Just in case you don't have it, I'm going to upload the old vbHome (lite) version 3.8 for you. ;)

vbHL 4 released to vBulletin users. :)
Enjoy.

Teck, as always - you post the old file, but we allready have it and don't post the new one. If it's not here and not at your site - than where is it?

Patience... I only have 2 hands...
I had to delete the old file, upload it onto a new post so you guys have it, then I uploaded the new v.4 file...

What do you mean "as always"? Can't you just wait few minutes?
Do you have a plane to catch?

Its in the first post of this thread, bud.

haha, posted at the same time.

:)

:( problem ! i have banes vbstats installed now when i load the vbhome page it says

Warning: Failed opening 'vbs_counter.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php') in
/home/virtual/site52/fst/var/www/html/global.php(747) : eval()'d code on line 6



line 747 in global is what includes the phpinclude template into the vbhomepage

as asked before. with the current stable version can I inline images. (not that important)
more important. I created a custom profile field for the users full name, how can I include that into the articlebit as a replacement for the posting username?

Look at the "article" query, and change the username with your field

Can you guys search the thread or the support forums before you post please?

im sorry ! but i did try ! i tried the search this thread option and typed vbs_counter.php and it returened no results !!!! so i assumed this hadnt beed discussed

ok i can honestly say i cant find how to resolve the 'vbs_counter.php' error ! sorry 2 b a pain but please can u point me in to the direction of it

TECK: I've always loved your hacks, so I'm trusting you on this hack as well, and I hope you can answer some of my questions. I have searched the thread and haven't found satisfying questions and answers. :)

I have a site and a message board that are both popular, with 70-100 users online most of the time. The main site and message board are on two seperate dedicated servers. The main site is www.emulation64.com, and is using a heavy design, which brings me to the first question:

Can I setup vBHome (lite) easily to make it look like what it looks like now? I'd like to keep the current design, of course, but I'd like to offer less dense versions that's easier on the visitors who're using a modem. I'm using different post icons (N64, GBA, PS2 etc) for each news post, is that possible as well? Right now I'm using Coranto to post news, and are using vBComments for comments.

Yes you can make it look the same. And yes you can use post icons.
However, to make it work with post icons you will need to hack several files into vBulletin. You follow the steps for current icons in vBulletin.

I will not add this feature because of the reason above. I don't want people to hack 285 files. vbHL is designed to install in a snap, not to sweat forever.

Feel free to edit your code the way you like.

Thanks TECK, I'll get started. :D

I think I see what you are saying, if I understand correctly. here is the problem...

the thread table in my forums dbase doesnt have an entry for a custom field that I set up for full name. If i follow the process properly, the right way to do it would have to be something like this.

new thread or post, push custom field entry from userfield to a new column in the thread table. So that vbhome lite can pull the data that it has. Seems easisest like that but frankly I dont feel experienced enough to do that, and I have a feeling there migth be an easier way.

-Dom

Teck, what's required to upgrade from 3.6 to 4.0?

Is listed in the first post.

Eep.

So does this mean any custom mods etc done to previous versions of vBHome will no longer work with v4.0 and have to be completely redone?

I noticed that everything that used to be in index.php is now split between index and global, leaving me scratching my head wondering which file to add my custom mods into for starters...

Sigh... I think I'll stick with 3.6; I'm just not good enough with PHP and all this XML stuff...

Anyway, all I really want extra in my vBHome is a topics option like what vbPortal has...

Upgrading from any lower version to vbHL 4 is the same thing like upgrading from VB 2.2.x to VB 3.
Nothing will work from old templates. Guys get used to this, it will happen, so better be prepared.

vBulletin 3 uses also XHTML code.

Well I honestly don't have the time to uninstall the version I'm using, install the new version, then have to screw around trying to work out how to get it back to what I had before because everything's changed and I've no clue what goes where...

I understand your point.
Unfortunatelly you cannot add new stuff to an old version, that is already replaced in .php code by 40% and in HTML code by 100%.

Gee... I hope you right... Cuz when I installed vbhome 4.0 and it doesn't look same between vbulletion and vbhome 4.0 on NS 4.7... So I stick with 3.8 for now.. Since you mention that vbulletion 3 will use xhtml so that should be good for vhome 4+ then I will install it again. I always prefer IE 5+, NS 6+ for my target audience. I have no idea what's survey/statistic abt which web browsers people tends to use it mostly out there? (hopefully NS 4 should be almost completely out of picture) :)

In vbHL 4 we used CSS 2, a standard to all new browsers.

I read in othe forums that a deep crawl of google bot ended 31st of January :( Is that true? If it is im not indexed...
Teck is there anything wrong with my archive?
http://www.NaKazdyTemat.com/archive

This is the vbHome (lite) official thread, it has nothing to do with your archive.
If you want answers, you can always get them on the support forums since they are explained there several times.

I been looking on different web browsers and compare to vbulletin.com/forum which use beta vbulletin 3.0. Everything looks good on vbhome 4.0 expect NS 4.7 which is not matter to me.

But on NS 4.7, I notice there are border on all ur images/buttons on vbhome 4.0 but not vbulletin.com/forum so is that possible to remove images' border so that way it more consistent with vbulletin 3.0?

VB3 did not upgraded yet fully to XHTML, it still uses deprecated tags from old templates:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...com%2Fforum%2F

They will be fixed once the code is out of beta, so it will look the same in Netscrape 4.7.

Ah, got it!

Thanks!

I like the printer friendly ability vbhome lite offers, I know its barely related to your hack and if you dont want to support it thats fine, but heres my question:

How can I use the printarticle feature to make printer friendly versions of articles in my normal forum?

I have it all set up to use the printarticle.php page, but apparently the current code can only read the first article from the thread and I need to be able to pull up any individual article instead.

Here is the original code:

That can be found in "home_articlebit"

That works fine, the problem being if you use that same code on the normal page it just pulls the first article from that thread. I tried tinkering with it, substituting postid for threadid, etc, but I think the actual printarticle.php file needs a tweak to allow it to work and I just dont know enough php yet to make that tweak.

Any suggestions? :rolleyes:

FILE: printthread.php
FIND:REPLACE WITH:

got a screenshot???

1

So far as I can tell that didnt make any change.

Maybe I can rephrase this to make more sense:

I'd like to be able to make any single post printer friendly.

Currently both vbhome lite and the normal vbulletin support this using either printarticle.php or printthread.php, but both work off a thread ID which means it just pulls the top post.

Is there an alteration I can make that would allow me to use a link like this:

printarticle.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&postid=$post[postid]

to pull ONLY the one post I want into a printer friendly format? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

If this is off topic to the vbhome lite support please let me know I'd be glad to take the question someplace more appropriate.

-Just call me young grasshoppa and gimmie the turtle wax. :rambo:

I've just installed vbhome lite on my test board and I get the following error when trying to view the vbhome lite homepage:

Database error in vbHome 2.2.9:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS total
FROM thread
WHERE dateline>0 AND forumid IN( )

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ')
' at line 4

mysql error number: 1064

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks,
Daniel.

Search the thread. :)

Ask your questions to the support forums, we have there several people that are familiar with vbHL and VB. :)

how wood i go about showing the [img] tag in the article ! my pics just appear as links ! and yes i did search thru 179 pages but i found nutin ! and yes

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