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

[mike the mix]

Hi thanks for your reply.
If I make a manual translation of my html pages to templates, can these still link to pdf files OK?
Where will I need to upload these template and pdf files? Can this be handled automatically for large numbers of files or can i do it with FTP?

Can i create the templates by cutting and pasting from each HTML page including its many HTML links to the pdf files?

Regards,
Mike

PS I am happy to send you details of the web site and admin details by PM so you can see what I am trying to do...

[jluerken]

Mike the mix its like I said, nobody here can answer your question with a general YES or NO.
I am sure it depends on the html pages you have if they can be displayed correctly or not.

You can transfer your .pdf files via ftp to any locations you want.
Link that you generate in the CMS are the same like in normal .html files.

Why not simply give it a try? Install the hack and work with it.
Include some of your pages and check if its working for you or not.
Bringing content from one system to another does also mean you have to spend time and that you have to do work.
There is no automatic process that does it for you. The only automatic process that I know in this area is called "manpower" and that does mean that you have to pay someone else doing it for you

[Logician]

Originally Posted by mike the mix

I am an absolute Newbie and struggling. I have a simple vB running very well (latest release) and wish to add a simple "web site" on the same server containing some html pages which link to pdf files. I want to control access to the "web site" using vB, so that only registered users get access.

Is it possible to convert the existing html web pages into "webtemplates" and get the whole of my existing website working in vB?
Ideally I want to upload the web site with its files (about 250mb) and the whol lot be automatically converted so it can work under vB (with vB controlled access rights).

Regards,
mike

What you wanted sounds possible with Webtemplates to me.

If you want to keep the existing design of your HTML pages, just open them in IE, click "view source" and paste the source code into a webtemplate.

If you want them to inherit "vb look" (header/footer/logo/colors etc.), then you have to manually adjust their HTML codes while pasting them into webtemplates.

They can link PDF files and since the page is protected with vb permissions, people can not reach your PDF links in these pages without proper permissions. However please note that when somebody access it, he can always share the PDF link with other people who do not have permission. In other words, Webtemplate protects your page content (in which PDF links are displayed to users) with vb permissions, NOT your pdf files itself.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by LTW

I'm in the process of upgrading my forums, and this hack, (3.5.4 ==> 3.6.4) but it's not going so well. I've searched in this thread for others that may have had "upgrade" problems, but i seem virtually alone ... :cry:

The old template(s) shows up in the acp but when i click to view it, it says page not found. Of course i can't go directly to it either. I tried this fix, renaming them and such, but the results are the same.

Any suggestions?

TIA

LTW

Make sure :
1- Forum URL in vb settings is correct.
2- Disable SEO friendly URL option and try again.
3- Make sure you configured SEO friendly URL hack correctly (and uploaded the .htaccess file)

[kafi]

Hello thank you for this addon.

I wish to use this for webpage where user can see his extra fields that are stored in userfield table.

I wish to use something like $filed20 or $field22 within template.
How do I achieve this?

Thank you!!!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by kafi

Hello thank you for this addon.

I wish to use this for webpage where user can see his extra fields that are stored in userfield table.

I wish to use something like $filed20 or $field22 within template.
How do I achieve this?

Thank you!!!

$bbuserinfo[field1]

Please read Manual section 1.4

[Bellinis]

Last weekend we upgraded our board from 3.5.2 > 3.6.4
We were using WebTemplates 3.5.05 and now we upgraded to 3.6.01

All went fine, only when I try to export our webtemplates, I get the following error:

Warning: Missing argument 1 for vb_xml_builder() in /includes/class_xml.php on line 354

Fatal error: vB_XML_Builder::Registry object is not an object in /includes/class_xml.php on line 362

(don't know if we had this error before, because I never exported the templates before)
How can I fix this?

Also I noticed the version info in the XML file still says <version>3.5.0.05</version> ? Should be 3.6.01... or?

[kafi]

Originally Posted by Logician

$bbuserinfo[field1]

Please read Manual section 1.4

Thank you Logician,

all went great. I have even learned how to play with queries so now I do some custom pages with stats for me instead of going to phpMyAdmin :-)

But know I grown and want to build form with this sweet add-on :-)
Is it possible to implement also "update" queries that will take datas from form fields?

Thanks 1milion :-)

[Razasharp]

Originally Posted by kafi

Is it possible to implement also "update" queries that will take datas from form fields?

Yes - check back through this thread as it has been covered previously Also look at the example WQs and WTs

[Logician]

Originally Posted by kafi

But know I grown and want to build form with this sweet add-on :-)
Is it possible to implement also "update" queries that will take datas from form fields?

I have not built such a form, but I believe it can be done. I recall I implemented the php_include_before sections into the hack so that such functionality can be available if needed. (as you might like to clean out the incoming variable before applying to UPDATE query etc.). But since I didn't do it myself, I can't assure it can be done. Some practical problems can occur which are not visible in theory. I'd say, give it a shot and see.