Right, now I understand. That is a little more complex. As standard vBindex pulls all of your specified news threads into one box which you can control via the Admin CP.

However I think (and please correct me if I am wrong) what you want would require you to rebuild the system. As an example.

newsphrase1 would draw the news from thread 1,2,3,4 and put it in news box 1.
newsphrase2 would draw the news from thread 5,6,7,8 and put it in news box 2.

I don't think there is a way to make vBindex do this without hacking it. NTLDR correct me if I am wrong.

Yes like the normal forum page, thanks very much

Chet

No need for NTLDR to tell you, you're right. There's coding to do here, which I thought someone here could help us, if not just me out, that would be really nice...

Here you go. Simply open the attached file and use its contents to replace the VBINDEX template information. You can do this via your style manager.

It will function with your vBindex admincp settings, so you can turn on or off the display of users from the last 24 hours.

The only thing lacking is the conditional to turn online users on and off. At the moment it is on by default but if NTLDR (or someone else) could assist by correcting the following conditional I can then complete the template.

Thanks very much for this, I will give it a go later

Chet

Hi there, I have tried this hack that you did for me but I'm afraid its wrong, a bit of a masturbating of my side I think, if you look at http://www.chetnet.co.uk/portal/forum/ them at the bottom, under what's going on, I would not mind having the currently active users at the bottom of the centre block in the portal.

Sorry for the misunderstand and hope you can still help me out

Chet

Rephrase? :)

Sorry, see post 1930

Chet

No problem. Try the attached file. Hope this fits the bill.

Thanks very much, that is exactly what I need, now you have me wondering if you could do the other modification to vbindex that I asked for, see this post , if not thanks no worries and thanks for sorting this one out for me

Chet

I will see what I can do (but I am not making any promises). I have what you are asking for on my forum home page, but I have created my own portal. I will see how long it will take to change vBindex to suit your needs. (so long as NTLDR doesn't mind me butchering her fine work? :nervous: )

Sorry NTLDR (no offence intended I think your portal mod is sensational) but all of the portals I came across were great but only satisfied about 85% of what I wanted. So my own custom job was always on the cards.

Without reading all 130 pages, can someone tell me if vbindex was ever able to add images to news articles instead of just displying avatars of the poster?

I was under the impression that it did. Basically if a post has images in it then they should be displayed in the news section.

But please correct me if I am wrong.

let me re-state that, pictures show in the actual posts but not in the original thread that appears on home page in the news section. it is like having a news paper with pictures on everything but the front page. only the avatar of the poster appears and that is also optional.

How can I put php code into a block?

I think I understand. You are putting images in your posts, but when these are displayed on the vBindex home page the images don't show up?

Could you send me the url so I can have a look at the problem. I am fumbling my way to a solution. Sorry for the delay.

Just put (PHP) (/PHP) around the section of code you wish to put in a block. But use [ instead of ( to enclose the php tags.

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you show me an example please?

Sure

Is this what you were meaning?

I'm having a problem with this program. I installed it for the first time and went to the URL in the help me file. Well all I get is a "white page" with my Admin options on the left and top, but the middle is all white...

Am I doing something wrong?

Anyone know how to increase the number of characters that are displayed in centre version of the display latest threads?

There is a heap of space and I would like to have more characters displayed.

Does this hack work on 3.0.3?

Yes.

Ive been trying to get it to span 100% in the main section so it looks good. Look at the circled areas in my screenshot. Can anyone tell me what I need to edit to do this? I have tried editing table widths in all templates associated with vbindex.

anyone fixed that bug?

I'm having a strange problem with this. Everything works fine except on top of all the boxes if someone uses a post icon it's not showing.... The link is displaying like this:

http://stormchat.com/http://stormcha...ons/icon12.gif Why on earth is it doing this? And yes, paths are correct in my config. Is there somewhere else I might have to change something?? Oh, it's also doing the same thing on the latest threads......

One more thing I just realized...... The Navbar is not displaying everything I have in there like the phrases are missing or something but of course they are there because when you go anywhere else on the site all the links on the Navbar show up???????

The vBindex navbar info is drawn from a different template to your standard navbar. In the style manager look under vbindex_navbar. You may need to add some links or change their order to conform with the rest of your site.

Well, now I feel a bit moronic for not noticing that. lol Thankyou very much... I got that fixed easily enough.

Now, to fix my broken image problem... I'm sure it's something else simple but I still can't find it.....

Could you do a screenshot of your image paths in the control panel?

Sure...... Here ya go........ But this is only happening with certain blocks... I dunno.....

Polls aren't working for me...

My site is:
http://www.smackdownvsraw.net/

Here are the settings:
http://smackdownvsraw.net/forums/admincp/settings.htm

The instructions say to change the paths to complete paths. Try changing the paths to that. :) *crosses fingers*


Instead of:

/images/icons

Do:

http://www.stormchat.com/images/icons

Hi. I don't see anything.... but it looks like your settings need to be selected. Here are mine:

I wish it were that simple.... I tried that already first off and had the same problem. Somehow, just on certain blocks and the news is where it's doubling the url's. Did ya go to my site and have a look at exactly what I mean?

Ok, I have it fixed or well on the way. In my post icons image paths I had the full path. When I changed them to simply /images/icons/yadayada.gif then all works fine...... :D

Cool! Good to hear. :)

Is this product being developed at all? Their site isn't even online anymore.

This thread is the main place for support. Core Forums was used to provide additional support, but due to a decrease in the amount of time I have to dedicate to this I've redirected all support back here to vBulletin.org.

theArchitect, any luck with this one at all

Chet

Yes and no. I have worked out a way to integrate the normal home page into the vBIndex portal, but when I do it stops the news function from working.

Everything else works OK, just there is no news. So I have drawn a blank for the moment. If anyone else has tried this and got it working your assistance would be most appreciated.

Sorry chet.