WebTemplates 3.x: VB Integrated Content Management System

After a long wait, here is the new 3.x version of Webtemplates for vB 3.x boards. First a short introduction for users who are not familiar with the old version:

This hack is a vBulletin integrated content management system. Term "Webtemplates" stands for dynamic webpages that reside in your MYSQL database and administered inside your vbulletin admin control panel. But they are more than regular site pages because they can automatically inherit visual design of your forum, can apply permissions according to your vb usergroup settings, can keep track of page counts, last visitorname/visit time, display page browsers in the page itself and in your whoisonline page etc. So basically webtemplates are dynamic web pages of your site which are powered by vbulletin. Or more simply putting, with this hack you can create regular HTML pages in your vB admin cp and these pages will be integrated into your vbulletin database about permissions, styles etc.


WEBTEMPLATES 3.x FEATURES:

• Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file, nor does it modify any vbulletin database table! It is coded as an add-on, not a hack.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroup according to their userids or usergroupids. 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.
• Private Webtemplates : With 1 click you can make a webtemplate "private" and it will be displayed to only certain usergroups.
• Draft Webtemplates : You can put webtemplates in "draft" mode which makes them invisible to all but admins.
• 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 or ON per webtemplate basis.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking : You can track certain users' (by usergroup or userid) webtemplates visits to see who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis. Webtemplates have visits logs which admins can see.
• 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 Display : Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while people is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin)
• Who is Online Display : Webtemplates can display page visitors in who is online (This is Optional and require a simple hacking in file /functions_online.php). You can create private webtemplates which are hidden in who is online too.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can automatically use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• Help Documents : The script comes with built-in & detailed help documents (they are webtemplates too).
• 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.
• Good Performance : Webtemplates 3.x structured so that it performs well even under heavy load conditions and high traffic servers. (See Performance issues below)
• Easy Back up: Simply back up your database (inside vbulletin or externally) and all your webtemplate structure is also backed up automatically.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR ADVANCED USERS:

• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can now add 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 has built-in support for Logician's advanced templates conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions. (Even if you don't have that hack installed)
• 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.
• Archieve to Text File : Webtemplates/Webqueries can be downloaded to a text file with one click for archiving purposes. You can also easily share these text files with other hack users.
• Outside Variables : Advanced users can now use outside variables in webtemplates, then webtemplates will accept/use/process user sent variables via HTTP_GET and HTTP_POST methods (eg. a HTML form can post to a webtemplate with this feature)

For screenshots, FAQ, performance issues, migration from old version to new version, see below.

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..


Version Updates:
16.Feb.2005 - > Version 3.01

* Hack released.




3.5 Version :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=103076

[DarkDestinyD]

im getting this error when i view my test page and a similar error when i make a new page and try to view it any ideas

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: array_key_exists() in /nfs/cust/9/46/70/607649/web/GX/view.php on line 433

[Logician]

Originally Posted by DarkDestinyD

im getting this error when i view my test page and a similar error when i make a new page and try to view it any ideas

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: array_key_exists() in /nfs/cust/9/46/70/607649/web/GX/view.php on line 433

Upgrade your PHP to version 4.1.0 (or higher)
OR
replace all "array_key_exists" as "key_exists" in the scripts.

[bulbasnore]

First off, this looks like an awesome piece of work; congrats on your skills Logician.

I'd like to see if anyone here, with experience with webtemplate can tell me if it will help me implement a new feature on our site.

Our Site
vB3.0.7 with vBaCMPS1.0.1.
I have some custom & tweaked modules running in CMPS and we have the gallery. Great system.

New Feature
We're putting up a database driven guide with over 3000 entries for our members. You select the group to view with one form, then get back a page of results to update with the return and finally submit that back to a third form which gives your result. I'm using ADODB with DreamweaverMX/PhaKT to create the PHP database code. The forms are working fine and doing what I want.

Problem
Now the time is come to integrate with vB! However, vB isn't going to let me run php code.

OK, vBaCMPS module time! Well, that works for the first selection, but once I post that selection I have to drop out of vBaCMPS. No way to post back to it.

OK, require global.php, then load my other php code. Works great for the first form, restricts access, etc. However, global.php prevents you from accepting post/get input.

Questions

1. Can I just plunk my php database query and HTML generation code in the include section of webtemplate?
2. If so, how do I pick up the post info on an incoming form submission, and get it to that code I plunked in?
3. My php code talks to an external database. Is it just webqueries that are limited to the vB database, or does webtemplate/vb block even non-vb/template queires from included php code?
4. Am I better off to just try to make my own cookie from vB login and keep my pages external to vB/CMPS/webtemplate?

Well, if you got this far, thanks for reading. I'm amazed at how cool vB is; its a new world for me, but it really is saving me tons of time and helping get features out to our members. It just has some limits I'm not used to in free-coding (simple though mine is).

Cheers,
'snore

[damonh]

Fantastic!!!!!
Now I jsut need to make them work for each user as they log in. Two thumbs up!
Installed Clicked!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by bulbasnore

[*]Can I just plunk my php database query and HTML generation code in the include section of webtemplate?[*]If so, how do I pick up the post info on an incoming form submission, and get it to that code I plunked in?[*]My php code talks to an external database. Is it just webqueries that are limited to the vB database, or does webtemplate/vb block even non-vb/template queires from included php code?[*]Am I better off to just try to make my own cookie from vB login and keep my pages external to vB/CMPS/webtemplate?

What you are trying to achieve is really sophisticated and I can not say if you can do it with webtemplates or not without trying it. However I'd urge you to try. Nothing to lose and it may work.

On theory it sounds like "doable". However my concern is that there can occur many unexpected drawbacks when you integrated your code. Some can be even unrelated to webtemplates: Eg. your variables can clash with vbulletin variables etc. So no way to say whether it will work or not without trying it.

As for your questions:
1- yes, sounds ok. If you put it into vb phpinclude template and it worked (except getting GET/POST VARIABLES successfully), it will work in phpinclude template of webtemplate.
2- You can use a webquery for this and use the phpinclude field of the webquery for the postid variable your code passes. It will return you the post info. However it will return it to the webtemplate, not your code (which is inside phpinclude of webtemplate!) so I don't know if it is ok with you.
3-webqueries can only query vb database. But if you use your own DB connection commands in your phpinclude field of webtemplates, they are not blocked so your commands can query other dbs. (again: provided that this strategy worked in the default phpinclude field of vb! If it does not work in vb's phpinclude field, it will not work in webtemplates's phpinclude field)
4- If it does not work, I still don't suggest you to use a seperate autentication for your application. I think your path should be copying vb global.php into another file, remove GET/POST variable blocking of it in your new file and include it in your application to simulate vb authentication. This sounds more logical. You can check webtemplates source code to see how it manages to accept variables vb global.php blocks.

[Inzagi]

Is there a version of the hack for vb 3.5 or is it planned ?

[bugzy]

This like an article system?

[Spinball]

The number of page views doesn't seem to be incrementing for my webtemplates.
I have the 'Count page visitors?' set to 'Yes' and the 'Logged Visitors' to 0.
Any idea what's wrong?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Spinball

The number of page views doesn't seem to be incrementing for my webtemplates.
I have the 'Count page visitors?' set to 'Yes' and the 'Logged Visitors' to 0.
Any idea what's wrong?

Good catch of a bug!

Here is the fix:

Edit "view.php", find:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE $WT_DB_TemplateTable SET  lastvisitorid='$bbuserinfo[userid]', lastvisittime='".time()."' WHERE wtid='$WT[wtid]'"); 


replace it as:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE $WT_DB_TemplateTable SET pagecount=pagecount+1, lastvisitorid='$bbuserinfo[userid]', lastvisittime='".time()."' WHERE wtid='$WT[wtid]'"); 


[slim cutty]

$DB_site->query("UPDATE $WT_DB_TemplateTable SET lastvisitorid='$bbuserinfo[userid]', lastvisittime='".time()."' WHERE wtid='$WT[wtid]'");

in the above line that you were to replace you made a little typo you made a mistake and put this instead

$$DB_site->query("UPDATE $WT_DB_TemplateTable SET lastvisitorid='$bbuserinfo[userid]', lastvisittime='".time()."' WHERE wtid='$WT[wtid]'");

Thanks for the bug fix hope you update the view.php file before someone else downloads