refertech - It's possible now to insert images using the img tag or by enabling HTML. Is there another way you were wanting to insert the image?

ub3x - Yes. It will work with versions 2.6 & up.

Rebel38 - There are several counter systems out there that shouldn't be a problem to impliment with this. Short of writing one for you there's not much I can do to help you impliment one though.

Heffe2000 - Moving the latest topics under the news is just a matter of editing the HTML in the index and index_threadbits templates. You would basically move the latest threads block to right underneath the $newsbits part in your index template and maybe make a few small cosmetic changes. It really shouldn't be too hard to figure out. ;)
As for excluding the forumids, try something like "AND open<>10 AND forumid!=xx OR forumid!=yy OR forumid!=zz" (with OR after each forumid instead of AND). That should work, but if it doesn't let me know.

Krackills - See my reply to Heffe2000. ;)

ahh, now I see says the blind man.

Thanks

Tigga that did it. :)

What would it cost me to get you to write a hack for me?

It depends... Email me (brian@plurplanet.com) with some details and I'll let you know. :)

Sent. :)

thanks,

Mark

<table cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth}" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableouterextra} width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="{tableinnerborderwidth}" border="0" {tableinnerextra} width="100%">
<tr id="cat">
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont><font color="{categoryfontcolor}"><b>Login</b></smallfont>

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="$getbgrow">
<table><tr><td>
<smallfont><form action="$bburl/member.php" method="post"><b>Username:</b></smallfont><BR><input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="login">
<input type="text" class="bginput" name="username" size="12"></td></tr><tr><td><smallfont><b>Password:</b></smallfont><BR>
<input type="password" name="password" size="12" class="bginput"></td></tr><tr><td>
<input type="submit" class="bginput" value="Login!">
</td></tr><tr><td>
<smallfont>Not a member yet?<BR><A HREF="$bburl/register.php">Register Now!</a></td></tr></form></td></tr></table></table></td></tr></table><p>

ok how can i make that so that when i click login it keeps me on the main page (just like refreshes once or somthing) i already have it so it opens another window to the forums so that you log in but how can i do this any hlp would be great!

Tried the edit for the excluding forums, but that didn't work. It'd be nice if there was a config for that kind of stuff that was seperate from the main php file :). I'll see what I can come up with for the moving of the latest posts though, but my HTML is really rusty..

okay i need help with something. I want to put some code for streaming audio from a radio station into my index site. Problem is whenever someone clicks on any link in my index site it stops the music and tries to reload the whole page. How can I get it so this music plays and shows the streaming audio little box it creates but make it so the page does not reload it when you click on a link?

I moved the threadbits under the $newsbits, and it works fine, except the format is kid of large (the old one was either one line or 2, can't remeber now). I'll work on that though (I'd like one line with the thread title, and a 2nd line with the rest of the info).

Think anyone could help me out with codeing a line in the usercp block where you have a link to the admin cp if you're an admin, or the mod cp if you're a mod? My php coding skills are very lacking in something like that. That one's not so much for me, as it is my co-admins, I use the direct link to the admincp..

Ok I installed this in 2.3.0 and have a problem.

When I login to my test site it logs me in but it takes me straight to the forums. It does not stay at my index page like it is suppose to. Then when I close my browser (all my browesers) and click my icon on my desktop to open my site back up it comes up wanting me to login with my name and password. But it says I am already logged on under active users. It seems that it is logging me on but not doing it correctly. I know it is logging me in because when I click on forums it comes up with my avatar and welcomes me. Once I have gone to the forums and then click back to my index it shows my avatar and has me logged in.

What happened here. I had it working on another site. Does anyone know what is going on here? Is it 2/3/0 that is causing the problem?

I deleted all my cookies and temp files and it still keeps doing this.

Help!

i installed this great hack and i am very happy with it :D
but can i show single posts in threads (not the first) as news?
i changed isnews to Y and it appears now on the news box, but then i have the problem, that the post user is not right and the avatar doesn't work as well

can anyone help me ?

thx in advance :)

In the latest messegest posted. It has the name of the author, but it is possible to add the name of the last member to post? If so how can i add it?

I'm sorry everyone, but I am not going to be around the rest of this weekend, and most likely will be in Miami all of next week. I will try and help anyone with problems or questions once I get back.

You lucky dog I have to go to Boston. :P

Mark

Thanks for all the help I've gotten.

I have another question: In the News Forum I have it hidden, and I don't want anybody to see the posts that are made in it, only the things on the front page. But they continue to show up in the "Latest Topics" area. I would only want these items to show up in the middle, and not have any links to them anywhere else. What do I do? :confused:

Is it possible to show latest posts (Active in the Forums) like Vbportal?
I really need that
Thanx a lot!

At my website WWW.FRANKENBERRIE.COM

If you use any other resolution but 1280x1024, the vbindex screen cuts off but when you enter the forums it automaticly sizes itself to fit! How can I get my vbindex page to do the same... thank you!!

I have a question. I looked through all the post here and can not see where someone has meantioned this.

In step #4 of the install process it says to upload newreply.php in the forums.

The problem I see is that there was no mods done to newreply.php or there was not newreply.php included in the zip file. So why is this meantioned? Did I miss something here?

I have another problem. I had my weather link working good on my homepage yesterday and now it is coming back with the following errors:
=============================
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/attroll/public_html/index.php on line 588

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to www.msnbc.com:80 in /home/attroll/public_html/index.php on line 588
=============================
It was working once and I have done no changes to it. What can I di to fix this can someone please help me?

Is there a way for me to set vbindex to take news out of more than one catagory?

Tigga in the Active Users table on my index page it shows Active Users But when I click on any of the usernames it takes me to

http://www.mydomain.com/member.php?a...info&userid=30

instead of

http://www.mydomain.com/forum/member...info&userid=30

I have the right path in the top of index.php, and everything else works fine except Active Users. Can you please tell me where I change the path to include /forum/

Thanks mate
Rebel

Great Hack! Works perfect right out of the box with v2.3 #3 ... With the exception of the weather installer, which tells me it doesnt exist when it does. Oh Well. No great loss for me.

Quick question from an idiot who knows squat about most of this:

The hack contains custom1 and custom2 ... I also want to create custom3, 4, and 5.

I opened the index template, added $custom3 and so on, and created those templates ... Problem is they dont display. What a n00b!! haha.

Anyways, anyone who can help me out there would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Edited on March 23: I found the answer to my own question, regarding how to install more custom templates, for those who are interested it can be found at:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...&pagenumber=14

Again, thanks for the excellent hack!

I got my other problems sorted out, but now I'm having the member.php problems same as the above user, and my weather broke over the last day or so. It was working fine, then it just stopped. If you go to the weekly forcast now, it shows 0 for all data. If anyone wants to give it a guess, feel free to check out my home page, http://www.asheron-online.com/

As far as I know, nothing has changed, but with 3 admins who work on seperate hacks & stuff, you never know :).

is it possible to show the forums which the last threads are in?

Tigga - First of all nice work man :cool:.


I have a problem with my installation and I've already seen some other people post about the same thing, but it doesn't seem to matter what I do, I can't get the correct path.

When running the myvbindex.php file, I get the following error:



My myvbindex.php file contains the following info, relating to my path:

You'll notice I'm running this on a Windows box :). What should this path be. My directory setup is quite straight forward (so I thought):

<ROOT>myvbindex.php
|
|---- forum

<ROOT> above is the default apache root, i.e. the htdocs folders root directory.

Any ideas?

Great hack! Installed on 2.2.9, and looks wonderful. Members really like it a lot. But I'm having permissions problems, like the others...

I have about 8 forums that are either for supermods or admins only, and like others these threads show up in the latest topics, and like the others when a person without the right permissions tries to access it, they are denied.

All permissions have been set correctly, these people cannot see these threads or their associated forums when they are searching through categories, forums, etc.

Is there a cleaner fix than having 8 lines of code to check if it's forum X, X+1, X+2, etc?

Thanks,

Jeff

I apologize to everyone for not being around this last week+. I had to go to Miami on business and only had my laptop on a dial-up connection. I barely had enough time to check my own forum let alone any others.


arracing - Sorry, but I don't know much about music files, though I'm sure you can find some sort of online tutorial if you search for one.


D|ver - Open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
Change that to:

Heffe2000 - To add a link to the admin/mod cp, open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
Right above that Add:
Then just add the variable $adminlink in your index_welcometext template wherever you would like the link to appear.


attroll - The reason you still appear logged in when you're not is because you did not actually log out before you closed your browser window. If you log out first you shouldn't have a problem.
As for uploading the newthread.php file, that was a mistake on my part. In the previous versions of the script it was necessary to also edit that file, but I accidentally forgot to remove that part in the instructions. Thank you for pointing that out.
As for the weather part... I'm guessing that msnbc.com changed something in their settings and that's why it's no longer working. I'll see if I can figure out what was done and post a fix when I can, or you can check the vB Weather Mk 2 thread to see if a fix has been posted there.


mcyates - I have answered this question for you several times now. Search the thread.


Lacrosse Boy - Open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
Change that to:

kevinnguyen - Yes. It should be possible with a few simple template changes.


frankenberrie - That's something to do with your index_header template. Just look to see what the difference is between that template and your normal header template (I would guess there's a <p> or <br> missing after your logo).
As for pulling the news from multiple forums, you should be able to enter something like this for your News Forum ID - XX OR forumid=YY - And you would just change XX and YY to your forum id's.


Rebel38 - You missed one of the template modifications in the readme file. Check to make sure that you edited your forumhome_loggedinuser template properly.


kevinnguyen - Open your myvbindex.php file and look for:
Change that to:
Then look for:
Change that to:

Intex - Try changing the path to c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\forum


imageconstrux - As far as I know, if the forum permissions are set correctly then there should not be a problem. Would you mind taking a screen shot of the permissions page one of those forums that should be private and posting it here for me to check out?

Tigga - thx for the response. I'd actually used a suggestion you posted eleswhere in the thread to determine the servers path, i.e. creating a file with the following info:

<?php phpinfo(32); ?>


That gave me the following path which was entered into that command line:

chdir('c:\\program files\\apache group\\apache\\htdocs\\forum');


Worked a treat :cool:. Today I looked through the entire thread for this hack and I noticed so many people were experiencing the same problem. I've also seen the same questions posed in other hacks that use the chdir command - therefore can I make a suggestion for you to include this in the instructions. This will definitely decrease the amount of support calls you get :).

On the support note, I'd just like to say that support from yourself is quite incredible. As I mentioned above, I've read the entire thread for this hack today (which took some time :)) and I have to say that not only do you retain your composure and professionality thoughout, even when clearly having to repeat yourself, but your actual support quality is no less than first class.

Keep up the superb work. Its a shame more of us don't have the same level of professionality as you do :).


BTW: On post #622 you'd provided a solution to the vB 2.2.5 problem with polls. I can confirm your solution works.

Tigga -

Here's a screenie of the permissions page for non-registered or not logged in users. This screenie is for a parent forum (red), and all the non-registered perms for each child forum under it is blue. (But I've tried it both ways, neither works)

And here's a screenie, with me being logged out, of part of the Latest Topics table. The 'Ask The Pro' thread is in one of the higher permission forums that a non-reg shouldn't be able to see.

Thank you for the compliments Intex. It's always nice to know that people appreciate the work and help. :)
I'm actually planning on making an FAQ for the script once I release the next version. As I'm sure you saw when you read the thread, there are many questions that are asked over and over again that could be prevented by that and save me quite a bit of time.

imageconstrux - Please check your PMs. :)

Any news on a fix for the weather?

Nevermind, I followed your advice and found it. The fix can be found here (about halfway down the page).

I got it working for three days then it started not showing the weather. It does not list the town and state and the temp now say "0 F". I looked at several other memebers who also have the weather on there index page and they are getting the same thing. Is there something wrong with there server that it looks to?

The weather is fixed by making the following in your myindex.php read:

read...

(Just in case people weren't able to search for the fix. ;) )

I did the following like you said. I went into myvbindex.php and did the following:

Found:

fputs($rawdata,"GET /m/chnk/d/weather_d_src.asp?acid=$usersettings[accid] HTTP/1.0\n\n");


Replaced with:

fputs($rawdata,"GET http://www.msnbc.com/m/chnk/d/weather_d_src.asp?acid=$usersettings[accid] HTTP/1.0\n\n");

But I still get the same results as I meantiond before.

After making the above mentioned change, the next time you go to that page, select Change Settings (weather), and then select Submit, and your weather will be back. Unfortunately, for me at least, I have to do this everytime I log in to my website.

Ok I did that too. I went into change settings and hit submit and still get the same thing.

Okay, well, after reading a little more closely, I see why there's a difference. You need to ALSO go to your weather.php file, and make the same change there. I didn't make the change in my myvbindex.php file, which is probably why I have to "reset" it each time I log in.

Anyway, make the exact same change to your weather.php file, and you should be good to go!

Take care,
~Chris

For people that see the shoutbox (TWTCornish version) appear on the homepage but get an error when they come to submit a shout, it could be that your path is not set correctly in the shoutbox_postshout template.

My forum is located in /forum yet the original code seemed to rely on the shoutbox.php file being located on the root /. Anyway, adding /forum/ in front of the filename (as shown below) sorted it out for me.

In having problems with the weather hack. Its shown on my homepage, but no location information or graphics are shown either on the homepage or the actual weather stats page for the individual.

The code clearly has an incorrect path and judging from the templates I can only imagine this due to the variable not working? Any ideas? (see attached image).