TIgga - thx for that - the code you mentioned wasn't there so I added it, but this still doesn't allow me to change the option to know in the UserCP - Edit Options.

Would you mind telling me where in the myvbindex.php file I change the width. I thought this was taken from the main forum settings, which in my case is 75%. For the myvbindex page I would like this to be 100% but the forum width remain at 75%.

Thanks :).

Intex - Sorry about the calendar thing. That mini-hack is pretty old and apparently I had a small mistake in the html code. If you look in your modifyoptions template for "homecalendar" and replace that with "bbshowcalendar" it should fix the problem.

The code to change the main width of your index page is in the index_header template, at the very bottom.

Yep worked a treat Tigga for the calendar option - thx.

I see what you mean abou changing the width in the index_header (currently using the tablewidth variable - however, having seen that template its now apparent that changing that won't help me as I changed the original coding so that it used my standard header and footer for the forums, as mine was heavily modified. I guess therefore there isn't a way for me to control this for that page (myvbindex) individually?

I am curious as to whether or not the weather module install problem of this has been addressed / fixed?

I'm obviously not the only one to have had this problem from reading in the posts, and mine is the same as the others. When I try to do the install of the weather module, I get a "This page cannot be displayed" error. Here's the shot. Everything uploaded fine in ASCII and all is well with everything else, just no weather. it's annoying me.

I have my .htaccess redirecting any 404 errors to the index page as well, so it's somehow bypassing that as well.

Any help?

Tigga,

I tried the query change, and still am having some problems. The test link is www.mhogaming.com/myvbindex.php and the active link, which is old 3.0 stuff, is at www.mhogaming.com .

Do I need to reset all the news posts, like some trigger?

Thanks in advance!

Intex - About the only way you could really fix that would be to go back to using the index_header template for your homepage instead.

Cloudrunner - A few people have reported problems like that... The last person that reported that problem allowed me to log into their site to test some things out, and the only thing I can figure out is your host has a problem with executing PHP files that are that large. On their site, I tried taking out the part which inserts the cities, countries, and etc into the database (the bulk of the code) and was then able to load up the file without a probelm. The best thing I can suggest for you would be to download JJR512's original hack here. In there he has 7 or so files with the queries you can run through phpMyAdmin to add all the cities and such. After you do that, download the file I have attached here and go to it in your browser (it's the same as the regular weather install file, but without the queries for the cities and etc).

jarvis - Check your PMs. :)

Hi all,

After some further work, I would like to invite everyone to have a look at mYvBindex in action on my personal web site. Purpose of this is to share with you my implementation of mYvBindex and to hopefully get some feedback or answer any questions that you/I may have.

www.ivansville.com

Why did I choose mYvBindex? Well, it has some nice features that are usefull on any personal web site. It allows me to run a 'blogg' style news on my home page. I can have a quick weather report for my city (London), but also any other city in the world.
Mini calendar reminds me of upcoming events, and pulling this information from vBulletin, shows me private as well as public events.
Last ten posts show me the latest forum activity at a glance, without the need to go to the forum itself, and it pulls site visitors to it.
Displaying poll on the home page adds some valuable content and lets visitors get involved further.
These are only a few features that I use at the moment, but many more are to be found in the mYvBindex hack.

But some of the greatest advantages for me are:

- the ability to back up the whole thing in one go
- the ability to update my home page from anywhere in the world with no need for FTP access.

I am trying to find a way to integrate my other (non vB) pages into the vBulletin (like my 'about.html' page, so that whole site is inside mysql database, meaning easy backup and restore, as well the ability to update any page within the admin cp.

I still have long way to go in order to create the site that will cover most of the angles of what I need in the personal web site area. Nor do I 'speak' the word of PHP, which I must start to learn, in order to achieve some of my goals. But hats-off to people like Tigga and others who give large ammounts of their time to us, in order to help and resolve any problems we may have.

Sweet Tigga! Thanks, I'll get on that tomorrow when I wake up.

I'll give that a shot and see how it goes, it does make sense however with the size constraints.

Couldn't sleep....

It workied!!!! Thank you Tigga!

Thank you kindly!

First off, Thansk for the hack and taking the time to help.

I have read up to 1140 posts, I have repaired most problems doing so.
Most Eveything is working correctly now,
Yet I am unable to fix 1 thing.

1) when a person has to login from myvbindex.php "which has been renamed index.php" they are directed to a blank page due to the /forums/ missing from the address. example (http://streambandits.com/member.php) It should be (http://streambandits.com/forums/member.php)
Now my client has VB version 2.3.0 with very few mods, I have changed the URL to "chdir('/usr/local/etc/httpd/vhosts/streambandits/forums');"
and have added this from a post I saw in hopes that even a unregesterd guest would be able to view the page thus getting rid of the login from myvbindex.php all together.

I have also added $bburl in front of the member.php in the forumhome_loggedinuser template, I also tried using the full address there as well (<a href="http://www.streambandits.com/forums/member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&userid=$userid">$username</a>$invisibleuser).

In addition, my cookie Domain is set to .streambandits.com, and the path is / .

My client is waiting for me to get this page working before he can open to the public. "No pressure there LOL"

Can this be corrected?

Thank you in advance.

Harley D