It would have to be done through the database... Have you checked your PMs on here? I sent you one regarding this...

Yes, I checked my PMs. I have to leave right now, but when I get back, I'll try and straighten this out. Thanks for your help.

Faranth.....I understand that. I am trying to figure out how he RESPONDED to a post... That he should not have been able to. He told me he responded to it through the "Latest Threads Block" . Once he posted his reply, he was not allowed to view the forum, but it still appeared on the "Latest Threads block"

My permissions are set correctly. I checked within minutes of him making the post.

If your permissions are set correctly, then there's no way he could have made the post. The latest threads section of this script has nothing to do with someone's ability to reply to a post - only view it. You should double check that the "Use Custom Permissions" radio button at the top of the permissions page is checked as that seems to be a very common mistake. Something HAS to be set incorrectly if that person was able to respond to a thread like that.

Hi,

im new to all this portal stuff so excuse me if i ask silly questions.

I have installed this portal with out a problem however when i goto http://www.vendetta-council.co.uk/adv_index.php i dont see where i click to get to the forums.

Please help me

you can add a link to it in the navbar or whereever else you like by modifying the templates :)

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:) Hes new like me Can you show him and me? :)

Open the index_navbar template and search for the link that you want to put your new link next to. I think the Home links is commented out with <-- so you can remove that comment, or copy that and create a new one with the link of your desire.

there isnt a index_navbar template

my localhost isnt running ATM and i havent had time to install it on my site (tomorow ;D)

im guessing its either in the header or the main index template

This is a great hack, thanks alot, was just woundering if you could sort me out, iam missing a few images and as far as i know they are all in the correct place, can someone take a quick look at my page then point out what i must do.

http://learnall-forum.com

When i change the image folder to forums/images i nolonger get images on my forum but ok on portal page

Installed and working nicely although it took longer than anticipated due to me leaving a dot in the path (instructions are not idiot proof :D ) - very nice hack!

I have a problem, dunno what I did wrong...

When I run the adv_index.php file, the different boxes seem to work, but the middlesection is not there...


Here?s a sg...

http://www.supportalen.dk/vb_sg.gif

Anyone got an idea what I did wrong, or am missing to do?


Thanks,

Dan

Rids, I did the same thing. I left the period in the forums direct path in the config.php file and it took me about an hour to find the proplem.

Dan,
Make sure you set up a forum called news and a forum called polls and place a test thread in each one. Also make sure that the news and poll forum ID number is placed in your advanced home options page.

I also have one question, when you install the hack it gives you the option to set the correct URL to your image folders. I need to change the url path again because my news icons(icons.icon1.gif) are not displaying correctly. Where do I change this path at?

**Update - Thanks Tigga, I changed the path on options>thread display options and it works.

How can I change it so that people can see the attached pictures on the news o the portal? So not a link but seen on the news complete!?

Texas & Snowbot - The script uses vBulletin's default navbar, so if you wanted to add a link to the forums there it would need to be added to your navbar template. If you only wanted the link to be displayed on your homepage you could add an if condition like this around the code for the link.
<if condition="$index_header">
(Kind of a cheap way to do it, but it works :p)

Blackbeard - You have to change the image paths to /forums/images

Dan - As Jeff said, you have to create a news forum and make a post in there before the newsbits will work.

Jeff - If you're talking about the default icon that is displayed if no icon is selected, that's listed in your main vBulletin options => Thread Display Options => Show Default Post Icon. Did you change the path at all during that part of the install? The script *should* be able to determine the correct path and update that for you in most cases, so I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a problem with that part. ;)

Symbian - Currently it will display the thumbnail of an image if you have image resizing turned on. Otherwise it displays a link to the file/image. If you wanted to change that you would need to modify the file and remove all of the code for the attachments except for the part that actually displays the images. If that was done though, you wouldn't be able to attach files other than image files in your news posts.

Stupid me, wrote the wrong ID number for the news forum, everything is working like a charm now :)

Thanks for the help guys!

A request. How about a custom block to your newsforum as links and when you click on them they not only display the news but under that a react system where reply's kan be added so...you have a newsitem and under it a display of instant reactions.

Dan - Glad you got it figured out. Hope you enjoy the script. :)

Nuclion - I'm not sure I completely follow you here... Are you basically saying you want to display the replies to a news post under that post on the homepage?

Yes but not as the reply's in the forum itself, more a very simple reply system maybe even a reply mini bbs as a third party addon that displays short instant reactions on the mainpage. They are only visible when you click a newslink and then a visitor has the option to reply on that specific newsitem. :)

(seen on fok.nl) www.fok.nl

Thanks Tigga for the help. It worked fine after I updated the URL on the thread display options.

Does anyone have a procedure for adding more custom blocks? I realize you must update the adv_index.php file but how do you add the custom 3 block to the index_tempates catagory and have it recognize it. Thanks, jeff

Nuclion - Something like that would be possible, but I don't think it will be a default feature anytime soon.

Jeff - Why not just copy one of the custom templates and then add the code in the index template where you'd like it to appear? ;)

I can do it that way Tigga but I wanted to keep it organized. I'm integrating your program with other custom databases and I wanted to keep it as organized as possible.

Ahhh, ok. Well the easiest way to do that would be to look in your adv_index.php file for this code:
Right above that add:
Then create a new template called "index_custom3" and just add $custom3 in your index template. And of course if you need more, you would just change the two places you see the number 3 in that code to 4, 5, and so on.
If you need to add options to turn them on/off, the easiest way would be to put your forum in debug mode for a minute by adding $debug = 1; in your config.php file. Then go to the vBadvanced Homepage settings and add the new settings. If you do that, don't forget to take your board out of debug mode afterwards. ;)

I'm new to VBulletin so bare with me Tigga but when I select add templates to add the custom 3 template in the admincp it adds it to the custom templates catagory and not under your index templates catagory.

Yea, it adds them there because they're not "default" templates. It will work just fine from there though... Or if you really need them to be displayed with the others then you can go to your templates table in the database, find that template, and change it's styleid to "-1".

Awesome, thanks for your help today.

<a href="http://www.plurplanet.com" target="_blank">www.plurplanet.com</a>
You are breaking the vBulletin copyright, simply because you do not display the "vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited" required, on your front page.
Your script uses the vB functions, so is a vBulletin product/hack.

Jeff - No problem. Hope you enjoy the script. :)

TECK - I have spoken with a member of the Jelsoft team before and they said it was not necessary to display the copyright message on the homepage, nor any of my other pages, since it is not a vBulletin file. If it was necessary, or a violation of the vBulletin license agreement, then it would be there. [Edited by assassingod - Unnecessary]

How is this better then the other portal softs?

Well I'm not aware of any other portals that work with vB3 other than vBindex... If there are any others feel free to point them out to me and I will explain the differences. As far as vBadvanced Homepage vs vBindex, it's really all about which one you like better. The last time I looked at it the coding and such seemed to be very well done, so I wouldn't necessarily say one is better than the other. The only way to determine which one is better *for you* is to compare them and see which one fits your needs the best. ;)

Every portal has it's place depending on what a person may need. Both Tigga and NTLDR have written excellent hacks and both have cleanly written & optimized code. The choice is basically yours to the features you want and ease of use. My opinion is you can't go wrong with either hack and I have both installed (different sites of course).

LOL...that wasn't there when I started typing.... :rolleyes:

I've just updated the first post and released v1.01. Thanks to Dark_Wizard, I realized that my text editor was somehow messing up the spacing and returns in the file which caused problems for some users. That has been fixed, along with a couple of small code changes to further optimize the script. Upgrade instructions can be found in the first post. :)

[high] * Faranth goes off to install this time[/high]

tigga have you recived any of my emaila s of late?

I don't believe so... When's the last time you tried to send me one? I know my server was having some problems over the last couple of days, but I *thought* that all my mail had been delivered after it was fixed...

12/04/03 and 1/06/04

didnt get a reponse from either

Ok, found the one from 12/4 still in my inbox (along with 215 other emails I need to sort through) and I'm about to reply to that one... Nuttin from 1/6 though...

well i was just sending an email to see if you ere alive