Okay, I uninstalled TWTCOmmish's Shoutbox and installed the other one that is recommended on the first message. It worked flawlessly. So I guess I will forgo the advnced features of TWTCommish's hack until you guys figure out how to implement here. Thanks.

That's really weird... Editing the newreply.php and newthread.php files shouldn't cause anything like on those pages. Does it fix the problem if you remove the changes to those 2 files?

Brahm - Ok, I was able to check out the TWTCommish's shoutbox and get it to work with myvbindex. Just install the hack exactly as you normally would, except at the part where it tells you to place the code in your forums index.php, instead place it at the bottom of your myvbindex.php file right above:

$getbgrow=getrowcolor();
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('index')."\");");

Also be sure to leave out the bottom part where it has:
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('forumhome')."\");" );

Then you would replace the content of the forumhome_shoutbox template with the content in the text file attached.

You will probably want to also edit your shoutbox_postshout template and remove the / before shoutbox.php on the 3rd line so the form will be pointing to the right place. ;)

That should be it. :)

Thanks! I will check this out in a little bit. If this works okay, you may want to stick iton your first posthere.

I had done everything you suggested before except comeupwith a different "forumhome_shoutbox" so I can't wait to try this.

How do I costomize this to make it an actual site? I want to add affiliates, etc. How do I do that, and is it easier to do that in vbportal?

Zalbard - Do you mean instead of just using it as a homepage, having a portal where say something like the left bar will be on every page? I just moved to a new server so the DNS may not have updated yet, but if you go to my site (http://plurplanet.com) you can see an example of what I mean. I use a slightly modified version for my homepage, then if you click a link on the top navbar there, all the info in the left bar will appear on every page except for the forums and calendar. If you're trying to do something like I've done on my site, it's not that hard to do. It does require a little work, but I can try and explain to you how to do it.

Do I need to add a $the_shoutbox on the Myvbindex.php page?

Hehe... I guess that would probably help. ;)
You would put it in there where you'd like it just as the other variables are. It should look exactly the way the other 'boxes' do, except you'll probably want to change the 'title' since it will probably wrap around to a second line and look a little funny.

Yes PlurPlanet, thats exactly what I need!

Problem.
I replaced my forum from http://forum.mydomen.com to the http://mydomen.com/forum - just copied all files into other folder on the same server. And everythings works fine, except News - News is not showing in center of main page - what is problem? I changed all links in AdminCP and myvbindex.php...
Maybe I forgot something else?
News shows like usual threads in right panel...

Okay I made a few edits to my own tastes and put it all in a text file: Check it out Plurplanet and let me know what you think.

This is the addin info on how to integrate the TWTcommish "Shoutbox" hack onto the Myvbindex page.

Did you go in myvbindex.php and edit the below line to look like this:

Zalbard - I just moved servers a little while ago and have a few issues to straighten out, so as soon as I finish that I'll post instructions on how to turn it into a 'portal'.

AZone - Were the news posts made before or after you installed the script? If they were made after you installed the script, check your newthread.php and newreply.php files to make sure that you edited them right. If the posts were made before the script was installed, see this post for quick instructions on how you can update them - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...825#post333825

Brahm - I'll check it out in a few and probably add it in with the mini-hacks on the first post. :)

I determined the causal factor - it is Thread Preview Hack. After I uninstall it - News works nice.

I do need a portal type site, so please help as soon as possible. Thanks!

Zalbard - Ok, Here are instrutions to turn this hack into a portal. It will require a little work, but if you read carefully and follow these instructions you shouldn't have any problems.

First make a copy of the mYvBindex file and rename it "include.php" (of course you can call it whatever you'd like, that's just what I called mine). Then you should remove the parts of the script that are not used on those pages such as news, polls, weather, and calendar in my case. You don't really have to delete those parts, but it makes for a little faster loading time and less queries, so it really is best if you do. If you just start wherever the code for a specific function begins and remove all code up to where the next function begins it should work fine, and there are notes in the script telling where each part starts. Then you would want to create a new template in your Admin CP (I called mine "include"). You would put the same content in your include template that is in your index template, but you would cut out the $newsbits and everything below that. Then in your include.php file the last couple of lines looks like this:
Change the template there to "include" (or whatever you named your new template). Then near the top of the file you will see a list of every template the scipt uses. Be sure to change the very first place it says index to the name of your include file. You can also delete any templates in that section that won't be used with this file. It's not that big of a deal if you don't, but again it would be better to do so and will result in faster page loading times.


Now you will pretty much have your header file made. Next you would want to edit your html pages that you would like this header to appear on. There are a couple of ways to do this, so here are the best/easiest two.


One way is with the php include function. You will need to remove everything above the top of your files so that the only thing before any content is something like this:
Remember that should be the only code before any content of your pages. You will also have to rename any html files you change to have a php extension for that method to work. You do not need to have any <head> or <body > tags at the beginning as these will be pulled from the include template, but be sure to close them at the end of the files. Also be sure that the starting <hmtl> tag is not also in your include template. Then just upload the files to your server and it should work fine.


An alternative to using the PHP include function would be to use server side includes. You would do everything exactly the same except when editing your files to add the header, you would put some code like this at the very top of your file instead of the PHP tag:
You will also not have to rename your html files to have php extensions if you use that method. One note though... You will have to be sure you can include php files on your server. This is something that is usually controlled by your host, so if you're not sure if you can do this or how to change it so that you can, you should contact your host and ask them to change it for you.


That should be everything you need to do. If you have any problems let me know and I'll do my best to help you out.

Brahm - I added your shoutbox integration in with the mini-hacks on the first post. :)

AZone - Ahhh yes, a hack like that could affect your myvbindex page and vice versa. If you want to give me a link to the thread preview hack I can take a look at it and see if I can tell you what would need to be done differently so that both hacks would function properly.

the news forum is not showing up .. hugh .. any idea?

http://www.spieleplanet.org/forum/myvbindex.php


and is it possible to ge tmore than one news forums.. i need minimum 4 forums to be shown as news forum .. please help me with this.. nobody the last 4 motnh could helpo me to mak e portal news forums more than one !

Thanks Plurplanet, that's my first.

Highlander - Were the news posts made before or after you installed the script? If they were made after you installed the script, check your newthread.php and newreply.php files to make sure that you edited them right. If the posts were made before the script was installed, see this post for quick instructions on how you can update them - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/show...3825#post333825

Showing the news from multiple fourms isn't hard. Just open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
Replace that with:
(replace x,y,z, & w with the id numbers of those forums)

I know almost everything is possible but can my users modify the myvbindex.php page to be a customized page based on their choices.

For example if I make a 5 custom templates and the users can choose which ones they want when they log in those are the only ones they see?

Thanks in advance

help me about this error

Warning: Unable to access /forums/global.php in /home/skull/public_html/index.php on line 25

Thanks

Papa - Something like that is very possible, but would require some hacking. When I get the time I'll try to play around with the files to see what would have to be done, but I can't promise I'll be able to get to it any time soon.

jundat - You have your path set wrong in your myvbindex.php. Try setting it to /home/skull/public_html/forums ;)

I imagine it as a small control panel like the admin one but for them. I am not sure how this would work but I know it would be popular.

Thanks for all you have done. Do you have a pay pale account. I'd like to send you a few bucks for the hard work you have done. I really like the scripts and my users have found the new look very fun.

papa

Can you tell me how to add a jump menu of the existing forums on our site in one of the custom boxes?

I searched for this but came up with missing leads. This way the members don' t have to go to another page with the forums listed (original index page)

Thank man,
papa

I've actually thought about making the hack for users to customize their homepage for my own site as I think many users would like it as well. Again, it may be a little while before I get to work on it, but when I do I'll share it here.
I do have a PayPal account (tigga@plurplanet.com). Donations really aren't necessary, but would be graciously accepted. :)
For the jump menu, you mean just the regular forum jump that's at the bottom of pretty much every page on the forum, right? That wouldn't be too hard to do, but I'll have to post instructions tomorrow. I'm having a problem with my server crashing and am basically having to reconstruct my forums at the moment since I'm sure it's being caused by some hack I installed from here, but I have no idea which one. :(

Papa - Here's how to add the forum jump to your index page...

Open your myvbindex.php file and look at the very bottom for:
Right above that add the code: makeforumjump();

Then edit your forumjump template. In that template, there are 2 places near the top of that template where you'll see forumdisplay.php. Change that to the full url to your forumdisplay.php file in both places.

Now edit your index template and place the variable $forumjump wherever you would like the forum jump to appear.


I played around a bit and allowing users to set their own options for the homepage really isn't that hard to do. I'll write up some instructions on what to edit and post them here for you later today or tomorrow. :)

ok i have a problem that hopefully can be fixed,
the latest forum topic, doesn't display the correct member who last posted! anyone help me on this??

Ranger - By default it shows who started the thread and the time/date that the thread was started. If you'd prefer for it to show the last poster and date of the last post, here's what you need to edit:

Open your myvbindex file and look for:
Replace that with:
Then right below that find:
You would just change 'dateline' at the end of both of those lines to 'lastpost'.

Then edit your index_threadbits template and change the link to the poster to

<a href="$bburl/member.php?action=getinfo&find=lastposter&threadid =$thread[threadid]">$thread[lastposter]</a>


That's it. :)

alright will try that later tonight, and let you know how it goes

Thanks :-)

when i post a message in the news section, or make a poll in its, they dont show up on myvbindex.php

TMG - Make sure you correctly edited your newreply.php and newthread.php and uploaded them to your server. If that was done right, be sure you have the correct value the News Fourm ID part of the admin options. If the poll's not showing up, the value in the Poll Fourm ID is wrong, or the option right below that is not set to yes.

plurplanet, one more for ya

we have added that pop-up script for new U2U's on our forums, and it seems to carry over to your prg as well...we like that idea, but when you click ok it takes us to like www.webaddress.com/private.php and it should be www.webaddress.com/vb/private.php

do you know a why to fix that for your home page only? we don't want to screw up the forums by changing this only your prg part....


Thanks

btw the last person post hack you have there works great!

Thanks

I'm not really sure what pop-up hack you're talking about, but if you look in the templates or files you changed for that hack, you should see a link or call to private.php somewhere. If you change it to either $bburl/private.php or /vb/private.php it should fix the problem. If you can't figure it out post a link to the hack here for me and I'll take a look at it.

found it and works now, thx for the help and info!

i need your help again purplanet. i just wanna include a html page into the myvbindex portal. i attached a screen. :banana:

Ranger - No problem. Hope you enjoy the hack. :)

Kamuri - Couldn't you just edit the index template and replace the $newsbits variable with html you want there? Nice page by the way. I really like the header graphic. :)

Incase anyone didn't notice, v3.1 has been released. See the first post for details. :)

Papa - Attached are instructions on how to allow users to customize their homepages. They're written based on v3.1, so you should upgrade before you try to install it (don't worry, upgrading should take less than 2 minutes). Let me know how it works for you. :)