UPDATED vbPortal beta1 released, I'm not really too good at this, so it is what it is.

Get it at http://www.phpportals.com in my new IndexU scripts section.

I was unable to make it run. Plenty of parse errors didn't make much problems and I cleaned them up but then I recieved cache errors:

Make sure you create a directiry named "cache" in your vb root per "INSTALL" instruction 5.

5. Create the following directories and/or copy the vbPortal scripts as *indicated for vbPortal operation
Directory: ......

* /vbulletin_root/cache....................(Cache directory for the News grabber
** SET CACHE DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS TO drwxr-xr-x (chmod 777)

Please let me know what parse errors you got, if they were typos or ommisions in the source?

I created cache directory (testing on W2k) and set appropriate local and IIS permissions onto the dir.

I'll try it on a fresh install of vB 2.0 on Linux this evening and send you any parse errors found.

Btw: Thanks for releasing it.

PeF i went into the admin headline grabber and disabled these feeds and those error messages for slashdot and the likes disapeared/however now when i return i have the following error ?

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in vbpstuff.php on line 104
something to do with this line here

Temporarily took vbPortal off line, too many errors. Will put back a.s.a.p.

Ok, I'm trying this again. I fixed a few bugs and put the install back on line.

got this working and running on my local test board will be changing my website on my host over to this this weekend...this rocks

anybody have a demo. i'd like to see it

See the first message in this thread.... what you see is what you get.

it's a phnuke like no?

nah - thats just the layout.

WHat it does it capture the posts from vbulletin and puts them on the front page.

ie for news/ hot topics etc

--James

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/bimmer/www/bmw/global.php on line 64

Thats what I get, Can somebody send me their global.php file?

Ray

The global.php cannot be redistributed. It violates the license agreement. You can redownload it from the member's area.

Oh, I see.

i have the original global.php file, but I wanted the "modified" one for this script. For some reason, when I follow the instructions and modify my global file than i get that error.

Anybody know why?

Thanks,

Ray

Its a *bad* idea to modify global.php as it will get overwritten with every install of vB.

Would be good if config.php had a variable in it called

$external_mods_files=filea.php,fileb.php

and global.php went in a loop and loaded those files.

Any script that you hack most likely will be overwritten when you re-install, upgrade vB... the penalty of installing a hack, is you have to re-install with upgrades.

arf....

Hi wajones,

I cant get it to work, I keep getting the same error in my global file, what am I doing wrong? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ray

What PHP version do you have installed?
Did you try to go thru instuctions again and check if you didn't miss anything?

When editing news post I'm getting a blank screen.

Need a lot of work before a good release!

That is why it has an Alpha designation... Sometimes I wonder if you actually read the posts or just randomly post 1 word and 1 line posts to boost your post count.

....... :(

I'm french wayne and it's very hard for me to speak correctly english you know?
I say what i can say!

vbportal makes a lot better name I think as PHP Nuke is seen as a portal program and I see this as a great hack to date when its finshed. (Out of alpha)

Good work so far with adding new stuff like BFC Web Log, Links and other things. :)

For jojo:
Yeah but just posting for the sake of it is just littering this thread with silly things like "It has a long away to go" when the first post already tells us.

Also the creater is a newbie to PHP so dont expect anything prefect to come out for a while. So he does indeed have to do a lot to bring it upto full force.

ok will try to explain some details....lol

I'm 15 years and i make english since.....5 years not more
So your language is more easy than french it's right
but for me it's hard .so when i don't understand one of your words i take my little translator and i translate lol
But sometime i make hum.... grammatical error isn't it?
So sorry for my little english
I didn't say that the work of vbportal is bad no!!!:o
But i say than if he work hardiest i can take the 1# of the phpnuke

Ouffff.... :)

I have to admit my english isn't the best around here either.

Sorry in advance jojo I should have known English was a hard subject as I have my own troubles with it.

vBPortal is the excellent piece of software. I found only one major bug and there's missing tag in one of templates. I'm currently testing whole thing and will post some comments and suggestions or even better fixes as soon as finished.

That's all. I think it's pretty good when considering it's alpha release.

I can see hard work behind this hack.
Pat yourself on the backs.

it's me who are sorry

Make sure your news editpost template is named correctly "P_NewsEditPost" I did I typo I think!

And I wish to thank everyone for the support. I'm just learning PHP (trial and error) and having fun, but I do want to have this end up as a good hack, so any constructive comments is appreciated.

BTW, if you post in my forums your not limited to one thread and I would really like to get alot of input into different aspects of the scripts.

i.e. What I did wrong and how to fix it...
What could be done better, tell me (you'll get credit)

Best of all you'll get a free copy :D

Silly me. I was looking at the code for an hour... one small "s". :D
Thanks. Fixed.
[I posted a thread on your forums]

the typo fixed the white screen ..sweet

Fixed bugs (I hope) that were found today and made available a new install in vbportals downloads area. I wish to thank those pointing those pesky things out to me. I will be trying to post an updated zip as often as I can until all bugs are squashed!!!!
Then the fun will begin with cool styles/themes and custom user options. Not counting a slew of addons in the works that will be integrated to use vB's selectable styles.

cant wait till then

Do the active topics and online users come in this hack as well?

active topics is a main feature of this hack and the online users is displayed on the main page check it out at wajones site
www.911pc.com

This is the error I'm getting in index.php

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/snoop/public_html/forums/vbpstuff.php on line 22

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/snoop/public_html/forums/vbpstuff.php on line 31

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/snoop/public_html/forums/vbpstuff.php on line 69

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

ALSO: I can't login to my control panel... unless I'm using the wrong password, all it does is refresh. I want to check what it is in phpMyAdmin, does anyone know what the members table name is?

the control panel refreshing might be caused by an error in global.php as to the other errors i believe i had them because i had not referenced my paths correctly as specified in the install instruction and in your mysql db the table is users just browse the user table .

If this hack was included in the next version of vBulletin it would be a lot easier :) Maybe they could setup a special section where you can download beta stuff. :D Just a suggestion

Alpha5 should be out by this weekend if everything goes right.
Features will include...
1. Web Links Add-on.
2. Events and Birthday hack in left column.
3. A new MySQL based main menu system.
4. A new MySQL based vbPortal admin hack
for vBulletins control panel.
5. A few bug fixs.
6. Started cleaning up the PHP and HTML coding
and modularizing the install, hacks and add-ons
for a easier cleaner upgrade path.

This is a continuing process and vbPortal won't
go beta until I'm satisfied with the install procedure.