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

[Bellinis]

I my navbar I use the following code to show a banner only to guests:

PHP Code:

<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(1)) && THIS_SCRIPT != 'page_name'"> 


With this I can not only exclude member from viewing the banner, but also on certain pages for guests. How can I do this with the templates that this script creates? I've tried adding the names I give to these new pages, but it doesn't work. Any idea how I can make it work?

[apleschu]

First of all please let me tell you THANKS! This is (almost) eggsagly what we were looking for.

What we would like to do is to give our members the ability to create templates(pages) for themselves without an admin having to create the page for them. Even better if I can say:
Each member of usergroup X has the ability to create Y pages. While still possibly enforcing them to have a common header and footer (as long as they use the free service)

Is that letting the users create their own pages somewhere in the development queue or is that a pipe dream of me?

Andy

[Logician]

For comments about user editor interface such as:

What we would like to do is to give our members the ability to create templates(pages) for themselves without an admin having to create the page for them. Even better if I can say:
Each member of usergroup X has the ability to create Y pages. While still possibly enforcing them to have a common header and footer (as long as they use the free service)

1. the editors should be able to toggle the draft flag and should be able to see the page in draft

2. the editors should be able to change the view permission.

One comment the page title seems to not be editable in the front end only in CP. Might be nice to have some inline stuff on this mod for bits like that.

I know this part of webtemplates can pretty much enhanced according to many ideas such as these. But please note that user editor interface of webtemplates is not its primary function but it is just a nice&small add-on for a hack which basically allows "admins" to create vb integrated pages very easily.

The hack would exist even without this feature at all but I intentionally added this to the script to show in which ways it can be improved and introduces new hack ideas developed around this concept.

However please understand that I don't have any time for putting more efforts to this free script atm especially on points such as editor interface which are secondary part of the script. I appreciate the feedback but my apologies in advance in that they are not likely to be developped by me.

But one of the reasons I shared this hack here is to compile a "public effort" to develop it further. So I'm hoping that some other hackers will also see the potential of how it can be expanded and develop hacks for webtemplates and release with their names here so that new features and abilities can be added to the hack. Anyone is welcomed to do it. If they need help for the hacking of the hack, I'll do my best to help out too.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Bellinis

I my navbar I use the following code to show a banner only to guests:

PHP Code:

<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(1)) && THIS_SCRIPT != 'page_name'"> 


PHP Code:

<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(1)) && THIS_SCRIPT != 'view'"> 


should work for you as vb knows webtemplate pages as "view".

[Bellinis]

Originally Posted by Logician

PHP Code:

<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(1)) && THIS_SCRIPT != 'view'"> 


should work for you as vb knows webtemplate pages as "view".

Ok, thanks a lot!

[dcpaq2xx]

Is there anyway I can modify the location of the Logicians Templates in the Admin Control Panel to display underneath the Vbulletin Options menu?

Also I don't know what the rest of you think but how about making the suggestion to Logician to change this in the program so that it displays below the Vbulletin Options menu as the default location?

Doug

[Logician]

Originally Posted by dcpaq2

Is there anyway I can modify the location of the Logicians Templates in the Admin Control Panel to display underneath the Vbulletin Options menu?

Also I don't know what the rest of you think but how about making the suggestion to Logician to change this in the program so that it displays below the Vbulletin Options menu as the default location?

Doug

Please see here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=136

[dcpaq2xx]

Originally Posted by Logician

Please see here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=136

Thank you Logician for the link.

Also is this something you would consider permenently changing in the program as the default location?

It just seems proper that Vbulletin Options should be first in line and then yours.

Doug

[Logician]

Originally Posted by dcpaq2

Also is this something you would consider permenently changing in the program as the default location?

It just seems proper that Vbulletin Options should be first in line and then yours.

Feel free to change it in your board but actually I believe WebTemplates link should be at the very top because when you build a site around webtemplates you are going to visit it much more than vb options link.

Logician,

I know I've sung the praises of this hack about 300 times already, but I want to mention again that my site just wouldn't be the same without it, so thank you.

That said, I have a quick, nagging, newbie question for ya.

I posted a thread here about a similar issue (the same really) but since it also applies to WT, I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction.

All of my custom Webtemplates end up ungrouped in the style manager. If I create a new plugin in vB/General Admin/template_groups with the following:

$only['WebTemplates_'] = 'Custom Webtemplates';

it only ends up grouping the stock templates - all of the ones that are created by me still end up outside of the group at the top of the list.

What am I missing?

Thanks again.