I see what you mean, had a look at your site. I'd rather not have a redirect for my site homepage though, just don't like the idea of it.
Is it possible to get .htaccess to redirect to www.mysite.com/vbindex.php rather than just calling the .php file which I guess it does?

The only way I know how to do a .htaccess redirect is to redirect the entire directory there, which will only work if thats the only file there. I'm not sure if subdirectories will redirect or not:

From memory I think thats the code, if not its similar.

thanx NTLDR this worked for the smilie part.

any fix for the other stuff, like forum and the date/time?

also I have updated all counters the new part still not showing up, I tried to reinstall the whole script on another test board but still nothing apears...

If you have followed the instructions theres no reason for this not to work. Make sure you have done each step and make sute you uploaded the new admin/misc.php that you changed for the update counters.

Couldn't see an answer to this:

can anyone help?

Also.. and yes I know this has been asked.
I have the mini calendar working fine at the moment, but don't know where to add the php in the vbindex.php file and where/how to call it from the templates. Can anyone help?

Thanks

Sean

Both issues have been addressed earlier on in the thread. For the WOL you either add the two blocks of PHP to online.php or install the Admin CP hack by Chen, aka FireFly. I posted instructions on how to do the calender towards the first half of the thread.

hmm....this show the latest thread title not the forum?

How would you set up the cookie domain if the vbindex homepage is at www.yoursite.com and your board is it forums.yoursite.com Most likely .yoursite.com correct? What if later on I put in a second board(witha second license of course) at <u>subdomain.yoursite.com/forums/</u> and a vbindex at <u>subdomain.yoursite.com</u>, how would i set up the cookie domains for both boards and what would i put in place where it has a / for both boards?

I would like to know how to add more areas on the portal so that i can add more/other info manually....

for example..in the middle i have news and on either end i have the navigations...i would like to add more boxes to fill it up abit with information..

Please answer in detail for i am very new at this...let me know step by step where to go and what to do

Thanks

I~

As far as I know that isn't going to work. It may, but I have no idea what settings you would need.

So it would, I don't know what I was thinking. Currently you can't get the forum title up, you'd need to do a left join on the forum table to get it I expect.

hey ntldr, i've found a little quirk, and am hoping you can help me with it.
so far, everything's going great. got both styles done and the site's running beautifully... however...
:)
i have some forums set up with moderation queues, because the content appears elswhere on the site (pages i've created using vbindex). i don't want potentially offensive or inappropriate matter appearing on those pages (very unprofessional), so i set up the moderation queue. this obviously works in the forum... posts made by regular users in these moderated forums don't appear in the forum until i pass em through... however they do appear right away on vbindex.
this is not good.
any thoughts?

Check the news and threads queries have AND visible=1 in the WHERE clause, I may have missed it out by mistake ;)

nope, it's not there.
where do i put it?

thanks for the quick reply.

Got my other problem sorted but this is all I could see in the thread on the mini calendar hack.

I have put the code in the vbindex.php file but the calendar just gets displayed at the top of the page.

I know I am not doing it right and I just need to know where in the file I should be putting the code and how to call it from a template.

Cheers

Sean

That should do it ;)

nope.
giving me a db error.

Think I have worked it out... :D

OK give it a try now, I changed the code (put thread.visible instead).

aaaheeemmm excuse guys hate to break up the party for a second but about 10 posts back i had a question... :ermm:

Any ideas..???

here is the question:
(post #1169)

I would like to know how to add more areas on the portal so that i can add more/other info manually....

for example..in the middle i have news and on either end i have the navigations...i would like to add more boxes to fill it up abit with information..

Please answer in detail for i am very new at this...let me know step by step where to go and what to do

Thanks

I~

You need to edit the home_left and home_right templates. As I've already said in the thread customising the templates and the look is the users job. I provide a default layout, thats all.

genius.
thank you very much buddy... knew i could count on you.


mv540, just add several <tr><td>info</td></tr> on both the left and right templates.

if you need more detail than that, you need to learn html before you start modifying this hack.
just a suggestion

Ok, my news is havin the same problem, news title but no text is showin up. I tried the update counter in the acp and that didnt work. Im usin 2.2.8 and i have the news forum in public so anybody can post in it. Any help?

You haven't followed the instructions properly. Please go back through and check each step, this works fine in 2.2.8.

OMG, yep, i was doin two sites and i just skipped a couple things :) doh!! Thnx hehe Thanks for the awesome hack and for the quick reply.

No problem ;) I know how easy it is to miss the odd step out :)

I think this is the right thread for the version I have ^_^


http://www.erecellstudios.com/vB/vbindex.php

I just got it installed, so please ignore how nothing is customized yet. You can log-in under guest/guest if you need to test something. :)


Three things.

1) [url=http://www.erecellstudios.com/Image1.jpg]This[url] should explain everything. I just don't know where to put it.

2) If you switch skins, the header and footer stay as the default, and it looks really funky. Although it's probably because I havn't done step 11 yet. :)

3) How can I put it so that the latest thread list doesn't include the admin-section threads when being viewed by a regular user?

I haven't installed this hack yet but I am considering it for one of my sites.

koggit: $bburl is usually the URL to your forums WITHOUT the /index.php - you put $bburl in there just after the first " in all anchor tags, then slash, then member.php or calendar.php or whatever.

So it looks like these examples:

<a href="$bburl/memberlist.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">

and

<a href="$bburl/usercp.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">

But this is only the case if the vbindex file is not in the same directory as the forums. With your forum, you have the vbindex file in the same directory, so you shouldn't need to add $bburl anywhere

Thanks, man. Instead of just giving me an answer, you explained it. Very helpful for someone like me, a noob to all scripting languages. ;] Thanks.

So, if I don't need to modify that, then what's the problem with the header/footer? =\

2. Copy the header and footer templates to the home_header and home_footer templates of all your styles, making sure you add $bburl to the links as explained above if its not in the forums directory.

3. Check back a few pages this has been covered lots and lots of times.

Can you please elaborate a bit on #2?


And sorry about asking something that was answered, I'm going to read back some. :)

Under your templates you have the "sets" for each style. Click the edit button for the footer template and copy the code in it, then edit the home_footer template and delete the code in it and paste in the copied code there, repeat this for the header.

Change any links that point to your site to add $bburl eg:

Thanks man, I've gotten it pretty much up and ready.


If someone could help me out with my template for vbindex, I'd really appeciate it.

http://www.erecellstudios.com/vB/vbindex.php <= You can log in under guest/guest to see it in the Ekko template. See, the sites are white, but they should be that same grid-thing as the forum.

I am trying to add more pages to my site, and i created a new template using the home template. So i named the new template home_generalrules and the address is www.blahblah.com/vbindex.php?page=generalrules. But when i click the link, all i get is a blank white page. Yes , i did copy the html to the new template and change it accordingly lol.

I'm getting the same thing too. When I installed this there were already 80 pages in this thread. . . and after reading up to page 10. . sorta hard to follow some things. . .

http://wisdomtrip.sytes.net/site/

at the bottom will be a user agreement link in the footer. . . that is the only thing I've tried. . .and I followed ur instructions 100% from the ones on page 4. . .

>edit<

I made the template "home_agreement" and replaced $news with the content I wished to be viewed. . . so is that link right?

Templates should be named home_extra_pagename and the URL should follow the syntax:

Nice script!
Keep it coming

Thnx for the responce. . .it works now. . . great portal system, very easy to use if u know how to code semi-decent!!

in addition to the url redirect that NTLDR suggested above, you can also make copies of vbindex.php as i have done. rename the copied file 'generalrules.php', and have it pull from a seperate forum. that way, you can populate your entire off-forum site with vbindex copies that pull from different forums. ntldr explained all of this in previous posts if you are interested. makes for an excellent, dynamic site that can easily be administered from the forum. works great on my site.

Thats a great tip man, Maybe I'll try it out. . .