

if the user is comming from domain1.com only news tagged like this should be used and so on. I dont think its that hard but it would be really usefull for me.

[nauticx]

I must say this is very nice. One of the best Ive seen. But I have a question. If I just wanted to use bits of this on my homepage I already have created, and put the items where I have left space fro them, can this be done? Or should I look at other solutions for the below?

For me All I want right now is:

User Login box
Latest 5 or so threads
News from a specific Forum (site news forum) to show on my homepage.

[Zachery]

I must say this is very nice. One of the best Ive seen. But I have a question. If I just wanted to use bits of this on my homepage I already have created, and put the items where I have left space fro them, can this be done? Or should I look at other solutions for the below?

For me All I want right now is:

User Login box
Latest 5 or so threads
News from a specific Forum (site news forum) to show on my homepage.
yes just mofidy the template :)

[Zachery]

I just wanna say this hack ruined my forums you son of a b i t c h
please, im trying to help you rightnow, im sorry i cant login to the ftp and im gettin a bad pw notice

please dont say that type of thing also please dont avoid the word fliter

[liquidblaze]

I just wanna say this hack ruined my forums you son of a b i t c h
oh cmon please. tigga is / was working very hard to accomplish this. if you dont know how to use it, you shouldnt blame us. yes - I also messed up my board once or twice (faranth - do you still remember :P ) but I just started from scratch again or had a backup I could use. so please dont use such language here and learn that a hack should never be performed without backups. I learned it the hard way but I know now...

[Zachery]

oh cmon please. tigga is / was working very hard to accomplish this. if you dont know how to use it, you shouldnt blame us. yes - I also messed up my board once or twice (faranth - do you still remember :P ) but I just started from scratch again or had a backup I could use. so please dont use such language here and learn that a hack should never be performed without backups. I learned it the hard way but I know now...
i fixed the problem >.>

[Tigga]

I just wanna say this hack ruined my forums you son of a b i t c hIf anything, YOU ruined your forums. There is nothing in this hack that could harm your forums in any way. Perhaps if YOU did not follow the instructions properly and modified the code wrong, then you could have temporarily disabled a file from working properly, but that's about it.

[Zachery]

If anything, YOU ruined your forums. There is nothing in this hack that could harm your forums in any way. Perhaps if YOU did not follow the instructions properly and modified the code wrong, then you could have temporarily disabled a file from working properly, but that's about it.
like i said i fixed the problem :) i also yelled at her for saying that while i was trying to help, i drop you an email about several things :)

[nauticx]

yes just mofidy the template :)

Not sure what you mean? But do I go through the whole process of installing, then pull out what I want to add to my current homepage?

[MindTrix]

If anything, YOU ruined your forums. There is nothing in this hack that could harm your forums in any way. Perhaps if YOU did not follow the instructions properly and modified the code wrong, then you could have temporarily disabled a file from working properly, but that's about it.


YOU forgot to change the last YOU into one thats all caps. Shame on YOU :)

Nice one for sticking up for yourself though Tigga. Great addition and alot of hardwork no doubt.

[Zachery]

Not sure what you mean? But do I go through the whole process of installing, then pull out what I want to add to my current homepage?
no just modify the INDEX and other INDEX_ templates to make your home page appear how youd like it :)

[liquidblaze]

no just modify the INDEX and other INDEX_ templates to make your home page appear how youd like it :)
and if you cant do it yourself or dont want to do it yourself you can always get faranth for a paid job. He has a good rate and does outstanding work.

[liquidblaze]

removing certain parts from the script

just out of curiosity - would the script stop working if I would kill the calendar and weather parts in it - considering that I do not use them!?

[Tigga]

Pretty much every option (except for the login/welcome box) can be disabled in the Admin CP. Also, the weather part has a seperate install script, so that is not even installed unless you choose to.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2003/11/1.php?attachmentid=9495

[liquidblaze]

Pretty much every option (except for the login/welcome box) can be disabled in the Admin CP. Also, the weather part has a seperate install script, so that is not even installed unless you choose to.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=9495

thats true but the source of the myvbindex.php still includes some 100 lines of code I dont use. I was just wondering if I could get rid of them.

- also I have another question:

If I want to set the "latest posts" to only get posts from a certain forum - how would I do that but still having the news id unchanged?

[Zalastri]

Took me lots of tweaking and the better part of a day, but this is my site www.zalastri.com (Notice the myVBindex install with the centered boxes and the $header just like a normal forum, darn aren't I tricky </sarcasm> ;) :squareeyed: :nervous:

[Zachery]

Took me lots of tweaking and the better part of a day, but this is my site www.zalastri.com (Notice the myVBindex install with the centered boxes and the $header just like a normal forum, darn aren't I tricky </sarcasm> ;) :squareeyed: :nervous:
you can rename myvbindex to index.php :)

[jeffj]

any hints on how to upgrade from version 2???

thanks in advance...

- jeff

[jeffj]

I just wanna say this hack ruined my forums you son of a b i t c h

I reported this post - what a loser!

[Zachery]

I reported this post - what a loser!
jeff that wasnt nessary.

to upgrade you should just need to the installer again

[jeffj]

you know - Tigga really worked hard on this hack and I installed it with ease over a year ago and it's worked perfectly ever since. for someone to be so rude and post such a vile message when clearly to the rest of us with some basic talent for installing hacks is really way out of line. You don't chastise someone else for your own stupidity - that's just not right. Tigga is a great guy and has helped me in the past - it's just not right...

[Zachery]

you know - Tigga really worked hard on this hack and I installed it with ease over a year ago and it's worked perfectly ever since. for someone to be so rude and post such a vile message when clearly to the rest of us with some basic talent for installing hacks is really way out of line. You don't chastise someone else for your own stupidity - that's just not right. Tigga is a great guy and has helped me in the past - it's just not right...
ive sorted the problem offline already, it was user error :\

[jeffj]

jeff that wasnt nessary.

to upgrade you should just need to the installer again

well - the basic install says it creates VB templates and my existing templates are highly modified - although I have backed them up - will the install clobber them?

[Zachery]

well - the basic install says it creates VB templates and my existing templates are highly modified - although I have backed them up - will the install clobber them?
i belive so, im not 100%, but if your upgrading from version 2 im sure the templates have changed some :)

[jeffj]

you're sure? - in what way or 'don't you know'.

I know you're trying to help, but sometimes the best help is to say nothing at all unless you're positive about what you're giving advice on.

[Zachery]

you're sure? - in what way or 'don't you know'.

I know you're trying to help, but sometimes the best help is to say nothing at all unless you're positive about what you're giving advice on.
well i can honestly say im not 100% sure about the oldver verisoons, ive only been using mYvBindex since 3.0 and up, i can quote tigga on him saying that i know this script almost as well as he does.

with any advances in a program they usualy containt an updated code and tempaltes, im fiarly sure that the templates would have been updated / modified over time, your welcome to wait for tigga to comment on this if you wish however im not sure when he will be able to respond. :)

[Tigga]

Hi Jeff,
Unfortunatly there really is no good way to upgrade from v2.0 to 3.2. For version 3.0, virtually every template was changed when I revamped the style for the script. Many of the templates were also changed to add quite a few new options as well. It would have been way too hard to try and make an upgrade script from v2.0 - v3.x because of the number of changes, so the best way to upgrade would be to uninstall (using the uninstall included with the 2.0 version) and then re-install the script. Since you have a backup of your templates you could try to re-do any customizations you have done, but be careful to pay attention to what variables have been added/changed in the script. If I could actually remember what variables and such may have been changed then I would try to give you some more details, but it's probably been a year now since v2.0 was released and my memory's really not that good. ;)

[Logician]

Inappropriate post by Madcat75 is removed.

We want some respect for hack authors who are sharing their work without commercial intentions here and this includes even the hacks that are buggy. Also this hack is an old hack with a lot of successful installers so although I didn't use it myself, I wouldnt think it would ruin a board. Even if it does, it is board admin's responsibility to take safety precautions before applying any hacks to his board. Besides no bugs would justify such an aggressive comment so it is removed.

We can really use some gratitute and respect to hack authors in vb.org, obviously such remarks are not helping us. Thanks for reporting it.

[Zachery]

Thanks Logician :D

[Tigga]

Thanks Logician. The post didn't really bother me, but I do see your point.
I know this hack was probably a little buggy when I released 1.0 and 2.0, but that was quite a while ago. To this day there are no known bugs in the current version of the script, and there have never been any that could actually harm anyone's forum in any way. :cool:

[jarvis]

I have a question about the $getnewposts routine and am not enough of a coder to get past my self-inflicted mySQL errors. ;)

Anyways, I mirror some Usenet groups on our fourms and would like to have the getnewposts routine in myvbindex not count these posts during the welcome tasks.

$getnewposts=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS count FROM post WHERE dateline>='$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]'");

I would think that I should be able to add a WHERE forumid!=XX somewhere in that statement, but have not been able to get that to work.

Any suggestions? Thanks for the awesome hack, as I've continued to use it for almost a year now (and have hacked it up a bit myself for graphics ;) )

Thanks again!!

[Zachery]

I have a question about the $getnewposts routine and am not enough of a coder to get past my self-inflicted mySQL errors. ;)

Anyways, I mirror some Usenet groups on our fourms and would like to have the getnewposts routine in myvbindex not count these posts during the welcome tasks.

$getnewposts=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS count FROM post WHERE dateline>='$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]'");

I would think that I should be able to add a WHERE forumid!=XX somewhere in that statement, but have not been able to get that to work.

Any suggestions? Thanks for the awesome hack, as I've continued to use it for almost a year now (and have hacked it up a bit myself for graphics ;) )

Thanks again!!
try searching for it, i belive its been done before :D

[jarvis]

Try searching this thread? If so, I did and did not see anything that jumps out at me. I have been successful at excluding my usenet forums from the "Latest Posts" area, but have not been able to figure out how to exclude the count from the usenet forums in the welecome text, i.e. 500 New Posts since Last Visit, when there may have only been 50 in the registered forums.

I may be confusing you even more, but hopefully not. Thanks! :D

[eclectica]

I am running vBulletin 2.3.3. I set my news forums to be forum #5 and forum #7. I found what appears to be a bug in the hack. I allow unregistered guests to post in forums 5 and 7. When they reply to a post in forum 5, it is their post that appears on the index page rather than the first post of the thread. If a registered member replies in the thread, it works okay. Also, when unregistered guests reply in forum 7, it appears properly.

So the bug specifically only affects the threads in one of my two news forums, and only happens when guests reply in the threads.

The actual details of how I got both forums working is written in post #1879 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=443926&postcount=1879).

[Zachery]

Try searching this thread? If so, I did and did not see anything that jumps out at me. I have been successful at excluding my usenet forums from the "Latest Posts" area, but have not been able to figure out how to exclude the count from the usenet forums in the welecome text, i.e. 500 New Posts since Last Visit, when there may have only been 50 in the registered forums.

I may be confusing you even more, but hopefully not. Thanks! :D
oh im sorry :\ mmm im not exactly sure how to do that :\ sorry

[nycunderground]

blah i wanted to check out vb3 version but for some reason cant download it :(

[Zachery]

please read the announcments at vbulletin.nl :)

[Neogen]

lo all need help
i tried to install a shoutbox hack onto the portal, however it does not work so i removed everything asociated with it an d now for some reason news posted in the forums is no longer showing up on the portal!!

Please help me LOL

Thanks
Neogen

[MindTrix]

Neogen, Is that after a new install of the portal or have you been running it for some time now?

[Tigga]

Jarvis - Unfortunatly there's really not a good way to exclude forums from the new posts query. The post table does not contain a column for the forumid that the post is in (only a threadid), so there's really not a way to only exclude certain forums using that query. It *may* be possible if the thread table was joined, but I'm really not sure. I'll take a look a little later and if I come up with something I'll let you know. ;)


eclectica - I tried taking a look at your site to test the problem you're describing, but I didn't see any current posts from forum 5 on your homepage. I would almost bet money though that something else in the news query had to be changed... Specifically, the statement in there that says "WHERE isnews = 'Y'". If that is there, or if it's not there and you're unsure of how to add it back, please post the entire news query here so I can have a look at it. Unless I'm missing something though, there's no way it should be able to display a reply to a thread since only the first post in a thread will have a 'Y' in the isnews column.



Neogen - Was it working before? Have you tried downloading the file from here and uploading the clean/unhacked version? Have you upgraded your vBulletin to a new version lately and perhaps forgotten to make the change to newthread.php?

[Neogen]

it was working perfect before mate working very nice. went to install the shoutbox that is linked to from the 1st post in this forum, tried to install and it did not work, i have managed to get the news back linking to the portals by trying the workaround provided a couple pages before.
Now i would like to know how to reintergrate the shoutbox and I would like to know if there are any other things that I can add to it as I really like this portal and after wasting a load of cash on Virtuanews i want to stick with this one.
If anyone fancies helping me then my MSN is : imallways@hotmail.com and I will allways give full credit to anyone helping

Thanks
Neogen

[Dep]

is there a version that works wuth vb3 is will there be 1 soon

[Zachery]

is there a version that works wuth vb3 is will there be 1 soon
yes, please check vbulletin.nl :)

[mmmender]

tigga, first of all let me say that this is an amazing hack. i'm a serious vb newbie and have been lurking around here for about a year installing the odd small hack here and there....but this one really caught my eye so i installed it.

i've sat patiently and read through all 129 pages of this thead (no joke!) in search of a solution to my problem but i can't seem to find it. i installed your 'forums.txt' addition and followed all the steps then went through them all again with a fine tooth comb. after all of this my regular forums do not display correctly under the $newsbits. all that is visible is the table layout but the content is missing!

my forums are currently offline until this problem is sorted but as i've read - you've got a million other queries to try and solve....we're all just eager to get this great hack perfected on our forums! if you could help me out in any way at all i would be very grateful.

(running vB2.3.2, installed mYvBindex 3.2.2 with no previous installs of mYvBindex)

leesa@cocteautwins.org

[MaDCaT75]

I wonder why this hack doesnt work on my forum :ermm:

[Zachery]

madcat i assisted you with your forum, you hacked it right, please dont comment here again unless you haev a post for support.


mmmender, did it work before you installed the addon?

[Tigga]

mmmender - I'm not sure what you're referring to by "forums.txt". Could you post a link to it? Or, if you would prefer, you could PM me your FTP info and I'll be glad to take a look.
One thing I just thought of as well - You may want to try going to your myvb_install.php file and choose the option to update your news posts to see if that helps.

[mmmender]

mmmender, did it work before you installed the addon?

well the mYvBindex didn't include code to display all forums on the main page so the answer to your question would be no. but if you're asking if the index page worked before i added the forums hack then the answer is yes....but the rest of the page displayed fine before hand as well. i'm sorry, perhaps i'm just not sure what you're asking me.

mmmender - I'm not sure what you're referring to by "forums.txt". Could you post a link to it? Or, if you would prefer, you could PM me your FTP info and I'll be glad to take a look.
One thing I just thought of as well - You may want to try going to your myvb_install.php file and choose the option to update your news posts to see if that helps.

tigga, i did the post updates and still nothing. i also can't seem to find the post in this thread where the forums.txt file is located but it's the file that begins like this.......


In your myvbindex.php file look for:

// vbPortal mini calendar - by wajones

Right Above that Add:

function makeforumbit($forumid,$depth=1,$permissions='') {
global $DB_site,$bbuserinfo,$iforumcache,$ipermcache,$imo dcache,$session,$accesscache,$usergroupdef,$noperm s;
global $showlocks,$hideprivateforums,$showforumdescriptio n,$forumhomedepth,$dateformat,$timeformat,$enablea ccess;



the only thing i've been able to think might possibly be the problem is that the original mYvBindex.php file does not contain the forumbits templates found near the beginning.....


$templatesused =


would this affect things? or am i way off the mark? if it does have an effect, which templates should i add and where should i add them to the .php file?

thanks very much for your offer to help out, please check your PM's for my FTP info.

-leesa-

[P???t?l??k]

I installed myvbindex correct but my 1 problem is when i turn on the weather it gives me and error when loading the home page.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: fsockopen() in /users/blahblah.com/mysitehere/index.php on line 614

Here's how my line 614 looks.

$rawdata = fsockopen('www.msnbc.com',80,$num_error,$str_error ,30);

Please if anyone could help i would be grateful.

[Tigga]

Pøîñtßlåñk - What version of PHP are you running? According to the error, it's saying that there is no function for fsockopen, which is a standard function in PHP 3 and later...

[Zachery]

P???t?l??k - What version of PHP are you running? According to the error, it's saying that there is no function for fsockopen, which is a standard function in PHP 3 and later...

could it be a problem with php as cgi in windows IIS?

[xug]

Any update for vB3Gamma?

[P???t?l??k]

P???t?l??k - What version of PHP are you running? According to the error, it's saying that there is no function for fsockopen, which is a standard function in PHP 3 and later...

How can i find out what version i'm running i'm using someones host.

[Zachery]

How can i find out what version i'm running i'm using someones host.
upload phpinfo.php from you extras folder into your forums directy and either post or pm me or tigga the link (or both of us ^^)

[Zachery]

Any update for vB3Gamma?Xug that info would be on vbulletin.nl vb3 hacking is still not allowed

[P???t?l??k]

I uploaded the phpinfo file and tried to load the url and got this error.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: phpinfo() in /users/myweb.com/mysighthere/forums/phpinfo.php on line 2

Do i have to edit that php file?
Here's line 2 in the php file.

phpinfo();

[MindTrix]

Check your phpinfo.php file and double check it has this

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

[P???t?l??k]

Is that suppose to be in one line?

[P???t?l??k]

1<?php
2phpinfo();
3?>

Thats how it is in the file.

[MindTrix]

Yup thats fine, nothing wrong with it.

Can you provide us with a link to the file?

Also try putting it outside of the forum folder (the folder that holds the Forum folder)

[P???t?l??k]

Also trying mysqlinfo and gettin this error aswell.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: system() in /users/mysite.com/mysitehere/forums/admin/mysqlinfo.php on line 70

[Zachery]

Also trying mysqlinfo and gettin this error aswell.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: system() in /users/mysite.com/mysitehere/forums/admin/mysqlinfo.php on line 70
does your host support PHP ?

[P???t?l??k]

My host supports PHP4.

[Zachery]

My host supports PHP4.
your vb runs? lol ^^

[Tigga]

your vb runs? lol ^^
Was thinking the same thing. ;)

It sounds like your host has limited a few common PHP functions. I would contact them and ask that the fsockopen function be enabled, plus you may want to make sure fputs and fgets are enabled as well. If they say they can't do that, then I would recommend finding a better host.

[SlowRoasted]

does this work for vb3 gamma?

[Zachery]

does this work for vb3 gamma?
why would you think a hack for vb 2.x would work on 3?


try vbulletin.nl and look for vBadvanced

[Neogen]

hi all
can anyone help me, since i installed the portal my registrations page wont come up!!
can anyone help as i am getting no registrations, and this has only been happening after i installed myvbportal, im wondering if i have made a mistake installing it

TIA
Neogen

[eclectica]

eclectica - I tried taking a look at your site to test the problem you're describing, but I didn't see any current posts from forum 5 on your homepage. I would almost bet money though that something else in the news query had to be changed... Specifically, the statement in there that says "WHERE isnews = 'Y'". If that is there, or if it's not there and you're unsure of how to add it back, please post the entire news query here so I can have a look at it. Unless I'm missing something though, there's no way it should be able to display a reply to a thread since only the first post in a thread will have a 'Y' in the isnews column.
At the time you checked I had set it back to just displaying the news from just one forum, forum #7, so when you checked that's why you didn't see it. Right now I just tried to restore it back for you, and instead it showed the content of forums 2 and 7, even when I had it set as 5 & 7 or 7 & 9 in the index.php. I can't even reproduce the former error, but I have a new one instead (showing threads from forum #2). So I restored it back to just 7 in the admin control panel rather than leaving it that way. Here is how my line looks now in the index.php:
WHERE forumid='$newsforum' AND isnews='Y' AND open<>10

[P???t?l??k]

your vb runs? lol ^^

Yes my VB runs fine.

[P???t?l??k]

Was thinking the same thing. ;)

It sounds like your host has limited a few common PHP functions. I would contact them and ask that the fsockopen function be enabled, plus you may want to make sure fputs and fgets are enabled as well. If they say they can't do that, then I would recommend finding a better host.

Ok will do thx alot for your time and help.
It's funny when i disable weather it runs fine.
It only gives me that error when i enable weather.

[Zachery]

hi all
can anyone help me, since i installed the portal my registrations page wont come up!!
can anyone help as i am getting no registrations, and this has only been happening after i installed myvbportal, im wondering if i have made a mistake installing it

TIA
Neogenthere shouldnt be any problem with the registration page, can you link us to your site so we can help?


P???t?l??k (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=37895) : so leave weather off, im suprised your forum runs, but regardless the weather hack is an outside hack and i wouldnt suggest it anyways ;D (fyi theres also this button called edit)

[arracing]

I upgraded to vb3 gamma withouth un-installing myvbindex...doh.

So yea now the uninstall script is not working, I want to make sure to completely remove myvbindex before i install vbadvance. However I know part of it remains because in teh admincp I am still getting the settings for myvbindex. Where are those located in the datbase so I can find them and manually delete them?

[Zachery]

vB advanced detects an old version and removes it if nessar :)

[CtrlAltDel]

only way i can see how to control the theme is to setup the variables that are from vbhome lite

[CtrlAltDel]

oh jeez
this thing runs slow as ballz when i turn the weather option on
*turns off*

it'd be a nice feature, if i didnt get constant messages about the main page not loading

[Zachery]

the style of the mYvBindex are controled by your pre exsitgin templates and your template sets style that it uses,

[X-Sector]

My forum just upgraded to vB3 gamma from vb 2.3.3.

I forget to uninstall this mYvBindex 3.2.2.. those mYvBindex 3.2.2 queries is still in my vb3 database. What should l do with it? will it replace all the old mYvBindex 3.2.2 queries if l run this mYvBindex 3.2.2 hack for my vB3 gamma ?

[Zachery]

you cant run this on vb gamma if you need a gamma version please to go www.vbulletin.nl (http://www.vbulletin.nl)

[X-Sector]

Then how do l unistall those vb2 mYvBindex 3.2.2 queries.

[Zachery]

... what 3.3.2 querries? querries only continuye to be run if theres a script running them

[Celtic_Mad]

Are you working on making a portal for vb3??

[Zachery]

the new version of mYvBindex has been released at vbulletin.nl which is now called vBadvanced :)

[P???t?l??k]

Is it free?

[Zachery]

why wouldnt it be?

[P???t?l??k]

Just asking thought it would be additional.

[Zachery]

vBadvanced is just the vb3 version :)

[X-Sector]

Well.. there are a vB2 myvbindex thingy in my admin cp. How do l remove that?

[MindTrix]

If im correct (might be might not be lol) it would be in the index.php file found in your admin folder.

[Zachery]

vBadvacned DETECTS OLD VERSIONS AND REMOVES THEM. last time i checked anyway, it was a process in the upgrade script. and considering ive been using vBadvacned for vb3 since it was alpha i think i know a thing or two, and im fairly positive ive said this once or twice some where else if not there

[P???t?l??k]

Can someone send me vbadvanced?
Link not workin for me at those forums. :ermm:

[MindTrix]

Why arent the links working? If its over at www.vbulletin.nl (http://www.vbulletin.nl) remember you have to make a fair few posts before you are allowed to download.

[Zachery]

yeap you must make 2 posts and wait about an hour. THEN you may download :)

[P???t?l??k]

yeap you must make 2 posts and wait about an hour. THEN you may download :)

Thx for the info. :squareeyed:

[Oblivion Knight]

Installed and running great, thanks.! :)

[Zachery]

Installed and running great, thanks.! :)
you should go to vb3 and use vBadvanced ;D

[MindTrix]

Why should he if everythings working ok?

[Oblivion Knight]

Heh, it's a long running joke between Faranth and I.. ;)

[MindTrix]

Oh right ok, Soz ;)

[Ethermaster]

I have a suggetion tho. replace the download file I keep getting a corrupt version of it please ^_^

[Oblivion Knight]

I have a suggetion tho. replace the download file I keep getting a corrupt version of it please ^_^
If you have a firewall, disable it temporarily, try again and then put your firewall back on.. :)

[Ethermaster]

I did and it still dosen't work lol

[Zachery]

if you have a firewall turn it off while you download it


considering i just downloadedit :)

[Silverstangs]

mYvBindex works flawlessly in vb2.3.3, I didn't run into any issues at all with it. Pretty simple to install. Good job, I highly reccomend it.

Clicks install!

[Imprezer]

Just installed the hack.

Works great! Mucho props.

[randychase]

This works great, thanks!!

One question, there is no link back to the forums and I noticed my footer information in the style paages from my forums do not carry over. How do most people do the linking back to the forum?

Thanks again!

[randychase]

LOL... nevermind, I found it. Templates! Duh... Found a 'forums' button too....

[randychase]

Next question, I can't find it. How can I change it so that posts in private forums such as the moderator forum, do not show up on the front page? Thanks!

[Tigga]

Posts in private forums will only show up for those who have permission to view them. If you log out and then view the page you should not see them anymore. If you do, you've got your permissions set incorrectly. ;)

[randychase]

Thanks Tigga!

[iggy123]

CodeDawg - Simply change your News Forum ID in your Admin CP to something like...
XX OR forumid = YY OR forumid = ZZ
(Replace XX, YY, & ZZ with the forum id's)

I tried this and it don't seem to work??? anybody get it going?