ay don't be sorry, I do not mind the news not working :)

Chet

Newbie here with a silly question

I can see the option for adding a custom block. Could some one point me in the right direction of where i would go to add my content to the custom block.

Thanks in advance.

I just upgraded my site from vB2.3.2/vBindex 2.1/shout to vB3.0.3/vbindex 3.0RC5 while moving to a new dedicated server. Everything seems to work except I don't see a shout box. I'm I suppose to load shout separate?

Can someone tell me how to get my logo centered on the vbindex page...? It is centered on my forum page but not the vBi page.

TIA

(I searched thru the thread and saw this question asked, but not answered... sorry if I missed the answers... 132 pages LOL)

And thanks for a great hack!

AH.... disregard my question... found the answer!

it's not showing up on my index page whatsoever and I followed every step

I believe I am having the same problem as 'enginethatcant'. Installed per instructions, select option in vbindex admin but nothing shows up on the forums/index.php. what did I miss?

I would add that I am a total newbie to all this so please advise with clear instructions

thx

Unless you have renamed you vbindex.php file index.php then you won't see anything new. If you have just uploaded the files and installed the hack as standard then you need to go to www.yourdomain.com/forum/vbindex.php

Then you should see your vbindex portal.

Absolutly wonderful portal! Much better than the one I've been using! However...

:banghead: I've been trying to create a module for the information on newest member, total fourm posts, total members, total forum threads...but I cannot get it to work!

Members works fine, but all I can get to work is the phrase for Threads:, but it doesn't show how many. The newest member doesn't work at all....

Can someone help me? This is the code I've used for the module's template:

Same here, tried some and messed up when searching forums it seems that they are related to earlier versions?

The custom blocks are customized in their respective templates. Six premade templates come preinstalled with the index. Go to the style you want to edit, and hit the << >> to expand its templates. Towards the top, you should find "vbindex_customblock_1". Edit that, and the others, with your content.

For the title of the block, look for & replace "Custom Block $box". For the actual content, look for "Block $box Content".

Then, once everything there is done, go to the control panel for vBindex and set the custom block number to a number higher than the one you just edited (I've set mine to six, so all the templates preinstalled are enabled automatically.) Save, and then reload. Now, in the drop down lists for the blocks just select the new one and you'll be running!

Hope that helps. :D

thx, no i know were to put it all and now to get it alla to work is another story, but thx :nervous:

I have a poll erorr and it's really tickign me off.

Here's the SQL error I get.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
## GET POLL ##
SELECT thread.pollid, thread.forumid, open, threadid, replycount, question, poll.dateline,
options, votes, active, numberoptions, timeout, multiple, voters,
pollvote.voteoption, pollvote.userid AS voteuserid
FROM thread AS thread
LEFT JOIN poll AS poll ON (thread.pollid = poll.pollid)
LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread')
LEFT JOIN pollvote AS pollvote ON(thread.pollid = pollvote.pollid AND pollvote.userid = 1)
WHERE forumid NOT IN (0,20)
AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL
AND thread.pollid <> 0
AND thread.open <> 10
AND thread.visible = '1'
AND thread.forumid IN (21)


ORDER BY RAND() DESC
LIMIT 1
mysql error: Got error 28 from table handler

mysql error number: 1030

Date: Thursday 14th of October 2004 09:36:16 PM
Script: http://www.smackdownvsraw.net/
Referer: http://forums.smackdownvsraw.net/
Username: E f E d H h H
IP Address: 24.14.0.240

Hi all...

Great hack, I'm currently customizing and then I will create a new custom skin from the ground up for a new site I'm creating...

Anyways, I'd like to know how I would be able to do something like this:

On the custom boxes, I'd have a link for, oh say, reviews. The link would be - When clicked, I'd like the news part to be replaced by a block that looks like a news post, but has customizable content.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,
Nate

Can somebody please advise me how I can display the attachments in the News section...

I attached an small image icon in the thread, and I want the news to pull the attachments also...

Hello, I have spent a large part of the last 48 hours trying to install this index and am still unable to use it. My problem lies in not having a /forum/ directory, and so vbindex.php is in the same directory as index.php and they conflict. What is the simplest way to separate the two so that each script runs correctly and the paths are all correct?

You have to remember you can have only one "index.php" file in one area. I have vBindex running in the same spot as VBull is.

Before you install vBindex your link to your site would be like... http://www.yoursite.org/index.php

Once vBindex is installed by default you would access the portal page via this...
http://www.yoursite.org/vbindex.php

Now what I have done for my site to make the portal the first page members see is the following...

• login to admincp, vBulletin Options, scroll down the list and select Forums Home Page Options. Change the Script Name for Forum Home Page(by default its Index) So for this example we'll change it to forum.

• Via your ftp change VBulletin's "index.php" to "forum.php"

• Via your ftp change vBindex "vbindex.php" to "index.php"

Now when you login to your site via http://www.yoursite.org/index.php you will be taken to the portal page. To directly access the forums the link would be http://www.yoursite.org/forum.php

vBindex also adds a link to the nav bar to the forums. I hope that helps.

thats exactly how you do it.

It works perfectly, thank-you both so much for your prompt and considerate support...

I just installed it

http://www.planetscifi.net/vbforums/vbindex.php

but is there anyway to make the boxes on the left streach out so that they look better and the middle a bit smaller?

also if a user is lookin at the vbindex it says they are looking at an unknown location.. is there anway to fix this?

Cheers.

JC

I just installed it and it seems to be working fine and all, but how can I make it so that you don't have to login to view vbindex.php?

with the poll mysql error make sure if you have random selected you put all in the forum id box

oh and just put the vbindex.php and the vbiconfig in a seprate folder and rename the vbindex.php to index.php and it works just fine :)

Hey All,

Just wondering if anyone has been able to get RSS feeds into their vBIndex template.

Id like them to appear as actual news feeds, just like a normal news post...so, not in the custom boxes that are tall and narrow, but in the news area that is wide ...if you get my meaning :)

Look forward to everyones ideas/comments/help

Cheers,

Paul

I'm having the same exact problem no matter if I have the full url like this:

http://mysite.com/forum/images/icons

or like this:

images/icons

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Is there a place in the database that I could just edit?

Thank you.

hello?

I've installed it here: www.emptythecup.com but i'm missing something in the CSS...you should be able to tell the second it opens. I went through the Styles and made sure to use absolute links to all images (which sucked, but i did it)...and i'm still missing something.

Anyone online that has an idea? :)

Is there a top 10 posters add-on for vbindex?? I thought I saw one somewhere but sure can't find it......Anyone?

How would you make the VBindex the main page of your site which would then link to the forum when clicked and load?

I have the forum files in home/forum

The Vbindex is in home/forum

I would like to have the vbindex or rename it and place it in home/

I have tried doing this but all i get is a blank page.

to make it work on my site i named the portal index.php and my forum index i called forum.php so i just make sure all the links are pointed to the correct page and they are in the same forum folder, just edit the header or the navbar to fix the links

I have posted the instructions in this thread, and if you look on this very page, you can see

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1979

as for the navbar i had posted a navbar change that would work on both pages at vBull.com

and maybe this thread has it as well. but

so here it is. :)

if you use vbadvanced, yes i know wrong thread.
change vbindex to adv_index.

Do note you have to change the Forums index.php to forums.php in the admincp, and this hacks vbindex to index.php. and you have to physically rename the scripts as well.

Thankyou soo much, that worked a treat, i actually went into IIS and made the preference look for vbindex.php under Directory Search and that was my work around but yours was significatly better and less work.

Hello,

I've just installed VBulletin 3.0.3 and VBIndex and it's working great. Now I'm looking to customise the feel of it a bit, I want to move the user info/avatar into a frame at the right of the post, and also to allow an image to be added to the left of the news article, but to still have the text alongside this rather than under it.

Is there a guide on how to configure this?

Thanks, Moses.

Hi,

i would like to ask you if it's possible to bring the what's going on statistics (that are into the forum) into the main page of the portal. I want to create a custom block either on the left or on the right with the what's going on statistics. I tried to copy/paste the code, but with no success.

Where do you change the images and such for the front page?

if you right-click on the image and go to properties it will show you the path of where the image is stored on your server. you can then replace the images with your own..

Hello, stupid question here but have to ask it anyway.

I just purchased vBulletin and am getting it all set up before converting my phpBB forum.

I want to use vBindex as I am presently using Smartor's EX Portal with phpBB.

What is the best thing to do. get the new vb forum completely set up the way I want it with the color scheme (skin) I intend to use etc and then install vBindex or should I install it first.

Any advice would be helpful and appreciated.

***bump***

My members are getting logged out of the frontpage (vbindex page) when they don't put www in front of my site tripleplate.com

Basically, when they just go to http://tripleplate.com they can't log in. They keep trying but it loops them back to being not logged in. Same thing for me. But if we put http://www.tripleplate.com we CAN login and it cookies it.

PLEASE HELP!!

TIA!

Well I installed it but when I change the settings it doesn't do anything. Can you please tell me if there is anything I need to do after I change the settings other than hit save settings? Thanks!

btw my vbulletin version is 3.0.3

Ok, I have no clue how to get this thing to work, can someone please help me.
Here is the vbindex link and you can see the error message....
http://angelteenforum.com/vbindex.php

Ok I must have rushed over the steps where it explains the paths for the images but none of the images work. How do I fix this? :\

http://www.floridastreetscene.com/vbindex.php

Thanks.

EDIT: I already fixed that. :nervous:

However I have a few errors still;

one is the calendar events (that are linked numbers) dont work. Just click on any day with an event on it and you'll see.

Another is when I press log out it tells me an error occured and gives me a link..

Thanks