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ADD-ON 1


Was reading up at teckwizards.com with regards to integration this hack w vbHome as requested.

Came upon this thread.

If going by Arunan's instructions, the following instructions should give you similiar result for having articles display on your vbHome portal page.

This add-on assumes you have vbHome installed.

Installation

STEP 1
Open the index.php from the vBhome hack, and find:

PHP Code:

// latest threads
$threadbits = '';
$threadmaxnumber = '';
if ($threadmax!=0) {
  $threadmaxnumber = "LIMIT $threadmax";
} 


ABOVE that code ADD:

PHP Code:

// vbArticles
$ebg = $DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM vbArticles_cat ORDER BY catname");
if ($DB_site->num_rows($ebg)) {
  while ($myrow=$DB_site->fetch_array($ebg)) {
            $hasattach=1;
            $catid=$myrow["artcatid"];
            $catname=$myrow["catname"];
            $catdesc=$myrow["catdesc"];
      eval("\$catlistbit .= \"".gettemplate('home_articlecatbit')."\";");
  }
}
eval("\$vbhacats .= \"".gettemplate('home_articlemain')."\";"); 


Still in the index.php file find: (This will reduce your queries by 1 or 2)

PHP Code:

$templatesused = 'home,home_articlebits,home_footer,home_header,home_headinclude,home_thread,home_threadbits,home_welcomeguest'; 


and REPLACE with:

PHP Code:

$templatesused = 'home,home_articlebits,home_footer,home_header,home_headinclude,home_thread,home_threadbits,home_welcomeguest,home_articlemain,home_articlecatbit'; 


Save the index.php file

STEP 2

Create a new Template, and call it home_articlemain, put the following code in :

PHP Code:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#555576"  width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0"  width="100%">
<tr id="cat">
          <td bgcolor="#606096"><smallfont><font color="#FFF788"><b>Articles</b></font></smallfont></td>
</tr>
$catlistbit
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br> 


Create another template and call it home_articlecatbit and put in this code :

PHP Code:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="#13486D"><smallfont>
<b><a href="$bburl/articles.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=viewcat&catid=$catid">$catname</a></b><br>
$catdesc
</smallfont></td>
</tr> 


STEP 3

Now open the home template from the vBhome template group, and find:

PHP Code:

$advertisement 


below it ADD:

PHP Code:

$vbhacats 


Not tested on my end

- If you have this working on your vbHome site , pls let me know your site URL so i can add it as a demo for this add-on.