Because the majority of people who install this hack don't know howto make the numerous changes to these templates so I decided this method was best for the majority.

Any reason why it would start after I installed vbindex?

ETA: It is working normally today. Was it just because it was the first day of using vbindex so everything was new to it?

Question: Can I move the Latest Threads Centered Block to before the news? I just think it would look better on my fourms.

Any help would be appreciated.

vBindex doesn't touch any of the code used in the ACP to work out whos been online in a day.

Just edit the VBINDEX template and put $home[news] after the latest threads table.

So is there any thoughts of multi-installs ?

IE: install to sub folders in a site each install with different settings: news forum, poll, ect. I was thinking of a portal system for many subjects all pulling data from 1 forum install.

$site / articles
$site / gallery
$site / subject whatever

Each install with its own "settings" and homepage.

I can remove vBindex my Templates (find in core forum) but still in Phrases....How can I remove in Phrases ???

a small suggestion for the vBindex :D

Template: VBINDEX

Find:
Replace:
Find:
Add after:

Find:
Add before:
this will make the table body align with the navbar... :D

I'm not really sure what this does, do you have an example url for this one?

I noticed that when I:
Enable News Posters Avatar -->Yes

It will post the avatar in the Welcome Box, but when it isn't enabled the Welcome Box avatar doesn't show up. Perhaps this only happens with the news poster's account...

Even when I enabled:
Show Users Avatar -->Yes

Is there anyway around this?

Thanks,
SilverDawn

Thanks burnz, small mod, but VERY useful :)

What version of vB are you using? And do you store avatars in the database or as files? And is your avatar a custom one or a pre-defined avatar?

Sorry,

• We run vb3,
• We store the avatars in images/avatars and import them into VB through the admin panel.
• It was a predefined avatar that I had previously uploaded to the images/avatars directoy and I imported it using the admin panel.

Great stuff:D

Hello ? This can't be true. I have to manually edit all the 60 Standard Smilies ? This can work for some people but we proudly present 1001 Smilies on our domain. How should i handle this please ? I do not want to manually edit 1001 + 60 Smilies on my own.

Hack creator ? Could you please take one action item to find a better solution here for this problem ?

Hint: The old vbhome lite version had a replacement variable like {imageshome} for each style which solved this problem. But with your hack this does not work yet.

Any comments ?

Cheers,

Addition to my last request:

Performance is also a big thing here. For every http:// link in your source code the client browser opens a complete new session over http. This is a big performance overhead for our amount of smilies. Please help to find a better solution.

Thanks.

Cheers,

A script has already been released in this thread by Natch to automatically change all the smilie URLs.

NTLDR, instead of having the user alter his smilies, have you thought of applying a regex on the text containing smilies (add the full url dynamically to them) before "you eval" the templates with it?

Thanks. You got it.

NTLDR ? The main reason for not willing to alter all the smilies to the full URL is the performance issue. Again ... if you alter all smilies to http://blablabla/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif from the original /forum/images/smilies/smile.gif you increase the connections to the server dramatically.

I hope this has made my problem clearer. Do you know what i am talking about now ?

Cheers,

Great hack! But I am having one problem... I upgraded from vb 2.3.4 to vb 3.0 today and everything works fine except vbindex will not display the text from my 'news' posts... I checked the length and it's set to display 150 characters. What could be wrong?

I had the same issue. Create a new info in the news forum and this text will be shown on the vbindex. Don't know why but any new thread is fully shown.

Cheers,

Admin CP -> Update Counters -> Run all those reffering to threads.

Then alter them all to /forum/images.... instead of http://.. I don't really see the issue.

Its impossible for me to know the URL to the smilies hence the user needs to adjust them either manually or via the script Natch provided. Plus I feel that having to edit the smilies once at install time greatly out ways the extra processing to search/replace every single page load.

Then the forum smilies don't work any more. But brought up a good point.

Question: How about replacing the current smilies location from let's say ./images/smilies/smilie.gif to {smiliefolder}/smilie.gif.

Now the only thing we need is somehow to determine if a user is in the root / or if he is the /forum directory. If we can do this then it would be very easy.

One way could be in a javascript to define SMILIEFOLDER as a variable and to set for the vbindex a different javascript source file then to the forum. But this would not be best way but the easiest.

Please tell me your thoughts.

Cheers,

I recommend using either Natch's script to update all the image paths or manually do it. You of course are free to use whichever method you see fit.

i cant get it to install.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
## GET POLL ##
SELECT thread.pollid, thread.forumid, open, threadid, replycount, question, poll.dateline,
options, votes, active, numberoptions, timeout, multiple, voters,
pollvote.voteoption, pollvote.userid AS voteuserid
FROM thread AS thread
LEFT JOIN poll AS poll ON (thread.pollid = poll.pollid)
LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread')
LEFT JOIN pollvote AS pollvote ON(thread.pollid = pollvote.pollid AND pollvote.userid = 1)
WHERE forumid NOT IN (0)
AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL
AND thread.pollid <> 0
AND thread.open <> 10
AND thread.visible = '1'
AND thread.forumid IN ()


ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC
LIMIT 1
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')


ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC
LIMIT 1' at line

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 08th of April 2004 06:07:34 PM
Script: http://forum.sxsecurity.org/vbindex.php
Referer:
Username: Criticalmass
IP Address: 206.214.92.57

Hello and happy easterday's ...

how can i add this on vbindex?
Members:5,886|Threads:15,767|Posts:105,399|Posts today:01
Newest User: thesom

Thank you for your help..

By Wildthinks

You need to setup the vBindex options as per the install instructions.

ok i got a prob.

Warning: main(.//functions_vbiupgrade.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sportsn/public_html/admincp/vbiupgrade.php on line 57

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './/functions_vbiupgrade.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/sportsn/public_html/admincp/vbiupgrade.php on line 57

i run RC4

Make sure you have uploaded all the files as per the readme and that you have both your board URL and the admincp folder name (in config.php) set correctly.

Yep all checked it takes me to the admin login then i login then i get this....

:(

yea i still cant get mine to work.

What URL is the shoutbox using for the smilies? It should be the same as the news as it uses the same vB function to create the link.

If I post an event in the calender the url on the portal is wrong: http://www.domain.com/public/calenda...=2004-4-17&c=1
(the portal is located in the public directory)
But the forum is located at:
http://www.domain.com/forum/calendar...=2004-4-17&c=1

how can i fix this ?

In the calendar_smallmonth_day template change calendar.core to calendar.php

Thx ! :)

If this had a banner rotator and a todays events thing as earlier mentioned this would be perfect for me.. Might install later on I think.

Any idea whats wrong with mine ?

I was just noticing that when you have an image file as your category strip it doesnt show up on the vbindex page only on the forum pages, is there anyway to fix this to make it showup on the vbindex pages also?