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.

[PixelFx]

well this thread is for 3.0.7, if you goto the maker of this script's website and download the cmps 2.0.0, and if your it doesn't bother you too much you'll see in the drop down menu version 3.5.1 and vb3.0.10 :P

the url www.vbadvanced.com

[unixdotcom]

We followed the instructions, did everything we were asked to do at vBadvanced, and this product breaks our board. We have been using vB for so many years I can't count, long before there was vB 2.0, and have installed and deleted many working hacks. We have paid for special mods, etc.

My message is that we are not "rookies" and have considerable knowledge of UNIX and Linux :-) and we can't get this to work and can't get meaningful support or normal communications from vBadvanced.

We offered to pay for the install at vBadvanced (based on their advertised install rate) if they would agree to use SSH v. very insecure FTP, and they did not answer our PM. What's up with that?

We do not recommend, from a security perspective, that people use FTP on active, large boards. FTP transfers passwords in clear text. This is dangerous, as everyone knows. So why does vBadvanced not answer our offer to pay their standard install rates if they use SSH v. FTP?

I can't get an answer from vBa. The folks their (and here) responsible for vBa will not communicate, I'm sorry to post. My guess is they are too busy on other projects... but it seems that when they advertise on their site that they will install vBa for a fee, they could at least have the professional courtesy to answer the SSH v. FTP question, don't you think?

If the vBa team are not going to support this hack, please be so kind to let us know so we can "move on" to other tasks and hacks.


Neo

www.unix.com

[unixdotcom]

Update:

We regret to inform that we removed vBadvanced CMPS from our site for a number of reasons. Perhaps someday the software and vBa customers will be more actively supported.

Best of Luck with vBadvanced in the future! We appreciate the opportunity to, as least, try the vBa installation to see if we might get it to work as advertised. Seems easy enough, but the installation caused our active board to "freeze"..... and we were not successful in getting the support to insure the installation worked.

Take care.

[Gunshot]

Originally Posted by unixdotcom

Our mods decided they loved vBadvanced for unix.com and we started the install today, following the instructions step-by-step and after each step, making sure the forum is still up and running.

All was going well until we got to the last replacement in ./includes/functions.php

When we make the replacement called for in querypermissions, the forum breaks. I have tried it four times and each time, the forum breaks (no pages will show, just blank). We are running vb 3.0.5.

Any idea why?

We assume that none of the steps in the install break the forum and we are testing each step using a default style that is not vBadvanced, etc.

Thanks for your help!

Neo

I guess I'm confused,,,,but there is no modification to the includes/functions.php file in the install instuctions for vbadvanced 2.0
MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING THE LATEST VERSION

http://www.vbadvanced.com/products.php?

after you get the forum path in the cmps_index.php file configured which is pretty simple, this hack installs itself. I think as a noob I must have installed this hack 5 or 6 times and it doesn't get much easier

[KW802]

Gunshot, Brian is actually working on making it even easier. That one remaining file edit to global.php has been bugging him.

... and thanks for pointing out the thing about /functions.php -- I have no idea what unixdotcom was trying to install.

[between worlds]

I've had this installed on my board for a while and today the portal just hasn't been working. It doesn't load up and just gives me a white screen :S
Board can be found at: www.between-worlds.net

[KW802]

Originally Posted by between worlds

I've had this installed on my board for a while and today the portal just hasn't been working. It doesn't load up and just gives me a white screen :S
Board can be found at: www.between-worlds.net

The site comes up for me using IE but it displays an error message. Check your chdir command in the cmps_index.php file.

[between worlds]

The chdir command is correct. I uploaded an info.php file to double check and its correct. I've not modified anything for a couple of months now, it just randomly stopped working.

[SamirDarji]

Usually, when it's something like this, a server configuration or something else on your host side has changed. I'd talk to them and see if they've changed anything on your account or configuration.

[between worlds]

Nothing has been changed with the server.

I'm now getting this message:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/between/public_html/modules/navigation.php on line 115

Line 115 looks like this:

eval('$home["$mods[modid]"]['content'] = "' . fetch_template('adv_portal_navigation') . '";');

I can't figure out what the problem is :S