Tried a couple of times to install this now and every single time it messes up all the styles. When i do step 8 of the install it shows the wrong image paths for that style, currently have 60 styles on my board most of which use different button sets and banners so I end up having to skip that part and redo all the paths once the install is over. Any ideas why it does this?

If you don't update the images paths then you'll end up with all the images broken on vBindex.

Where do the templates go? I cannot seem to figure that out..

OK.. I got it working..

My only question is.. how can you add a link to the forums in the links bar at the top of the page? Currently, there isn't one.. and its difficult to access the forums from the main page..

Thanks!

links bar, or 'nav bar' is edited through the navbar template.

I am trying to run a multi-paged site, i have done as it says in the tutorial however when i do this i get the nav bar ect visable again however i have removed this from the vbindex template. What template do i need to edit to remove it from this page http://www.vendetta-council.co.uk/in...p?page=history

im also wanting the welcome box and the vb title removed.

If you could tell me the template im sure i could remove it thanks

The VBINDEX_SHELL template is used for the extra pages.

Hi,

first i want to say thanx for this nice hack.

Me gots this proceeding to step 6:

URL:http://intranet/vbulletin3/install/v...de3.php?step=6

Error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 3:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO datastore (title) VALUES ('vbi_eventcache')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'vbi_eventcache' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Monday 09th of February 2004 04:31:13 PM
Script: http://intranet/vbulletin3/install/v...de3.php?step=6
Referer: http://intranet/vbulletin3/install/v...de3.php?step=5
Username: admin
IP Address: 10.11.12.13

Is this known?

best rgds

Samir

I had the same issue.. its just the step has already been ran most likely.. that was the problem with mine. Just proceed to Step 7.

How do I proceed to Step 7?
By replacing the 6 in the url with a 7?
I can´t find any other way...

Yeah.. I believe you will also need to change it from vbupgrade3 to vbupgraded.. and then change the 6 to a 7 for it to work correctly.

Also guys, I looked into the nav template and found the FAQ area and changed all of that to forums.. however.. it still shows FAQ on my site after I uploaded it??

Is this correct?

href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[register]</a></td>
</if>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/forums.php?f=6$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[forums]</a></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/memberlist.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[members_list]</a></td>
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

Something I am doing wrong folks?

Yes those links are correct.

How come they aren't working then?

Very nice job NTLDR! Easy install and everything seems to work fine. Good comments in the custom templates. Great layout. Just what we needed.

/me Clicks Installed

We're having one issue that isn't a show stopper, but isn't the expected behavior either.

We have a quarenteened posts forum and I use it to create and edit threads before I put um live sometimes. Well I created 3 threads in there today and they show up in the threads list of the vbindex portal even though the forum is is in the exclude list. Regular users don't see them, the permissions are working fine, it's the exclude that seems to be at fault.

Any ideas?

Thanks

In vbindex.php find:

Replace with:

may have been asked b4, does vBIndex work with RC4?

It should work fine with vB3 Gamma and RC1-4.

Worked perfectly for us on RC4. :)


NTLDR, the patch works. Thanks

Has anyone tried to install this with a board already using RC4? I keep getting database errors.

I"m getting the same thing when i try to open the options page at the end of the install with RC4. Install goes well but fails with no specific reason.

Error:
There seems to have been a slight problem with the Test Board database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

The contents of that email are the errors for trouble shooting what went wrong. Try posting that.

Is it possible to call the news page to show other forums than the one specified in the config file? Kinda like using a differant news page for each forum? I think I could probably hack this in myself, but if its done elsewhere and it saves me messing about I would rather go that way obviously!

How can I uninstall this hack?

I just upgraded to rc4 from rc3. vBindex is still working fine, but there is no longer an option in the admincp for vbindex options.

What do I need to do to fix that?

I didn't install vBindex myself in the first place, so I really have no idea what I'm doing ;)

Lissa, take alook in the read me text file included in the zip for this hack on the first post, that tells you the line you need to edit, or if your details are still the same and you want me to edit the file let me know :)

Not really sure what your asking here. You want a seperate page for each forum? Or do you want to have news forum multiple forums shown?

Lee, I'm clueless ;) Details are still the same. If you get a chance, go ahead and fix it, I'm not in any hurry!

I like my members to be logged in before they can view the board.

One thing with vbindex is that if you have your board set like that, and aren't logged in, then your site homepage (VBindex) looks bare, cos all the last posts, polls etc cannot be viewed by my members unless they are logged in or registered.

The question is, Is it possible to make VBindex show everything, even when on the forum you must be logged in??

Did that make sense?

Thanks

For the news posts to show regardless of permissions see this post

For the latest threads find:

And remove it.

[high]THIS WILL SHOW ALL POSTS REGARDLESS OF PERMISSIONS/LIMITED FORUMIDS TO EVERYONE[/high]

Alternativly, the following should work and would be better find:

Add before:

Find:

Add after:

This will use normal permissions for users logged in and will ignore permissions for those users who are logged out. With this method you can enter the forums you want to hide in the vBindex Options and they will be excluded from everyone.

Are there any issues with the new-posts count being incorrect?

They will be incorrect iff the user logged in doesn't have access to the forum where the new post is. Excluding all the private forums would probably put too much load on the server however its something I'll be looking into for a new version.

thats the error message i get when i install at step 3

tried to delete the vbindex tables and reinstall but no help

any ideas?

i tried to drop the vbindex_shoutbox table again and reinstalled and now i get this error

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO datastore (title, data) VALUES ('vbindex_setting', 222)
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'vbindex_setting' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

heres the MySQL version 3.23.58

heres the PHP Version 4.2.2

You CANNOT re-run the installer untill you have finished installing, it won't work, run this query:

[sql]INSERT INTO datastore (title) VALUES ('vbindex_version')[/sql]

and then move onto vbiupgrade2.php?step=4

thnx trying now

As a note, if running that query fails, just ignore it and move onto step 4.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO datastore (title) VALUES ('vbi_eventcache')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'vbi_eventcache' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

on step 6 after i ran the query

should i run the query again and move to step 7?