vBadvanced CMPS (Content Management & Portal System)

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Current Version: 1.0.0 (Updated 06/03/04)

vBadvanced CMPS (Content Management & Portal System) is an advanced portal / content management system that will allow you to easily include different options from your vBulletin message board on your site's homepage. It also allows you to easily create and manage new pages in which you can set different settings other than the default. It's module system also makes it very easy to add custom modules without hacking any of the files, plus it is very easy to integrate with other vBulletin pages and hacks. Everything is also template based and completely integrated with vBulletin, so it is very easy to customize and change everything through your Admin CP.


Features:

• Easily create and manage your site's content and new pages through your vBulletin Admin CP.
• Easily add new modules without hacking any vBulletin or vBadvanced files.
• Ability to set a different value for each module's settings on a per-page basis.
• Easily enable/disable modules on a per-page basis.
• Set and change all options via the Admin CP.
• Everything is completely template based so it is very easy to customize.
• Install file that will make all database queries and templates for you in seconds.
• Uninstalls in seconds.
• Tested and stable with vBulletin 3.01, 3.00, RC1, RC2, RC3.
• 100% validated XHTML 1.0 compliance
• And Much more!

Included Modules:

• Welcome Block - Creates a login box for members to log into your site on the homepage, or shows logged in users their avatar, last visit, and new PMs (all of which may be enabled/disabled).
• News - Post News in a forum you specify and have it appear on your page. Additional options to show attachments, icons, images, HTML, and more in your news posts.
• News Archive - A condensed version of older news posts. Includes options to control the number of archived posts to show.
• Latest Topics - Show the latest threads started in your forum. Additional options to set the number of threads to display, show a preview of the first post, icons, and last post info.
• Currnt Poll - Show a poll and allow users to vote and see the results on your homepage.
• Buddy List - Show the user's buddy list for members who are logged in.
• Online Users - Shows a list of active users, including the stats for your 'most users ever online'.
• Stats - Shows statistics such as total members, threads, posts, top poster, newest member, and today's birthday's.
• Mini Calendar - Shows a mini calendar with links to days with scheduled events.
• Search - Search box to allow users to quickly search your forums.
• Quick Moderation - Shows the number of posts, threads, users, attachments, and calendar events awaiting moderation for users that have permission to moderate these items.
• Custom Page Content - Allows you to easily specify a template to include the content from on a page.

More modules available in the Addon Modules, Hacks, & Modifications forum.


Screenshots:
http://www.vbadvanced.com/images/scr...s/homepage.gif
http://www.vbadvanced.com/images/scr...it_modules.gif
http://www.vbadvanced.com/images/scr...add_module.gif
http://www.vbadvanced.com/images/scr...s/add_page.gif


Help & Support:
Before asking for support, Please read the F.A.Q in the readme file! If you have any problems or questions that are not covered in the F.A.Q. please here, or please check out vBadvanced.com for priority support. I will be more than happy to help in any way I can if the request for help is made there. Anyone trying to contact me via email, private message, or any other means will be ignored.

Copyright:
This script is ? 2003 - 2004 vBadvanced.com and PlurPlanet, LLC.
This hack is NOT to be re-distributed in any way or placed on a website for download without permission.
All copyright notes in the script itself must remain unchanged and visible at all times.

[MRGTB]

They have been down since about 3am UK Time yesterday.

[ADM]

Yeah I've got the same problem.. I hope it goes up quickly.

[jaks]

Thanks for the response bud. Kinda glad it's not just me but I hope everything is ok. :surprised:

By the way custom page content is what is normally used as the forums when you include VBa. It must be enabled if you are planning to add any modules to forums pages.

For Google adsense you should add the code to the bottom of the navbar template. That will give you ads on every page including the portal. If you want to add google to a module I believe you would need the standard template for a module and include the code where it says "add content here".
I use the first answer I gave. You can see it here http://www.askhow.net

If you need more help just let me know. The problem I'm having is a strange one but i have been running Vba for a while now.

Jaks

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by jaks

Thanks for the response bud. Kinda glad it's not just me but I hope everything is ok. :surprised:

By the way custom page content is what is normally used as the forums when you include VBa. It must be enabled if you are planning to add any modules to forums pages.

For Google adsense you should add the code to the bottom of the navbar template. That will give you ads on every page including the portal. If you want to add google to a module I believe you would need the standard template for a module and include the code where it says "add content here".
I use the first answer I gave. You can see it here http://www.askhow.net

If you need more help just let me know. The problem I'm having is a strange one but i have been running Vba for a while now.

Jaks

Do NOT add Google Adsence to either the Header or Footer. If you read Google Adsence AUP they say you are not allowed to display there banner on pages such as Registration Pages etc. By adding the adsence to your footer it will be displayed on the registration pages and other pages that google say in there AUP you are not allowed to do and will breach there rules. Thats why I removed mine from the footer and used a hack instead to just display it after the last thread on the forum, and also just on the portal page.

Go read there AUP small print and you will see what I mean. You don't want to make a bit off money from there banner, only for them to say you are in breach of there AUP by having dispklayed on a registration page and other pages that breach there adsence rules.

Here is the hack I used and then put the banner in the box: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123281

[jaks]

Well if you want to try to register on my site you will see the google ads are replaced on the reg page with a dhtml message so I think I'm alright there. You can use if statements to exclude the pages that will not comply with the AUP. Not a big issue.

Jaks

[MRGTB]

You should really read there AUP, becuase I'm not sure if the same went for members list pages, I do know there were other pages that putting the banner in the footer breached there agreement.

The footer is the best place to use it, but after reading there rules. I decided not to risk it, even though I see many other boards still doing it that way. Like I say better to read there AUP so you can see what exactly they don't allow. I only skipped through it, but read enough to decide in removing it from the footer.

To be honest the footer is kind of a bad place I think anyway. People tend to ignore banners in footers and headers. There too used to them being there on most sites. Take a look at a thread on my site and see how the banner is always displayed after the last post. You have a much better chance of it being clicked there as the thread is read.

[jaks]

Maybe this would be a good topic to start. I also use adsense at the end of the first post and it seems to be doing very well. With some tweaking to the Vb code the ads are definitely content related now. I guess the best thing to do is to contact them. They have already been to my site about 7 months ago because one of my over eagar moderators was asking people to click on the ads. That is a huge violation. They were very helpful pointing out all violations, gave me time to fix those issues and being under the nav was not one they pointed out. I don't think they are out to screw you, they want to make money like everyone else.

Thanks for the heads up though.
Jaks

[jaks]

I'm going to start a new topic for this subject since it one that should be discussed further.

Jaks

[HO3R]

Hi

I installed this portal and it really looks awesome
But i got one error and i really hope this one isnt managed before otherwise i'm sorry for remention it

When i use the module: Latest threads and i've edited it little, just the title of the module and some options. when admins check the page then there is no problem but when unregistered or regular members visit it, they get a database error and i receive this email:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: 
  		SELECT 
  		
  		thread.threadid, thread.title, thread.replycount, postusername, postuserid, thread.dateline AS postdateline, IF(views <= thread.replycount, thread.replycount+1, views) AS views, thread.lastposter, thread.lastpost, pollid
  		
			
			, post.pagetext AS preview
			
			FROM thread as thread
			
			
			LEFT JOIN post AS post ON (post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
			LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON (thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread')
			
			WHERE open <> '10' AND thread.visible = 1 AND thread.forumid NOT IN(3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,30,31,14,15,16,17,33,44,34,42,18,45,46,19,20,21,22,23,36,27,29,47,48,32,35,41,37,38,39,43,40,24,25,26) Array AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL 
			ORDER BY lastpost DESC 
			LIMIT 10
	
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'Array AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL 
			ORDER BY lastpost DESC 
			LIMIT 10
' at line 15

mysql error number: 1064

Anyone an idea what it is??
Hope someone can help


Greetz

[Andreas]

Array AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL

The Array is the Problem.