works a dream - i never thought it mattered that much but obvious it does

Well done NTLDR (me bangs me head on wall only few times mind ya)

sorry m8 was taken out of context - it was meant to mean i done it and what an idiot i had been.

Sorry, I miss-understood what you said ;)

It makes a great deal of diffenence that it goes there, even though it doesn't look like it. Glad its working for you :D

and thanx to you for all your help and feedback NTLDR

Worked great :)


But I just ran into a problem :\

I went to add a user-group to my board today, and I got this message:

:\

any idea what's wrong?

I would guess that you made a error changing your usergroup.php file, check the change that you made to it.

Yeah, that was my first guess. I used vBhacker to do the changes origanaly, and I just went over it again now, and it looks fine.

hum small problem...trying to install this, and i it seams i got it semi workinfg then i went to admin to add the home template and noticed my temples are gone? everything else works in the CP but when i try to add or modify or just view the tmplates, alli see is a white page :(

NTLDR below link is not your hack but i am trying to get it to show the stats from it on VBindex but having no luck at all.
I had to revert to backup copy as totally screwed up forum.
If you get time can u check it out,i know its a bit of a long shot as its another hack by Bane and not made by you.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...536#post285536

Sounds like your using PHP 4.2.x and a lower version of vB then 2.2.6. Could you post a screenshot?

This installs a treat with vBindex, however it does add quite a few queries to the page.

Check out my sites home page some of the statistics there are taken from vBstats, which ones in particular did you want? They are very easy to add.

ok if poss i would like to call these 2 boxes in under the welcome box

[Posters] [Forums/Threads]

i can put links on vbindex to them but they look better if automatically shown.

Edit Small Note

Do you have to reg on your site to see the stats as no pages are showing to me ? regardless of what link i click on

Nope, there at the top right on the page that I gave you the link for. The server load is really high due to someone running a perl script :( which maybe why you couldn't get it.

/vbstats.php?action=topposters
/vbstats.php?action=topthreads

these 2 boxes if at all possible?

Sorry forgot to say i got on your site after a few mins

:classic:

Add before:

The contents of vbi-stats-addon.txt and change and add and modify the HTML in forum-threads-html.txt and posters-html.txt to suit your needs.

cheers NTLDR will try it now and let u know outcome

stuck lol

sorry to say

Do i make 2 new templates and call them this ?

forum-threads-html
posters-html

and also where do i copy the contents of vbstats addon to ?

i cant find that ?

// posts info
// -------------------------

Sorry if i overlooked something staring me in eyes NTLDR ;)

Add the HTML from these to files into your home template (you may need to change them as I only stripped them out of the vBstats hack.

Its right at the top of the file, after the variables, line 50 to be exact ;)

ok got 2 boxes on main page but im stuck as i aint sure what file to look for // posts info
// -------------------------

i have done a search though all templates and it aint showing and even searched in vbindex and even stats.php with no luck

Easy hacks are not for me (joke m8)

It should be on Line 50 of vBindex.php (I probably didn't make it clear what file you were supposed to be adding it to).

ok added the contents from vbstats addon after line 50

added the contents of the 2 texts files into the home template

Its shows the 2 boxes but no stats inside ?

this is how it is in vbindex

// -------------------------
// end variables

// posts info
// stats
// -------------------------
// top posters
// -------------------------
if ($action=="topposters") {

etc etc

My fault, I didn't look at the code properly, try this instead of the code you inserted into vBindex.php

Parse error on line 121 which is }

OK, third time lucky :ermm:

This should work, I think I've been spending too long looking at code and vB :classic:

u deffo must be m8

Works like a dream - i just need to sort colors as they red and green for some reason but excellant m8

Over last few days you have been patient and given me loads of help on quite a few different hacks and like to give something back in return

Do u have a paypal account ? if so pm me m8 and will send something.End of day i know you do this cause you like helping others but you have gone out of your way a few times and that i appreciate a lot.

Do a quick find and replace in the code I uploaded and change {firstcolor} to { firstaltcolor} (minus the space after {) and {secondcolor} to { secondaltcolor} (minus the space again) this will use your boards default colors instead of red and green :D

Thank you, its comments like that which makes it worth while being part of this community and reasing hacks and providing help and support to others. I'll send you a PM ;)

expect something 2morrow at 2pm when i get back from work
and all in all excellant work.

I may ask the daft questions but i wonder how many more are reading this and installing the addons

LOL just thought this has got quite a few addons on now aint it.

Many thanks :banana:

I remember when I first got vB and started adding hacks, I didn't even know what a template was, let alone where to find it and add/edit etc, lol

Thats the beauty of this hack, anything that was made for vB can be inegrated with it. I may do a addon pack in the near future :)

nice one goes to show does`nt it what is possible from a vbb board.

half the hacks on here have nothing to do with a board really and yet make the board every bit as unique to that person with the hacks installed.

*bump* :(

Sorry DWZ, I thought that you meant that you looked over it and its fine.

Have you added any other hacks that require changes to usergroup.php as that may be what the problem is. The code you should have is:

Under the Section, if thats for an unhacked 2.2.6, if you have that and it doesn't work you must have hacked usergroup.php before:

If so I hope you have a backup, restore that and the changes for the $DB_site->query bits make sure you add canviewvbindex after canview on all of them and $canviewvbindex after $canview in the second part.

Hi everyone

i translate vbIndex 2 in French so i post my modifications :)

Enjoy :bunny: :cool:

hey... i need to know.. will this work if i dont have the default Style as the one vbb comes with.. cuz like i have changed around the default style and stuf..?

Yes, this will work if you have changed the style. Check out the demo site which shows how easy you can make it look like your forums.

has anyone thought of changing the news to have a $maxchars option and it inserts a "read more" link at the bottom?

if someone makes a lenghtly post and someone makes another long one after that the center colum becomes quite long if set to show 5 and makes the left and right colums look out of place because they are now super short in comparrison.

also maybe a way to make a stickey thread stay on top on the vbindex and have the news post return to the top if it is replied to (on vbindex)

I noticed that if a post is made in the news forum it shows on top on vbindex and if someone makes another new thread it then shows on top but if the previous one is replied to it remains second in order on vbindex never to return to the top as it does in the forum itself.

same thing when you make a post stickey....in the forum it goes to the top of the list but on vbindex it moves down as other threads are posted.

just some thinking I was doing during testing

wadayallthink?

I plan to properly integrate this in a later version of the hack ;)

It would probably be easier to set vBindex to display a certain thread(s) in a block you specify.

It seems to me at least very illogical to have the latest news in any other order then it was posted in.

Thats the point, to show the lastest threads posted. Although you could specify a block to have sticky threads from specific forum ids.

Hey, I have a problem with installing this hack, I get the next error:

I'm not very in coding with vB, so can you help me please :)

Thx

Does this line:

Have 2 // in front of it in the PHP file? and can you post a few lines before and after that line for me to see?

NTLDR,
you are correct in all your answers about the logical way it works.

however on my forum in the news forum there are news that we want to stay on top for certain periods of time and with the present situation the only way to get it back on top is to delete it and re-post it.

thank you for your reply...I will be looking forward to the $maxchars addition. I tried to do it myself but wasn't able to get it to work.

thanks again.