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

[Saviour]

Logician...

Again, I'd like to thank you for this mod...very nice!

Is there any way, at all, this can be updated to include a "printer friendly" and "email to a friend" option?

I know this mod is not supported...but would like to know if it's at all possible...it would be a nice addition to this mod.

The reason I ask is that I use this mod for a Knowledge Base I've started on my site...

It has come to our staff's attention that these two requests should be implemented within the Knowledge Base articles.

This means I'm going to have to create duplicate pages and link to them...so you see the reason for my asking?

I appreciate any feedback you have to offer on this...

[kafi]

Hello can anybody advise how to place checkbox with profile field option?

I am saving the form with profile.php everything works fine but the checkbox. (textfield works fine).

I have tried this:

<input type="checkbox" value="$bbuserinfo[field29]" name="userfield[field29][]" id="cb_cpf_field29_1"/>

this doesnt load wheter checkbox is checked or not and if I check nothing is saved.

and this

<input type="checkbox" value="$bbuserinfo[field29]" name="userfield[field29][]" id="cb_cpf_field29_1" <if condition="$bbuserinfo[field29] =='1'">checked="checked"/if> />

But this load "checked" in whatever case and doesnt save "unchecked" option.

Can anybody advise how to proceed with this checkbox field?

THANK YOU!!!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by roymogg

I have installed a couple of templates just wanted to ask how I get the template to 'open' on page load within a module.

if you have a quick glance at the test site www.crosslight.co.uk

I'm not sure if I understand your request but if you are trying to display the content of http://www.crosslight.co.uk/CrossLig...boutcrosslight when in http://www.crosslight.co.uk/CrossLightForum/index.php why don't you just put the content inside your vbadvanced module? It seems to be the best method.

Or you can put a popup javascrit to your vbadvanced page and when it is loaded, it popups about us page.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Saviour

Logician...

Again, I'd like to thank you for this mod...very nice!

Is there any way, at all, this can be updated to include a "printer friendly" and "email to a friend" option?

I know this mod is not supported...but would like to know if it's at all possible...it would be a nice addition to this mod.

The reason I ask is that I use this mod for a Knowledge Base I've started on my site...

It has come to our staff's attention that these two requests should be implemented within the Knowledge Base articles.

This means I'm going to have to create duplicate pages and link to them...so you see the reason for my asking?

I appreciate any feedback you have to offer on this...

Unlike vb posts, having a built-in printer friendly version with WT is not very easy because a WT can have 3 different formats : bbcode parsing (text), HTML and php. So for instance how can the code automatically create a printer friendly version for HTML or PHP webtemplates, it is very hard.

[john.friel]

Nice Mod! I have it installed and working but have a question. I link to a WebTemplate page from a message on the forum, but when clicked it opens a new browser tab in IE7. None of the other fully qualified links on the site do this. Have I missed a setting?

Running 3.6.8 patch2 and the latest download of WebTemplates.

You can see this at http://reunion.cedarfallshigh.org and clicking on the Reunion Roll Call from the center News Item.

Thanks in advance.

John

[Logician]

This is not really about the hack. It is how your vbulletin deals with [URL] tags. If WT is openning the links in a new window, your vbulletin must be openning links in messages in new window too:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=172169
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...t=links+window

[GoTTi]

i am trying to past a lot of data and make a page, but am getting this error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 867187 bytes) in /home/site/public_html/forums/includes/adminfunctions_template.php on line 2184

what is causing this?

[Logician]

This is not about the hack. Even if it is vbulletin that is producing this error, it is not about vb either. It happens due to a server restriction you have and because you are trying to post data which is above this restriction.

Please see here for more info and also fix:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=78563

(If you are on shared hosting and can't get PHP memory limit increased, try to shorten your page)

[FLMom]

Hi Logician!

Just a quick question for you. A couple of weeks ago my team and I completely overhauled my site. We had to integrate my current forums into the new template skin which worked fine, but when I am in the admincp in the Webtemplates section none of the pages work. However they do work when on the regular page. I was told it has something to do with CSS?

Would you happen to know how I can fix this? If you need any log in info to see what I am talking about I will be more than happy to give it to you.


Thanks,
Cori

[Razasharp]

Are all you WebTemplate files in tact? (ie do you need to upload them again?)