Check your paths to your images files...

I think i know what i am going to do!

do any of you know how to make .htaccess files?

I need to have this:

DirectoryIndex home.php

but just tcforums.net and not any of my sub domains... is this possible?

my prob:


can you help me?
thanks
frage

I was wondering... Where can I find just the "News Posting" section? This hack is cool, but all I need right now is the News portion. Where can I find that so I can add it to my own code for my news page?

1.
create a _news_ forum in your forum via admincp
and in the admincp you will find the ID of this _news_ forum example 10
2.
in the
vba cmps
default you will find:
News Forum ID
The ID number of your default news forum. To display threads from more than one forum, enter a list of forumids seperated by commas. Example setting: 1,4,9
yours is "10"
thats all

I think you mis-read or maybe I didn't type it correctly. Basically what I'm doing is trying to get the "News Information" off of the cmps_index.php file. So I can use that code and put it in my own .php so it's custom taylored to my specific look of the site. I probably could find the appropriate tags, but on the top of the .php file I'm using what would I need to put up there so it would know that I'm reading off of the news forum?

Hollii clicks Install :up:

http://halloo.de/portal.php

i had an mysql-error in portal.php :ermm:

I changed News Forum ID and forgot to delete the , and clicked Save

I went back, deleted the , and everything is okay :surprised:

Now the Error:

there is an error in templates.txt :nervous:
and after install in Template adv_portal_poll a </span> too much

I've run into the same problem, and I have triple checked as well.

Now, I suppose it is Dreamweaver (which I am using) that is coursing the problem. In short, Dreamweaver corrupts the functions.php file.

Instead of editing the file in Dreamweaver, I have edited the functions.php file in notepad. I cut the content of the file into notepad, changed the required line, and pasted the (new) content back to the functions.php file.
Made sure that everything was ok, saved the functions.php file and uploaded it (again).

The problem is recurring.

This is what happens:

Line 1887 is supposed to read:
$debughtml .= " (<a href=\"" . htmlspecialchars_uni(SCRIPTPATH) . iif(strpos(SCRIPTPATH, '?') '?')'?')=== false, '?', '?','?','&amp;') . "tempusage=1\">Template Usage</a>) (<a href=\"" . htmlspecialchars_uni(SCRIPTPATH) . iif(strpos(SCRIPTPATH, '?') '?')'?')=== false, '?', '?','?','&amp;') . "explain=1\">Explain</a>)<br />\n";

When I open the functions.php file again, line 1887 has suddenly been changed to:

$debughtml .= " (<a href=\"" . htmlspecialchars_uni(SCRIPTPATH) . iif(strpos(SCRIPTPATH, '?') '?')'?')'?')'?')'?')=== false, '?', '?','?','?','?','?','&amp;') . "tempusage=1\">Template Usage</a>) (<a href=\"" . htmlspecialchars_uni(SCRIPTPATH) . iif(strpos(SCRIPTPATH, '?') '?')'?')'?')'?')'?')=== false, '?', '?','?','?','?','?','&amp;') . "explain=1\">Explain</a>)<br />\n";

This is problem that seems to be pretty frequent for a lot of us. Could someone please give a clear answer to solve the problem. Or is the portal software simply incompatible with Dreamweaver?

A good rule of thumb is to edit the php files in text-only editors. That way, there is no chance of any type of corruption. The more bare-bone the text editor, the safer. :D

Thanks Samir,

I finally solved the problem.

I opened the file in Dreamweaver and then cut and past to TextEdit. But that is the wrong way.

The right way to do it is to open the php file through TextEdit (or another simple text editor), apply the changes, and then save. Then it works.

Never open the include.php file in Dreamweaver.

Thanks again.

Just one quick Question before I install this.

I used to have my forum on 2.3.1 and used vbHome (lite) v4.2 then I upgraded to the last Vb 3.03 I think. Since the old vbHome (lite) v4.2 made changes to the database, can I install this hack on the new (unhacked) Vb3.0.3... (the database was upgraded to VB3 of course)

Thanks a lot

Great job, I just switched from vbindex cause it didn't work work a crap an he stopped developing it. So look forward to more.

I installed it without probs and it seems to be working ok, though I have one small problem. When I use quotes in a news-thread the layout of the cmps index page is wrecked.

Any idea why this happens?

Thanks for the help and for providing this cool hack!

Are you using just regular quotes in the post in the thread like "so"?

No, the problem occurs when I use the vb quote tags, like: [ QUOTE=SamirDarji]......[ /QUOTE].

I added the space so it is showed as text.

I added 2 screenshots to enlighten the problem. I don't know for sure but I think it's a probably a tag problem(since in the error screen you can see the complete right hand of the site is put inside the border of the news items with the quotes in it).

Thanks for the responses so far!

Hmmm...it has to something in the way the news.php module handles quotes. I'd post over a vbadvanced.com. This may be an issue of some sort.

How would I make the Column's not mimic What color/image is set for Category Strips background, but instead have it mimic what is set for Table Header background or a custom color/image background?

Change the corresponding adv_portal templates. You need to find the html that makes the table header and put it in there instead of the category strips.

I've thought about doing the same thing, but down the road. Let me know what you come up with.

well I've looked in some of them already and found nothing

I'm not sure exactly then, I haven't looked into it yet. But here's what I was planning to do. Make a new template, see if I could find the html that makes up the table header and put it in there, try it with different styles to make sure it changes accordingly.

You might also find some help at vbadvanced.com

Open up the main template(adv_portal_welcomeblock) for each block. At the bottom of the template editor box there is an input box that will peform a search. Type in "tcat" an hit find, then select "tcat" and type "thead" in it's place. You'll have to do this for all the blocks/modules you are useing so make sure it's what you want before going through the trouble.

Thanks man! I wanted to do this too.

im getting an error saying:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: print_portal_output() in /home/szczypka/public_html/cmps_index.php on line 27

on the portal index. what can i do?

Is your portal installed outside of your forums? In other words, is the portal in the root, while the forums are in a sub-directory? I think I ran across the same problem, because it looks familiar.

What ist that???? :ermm:

only on Portal

Portal: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...o.de/index.php
Forum: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...o.de/forum.php

oh
whats that!
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://vbadvanced.com

and as I have seen this , I controlled all the templates and other files and repair the html code

after many hours, more than one cup of coffee
Amaya, the official w3c.org browser shows the correct xhtml code :-)

proudly I went with my url of the portal to w3c.org and
Horror --
Line 599, column 6: entity end not allowed in end tag

</html


This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&) in an URL or body text. See the previous message for further details.

please whats going on?

I`m gonna be silly of that problem.


thanks a lot for help
frage

OK, this sounds like a great portal, I've installed it after editing all the files that needed to be edited (following the instructions). The problem is that when I go to www.gamehub.co.uk/index.php (I renamed the cmps_index.php to index.php and uploaded it to the public_html folder on the server), I get this error message:

So what does all this mean? I made a file called info.php, and looked up the correct path and copied/pasted that into the cmps_index.php, saved then reuploaded, and I still get this error. What can I do?

I have two problems i did all the changes i get this error
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in /home/hagasny/public_html/forum/global.php on line 20
here is line 20
Find:// ################################################## ###########################

and second
it says
In your /forum/includes/adminfunctions_template.php file:
i cant find 'forumhome' => $vbphrase['group_forum_home'],

thanks

Well some info in case someone need it>
I upgraded 2 sites from 2.3.5. with vbHome lite to Vb 3.0.3 with Vbadvanced with no problem.
One advice read the instructions carefully and be patient take your time EACH step, I rushed my first install and made a mess and with thte second it was perfect.

Check the site if you like: www.automania.com.mx and www.clioclub.com.mx

How did you get the module "Anuncios" to span across the entire page like that? That's something I'd like to do too.

It actually very easy :

In style manager (on the admin cp) open the style you want to put the annoncement box.
Choose the nav bar template (its inside the nav bar breadcrum bla bla part)

with the nav bar template you will see this part .... "almost last part"

____warning this is only how the nav bar looks originally_______
after the last </if> insert the following:


some explanations:

if you change the part that says "Anuncios" to what ever you like that will be the title of the BOX.

AFTER THIS <td class="$getbgrow" width="100%">

whatever you put there will appear INSIDE the box, in thi scase I put an image (centered) with a link and a little pop up explanation on the link.

dont hesitate to ask if you run into trouble...

after that just save the the navbar and voila...!

Oooh, so it's just a static box in the style of the cmps. But won't that show up on every page? www.auto-mania.com.mx works just like how I would want mine to--only show up on the home page.

On a side note, I didn't realize there was that much tuning being done to cars there in Mexico. That's cool!

Hello All

I have started to add the left and right module on other pages as described in Integrating Other vB Pages & Hacks... following steps 4 & 5 for all of the pages (calendar.php and so on)

So far I am have problems with 3 of these files... newreply.php, newthread.php and poll.php. All of them worked correctly until I did the editting.

With newreply.php and newthread.php I get this when I click on the reply button:

Sorry! This forum is not accepting new posts.


With poll.php, I get a different error.... it all looks good until I hit submit poll:

TraderX, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Other then these above I love this mod.... so any help would be great.
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See if logging in again and then immediately trying changes it or not. Try it with your admin login. Sounds like a permissions issue.

Hey, I have a bit of a template problem, when I installed this portal onto my forums I got this line going down the left side that seems to be underneath everything on the left side. I have no idea where it came from as I disabled all on the left side. Can anyone help, here is a live view: http://www.otakutalk.com

Any help is appreciated!

Wow, some great work that has gone into this script. I was amazed by Tigga's script for 2.x, and this one looks even more impressive.

Question though (as I get ready to move my site to 3.0.3), is this script still being supported? I see vbadvance.com with some MySQL errors and no sign of Tigga in the last several pages.

Also, there was mention of a PayPal "block" that I would really like to see, so if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks for your time, and the great addon!!!

You can find all the support you need for vBAdvanced CMPS over at http://www.vbadvanced.com/

The PayPal module is also there somewhere too. I just tried to vist and it looks as though Brian might be doing some work on teh site at the moment. Check back later and it should be OK.

Great. Thank you for the update. I look forward to visiting his site and putting the hack to use. :)