WebTemplates 3.5.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 3.5.x AND 3.6.x. For vb 3.0.x and 2.x see my profile for relevant threads.)

(For vb 3.7 version, please go to this thread)

"WebTemplates" is a vBulletin integrated Content Management System which allows you to create vb integrated "HTML" pages in your vb admin cp very easily. The pages can inherit your vbulletin skin/style, can recognize logged-in user, can be applied permissions per user or usergroup basis, can keep visit logs, hit counts and do many more.






WEBTEMPLATES 3.5.x BASIC FEATURES:

• Very Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file. It is coded as an pluggin and supports phrase system for user interfaces.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroups easily. So for instance you can design a webtemplate which only members can see while guests can not, or only user A can not see etc.
• Page Counter : Each webtemplate has a built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF/ON per webtemplate basis.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking : You can track certain users' (by usergroup or userid) webtemplate visits to see who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support : You can grant editing permissions for certain users or usergroups for your webtemplates individually and they will be able to update these webtemplates using their own editor interface. vB's WYSIWYG editor is supported in Editor interface.
• Page Browsers & Who is Online Display: Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while visitor is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin). Webtemplate visits can also be monitored in who is online page.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can automatically use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• Help Documents : The script comes with an extensive help document.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates : Your webtemplates can include an "admin panel" displayed to only admins and by using them you can access many details and stats of your page while you are browsing them.
• SEO friendly URLs: You can make webtemplate URLs seo friendly in vb settings (Requires apache server).
• XML Import/Export : XML Import/Export feature allows you to backup your webtemplates and use other hack users webtemplates in your board.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR ADVANCED USERS:

• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add "last 10 threads forum X", "most active users list" etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Multi Parsing : Webtemplates can parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts). This means you can design a page just like vb posts (TEXT parsing), standart HTML (HTML parsing) or even in PHP (PHP parsing).
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Theme Support : Webtemplates support "themes" which are parent webtemplates which include child webtemplates in them. For instance if you have 20 similiar pages which uses the same visual look, you can make a single theme for all of them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates supports VB3 template conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions.
• Default variables : You can use/display certain variables in your webtemplates like username of the visitor, visitor email address, last visit time, page creation time, page last edit time, Last visitor name, last visit time etc.

Sample WebTemplates from Sites using this hack:
(Some 3.5 and some are 3.0 versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so both will give you the idea)
http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/view_aboutus.htm
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_funding.htm
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/view.php?pg=aboutus
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_guidelines.htm
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_books.htm
http://www3.fertilethoughts.com/foru...hp?pg=acronyms
http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/vie...alk-newsletter
http://www.bklab.com (entire site is designed with Webtemplates only!)

3.5 version Admin CP screenshot attached to this post. 3.0.x screenshots (here and here) also still applies for this version.

If you use the hack, clicking here will make sure you'll know about updates&bug fixes. It will also help me understand how many people is using the hack so please click the install button if you use it. Thank you..

Note in 6.August. 2006 : I've tested Webtemplates with vbulletin 3.6.0 gold version and they are compatible. So this hack released here is both for vb 3.5.x AND 3.6.x

Note for vb 3.7.x : (29.July.2008): For vb 3.7.x, I released a new version here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=186644


Version Updates:
16.Dec.2005 - > Version 3.5.01
* Hack released.
16.Dec.2005 - > Version 3.5.02
* A webquery bug fix for boards which use table_prefix. To upgrade just overwrite hack .php files.
17.Dec.2005 - > Version 3.5.03
* A minor bug in WOL page fixed. To upgrade overwrite hack .php files + reinstall product XML
17.Dec.2005 - > Version 3.5.04
* A bug fix for edit webtemplate page not remembering webtemplate's showbrowsers setting.To upgrade overwrite hack .php files
16.Jan.2006 - > Version 3.5.05
* A bug fix for boards which has too many usergroups. To upgrade overwrite hack .php files + uninstall product, then reinstall (your existing webtemplates will be intact)
20.Aug.2006 - > Version 3.6.00
* A bug fix that can cause a MYSQL warning in a few servers in WT admin cp. A minor and unusual problem that happens in certain servers and you don't need to upgrade if you don't see such a message. To upgrade overwrite /includes/wt_include.php and /admincp/wt_wt.php files.
1.Oct.2006 - > Version 3.6.01
* A minor bug fix for showing user avatar and ipaddress in webtemplates. To upgrade overwrite /includes/wt_include.php and view.php files.
2.May.2007 - > Version 3.6.02
* IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATE! A security problem has been fixed in this version. To upgrade overwrite /includes/wt_include.php and view.php files which is attached to this post.
21.June.2008 - > Version 3.6.03
* Two minor bugs (1 & 2) fixed.
29.July.2008 - > Version 3.7.00
* A new version for vbulletin 3.7.x is released in a seperate thread here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=186644

[nitro]

This seems to be very nice. My asociate runs the other way when I open vb and vbportal cp's. Now he can just ask for a new page and voila he can edit a page as much as he likes.

Found a minor bug or two tho when placing an image into and editor for TEXT. You can wrap it ok with img bb tags and save, but when you go to edit it again its wrapped it has parsed the url and needs the img tags redoing. Is there anyway to have the dont parse urls checkbox to the editors ?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by TonysDesigns

(Logician, add me to your examples!! )

Added. I liked what you did with the hack.

Originally Posted by TonysDesigns

Took some tweaking to make it work outside my forums, but the way Logician setup the viewing permissions, it simply rocks!

Maybe you can share what you did in the thread so that others will use it too? I'm asked this so many times and frankly speaking I dont have free time to deal with this request.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Chris-777

Thankya. I got it renamed no prob, just can't get it below the main options.

<navgroup text="WebTemplates" hr="true" displayorder="3">

Set displayorder as 0 or 1 and if there are other hack options above WebTemplates, edit their xml files to increase their displayorder to push them down.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Thanks Logician! I always enjoy your hacks! I have a few more questions...

1) I have created a WebQuery that displays the "Last 10 threads" from any forum, but I would like to show only a limited number of characters in a thread title. In other words, I don't want the entire title displaying, instead, I would like to show something like: "This is a sample..." - Any help on this is greatly appreciated!

I have tried SELECT id, LEFT(title, 20), etc. but this didn't work for me.

You can do it with SUBSTRING like .
SELECT id, SUBSTRING(title, 0 20)..

Please see here http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/6209.htm for more info

[digitalSite]

Originally Posted by Logician

You can do it with SUBSTRING like .
SELECT id, SUBSTRING(title, 0 20)..

Please see here http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/6209.htm for more info

Hi, I tried SELECT id, SUBSTRING(title, 0, 20), etc. and several variations I found in Google, but they are not working. It comes up blank. I know you're busy, so has anyone have theire titles of threads displaying on their site with only the first 10 or 20 characters? I would like to know how. Thanks.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Hi, I tried SELECT id, SUBSTRING(title, 0, 20), etc. and several variations I found in Google, but they are not working. It comes up blank. I know you're busy, so has anyone have theire titles of threads displaying on their site with only the first 10 or 20 characters? I would like to know how. Thanks.

ok try this (import in webtemplate import screen).. I did with left()

[digitalSite]

Originally Posted by Logician

ok try this (import in webtemplate import screen).. I did with left()

Hi, this works! Now that we have the X character limit to display, there's just one other problem...the only thing is that although it says LIMIT 0,5 only the first post is shown.

How do we get last 10 to show?

Thanks so much...you should have received an email from PayPal

[nitro]

Originally Posted by nitro

This seems to be very nice. My asociate runs the other way when I open vb and vbportal cp's. Now he can just ask for a new page and voila he can edit a page as much as he likes.

Found a minor bug or two tho when placing an image into and editor for TEXT. You can wrap it ok with img bb tags and save, but when you go to edit it again its wrapped it has parsed the url and needs the img tags redoing. Is there anyway to have the dont parse urls checkbox to the editors ?

Yep this would be very annoying. Everytime you edit a TEXT type in the front end in either text or wysiwyg mode it drops img bbcode tags and you have to replace them all. And if you have a few images on a page and forget one then you have to edit again and start agian. It also auto parse urls every save and no option to not do so.

When this is fixed I can consider installing.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Hi, this works! Now that we have the X character limit to display, there's just one other problem...the only thing is that although it says LIMIT 0,5 only the first post is shown.

You are suppose to get last 5 in that forum. I get 5 in my test forum. Can it be because you have just 1 thread in that forum?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by nitro

This seems to be very nice. My asociate runs the other way when I open vb and vbportal cp's. Now he can just ask for a new page and voila he can edit a page as much as he likes.

Found a minor bug or two tho when placing an image into and editor for TEXT. You can wrap it ok with img bb tags and save, but when you go to edit it again its wrapped it has parsed the url and needs the img tags redoing.

I cant confirm this behaviour. When I use a IMG tag in a webtemplate and then go edit in the editor interface, it parses just fine. I tested both with standart editor and WYSIWYG, all works fine for me.