The home_news template.

ok, I got the index working fine on local and did some neat things with it....great hack...

but now I just installed it on my site....it didnt work for some reason...here is the link...

www.evolutionaryconcepts.com/vbindex.php

thanks for any info that you may have.

later

Have you set all the variables at the top of the files correctly? Are the home_ templates part of the template set the hack is using (should be) and have you unommented the chdir bit?

ie:

let me check it out real quick...hold on a sec

I have the chdir uncommented
chdir is ./forum
the require global.php is ./global.php

here is the bulletin code I put in...maybe something is wrong with that part...

// start vBulletin original code
// -------------------------
// add here the vBulletin code of the original index.php
// lines 139 - 213(in an unhacked 2.2.6 index.php)
$activeusers = "";
$loggedinusers = "";
if ($displayloggedin) {
$datecut=time()-$cookietimeout;

$loggedins=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS sessions FROM session WHERE userid=0 AND lastactivity>$datecut");
$numberguest=$loggedins['sessions'];

$numbervisible=0;
$numberregistered=0;

$loggedins=$DB_site->query("SELECT DISTINCT session.userid,username,invisible,usergroupid
FROM session
LEFT JOIN user ON (user.userid=session.userid)
WHERE session.userid>0 AND session.lastactivity>$datecut
ORDER BY invisible ASC, username ASC");
if ($loggedin=$DB_site->fetch_array($loggedins)) {
$numberregistered++;
if ($loggedin['invisible']==0 or $bbuserinfo['usergroupid']==6) {
$numbervisible++;
$userid = $loggedin['userid'];
if ($loggedin['invisible'] == 1) { // Invisible User but show to Admin
$invisibleuser = '*';
} else {
$invisibleuser = '';
}
if ($loggedin['usergroupid'] == 6 and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "<b><i>$loggedin[username]</i></b>";
} else if (($mod["$userid"] or $loggedin['usergroupid'] == 5) and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "<b>$loggedin[username]</b>";
} else {
$username = $loggedin['username'];
}
eval("\$activeusers = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinuser')."\";" );
}

while ($loggedin=$DB_site->fetch_array($loggedins)) {
$numberregistered++;
$invisibleuser = '';
if ($loggedin['invisible']==1 and $bbuserinfo['usergroupid']!=6) {
continue;
}
$numbervisible++;
$userid=$loggedin['userid'];
if ($loggedin['invisible'] == 1) { // Invisible User but show to Admin
$invisibleuser = '*';
}
if ($loggedin['usergroupid'] == 6 and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "<b><i>$loggedin[username]</i></b>";
} else if (($mod["$userid"] or $loggedin['usergroupid'] == 5) and $highlightadmin) {
$username = "<b>$loggedin[username]</b>";
} else {
$username = $loggedin['username'];
}
eval("\$activeusers .= \", ".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinuser')."\";") ;
}
}
$DB_site->free_result($loggedins);

$totalonline=$numberregistered+$numberguest;
$numberinvisible=$numberregistered-$numbervisible;

$maxusers=explode(" ", gettemplate('maxloggedin',0,0));
if ((int)$maxusers[0] <= $totalonline) {
$time = time();
$maxloggedin = "$totalonline " . $time;
$DB_site->query("UPDATE template SET template='$maxloggedin' WHERE title='maxloggedin'");
$maxusers[0] = $totalonline;
$maxusers[1] = $time;
}
$recordusers = $maxusers[0];
$recorddate = vbdate($dateformat,$maxusers[1]);
$recordtime = vbdate($timeformat,$maxusers[1]);
eval("\$loggedinusers = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinusers')."\"; ");
}
// -------------------------
// end vBulletin original code

where exactly in the home_news template do I insert the break? sorry for being such a newbie .. ;)

also .. is it possible to allow only about 200 characters to show up in the news bit ... and if people want to read the rest of the post they can click on the "read more" or "see whole post" which will bring them to the actually post in the News forum ...
some of my news posts are quite lengthy and I don't want them to take too much space on the front page. .... by default ... it will only show 5 most recent news post in the frontpage right? ... where do I go to edit this number? .... that's all the questions for the day ... :) ... Thanks again.

Ok. Here is my problem
http://forums.lotronline.com/rpgcenter

I would like the hack to use my RPG Center Style set not my default one. How and what do I edit to accomplish this? Thanks!

I'm having some trouble with VBindex.php

I've set up a test at http://news.thehuddleboard.com/vbindex.php but the page never loads despite the fact it is definetly there...

Untested, but it should work, after:

Add:

Where X is the style id number.

Try removing the Poll code from the PHP file and see if it works then.