My apologies then. I thought I had read the entire thread. Thanks for your help.

Crap. Now I get this error.

Parse error: parse error in /usr1/home/drhunter/htdocs/vbindex.php on line 187

I just changed vbindex.php

Sorry, I make a mistake when updating the zip file with that bug fix, if you re-download it and replace vbindex.php it will work :)

Alternativly remove the extra ) at the end of line 187.

LOL

Okay, now that works, but my poll has disappeared. I tried changing the options to not do the poll, save, and then readd it, but it's still missing...

Make sure the list of forumids to exclude doesn't include the polls forum.

Yep. I'm an idiot. I'm probably being picky now, but is there any easy way to exclude the poll forum from the 10 threads list.

Find:

And replace with:

That should do the trick. Note this will only work if you don't have the folls forumid set to 'ALL'.

I'm having major gripes regarding the installation of VBIndex phrases, and timeouts. The installer creates the groups for the phrases, but inserts no phrases into the group, yet the installer seems to go without any errors (besides a non-fatal one about SCRIPT_EXTENSION already being defined).
I tried using vbiupgraded.php?step=10 to import the phrases, also tried importing them via the phrase manager. Both methods manage to exceed the maximum execution time of 30 seconds. This is especially frustrating, as I've modified settings in php.ini and httpd.conf to try and increase the timeout limit, to no avail.

In a last-ditch attempt I appended vBIndex's phrases to vbulletin-language.xml and reinstalled everything. Once again, the phrase groups show up, but they are empty. I can still use vBIndex, and even managed to configure it by looking at the input label names in the HTML source, but y'know... I can't use this on my site in it's current state :ermm:

Oh, and here's some info about my 'rig'. Hope you can stop me wanting to smash it. Thanks.

vBulletin 3.0.0 RC4
Apache/1.3.24 (While checking phpinfo(); this reported the timeout as 90 secs)
PHP 4.3.3
MySQL 3.23.49 (phpinfo(); reported the timeout here as -1 secs, which I believe is infinity)

Running on localhost using EasyPHP1.7 under Windows98 SE.

Do the templates import correctly?

Both the Phrase and Template XML files are generated by vB's standard functions. Can you import the vbulletin-language.xml file (an un-altered one) via the ACP?

All I can think of at the moment is that its a Windows problem.

I really love vBindex and i have been using it for some time now, but one thing i have noticed is that the users stop at (vb)index and doesnt move on to the forum.

I have tried to make it some userfriendly by making the logo a direct link to the forum etc and also soon going to add a "too forum" button into the style.

But what would be the best for me and other forumowners is if there was a link to the forum at the top of the index page. Its hard to describe so ill show you a site that has done this: http://www.theadminzone.com

They have a "TheAdminZone.com Home Page | Bullletin Board" over the menu.

If you dont want to add something like this to the vBindex, maybe you can answer where i have to add it, is it a style thing, or do i have to hack a php file?