this hack is supposed to be dead for years, as the project is postponed and outdated

Ok Thnxs

nexialys could you suggest something different thats still as easy to setup for a portal

vbadvanced is great and incredibly easy to set up.

Has anyone coded a login box for this?

Try looking at the template in vBadvaced for the log-in box and see if it can be carried across.

Just open up the template.xml file with notepad and find the code there for the log-in box. I'll take a look in a minute and see if it works

You can pretty much copy the login code from the navbar, with a couple of changes - it's a while since I did it, so I'll just paste what I use. I have it change to a welcome panel when the user is logged in.

The html will be slightly different, and it's lacking any indentation, but you can get the idea... screenshot(s) below.

What you you mean by lacking any identification?

Indentation.

Thanks!

After upgrading to vBulletin 3.5.0-RC2, vBindex suddenly refused to work. How can I make vBindex functional again?

By waiting for the autor to release a 3.5 version.

So where were you when it was announced that 3.0.x hacks will not work with 3.5?

How do I move the latest forum posts and shout box to my main forum homepage

Cheers

I was out, enjoying life.

Well it could be a while before we see a new version. I don't know if anybody else has noticed. But it says under the authors name the last time they was online was in 2004. August 2004 I think looking at the profile. That's 12 months ago now.

Plus that site advertised in the vbindex footer is gone that gave suport for it as well. You would be better off looking at vBadvanced now really were support is there for it, and it works with 3.5

I have found a BUG in the portal page in the: Latest Threads center block

When it shoes the Go To First Post icon, it never shows the Thread Icon until the "First Post" Icon disapears, then it displays the "Thread Icon" fine.

Anybody know a quick fix for this?

Here is an image to show you what I mean:

http://www.garybolton.pwp.blueyonder...temp/Snap1.png

Here is the code that I know need editing to fix this problem from the: vbindex_centerthreadbit template.

I have created a cpl of "events", and they do show on the calendar in vbindex.... However, when you click on the date of the event, it gives me a "page cannot be found" deal......

For instance, I just clicked on August 10th on my calendar, which is in the middle of an event, and it took me to:

http://www.bikebuilders.com/calendar...=2005-8-10&c=1

Which comes up "Page not found"

Also, when and if I do get that fixed, how can I make the link on the calendar point to a forum (like a forum for the event), rather than the calendar listing?


Help?????

Thanks,
Rob

Try seaching back in this thread, there are two fixes for the calendar a couple of pages back that I posted.

I have found another problem.

If you create a Sub Board under another board on your site and post threads on it. No threads are grabbed from that Sub Board to the Latest Threads block on your Portal page. It fails to detect threads posted 2 levels down on a sub board created.

Man were is the support for this these days? I know the person who created this as not been around for 12 months, but there is still interest in this portal. Are there no whiz kids willing to take over this and help out with bugs found in fixing them in the package and posting fixes here also. :ermm:

Thanks Gary. Will try vBadvanced today :)

No problem.

Just want to post also I was wrong in my previous post above, now it does seem to be grabbing posts from the "Sub Board" on my site to the Latest Threads block.

Strange!

This is not my creation. I just edited the code from a vbadvanced block created by another person to suit vBindex.

Here is the full code that you need to replace in your custom block to get a site navagation block.

To add a new menu entry you would just use this at the end of the code, changing the "alt2" to 1 and 2 in the code to rotate colours correctly:

Can be seen working on my site. Off course you will have to edit the links in the code also to suit your site navagation.

Looked quite a few pages back, and didn't find any fix for the calendar.... Again, when I click on an event in my calendar block, it comes up "Page Not Found"?????????

the fix is posted here, in fact after reading all the threads (which took forever). The fix was accually posted about mid way through this thread well before I found it and posted a fix. I can't remember off my head what I did.

And as od today I have switched over the vbadvanced because there really is no support for this anymore as such. So I made the switch today while setting up a new board with a new skin.

Does anyone have a way of cycling the news posts? I have a forum for reviews/interviews on my website, and it would be absolutely awesome if it randomly picked out a post to display. :)

I assume it would work, since random polls work - just no idea how to make it happen.

I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: log_admin_action() in /home/rbruce/public_html/forumdb/index.php on line 33

What have I done wrong and how can I fix it?

Sound to me like you must have the:

define('CHDIR_PATH', '/path/to/forums/');

setup wrong in your vbconfig.php file, double check you have entered the correct path to your server

if you named your forums folder FORUM for example, looking at the path error your getting (I'm only guessing here). Try this!

define('CHDIR_PATH', '/home/rbruce/public_html/forum');

By the way, the part in the path name that says "rbruce", is that the PASSWORD you use to log on to your server, becuase thats what should go there, not you USERNAME logon. So if "rbruce" is your logon name for your server, that wrong, you need to put your password there instead!

So if you server password is "billy" and you named you vbfolder uploaded "forum". It should look like this:

define('CHDIR_PATH', '/home/billy/public_html/forum');

Aaaaaaaah Thanks for the advice. I'll do the changes and feedback!

Inserted the servers password but it still errored out as a Parse probelem so reverted to existing Failure Error.

Here is the new error message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: log_admin_action() in /home/rbruce/public_html/forumdb/index.php on line 33

Can anyone take a peek at it for me? I am useless at trying to correct this type of error. I can't remember if the install manual listed this requirement and what to do.

The install went gret until the very last step which is the options step.

Ont clickeing the final 'NEXT' button to do the options, I was greeted by a error page which then progressed to the Fatal Error as netioned abovwe.

So if anyone can take a peek and list the corrections steps for me I will be a most grateful ne forum owner!!

Are you sure your entering the server path name correcty. Run test php file to get the server address, or ask your server for your path if your not sure. Because if the boards working fine, I really can't see why vbindex isn't also.

Other portals like vBadvanced CMS will get the path for you itself itself if I remember righ during the installation and tell you what to enter. Plus there is good suport for it unlike this product now which is an old one.

You better of using that instead of vBindex RC5, which you can download from here: http://www.vbadvanced.com/products.php?

OK I will download the newer portal.

Many thanks for the help.

Bye.

Installed and working like a charm. Thanks a lot.

:)

OK -- here's the deal,

FACTS:
I have the account on the server as www.moparstyle.NET and park www.moparstyle.COM and www.moparstyle.ORG on it

In the root is a Portal (VBIndex) -- which was freeware a couple of years ago when I installed it -- but it is either now unsupported (I think that's what the deal was when I last looked months ago) or it is no longer free. Anyway -- I've not had a problem with it (until now). There are no cookie settings in the Admin Panel for this.

It is integrated with my forums www.moparstyle.com/forums -- which is VB3.06 -- that too has not had a problem. The cookie settings are / for the path to save cookies, and the cookie domain is left blank in the Admin CP.

What complicates it a little is that I also use PhotoPost Classifieds 2.0 http://www.moparstyle.net/classifiedads/index.php -- which integrates with the VB member database. The cookie settings on this in the Admin has the cookie domain left blank but a cookie prefix of moparstyle

Finally, I use PhotoPost http://www.moparstyle.net/photoalbum/ PHP 5.02, which too is integrated into the VB forums. The cookie path is blank, the cookie prefix is bb, and the cookie domain is blank. I don't remember the reason for this -- but there was some problems getting this all to work last year -- and after two days of pulling hair (as I'm again currently doing) that's what was told to me as what it takes to make it work -- and it worked.

THE PROBLEM:

All of a sudden I have this funky problem where if I go to the Portal using the .COM or the .ORG (the parked domains) I'm (and everyone else!) is always logged out. When I log in I'm taken to the forums. When I try to go back to the domain's root using .COM or .ORG -- this nasty cycle continues.

However, doing this with www.oparstyle.NET (the actual account) doesn't give me the problem. I've unparked and reparked -- no help.

I have cleared the cookies many times -- No help.

I use the latest update of IE -- and while we can argue the merits of the different browsers another time in another thread, I need to fix this as 96% of my 6,000+ users use IE.

Below is a throw down login to see the problem.

Throw Down User:Test User Password:testing1234

Any idea how to resolve this issue? I've spent many hours trying and failing.

OK -- I did a temporary fix with redirecting www.moparstyle.com to www.moparstyle.net/index.php until I can find the cure.



Those who get to the portal with the address of www.moparstyle.com/index.php will still have the problem.



So even though it isn't properly fixed (still looking for suggestions) you can't duplicate the problem unless you use www.moparstyle.com/index.php

You will have problems putting the index.php in your root folder. I spotted this ages ago. The best place to put the portal index is in your forums folder and name it portal.php or something.

You will have no problems then with cookies and logging in etc, plus login re-directs. By simply running the portal index from your root folder all these issues are fixed

Hi.
I am having problems with the login function. When users login, they are redirected to the portal, but seems not to be logged in. It still reads "guest". But if they go to the forum via the navbar, they are logged in.

Really annoying because users think that they are not logged in.

Replace the code in portal header template (make a backup first), with the code from the forum header template. That will fix your problem just as long as the portal index file is located in your forums folder and NOT in the root directory. Or was it the portal nav template code I replaced with the forums nav template code. Not sure now, but it's one or the other.

I used the same method when I had it installed and it fixes it fine.

Thanks, but I already solved it. I have my portal in my forumrootfolder, so I changed the automatic redirect after login. Now everything works fine.

One question, I notised the core forum for supporting this hack is down, so I cannot find anywhere og any thread that tells how to add new features to the customblocks.

If you take a look at the date the person was last online who created this hack, it says it was over 12 months ago. And I think the Core Forums are gone, not just offline.