I've installed this one on my board to play around with. I've hacked up my own front end page but I like the options with this one. I am having an issue though... the text from my articles will not show up. You can see it here at http://www.abudokan.com/index-2.php


EDIT: got it to work. thanks.

I agree with X fan, it'll be nice a column on the right like a portal :)

X-fan, Asso, and some hackers seem that no one help you with right column at here. I finally got it work by look at myvbindex 1.0 hack by PlurPlanet to get right column look. So suggest you guys to do that same thing.

Adding a right column is easy, you add one line of PHP, edit one line of PHP, add one template and edit one template.

Yeah it may be easy for some but it is not for newbie with PHP, that s where plurplanet's hack come in to give them the picture how he do that.

Also many kept ask for right column has been ignore, it is enough so I decide to point the right way for them to look at it and learn from it.

You don't need to look any further than this hack actually, you just do the same as what TECK has done for the left and change left to right. Then just edit the main template.

hmm is there a solution?

I'm wondering if the fact that my board is on a subdomain has any bearing on this problem?

Why would you do all that? It can be done simply by using tables and adding a new cell on the right in the home template. Though this isn't my hack, if anyone would like some help with the HTML I'll be glad to help out. Just PM me with the info and what you would like done. :)

Yeah, that's what I did. Muddled my way through it but I've got the start of what will be my site's new home page, thanks to TECK!

http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/

31 queries, ouch!

Just my opinion, but it looks better with the larger main column, and then the smaller one on the left. Especially on pages with a fixed width, the news is too cramped

Yeah, a lot of queries I know. I might actually ditch the stats section altogether...

I've installed it, now only get a white blank page!?!?!?

-WoodiE

X-fan, ditch the stats section - would save you a few queries, and it's just a novelty.

Check to see if the "Home" templates were installed.

Under "Home Page Templates " there are Home templates, but while I was there I also noticed there are TWO of each template listed under "Home Page Templates"!?!?

-WoodiE

I know someone would be interested in installing and making this work for me :-D

-WoodiE

Okay, I'm stumped. How can I move the "Welcome" box from the left column to the top of the middle column?

I'd also like to insert a "Latest Articles" header before the block of latest articles.

I've tried mucking around with the table configuration, but I must confess I'm hopeless when it comes to tables! LOL!

X-fan, just copy and paste your template into a WYSIWYG HTML editor like Frontpage or Dreamweaver, and use that if you are unfamiliar with HTML. Once you have made the layout you want, copy and paste it back to the template. :)

Thats not normal. :confused: Anyway, you read thru the readme text, added your path, and uploaded the index.php to your root directory? How many times did you run the installer?

Running the installer multiple times shouldn't cause this, since TECK has made a check to see if vbHome is already installed...

Yes I have done all that! Still nothing.


-WoodiE

I swear this thing is annoying as hell. I just uninstalled the script, and received a database error so i ran the uninstall again and it said it finished.

After that I ran the install and all looked good, it created the templates, then after that i clicked on continue from there i get yet ANOTHER database error:

"Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO settinggroup VALUES (99,'vbHome Page','99')
mysql error: Duplicate entry '99' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Thursday 24th of October 2002 08:13:26 AM
Script: http://www.rcnitrotalk.com/forum/for...all.php?step=4
Referer: http://www.rcnitrotalk.com/forum/adm...all.php?step=3

Anyone know what the heck is up?


-WoodiE

is because you ran several times the uninstall-install process, before you completed all hacking steps. that's why the errors occur, it's not the first time people have problems like that.
to solve your prob, do these steps:

1. run the uninstall. when you get the database error, press F5 (refresh).

2. in your browser url bar, replace the vbhlinstall.php part with setting.php and hit enter.

3. on the new loaded page, scroll down and at the bottom you will see the vbHome page settings:
vbHome Page [edit] [remove] [add setting]
click on remove and confirm the removal.

4. make sure you completed all hacking steps.

5. run the installer again. you are done.

Does anyone have a modified index page they would allow me to use? I installed this hack, but I want to change it to something other then the plain jane version is looks like now. I know very little about HTML and template modification. Please PM me if you can help. Thanks in advance.
Dan

Teck,

Uninstall says:

YOU MUST REVERT TO ORIGINAL YOUR vbHome (lite) TEMPLATES BEFORE YOU PROCEED!!!

What exactly does "revert to original" entail?

I need to know the steps.

<i>bbcode [edit] [revert to original] [view original]</i>

Thanks, helps to know that. Do I have to do this to each of the templates in "Home Page Templates?"

Also, without changing a thing, I just tried to run this in my browser once again, just for the heck of it, and came up with a whole new error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_bbarraycookie() in /home/mysite/public_html/index.php on line 163

What's that about?

ya you have to do it for each vbHome template you changed.

you played with the file. that's why. :)

How did I play with the file? I didn't touch anything.

Oh sorry, I did. I was trying different paths yesterday, because I think my problem is that I'm either not writing the correct path or I don't have the index.php in the correct directory. My forum is on a subdomain, so the correct placement of the file is confusing me somewhat.

btw, one of my errors yesterday was:

ERROR 1064 at line 799689: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'replace varchar(255) NOT NULL default ' ',
PRIMARY KEY (id)
} TYPE=MyISAM' at line 4

huh? this is not the vbHome file.

Is it possible, and if so can someone enlighten me, to ensure the users do not see polls from forums they do not have access to view?

Currently, if I post a poll in a Private Forum, any user that visits my site's home page will see that poll in vbHome (Lite). They are not allowed to participate in the poll (vB takes care of that), but I'd like for them to not even see the poll.

Is this possible without too much trouble?

Thanks in advance for any help.

TECK,

I did exactly as you stated, now instead of a plain white page i get an error:

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_bbarraycookie() in /home/httpd/vhosts/rcnitrotalk.com/httpdocs/index.php on line 163"

What does that mean?

-WoodiE

for get_bbarraycookie(), you probably have a poll that you voted on. the cookie is on your pc still, but since you reset vbHome, the poll is not there anymore. that's why, nothing to worry about. just edit the poll and you are ok. (or post a new one, or delete all your cookies) :)

for the white page, you probably missed some steps. check my irc chan for help.

Well I must have missed something, as I just cleared my cookies and have created a new poll...still a fatel error.

I dont know if this helps or not, but I have for my root dir in my index.php as this:

/home/httpd/vhosts/rcnitrotalk.com/httpdocs/forum

as I have the forum installed in a dir called forum. If i change it to just: /home/httpd/vhosts/rcnitrotalk.com/httpdocs w/o forum listed on the end i get a blank white page again.

-WoodiE

ps. I am getting this error AFTER i have just uninstalled then reinstalled it just like you told me to above.

is that the given path on phpinfo(32) file?

Using the multiforum news add-on, how can I show the forum title in the article bits on the home page? Thanks.

TECK, I said it before in this thread (which the new users conveniently do NOT read), the error regarding get_bbarraycookie() occurs when you install vbHome on an older version of vBulletin. Try upgrading and the error will vanish :)