No SQL Changes :D
There were only a few template edits, you need to change the orrcurances of <normalfont to <smallfont in:

home_postshout;
home_shoutboxbit
home_shoutbox

Only a cosmetic change to make them match the rest of the site ;)

I see:)

Thanks NTLDR:)

Satan

thanks !!! i'm nog going to upgrade :p

I love your hack

Is that "now" or "not"?:confused:

Satan

wel not and now :p
i just checked the differences and changed it to my likings :p

Ok cool:)

Satan

Looks Great!
Thanks NTLDR!

http://www.brainphreeze.com/forums/vbindex.php

Thanks LightBringer, you may want to remove Online Today: from your home_left template as thats no longer there anymore ;)

As your site is very customised may I add it as a demo site on the first post?

Hehe, I must have missed the "online today" since I did the installation manually due to the customization of my templates and what not.

Sure you can use it as a demo site on the first post. :)

ok, working on upgrading ntldr, but i'd hoped that you would have more detailed info in the install.txt explaining what was changed in certain files (especially the templates).
do you have that info handy?
which templates need to be changed, and what parts are different. that would be great to know. thanks!

Buddha, look a few posts up from this and you'll see what was changed in the templates.

My advice is just upload the vbindex.php file with the code changes that need to be made inside (Adding lines 142-202 of original 2.2.8 root/index.php file) where noted.

Then bring up those 3 templates in the ACP and change the <normalfont occurences to <smallfont.

There's no SQL changes, and the only REAL change done to vbindex.php was the removal of maxloggedinusers and the change in version #'s. :)

thanks lightbringer... i read the post you're referring too, but i thought that was the only edits to the templates from the RC to the final... i'm upgrading from 2.01... so i know there are more edits than that... an example being the newsbit that adds the "Read more..." feature.
(trust me buddy, i've read each and every post in this massive freakin' thread many times... i don't ask for help unless i'm sure someone hasn't beat me to it.

by the way, is anyone else having problems with the smilies showing up?
i know it was mentioned earlier to make certain to have the full url of the smilies in the admin cp, but that was for a problem with the shoutbox. i can't get the smilies for my posts, although i used to be able to with vbindex v.2.01.
i have changed the url to include the full address, but they still don't show.

*edit*
also, i've been going through the vbindex to make the modifications i'd made previously, and i can't find this anywhere

that's what i used to change the news forum for each additional page that i made (the copies of vbindex). now that it's set in the admin cp (for the main index), where am i going to be able to change the code in the copies.

thanks.


ps. only 23 querries on my heaviest page. that's with ten topics. great work man. thanks!

Warning: unexpected error in date() in c:\fsckstuff\forums\admin\functions.php on line 1599

was just trying it out on my home computer and encountered this error, php 4.2.3 and apache 1.3 any ideas?

Shouldn't be anything to do with this hack, no changes are made to functions.php, but not knowing whats on line 1599 of functions.php I can't say.

Shouldn't be anything to do with this hack, no changes are made to functions.php, but not knowing whats on line 1599 of functions.php I can't say.

These have been replaced by a batch of new variables:

Just replace all occurances of these and declare your own at the top, like vBindex v2.0.1 did.

How much have you changed your templates?

thanks ntldr.
i'll try it out in a few... not able to this very minute.

as for the templates... quite a bit... just moving things around, changing the right and left quite a bit and adding different replacements and advertisements and such. and the header is changed and added the total members and total reviews that we'd spoken about before... and then i had to create a crapload extra templates for all of the other pages...
which templates were changed from 2.01 to 2.1?

again, thanks for the help.

There are very few major template changes at all that may be of importance to you.

The main change to the v2.1 templates was to make them so when you turn an item off in the CP (threads for example) the it compleatly disapears from the side bar.

Other than that $readmore was added to home_newsbit, there are the shoutbox templates added and buddy templates have been reworked to show and appear only when a buddy is online, and Users Online Today: was removed from the home_left template. Thats all the changes I can think of.

thanks. i'll look through and add the few extras... as for the threads, buddy, shoutbox and online info, none of that matters to me anyway, as it has been turned off.

that's great... i'll work them all over later and let you know how it goes.

thanks for all the help.

No problem Buddha, I hope the upgrade goes well :)

NTLDR-

After installing, I got this in my ACP when I chose "Options"

Is there any way to get rid of the other two vbindex links?

Greetings,

I just updated vbindex to 2.1. All went well except that now the news does not show up. I have news turned on in CP and set for 5 news items showing 500 characters.

Any ideas?

Cheers!
David
www.cadchat.com

In the CP go to update counters and then run the one that updates the postids, this should slove the problem for all posts prior to vBindex v2.1 and the required change to newthread.php that is now needed.

You will need to manual go into your DB and remove them from the settinggroup table.

NTLDR,

ok...did reset. News still won't display. Any other suggestions?


NEVER MIND...I'm an IDIOT! I missed a step updating one of the .php files. All is working now. Sorry for wasting your time. Lesson learned... read twice, do once.


Cheers!
David
www.CADchat.com

actually ntldr, i'm still having the problem with the smilies not showing up in the newsbit.
i've added the full url in the admin cp.
any thoughts?

How are they appearing? As text or a broken image? I've changed the code in this version to have less queries when dealing with vBcode and Smilies, its seemed fine on my test site.

No problem, glad its working now for you :D

they appear as text.

I went in and didn't see what exactly I was supposed to get rid of. Could I PM you a username and password so you could take a look around?

Try changing:

To:

Or if that doesn't work (or if this one results in less queries):

The last option is what vBindex v2.0.1 used so that will work, the first option may use less queries and work correctly.

I've double checked on a fresh vB 2.2.8 and vBindex v2.1 Final install and smilies work fine for me with the origional code.

Sure, its just a couple of enteries in the DB which are easy to find and remove if you know how ;)

awesome! check your pm :)

Checked, Sorted, Replied :D

Cool, thanks. Sent you another PM. Last one as I know you don't do support via PM.

Should I use the old setpostid.php to get my posts to show up?

Theres no need to use setpostid.php any more, this has been added to ACP -> Update Counters -> Update postids

Provided you made the edits to admin/misc.php ;)

Yeah, I did that but for some reason it didn't add it. You can look at the ACP if you'd like to

I just ran the Update postid's For Threads and the news appears fine on the home page for me :paranoid: