NP, Teck. I can help out a bit here, now that I've been through the install and customized it a bit.

Checking up on me, eh? :)

Thanks for the kudos on the site! Couldn't have done it anywhere this easily without vbHL. I really wanted a 3-Column home page for our site.

1) What LeeCHeSSS said. To even begin to be helpful, we need to have some info.

2) With every post I've read, and my own experiences, albeit only the past few weeks, with vbHL, if every letter of the instructions are followed and no errors are reported during the install, then it works.

Ah.

For vbHL, edit the home_header template under "Home Page Templates".

For vb itself, edit the header template.


Hope this helps.....

I noticed that when 1 journalist acquired their avatar the vbhl way, that the other journalists that didn't have an avatar selected displayed his avatar on the home page. This all changed when another journalist took an avatar the vbhl way. Am I making sense? :)

.....
[high]* Gutty waits for help.[/high]

you have to upload avarats for each journalist. once you assign a journalist to the group, ask him (or you do it) to either send you the picture, or upload for him a picture with his name.. so he knows it belongs to him, not to someone else.

gutty, ya it's possible. it needs to be hacked, the vbHL file. i will not do this. sorry.
anyone else feel free to release a hack for it, i will link it to first post.

the problem was i changed it from using the

home_headinclude
home_header
home_fotter

to my default ones

headinclude
header
footer


thats why it changed i have fixed it now sorry about that :(

Okay, i would like to have a poll on my vbhome lite page, but i want to do it without a new article...ie i want just the poll, not the post that shows in the news on the frontpage...there must be a way, how would i go about doing this?

Thanks,

nocturnix

Post a poll in a forum that is not used for the vbHL news, by a user that is allowed to post polls. Both settings are in your Admin CP, under "vbHome Page".

This is what I get on my testboard:

www.channelvip.com/index.php

If somebody would login and tell me what is wrong?

login: tester
passwd: test

I may not be understanding these instructions:

Still in your vBulletin Admin Control Panel, create a new usergroup, called Journalists (or whatever is more appropriate for your site) and assign to it the right permissions. You could also use a default usergroup, for example Moderators (id 7).
Remember what usergroup ID it's generated, you will need to enter this value in vbHome (lite) Options.

The same for this:

ARTICLES FORUM
When you create a new forum, in our case Web Site News, vBulletin automatically assigns a forum ID to it.
In this option, you enter your forum ID from where the articles will be clipped onto the vbHome (lite) front page.

Where does the ID appear when you create a Journalist usergroup? I only see an ID in Control Pannel/Options/vbhome Options.

Note also, none of the buttons direct me to the proper files.

Sorry, but I'm confused. I've followed the instructions but it's just not coming out right.

Admin cp, add usergroup. After you add the new usergroup, hold the mouse over the new group. The id of that group will appear in the bottom window of your browser. Same with the forum you wish to post news from. I made a new group called News Team, and a new forum called News. You then take that forumid number and insert in the box next to Articles Forum, under vbhome options in your admin cp. Same with the usergroup id number.

BTW, all you vbhomies, get in there and vote for Tecks hard work. Now!
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=45397
oops, forgot this guy-> :classic:

Already done! w00t!!!! :cool:

I am still trying to figure whats wrong
i reinstalled the vbhome twice
here is my site
http://www.hagasny.com
you can see everything working fine except IT DONT SHOW THE POST

Well I just voted for the best hack vBulletin has yet to see. GREAT work Teck, I look forward to seeing the full version and your site when its finished!


-WoodiE

i had same problem when i installed VBINDEX2.1
the problem was a template error i forgot ot install forum_home
but there is no template modification in vbhome any idea
here is the problem in vbindex
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...&pagenumber=19

What forum ID Number do you have set in your ADMIN CP for News Postings?

Thank you. It helps to know about identifying the id with the mouse. However, the id had already magically appeared in the vbhome options, so that doesn't seem to be the problem. I thought maybe I need to place the id somewhere else.

The problem that persists is as mentioned above in my post, but I'll reiterate so that maybe it's more clear. None of the posts in the news forum appear in vbhome (the front page) and the buttons are all linking to index.php.

If you have the time to check out the page you can see for yourself at:

www.channelvip.com/index.php

login: tester
passwd: test

Appreciate your help.

Anitah.. something went wront in the installation:
look at the url. it's not normal to show this.
you should check your steps again.

I noticed yesterday I received 3 emails saying in the email subject that vbhome had been updated. what was updated in it ???

Argh. Ok. I've checked and rechecked. I will just have to start over.

I apologize in advance for not reading through the entire 127 pages in this thread. I've been through 1-37 and about 120-127.

I have been able to get it running without much problem (considering I'm new to vB and PHP).

Question 1) When I log out, the vb_bullet.gif doesn't load and the properties of it look like this:
http://my.site.net/vbulletin/http://my.site.net/vbulletin/images/vb_bullet.gif
I can get that particular .gif to load if I manipulate the {imagesfolder} style item back to just *images*, but then the rest of the images don't show up.

Question 2) I'm not really getting how to add other features like how many users are online/latest registered user/etc... to the page and how to format the information (top/left/right/etc..). I was able to follow the PM addition instructions, so maybe I just need some pointers on where to start cutting/pasting. I imagine the answer is buried somewhere in the other 90 thread pages I wasn't able to read. :ermm:

Thanks!
-Chris

for question1 update the path in your replacements set "titleimage"

I just deleted the test database and started from scratch. Followed each step meticulously (for about the 4th time now), the result is exactly the same.

www.channelvip.com/index.php

Hi TEK..
I am trying to install the version 3.5 of your vBHome hack, and i am getting this message when i run the instalation script (vbhlinstall.php)=

Warning: Failed opening '/apache/htdocs/foro/admin/vbhlinstall.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

I am hosting my site in my own system. My PHP, MySql and everithing else have been working fine for more than a month. Help please..

Anitah-

Run the vbhlindex.php, included in the admin folder inside vbhomelite folder

Could it be Teck, that "theplace" is the directory that the forums are installed in?

Did you change the path in the vbhome index?

Now is working.. what i did was to give permision to de installer to execute in my server. That fixed the problem ("failed opening...")

Thanks smoothie!!

hmm ok. But you know, I didn't uninstall, I deleted the entire database and started clean with a new install of vbulletin 2.2.8
and vbhome.

Yes, theplace is the "forum." I had to give my test database a different name from my regular -forum-.

do you see something wrong below?

Should be

Maybe????

anitah, i just looked at your site and everything looks good except the title image and the bulletin board url... you have that index.php added extra to all your url's.
there is some extra code in there...
also, after the install you must go setup your options.

your board url is not set correctly, you have an index.php extra there. when you place your mouse over the link it should look like that:

anitah, i just looked at your site and everything looks good except the title image and the bulletin board url... you have that index.php added extra to all your url's.

None of the links work properly. If you try the buttons you'll see that they all link to the index page.


your board url is not set correctly, you have an index.php extra there. when you place your mouse over the link it should look like that:

I know it's wrong, I just don't know where the problem is to be found.

there is some extra code in there...
also, after the install you must go setup your options.

Sigh. I've done everything Teck. Four times (not counting the two times before I upgraded to 2.28). I have three index.php's - one in the root directory, which is the vbhome index, the other two are the original vbulletin files, one in the forum directory (i.e., theplace), the other in the admin directory (these I didn't change in any way).

I'm sure it's something very minor, but those are the hardest errors to find.

The 3 should be a 2? Yes, I've changed that in the options.

Actually, what TECK's talking about is the vBulletin setting for the URL of the BB. Open your ADMIN CP and check what the URL is set to. It's the 3rd Setting in the "General Settings" category of ADMIN CP.

Quote from ADMIN CP:
Yours should read: http://www.channelvip.splashhost.com/theplace

Fabulous BeatDown. That did the trick :)

Muchos Gracias!

If you want to have recent posts in your news forums show up in the Latest Forum Discussions list on your vBHome page, in vBHome's index.php find:

Replace with:

Find:

Replace with:

Also, if you want your Latest Forum Discussions list to show the date/time/poster of the last post in a thread, rather than the default date/time/poster of the first post in the thread, in vBHome's index.php find:

Replace with:

Find:

Replace with:

In the home_threadbits template, find:

Replace with:

Last but not least, if you're using the alt description hack to give your threads a sub-heading, and you want that sub-heading to show up on your vbHome index page, in vBHome's index.php find:

Replace with:

In the home_articlebits template, find:

Replace with:


And the results of all the above will be what you see on the vBHome page at my X-Fan Web site!

My article forum id is 31
JOurnalist group is 7 the moderator