In the origional index.php in your forums directory copy the code from line 138-211 (thats the lines the code were for an unhacked file at the time the hack was made).

Line 138 should have the following code on it:
And line 211 should have:
So you need to copy all the code between those lines.

and what do i do with the copied info?

hmm.. i don't know how to write these instructions more clear.. then they are now.

decoder, put the copied code into the new index.php (the vbindex one) where it says in the install instructions. (replace the commented text "// add here the vBulletin code of the original index.php").

:bunny: :)

How do you add it to a template set?

How would I go about installing the templates? Add a new Set? or just add them to the default list as .. "home_buddy1"... etc... after that, what files would go in my root directory? (ex. www.microsoft.com)

Add them all to your default template set, and any other template sets you have that you wish to use vBindex with.

Your need to place the files within your forums directory, so http://www.domain.com/forum for example.

In the news bits is there anyway to limit the number of charactors displayed? ie just add dots after a certain number of charactors then perhaps a link to the news forum and actual story?

I read through a bunch of the posts in this thread and noticed that some users had problems with the icons not showing up correctly in for the News items on index.php (vbIndex).

I had the same problem. I downloaded the hack (v1.3) a couple days ago and am just installing it. I don't think the newsbit template has been updated with the proper code in the ZIP file.

newsbit template that comes with vbIndex 1.3 contains:
but it should contain:
Thanks for the great hack! I'm still messing with it...

I noticed that whenever I use home.php, my records (Most users ever online and most users ever online on a day) are reset to show only the number for that same day. Is there any way to change this?

Thanks!
Paulo

If you read the thread you will find the fix I posted a few pages back ;)

:dead:

Shame on me for not finding it! :)

Anyway, I'd like to thank both el3m3nt and NTLDR for all of their great support on this hack. I have finally ported all of my website to vBulletin and I'm using vbIndex to drive the main page. It is now finally online.

In case you want to check it out: All Pink Floyd Fan Network.

Thanks again for everything, guys!

Paulo

Nice hack el3m3nt. :)
I'm currently working on totally redesigning my site to incorporate the features of vBulletin into it more. At first I was going to use vBhome, but I think I may switch to this one instead.
The one thing that I can not seem to figure out (and does not seem to be in either of these hacks) is how to display a users avatar with the rest of their information. I've tried to figure this out myself, but I'm not that good with php code yet. If anyone could help me with this it would be much appreciated.

No problem, I'm glad I could help, you've done a good job with your sites home page, congrats :)

Do you mean like how I have the users avartar shown on my vBindex page? If so I'll work out the code and where you need to put it in the standard vBindex file.

Hi NTLDR,
I just checked out your site again and that is exactly what I am trying to do. If you could tell me what code needs to be placed in the vBindex page I would appreciate it. I'm not exactly sure of the rules about posting code from vBulletin on here, so if it would be better you could just PM or email me.
Thanks for the help! :)

I just noticed that guest users see the poll in the main page but are not able to vote on it. It says "User already voted", even though I set the poll forums permissions to allow guests to vote.

Any way to change this?

Thanks!
Paulo

Right, you need to add this code:

After this code in the vbindex php file:

This code is taken from the welcome pannel hack and full credit goes to the creator of that hack.

You need to add:

in the template that you want the avatar to be displayed.

Does this happen in the forum when a guest votes? As all guests have userid 0 I'm asuming when one guest votes it allows no other guests to vote, can users vote multiple times?

No, I just logged in as guest and when I go to the forums, I'm allowed to vote. Pretty strange, isn't it?

I have tried to install this hack, but can't find the relevant bit of the original index.php file :(

Instructions say find this:

But I am using Version 2.0.3 that does not have this code.

Anyone got any ideas?

I'm afraid I don't have a version as early as 2.0.3, try looking for a line that starts:
or similar and copy to a line like:
or similar if they exist in 2.0.3.

I would suggest that you upgrade to 2.2.6 if you can and remove many security expolits on your board.

Thanks for the help NTLDR. It worked great except you forgot to end the link on this line

$avatarimage='<a href="member.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=editavatar"><img src="'.$avatarurl.'" border="0">';

It worked fine after I added </A> though. :)

I installed it (with the links mod) and here it is: http://www.thrill-seekers.net/forums/home.php

Now how do I use it in http://www.thrill-seekers.net/index.php , leaving the forums index at http://www.thrill-seekers.net/forums/index.php

e.g. rename home.php to index.php and have in in my root directory, not the vb directory?

Also, I believe that this is v 1.2, how do I upgrade to 1.3?

Also, when im logged out, the page is blank!

*Fixed*

Hi NTLDR

I have activated the rightblock, now I want, when user click on a button instead of open a new page I like it to appear in the center exact like u have on u r vBindex (with left and right blocks still there) :)
once u told me something like this "home.php?s=&mypage_blahblah" but I cant remeber :(

Hi -=dm=- the info is somewhere in this thread, but its quicker to repost then to find it ;)

You need to replace: (should be near the end of the file)

With:

You can change:

to whatever you want in the URL so in the above code the url to get to a page would be:

Where:

x.php is the name of the vbindex.php file;

$session[sessionhash] is the users sessionhash where required, should be used in all links;

and template_name is the name of the template you wish to be displayed.

To create new pages just make a copy of your home template and change the main content.

If no page is specified in the url then the home template is loaded.

I don't know where the discussion is exactly but, I would like to show off my programming site now :p

A sneak peek at whats to come..

http://www.flohost.com/~guruxl/index.php

i just realized something...

All you really did was take the "Pages Via Template" Hack, add a few variables and things from other hacks, and viola, this hack...

Hiya NTLDR

i did that and it works .. but there is always a but ..
its images .. they are not showing since all ther refrence is for /images not vbb/images ...
I do not want to manually enter that since it i am using many styles. Any ideas on how to correct that and get the correct path for {imagesfolder}?

Hi NTLDR thanx :)
this was exact what I was looking for.
now is it possible to see which page user are on, on "who is online"?

You need to put the "copyright ?2000 - 2002, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited" back into the footer as you are violating the licence agreement.

The solution to this really depends on how you have implimented this hack so far:

If you have added the templates to only one style set, then the one solutuion is to add a new replacement variable called {forumimages} for example and set that as forum/images and replace { images folder } (minius the space before each {}) in the templates to {forumimages}

The second option, change the path of the images to the full URL so http://www.site.com/forum/images instead of just /images

Indeed this is posible, you need to edit the online.php for every page, I'll post the hack add-on with the changes later today for you -=dm=- I may also try and modify FireFly's admin cp locations addon so it works with this if I can.

HI NTLDR ..

You are awsome.
Your answer solved alot more than my question above.

Thanks alot NTLDR.

As requested by -=dm=- is the addon for my multi-paged vBindex addon. It allows you to have a location for different pages within vBindex based on the url.

Install Instructions:
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Open online.php

Find:

And add after it:

You need to change the following in the above PHP code:

PLACE1 and PLACE2 with the name of the template for the page that is shown in the url:

[code]http://forums.site.com/vbindex.php?s=&page=PLACE1[code]

Description 1 And 2: Replace with the description of the page.

Next still in online.php

Find:

[php] case 'online.php':
$userinfo[activity] = 'online';
break;[/php

And Add After It:

Again, place PLACE1 and PLACE2 with exactly the same values as above.

Thats all that is all that is required to add the locations, the following is extra info on adding more than two extra vBindex pages to Who's Online.

Adding extra places:

in order to add more places in Who's Online you need to add a few extra lines to the above blocks of code:

In the first block you need to add:

Right Before:

Changing PLACE3 and Description 3 as you did above.

In the second block you need to remove the last { (the one directly before break; and add the code:

And change PLACE3 as you did above.

No problem, glad I could help you out and solve you problem :D

i have a small question....

can i use it on vb2.2.6??

Yep, it should work with all of the 2.2.x series.

Having slight problem with vbindex...

Installed Hack per Instructions. Works great...

Problem I am having is now on my main forum page, my:

Most users ever Online area. The value changes as people logoff. The date also changes as well as the time...

Everything else working fine. I names the vbindex page index.php and also the Main index for the vbb Forum 2.2.6 is home.php...

Also, my counter in the vbindex page for Posts Today starts out at 74 and goes DOWN as Members make post...

Help...

Please read the whole thread, I posted this fix quite a while ago.