Nmidia, in your case you should prefix (put at the front of each of the different image paths) all images paths with /Forum/ as well as the header image (also on the options page) and the background image URL in the background property of the Table Header and Table Catagory CSS sections.

This is really a great hack, but I got just one problem.

On the navigation bar on the top of the page, I miss a link to the actual forums.
Is it possible to make the name to the right of the folder icon ("Debate forums" in this case) a hyperlink to the forums?

And how do I add a button on the bar below?

http://www.debateforums.net/vbindex.php

You'll need to edit your navbar template, you'll see a set of <td>'s which contain all the links, register, user cp etc, copy one of those and edit the URL and name for a link to the forums.

Also note that the folder icons are special links to 'go back' and reload the current page. You can however change the link and text in the navbar template too.

Do you know what mate? - You've only gone and fixed it:) The forum looks great now:)

The only other things I'm having issues with are getting the forum to display news - a quick walk through on this would be great.

I also want to have a custom box on the side with links in it. Is there any code for this anywhere?

finally, when a private message warning pops up, it doens't link to the correct address - I have changed all of the addresses in the nav bit. Is there something else I need to change?


I really am sorry to be such a pain:)

thanks in advacne:)

You should have edited the headinclude and pm_popup_script templates, see back a few pages for more detailed instructions on how.

Make sure you have enabled news on the vBindex Options page and have entered the forumid of your news forum (it looks like 63 from looking at your site).

Adding custom blocks is easy, enter the number 1 in the field in the options page, submit it and then once the page has reloaded you'll then be able to assign it to one of the side blocks which it seems you have already done. Just edit the vbindex_customblock_1 template and add the HTML for your links :)

yep - it seems that 63 worked, so thanks again! But, how did you come by 63?

No errors this way though you should check to see if the file extension is already defined so it doesn't flash warnings.

Anyway, still no go. Installed everything and nothing shows on the vbindex.php page. It is totally blank.

Oh well, was just looking for something quick and easy to use on a site until the CMS from the developers was finished and released. I can live until then.

Just a couple of quick questions I couldn't find in a search.

1 - Will this portal display "today's events" at the bottom of the mini-calendar?

2 - Will the news automatically be updated once a new news post is added? I had a previous portal that required I run a php file to update the news display on the index.php page.

Thanks,
Joe

ntldr - I believe that the install.txt file in the RC2 zip is the issue here - the pre RC2 install had several step instructions including running the vbiupgrade.php and setting options via vbioptions.php.

I've just re-downloaded and these instructions are not in the current zip.

It doesn't display them in a sperate block, each day in the calendar that has event(s) is hyperlinked and has a tooltip with the event(s) title(s).

As soon as you post in your specified newsforum the news appears on the front page. No file edits, no PHP files to run :)

Thanks for the info, I just moved the </a> to the end of the line where it shows the folder icon and board name and that did it for me.

All the instructions are in the first post of this thread ;) Any additional stuff, like editing templates etc is now contained within the install process.

This is something I was wondering as well, in your first post your instructions state "Upload all files where upload.txt tells you and then go to the upgrade scripts." When I posted I had an error you told me to change stuff in vbconfig.php like the instructions say. I don't quite understand this all but I think there is something amis.

OK, I think I figured out my problem, the upgrade process never told me what to enter as the path in my vbiconfig.php and that was the same step that had me stumped in the original version. How do you find out what your path is, I have tried a variety of things and none of them seem to work.

This should be a crime.

A crime that an awesome portal such as this is so friggin easy to install.

Theres gotta be some law about that, if not, give GWB enough time to find it.

The actual portal install took bout 5 minutes, figuring out the nav bar trick took bout 10 minutes. Customizing the boxes will take a week ;)

Right on guys. I'm sorry I didnt know you had previous releases before rc :(

Your server path?

It will report that on that page, if not, what ftp proggie do you use? many of them will give you the exact path up at the top.

okay, it seems that I have solved the problem myself, but I dont know if this hack damaged my styles, they don't want to display correctly now T_T

OK, I have got it working to an extent. A problem I am having is that my forums are at http://forums.method-call.com but whenever I try to log in from the portal page it tries to access http://www.method-call.com/login.php. How do I prevent this?

OK, it also seems that to get images to appear on the portal page I had to change the image path setting to forums/images/etc and now on the forum page all the images are set to http://forums.method-call.com/forums/whatever.

How don't they work correctly? Its posible the installer messed them up, but I've not exeprienced any problems with it. Any details you can give would be great.

You need to edit the form in the navbar template so login.php points to the correct place. Your image paths should be like this: http://forums.method-call.com/images/etc

cant seem to get past step 1... here is the error. Ive gone over everything a few times now, everything is how its supposed to be as far as I can see.

You must have already run that step, move onto vbiupgrade1.php?step=3

I did that, step 3 went through, and then goes to step 4 which says next step (convert/install shoutbox) which takes me back to step 2 for some reason and back to the error above.

if i want to uninstall vbindex RC2,how can i do that?
can u up this file?

You'll need to reverse all the queries found in the install files.

i got this error on the vbindex page

Warning: krsort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/a1forums/public_html/index.php on line 965

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/a1forums/public_html/index.php on line 966

Disable the Asending shoubox option untill you have some shouts or wait for RC3.

Actually I' don't have the intention troubling you. But after spending the one whole night, I don't even know what the hell am I doing, spending the one whole night, can't even figure out anything. But in fact just wasting my time and energy.

Therefore I've got choice but only ask for some support from you guys.

Many thanks in advance!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=140
That's what I get..

Also, here's what I did.

Thanks.

I'd assume its supposed to be:

Of course thats just a logical guess, I think you missed the 'l' on the end of public_html :)

Damn.. I'm making a fool of myself!

Thanks BTW.

This is still not working for me. Every step leads me to a button that says convert/install shoutbox. The options page loads but all the menus are empty, the vbindex.php page is blank. When I load vbiupgrade.php where it supposed to say what to change in the config file is blank, but I changed it to /home/sites/www.rapcheck.com/web/b/ anyways as thats the path to my forums. What am I doing wrong here???

Download the RC3 files on the first post and continue from whatever step you have got to so far.

[high]RC3 Details[/high]

The first post now contains the vBindex RC3 zip file, this should correct all the errors and problems found in RC2 and contains more detailed install information and the HTML for the template edits for those of you unsure on howto do them.

I'm considering this a testing realease for a few days, so RC2 is still avalible for download. RC3 has been tried and worked fine for me on a fresh install of vB3 RC2 and I've upgraded a Pre-RC2 install running on vB3 Gamma with no problems.

cant upgrade pls check my post at core forums

I get this error when trying to run the RC3 vbiupgrade.php

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: file_get_contents() in /home/.sites/148/site6/web/b/install/vbiupgradecore.php on line 38

OK, you have an old PHP version so I'll have to make a few changes, when the file vBindex-3.0.0-RC3_Build-5.zip is attached to the first post download and try that one.

Oh damn..! just sloved one yet came another...

anyone know what this line mean?

thanks in advance!

In vbindex.php find around line 392:

and replace with:

Uploaded the RC3 build 5. The files (vbioptions.php/vbiupgrade.php) load but still getting same errors as before. I can't get through the installation.

I've tried going through steps manually by changing the url (vbiupgrade.php?step=3,4 etc) and it either gives me an error saying something already exists or it sends me back to the shoutbox error above.

the vbioptions page menus are still empty, and the vbindex page is still blank.

vbiupgrade.php doesn't contain any steps that do the installation, if you know how far you got in the install process I can tell you which file to start from :)

Edit; If you got as far as step 3, but step 4 didn't work then start from vbiupgrade2.php?step=4

Hi,

thanks for replying, anyway it doesn't seem to be working.

Turn the asending shoutbox option off untill you make some shouts or upgrade to RC3.

I got as far as getting this error, or in other words clicking the button on the vbiupgrade.php page.

Then you told me to skip that step after I posted about it, so I changed the step number in the url (http://www.rapcheck.com/b/install/vb...de1.php?step=2) I went up to 10, each time only sending me to a page with a button that says Convert/Install shoutbox. So I kept messing with the url, went through vbiupgrade2 and 3 and step numbers to 10. The only steps that did anything where http://www.rapcheck.com/b/install/vb...de1.php?step=3
http://www.rapcheck.com/b/install/vb...de2.php?step=4 (Creating vBindex Phrase Groupe...)

Everything else sends me back to the shoutbox install/convert.