I'm having some errors with this mod. I installed it following all the instructions but it won't work for the template we got. Here's what it's doing:

http://forums.xfernet.com/forums/vbindex.php

are you referring to the header problem?
if so, just edit home_header and change it to suit your site.

hey, i installed tis before and im just reinstalling it, when i go to the vbindex page it loads ok and just above the header it says

goog morning friends, ups 94 pages, i dont want read this now, because my vbindex works, but i have a little questions.

The user can see the privat heading thread but not read, he may not see it.

what can i do

that is definately answered in this thread

I've finally installed this on my now working new board.
Thanks.

I just upgraded to 2.1 and things seem to load faster but I have 2 issues...

1) The news section doesn't include a synopsis of the news item just the title and avatar of the user...

2) I can't remember or find out how to add links to the left side for more pages.

Thanks for any help!!

http://www.smartphonesource.com

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1st of all: Everything works great! :) :)

In fact, everything is working so well that I am forced to try to split the "Latest Posts" list into categories. Is there a way to point the list to a single top-level forum and all of its sub-forums?

I guess I need something like this:


Latest Corporate Posts (this actually would need to concatonate from several top-level forums)

Latest Plant 1 Posts

Latest Plant 2 Posts

Latest Plant 3 Posts


Any help would be adored.

I notice on The Sisters Three, that you have a higher version.

BTW, How do you work HTML to use images around each part like what they do with vb.org?

Thats correct, I've a slightly improved version there that I did a little bit of work on. However I won't be using vBindex there as I've almost finished my new portal for it.

I will however upgrade and introduce some new features in vBindex when vB3 is release for public beta.

NTLDR, i've got a problem.
I've installed the hack like u said in the install.txt file.

I've uploaden vBindex.php to:
/vBindex.php

And my forum is at:
/forum/index.php

In that case i put chdir to './forum'
and : require('./forum/global.php')

But the page won't display, it even doesn't give an error.
What is the problem?

The page URL would be:
http://sat-gsm.dyndns.org/
and the forum url:
http://sat-gsm.dyndns.org/forum/

TIA

How do you work HTML to use images around each part like what they do with vb.org?

I want to do the same thing, but I am not sure I understand this example. I want my vbindex.php to come up as "MyCrossTalk".

Where do these values plug in?

Thanks.

todd.o.callen

you will need to edit online.php use the following :

replaced by
and replaced


by

I completed the first replace, but I don't have the second case in my online.php. What do I do?

how is that portal going, ntldr... i'm very curious about it.

my site went live 1st of april, and i've gotten lots of great compliments on the off-forum pages, and each time i say it's thanks to your script!

Me too, on both counts.

I have got a slight problem...Everything is working perfectly..But, when it pulls the news thread, it shows the Title of the thread, the users avatar, read full post, comments, etc.

But, no matter the amount of characters I set for it to show, it simply shows nothing in the body of the post.

Did I zig when I should have zagged somewhere in the setup? I am using vBulletin 3.0

Thanks,

Dave

Mine all works good, it even shows the news tiltes and avatars, except, it wont show the news content ...

Help please?

ok, same problem as dbroomjr

Yep yep. I just upgraded to version 2.3.0 and I get everythign working fine also but the news won't pull.

Maybe it has to do with the file edit in which I found the line in three places in the 2.3.0 file? Wait, that won't make sense without reference. I'll be right back.

Update - for 2.3.0 users

First, make sure you ran the update counters after installing. If this doesn't fix the problem (of the news not being pulled onto the main page), then try this:

In newthread.php find the line

You need to hardcode the forumid in, at least it worked for me. :) If it doesn't work for you - sorry 'bout that.

Anyway, change the above to something like below:

[php]Note - Change "X" to your forumid of the news forum. Also, notice there is now a double equal sign instead of a single sign. :)

Its almost done at last (code wise at least), I've the Links Directory and Installer to finish. I'm not sure if I'll be releasing it yet, and if I do it won't be till after vB3 has come out.

WOW! You've done a fantastic job there Buddha, thats one impressive site/set of foums you've got :D

sorry but i am retarded or its too late for my brain to function properly.. but i installed vbindex fine... and it works greats, its awesome.. good job.. but the images are not working.... probably bc the vbindex.php is not in the forum/ dir. so where do i have to change it to fix it? i probably missed something... thnx in advance...

nvm.... i just had to change the images path.... on vbulletin cp... but the avatar image wouldnt work, bc u had to change it in vbindex.php... i am retarded

Hello,

I have tried to install this hack as I think its a really good idea but keep getting this at the bottom of vbindex.php

// ------------------------- // end vBulletin original code } // end of vB // vBindex - start // ------------------------- // welcome panel by trilOByte // ------------------------- if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0) { $avatarurl=getavatarurl($bbuserinfo[userid]); if ($avatarurl=='') { $avatarurl='{imagesfolder}/avatars/noavatar.gif'; } $avatarimage=''; } else { $avatarimage=''; } // ------------------------- // end welcome panel // news (based on code by TECK) // ------------------------- if ($newsonoff!=0) { $newsquery=$newsquery=$DB_site->query("SELECT thread.*,threadpost.pagetext AS pagetext FROM thread LEFT JOIN post AS threadpost ON (thread.tpostid = threadpost.postid) WHERE forumid = '$newsforum' ORDER BY thread.dateline DESC LIMIT $newsposts"); while ($news=$DB_site->fetch_array($newsquery)) { $newsthreadid=$news[threadid]; $newstitle=$news[title]; $newstime=vbdate($timeformat,$news[dateline]); $newsdate=vbdate($dateformat,$news[dateline]); $newsusername=$news[postusername]; $newsuserid=$news[postuserid]; $comments=$news[replycount]; $newstext=censortext(bbcodeparse($news[pagetext],0,1)); $icon=$news[iconid]; // uncomment out next line to remove line breaks in the news //$newstext=str_replace("
","",$newstext); // max news chars if ($maxnewschars!=0) { if (strlen($newstext) > $maxnewschars) { $newstext = substr($newstext,0,$maxnewschars); $newstext .= "..."; } $readmore="Read Full Post - "; } // end max newschars // get users avatar to display with news if ($shownewsavatar!=0) { $newsavatarurl2=getavatarurl($newsuserid); if ($newsavatarurl2=='') { $newsavatarurl='{imagesfolder}/clear.gif'; } else { $newsavatarurl=''.$bburl.'/'.$newsavatarurl2.''; } eval("\$newsavatar = \"".gettemplate('home_avatar')."\";"); } // end avatar eval("\$newsbits .= \"".gettemplate('home_newsbit')."\";"); } eval("\$news = \"".gettemplate('home_news')."\";"); } // ------------------------- // end news // latest threads // ------------------------- if ($threadsonoff!=0) { //get forum perms $forumperms=$DB_site->query("SELECT forumid FROM forumpermission WHERE canview='0' AND usergroupid='$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]'"); while ($forumperm=$DB_site->fetch_array($forumperms)) { $threadsql .= " AND forumid!=$forumperm[forumid]"; } $threadsquery=$DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM thread WHERE open=1 AND thread.open<>10 ".$threadsql." AND forumid!=$newsforum AND forumid!=$pollsforum AND visible=1 ORDER BY lastpost DESC LIMIT $maxvbithreads"); while ($latestthread = $DB_site->fetch_array($threadsquery)) { $title = unhtmlspecialchars($latestthread['title']); $starter = $latestthread['postusername']; $numreplies = $latestthread['replycount']; $lastposter = $latestthread['lastposter']; $mpostid= $latestpost['postid']; $postdate=vbdate($dateformat,$latestpost[dateline]); $posttime=vbdate($timeformat,$latestpost[dateline]); $postforum=$latestforum['title']; $postforumid=$latestthread['forumid']; $gothreadid = $latestthread['threadid']; if (($counter++ % 2) != 0) { $threadbg="{firstaltcolor}"; } else { $threadbg="{secondaltcolor}"; } eval("\$threadbits .= \"".gettemplate('home_threadbit')."\";"); } eval("\$threads = \"".gettemplate('home_threads')."\";"); } // ------------------------- // end latest threads // poll by wajones // ------------------------- if (($pollonoff!=0) && (!isset($section) or $section=="")) { $pollinfo=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT poll.*,thread.threadid,thread.open,thread.replycou nt FROM thread LEFT JOIN poll ON (thread.pollid=poll.pollid) WHERE thread.forumid='$pollsforum' ORDER BY poll.dateline DESC LIMIT 1"); if (!empty($pollinfo[question])){ $pollinfo[question]=bbcodeparse($pollinfo[question],0,1); $polltitle=$pollinfo[title]; $splitoptions=explode("|||", $pollinfo[options]); $splitvotes=explode("|||",$pollinfo[votes]); $pollisclosed=0; $pollisactive=$pollinfo[poll.active]; $pollid=$pollinfo[poll.pollid]; $comments=$pollinfo[replycount]; if (!$pollinfo[active] or !$pollinfo[open] or ($pollinfo[dateline]+($pollinfo[timeout]*86400)query_first("SELECT pollvoteid FROM pollvote WHERE userid='$bbuserinfo[userid]' AND pollid=$pollinfo[pollid]")) { $uservoted=1; } } $counter=0; while ($counter++<$pollinfo[numberoptions]) { $pollinfo[numbervotes]+=$splitvotes[$counter-1]; } $counter=0; $pollbits=""; while ($counter++<$pollinfo[numberoptions]) { $option[question] = bbcodeparse($splitoptions[$counter-1],0,1); $option[votes] = $splitvotes[$counter-1]; //get the vote count for the option $option[number] = $counter; //number of the option // Now we check if the user has voted or not if ($pollisclosed or $uservoted) { // user did vote or poll is closed if ($option[votes] == 0){ $option[percent]=0; } else{ $option[percent] = number_format($option[votes]/$pollinfo[numbervotes]*100,2); } $option[graphicnumber]=$option[number]%6 + 1; $option[barnumber] = round($option[percent])*2; $option[barnumber] = round($option[percent]); $option[percent] = round($option[percent]); if ($pollisclosed) { $pollstatus = "Poll Closed."; } elseif ($uservoted) { $pollstatus = "You have already voted."; } $pollbits .= "$option[question] $option[votes]$option[percent]%"; } else { // $pollbits .= "$option[question]"; if ($pollinfo['multiple']) { $pollbits .= "$option[question]"; }else{ $pollbits .= "$option[question]"; } } } if ($pollisclosed or $uservoted) { eval("\$poll = \"".gettemplate('home_pollresult')."\";"); } else { eval("\$poll = \"".gettemplate('home_poll')."\";"); } } else { $poll="No Poll Available"; } } // ------------------------- // end poll // start shoutbox by TWTCommish // ---------------------------- if (($shoutboxonoff!=0) && (!isset($section) or $section=="")) { $smilie_limit = 12; if ($type == 'shout' && $comment_submit && trim($message) != '' && $bbuserinfo[userid] > 0) { $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO shoutbox SET userid = '$bbuserinfo[userid]', shout_text = '".addslashes($message)."', timestamp = '".time()."'"); header("Location: $PHP_SELF?s=$sessionhash[sessionid]"); } $shouts = $DB_site->query("SELECT u.username, u.userid, s.shoutid, s.shout_text FROM user u, shoutbox s WHERE u.userid = s.userid ORDER BY s.timestamp DESC LIMIT $shoutlimit"); if (!$DB_site->num_rows($shouts)) { eval("\$shoutbits = \"".gettemplate("home_shoutbox_error",1,0)."\"; "); } else { while ($shout_info = $DB_site->fetch_array($shouts)) { extract($shout_info); $subject = stripslashes($subject); $body = stripslashes($body); $user = ($HTTP_GET_VARS["userid"] > 0) ? "&userid=$userid" : ''; $color = ($num++ % 2 == 0) ? '{firstaltcolor}' : '{secondaltcolor}'; $shout_text = bbcodeparse($shout_text); eval("\$shoutbits .= \"".gettemplate("home_shoutboxbit",1,0)."\";"); } } if ($bbuserinfo[userid]) { $submit=$PHP_SELF; eval("\$shoutbox_postshout = \"".gettemplate("home_postshout",1,0)."\";"); } eval("\$homeshoutbox .= \"".gettemplate("home_shoutbox")."\";"); } // end shoutbox by TWTCommish // --------------------------- // left & right templates // ------------------------- eval("\$left = \"".gettemplate('home_left')."\";"); eval("\$right = \"".gettemplate('home_right')."\";"); // header, footer & headinclude templates // ------------------------- eval("\$homeheadinclude = \"".gettemplate('home_headinclude')."\";"); eval("\$homeheader .= \"".gettemplate('home_header')."\";"); eval("\$homefooter .= \"".gettemplate('home_footer')."\";"); // vBindex - end // multi-paged vBindex page selector if (!$page) { // no page specified eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('home')."\");"); } else { // only allow home_extra_ templates for security reasons eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("home_extra_$page") ."\");"); } ?>

I don't know what I have done wrong at all! Is there anyway maybe some one who has this hack installed with Vbulletin 2.3.0 could send me the files that needed edited because I have gone through it like a tooth comb and just don?t know what?s happen.

If you could send me the files I would be so grateful my e-mail address is crowfield99@aol.com

Many thanks.

Dear NTLDR (I hope I did spell it right),

I have a little question regarding your portal software. I know this thread is huge but I haven't managed to find an answer yet. Maybe I was using the wrong keywords.

Anyway, in your hack description you mention "multiple" pages. How is that to be understood?

What I currently plan to do is creating a portal page for two different clans (Diablo 2 and Counterstrike) and I would each one to have their own news and polls forum. If possible to have their own "Newest Topics" etc listed.

Can that be done?

Can someone tell me how I add a forum jump to my page?

I tried putting in <p align=right>$forumjump</p> but got nothing.

Any ideas?

Thanks

im working on installing the hack atm, but ran into a little problem

if i want to got to the URL:

http://devilish99.host.sk/vbindex.php

it says:

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: SELECT u.username, u.userid, s.shoutid, s.shout_text FROM user u, shoutbox s WHERE u.userid = s.userid ORDER BY s.timestamp DESC LIMIT 5
mysql error: Table 'sieger.shoutbox' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

errr now im a n00b in Mysql and stuff i know table shoutbox is missing but i dunno how to add it, can someone help me with it pls :rolleyes:


btw sieger is the name of my database

nm i over red :lick:

NTDLR, you should really really release your portal before vBulletin 3.0. God knows when that thing is going to launch, seems like there is set back after set back.

Moving and Updating and want to get a clean start so how do I
Uinstall vBindex 2.0 from vB 2.2.8.

I want the "New Posts" queries to exclude items that the current user does not have the authority to view. This includes unmoderated posts !!!

How/where do I change the code within the vbindex.php file?

Please help, I have almost 600 CORPORATE users screaming at me!!

Thanks!

ojhhh

NTLDR,
now that vb3.0.0 has been released...are you going to be updating vbindex?

I really like this for my index page over all of the other similar things.

Amen to that!!
I don't think any vb3 hacks are allowed until vb3 goes gold, though.

PS Are you alive, NTLDR? No posts in a longggggg time... :surprised:

Yes I will be re-writing this for vB3 when I get a chance to do it properly.

Not sure if I'll add anything new or not.

Rough ETA?
(I'm not entirely sure what the rules for vB3 hacks are, nor do I know how much work the conversion will be for you.)