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

[Logician]

Default Basic Theme? whos got one of those then?

Exactly as roscoe36 said.

You forgot to install default webtemplates and webqueries in installation step 3

[b6gm6n]

DOH!, i miss read, sorry guys, all working!

-b6

[adwolf1]

hi, great plugin!

quick question about simple form handling ..

Setting it in php rendering mode, i tried to create a template with a simple web form. I wanted to pass the form to another php page for further processing.

The submitted form variables aren't making it to the target page (ie, echo $_POST['myvariable']; shows nothing. Is there anything special I have to do to get the variables to show up?

Thanks for the help!

[Gayble]

EXACTLY what I was after! I love you!

Thanks for making this hack.

[WAR]

Originally Posted by Gayble

EXACTLY what I was after! I love you!

Thanks for making this hack.

First off, thank you for an awesome hack.

Next up: I would really like to change the default behavior of my webtemplates to be hidden from all usergroups, so that I will have to manually check the boxes for groups that are allowed to view the page rather than selecting which groups are not allowed.

Would this be a difficult thing to accomplish? I have almost 300 secondary usergroups and most of my pages should only be visible to 5-10 roups... That is a whole lot of boxes to check for each page...

[WAR]

After playing around with this last night, I dicovered that I am unable to restrcit more than 50 or so groups from viewing any given page. I am guessing that maybe not enough space for an array was allocated somewhere or something?

Any ideas where i could expand this to allow for more usergroups to be processed?

I found the function in the includes file that processes usergroup permissions, is there anywhere else that I would need to change to switch the default into an opt-in system rather than an opt-out? (will be testing later today to try and answer this on my own)

[Logician]

Setting it in php rendering mode, i tried to create a template with a simple web form. I wanted to pass the form to another php page for further processing.

This post should help:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=93

You should clean your POST variable in phpinclude field of webtemplate:

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('p', 'formSetNo', TYPE_INT);  
$formSetNo =  $vbulletin->GPC['formSetNo']; 


Next up: I would really like to change the default behavior of my webtemplates to be hidden from all usergroups, so that I will have to manually check the boxes for groups that are allowed to view the page rather than selecting which groups are not allowed.

Would this be a difficult thing to accomplish? I have almost 300 secondary usergroups and most of my pages should only be visible to 5-10 roups... That is a whole lot of boxes to check for each page...

Edit wt_wt.php, find:

PHP Code:

print_membergroup_row("Disallowed Usergroups <br><font size='1'>Mark usergroups who can <b>NOT</b> display this page</font>", 'webtemplate[banusergroupids]', 2, ""); 


replace it as:

PHP Code:

  $usergroups = $vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT usergroupid,title FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "usergroup ORDER BY title");
  while ($usergroup = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($usergroups))
  {
             $usergrps_with_space .= $usergroup[usergroupid]." ";
  }
   $webtemplatebanusergroups[membergroupids] = convert_WTfield_to_usergroup_array($usergrps_with_space);
  

  print_membergroup_row("Disallowed Usergroups <br><font size='1'>Mark usergroups who can <b>NOT</b> display this page</font>", 'webtemplate[banusergroupids]', 2,  $webtemplatebanusergroups); 


After playing around with this last night, I dicovered that I am unable to restrcit more than 50 or so groups from viewing any given page. I am guessing that maybe not enough space for an array was allocated somewhere or something?

Any ideas where i could expand this to allow for more usergroups to be processed?

Run this query and see if it will help:

PHP Code:

ALTER TABLE `wt35_webtemplate` CHANGE `banusergroups` `banusergroups` MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL ,
CHANGE `logvisitors` `logvisitors` MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL ,
CHANGE `editors` `editors` MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL 


[Kurisu]

Awesome hack!

But I get an error directly after installing... (see screenshot)

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Kurisu

Awesome hack!

But I get an error directly after installing... (see screenshot)

Apparently the installation didn't go well for a reason. Uninstall the hack, login to phpmyadmin and manually delete webtemplate tables:

DROP TABLE `wt35_query`, `wt35_theme`, `wt35_visitlog`, `wt35_webtemplate`;

Then reinstall it again (carefully!). If you still have the problem after second install and don't mind me giving admin cp, ftp and phpmyadmin access, I can check for you. Otherwise, I am not sure what goes wrong for you.

[Kurisu]

Originally Posted by Logician

Apparently the installation didn't go well for a reason. Uninstall the hack, login to phpmyadmin and manually delete webtemplate tables:

DROP TABLE `wt35_query`, `wt35_theme`, `wt35_visitlog`, `wt35_webtemplate`;

Then reinstall it again (carefully!). If you still have the problem after second install and don't mind me giving admin cp, ftp and phpmyadmin access, I can check for you. Otherwise, I am not sure what goes wrong for you.

Didn't work either... Same error.

Could it have something to do with my PHP version (5.0.5)? I read that PHP 5 handles arrays different...