is it possible to add smilies into the shoutbox? typing the code for them seems to be to much effort for some of my member :p

newbie,no got a clue alert :disappointed:

followed instruction,well i know i haven't coz its not working...lol,

get a sql error when i put turn the news system on

everything else when installin was fine,althou do you need to change the Image Paths: vBulletin 3 (id: 2) :ermm:

You haven't edited the vBindex Options as per the install instructions.

only easy when you know how, thanks,workin perfectly now :squareeyed:

Very Very Very impressive may i say,

got a small problem thou :ermm:

I have set up a news forum on my forum just so admins can load up stories to be viewed on vbindex now,

I have set the permissions so that only admins can see (on the forum)

IF a non-admin goes to vbindex he/she will see the story but since I have the "readmore" on when they click on it they then get

because they are not permissioned on the forums :disappointed:

is there a way round this at all ?

Why did my question got ignored?

how do I not show the welcome box if it's an extra page?

In the VBindex portion of the admincp - there is an option that lets you specificy how much of the news post will be shown... choose the option that lets them see the whole story.

Alternately... Try setting the parent forum as hidden but open in the admincp ... that should keep the 'news' subforum off the main page view but let your members see the full article.

Hope this helps in some way.

dont want to post all the news as stories are quite long

cant seem to manage the second bit :disappointed:

how do you "hide" a page

been tryin

cant seem to work it out :tired:

My question... Still up there... Please help...

Hi Bee's... sorry, now that I think about it, I think you need to mess with the access masks.... You need to deny the parent forum but allow the child (news) forum.

is it possible to show the thread ratings in the centerbox of the latest threads?

i tried to include the code from the showthread.php but without success

can anybody help?

I installed it last night--Everything looks fine exept this one error on the top of the page:

Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/talkandm/talkandmore-www/vbindex.php on line 144

I have this in my editor right now but I have no idea what I am supposed to do with it...

Rich

Great Hack by the way!!

Can you edit out that quote in your post?

As for the error - check your absolute path in the vbiconfig file. You need to make sure you have the correct path entered. It should be the place you have the global.php file. Mine is under 'board', the default is 'forum' but you may it named something else.

Edit: your forum appears to be in your main directory which is cool but instead of the absolute path, try ../ or ./ instead. I'm not 100% sure about that.

plz help me, how to change the banner of vbindex, I can't change it, I don't know. I replaced the "misc/vbulletin_logo_white.gif(jpg)"..........with my banner but still is default of VB ? :(
thanks

waterfall, are you running a default style?

and where can I insert a script to type vietnamese in shoutbox (vbindex)? I want type vietnamese in shoutbox area
thank you .

no I running other style, please visit http://12chvt.com
thanks

I changed in images/misc(default) and in my style call tinhxuan (tinhxuan/misc/) but still default banner of Vb :(

noone help me :(

Hi,

how can i change the color of links on the homepage? It seems he discards my style options that i have specified for my forums. Or am i overlooking an option?

**clicks install**

Does anyone know why I am not able to access the vbindex options via the vbulletin admincp? I have to manually type in the vbioptions.php path to get to them?

**edit**

Come to think of it, i cant seem to find any where to edit any custom blocks either.

Does anyone happen to know an answer to my above post??

You have to add the link to the admin CP....

Awesome, Thanks for the reply. I guess i missed that somewhere? Anyways, while we are at it, any idea on how to edit the custom boxes?? So i can get some boxes on the main page other than the default ones??

There are pre made template for each box. Do a search for vbindex and it will come up with a template like "vbindex_customblock_1" edit this inside. Once you do this then you need to setup the vbindex config to display the block.

P.S Where in MN are you from? I am from Bloomington :).

Where would i search for vbindex?? Im sorry i guess im lost.

BTW im from Rochester

In the admin section... under Styles & Templates > Search in Templates... :)

Gotcha, awesome. Cant thank you enough for helping me out. Now if i could just find something respectable to put in there. Wouldnt happen to have anything would you??

What type of site? Google Ad Words are allways a good thing... Some link exchange or top site lists vote buttons?!

Automotive site, i guess anything would be cool to add to the site. Lookin kinda bare right now. Ill take whatever i can get!!.

Send me a link... I just put this site up a month ago... http://www.sseriesowners.com

http://www.gpfanatix.com

And feel free to give me your suggestions. And we shoudl probably do this via IM's so we dont flood the thread. So send me a PM and hopefully i can learn something from ya.

Thanks for trying to help Diva but what we are looking for is the following: -

If you look at www.chetnet.co.uk/portal we want to keep the left and right columns, or maybe get rid of one of the columns, then look at www.chetnet.co.uk/portal/forum we want all the forums listed as you see them there, although in a more condensed version

I will try and make a photoshop pic of it if you may think this will help

Thanks

Chet

Hi, if you look at This site you will see that they have side blocks on both sides and then all the forums listed down the centre, this is what we are looking to do on our site, can it be done at all.

Regards

Chet

that has nothing really to do with this portal.

they are using their forum index as the sites main page and just added 2 columns.
look for a hack here that adds a left column to all forum pages then you can go off that.

Hello im new to using vbulletin and i had already installed vbportal to run with my vbulletin but then i started looking at the vbindex and i want to use it instead but i have no clue how to uninstall the vbportal without it messing anyhting else up or lossing any data i already have on the forums if anyone could help me plz let me know.

Thank You

Cheers gonna give this a go on my site tomorrow :)

I do not want to change the main forums, just want to get the portal to show all forums down the centre, if someone says it can not be done that I will be happy with that, I will just look for another portal that will do it

Regards

Chet

With all respect chet, but this is not the intention of this hack. This hack is to pull out the latest information out of your forums and show them in an optical nice way to the end users.

What you are requesting is another column on the left and on the right side. This is something totally different.

This hack is not written for something like that. Your ForumHome templates are based on SQL queries which are done from your /forum/index.php. The vbindex.php does not have these queries to show all your forums.

And to be constructive at the end: The easiest would be for your to take your /forum/index.php and copy it into your webroot and call new templates ( which you have to create ) and in these templates add a new table which separates your site into 3 columns.

But if you need additional features like these one that are used in this hack then you have to add them manually to your new index.php ...

OR

use another hack. This hack will not be able to provide what you are looking for.

Hope this helps to make your decision.

Cheers,

Why should I get this over vBHome?