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

[Razasharp]

Originally Posted by Parker Clack

In vBAdvanced you can set it up so you can "Clean the output file" so that if you include a statement like

<?
include('http://www.yourplace.html');
?>

It will allow you to use an external file in the middle of your template. I have not been able to figure out how to do this with this script. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Parker

You can just create a new WT and paste the code in there

Originally Posted by Ohh-Dutch

Is There A Way To Make This So Users Can Create Their Own Page USing This?

You could as explained by dartho in the post above, but it's not really designed for that.

Originally Posted by bada_bing

I wish people would post what they are using this hack for and how they did it. This tool is so powerful and if all the users of the hack posted there use and code we can all share from it..

There are lots of demo sites in the first post of this thread. Also if you google the WebTemplate copyright notice you will find lots more

[Razasharp]

Hi Sinan - is it possible to use if conditionals in WQs ? (I tried but it didn't work )

If not, I could do two seperate WQs and put the conditional in the WT, but are the queries called when 'needed' (ie if if condition calls them) or at the start of each WT that has them ticked?

Thanks, and I hope you are well!

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by dartho

I've used mine primarily for making pretty much what woul otherwise be static HTML pages - in fact previous to using this hack, thats exactly what they were.

I have alse created a very basic page which return more stats for the vBookie hack vBookie - the default only listed top 5 type things.



Yes, you can give users a page to edit - just create a new webtemplate for each user, and give them editor rightd - its pretty straight forward, but would be time consuming to start with lots of users

Wow that would be cool.. Is there a way to automatically give every premium members a page to edit? Then they can create there own page.


ALso lets see some code of what all of you are doing with this hack...

[Parker Clack]

Razorsharp:

You can just create a new WT and paste the code in there.

Already did that and nothing shows up.

[Razasharp]

I meant the html of the file as opposed to the include... sorry, I should have been clearer.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Razasharp

is it possible to use if conditionals in WQs ? (I tried but it didn't work )

It is not. But you can use PHP if conditional in the phpinclude section of the WQ.

If not, I could do two seperate WQs and put the conditional in the WT, but are the queries called when 'needed' (ie if if condition calls them) or at the start of each WT that has them ticked?

They are parsed at the start of each WT that has them ticked.

[carpefile]

When I did my upgrade from vb3.0.7 to vb3.6.3 I also upgraded my webtemplates (as it is one of my 2 "can't live without hacks")
However, when I attempted to reach and then export my older templates as xml, I received this 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

Please, please, help me out here.

Those older webtemplates are critical features of my site, and my users are very up in arms over their absence.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by carpefile

When I did my upgrade from vb3.0.7 to vb3.6.3 I also upgraded my webtemplates (as it is one of my 2 "can't live without hacks")
However, when I attempted to reach and then export my older templates as xml, I received this 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

Please, please, help me out here.

Those older webtemplates are critical features of my site, and my users are very up in arms over their absence.

I haven't tested the migration (import) section in 3.6.3. If you can give me vb admin cp access, phpmyadmin access and FTP access, I believe I can fix this for you.

[Razasharp]

carpefile - I am assuming the old templates are now showing on the 'new' 3.6.3 admin cp? And that the old templates are not working?

If so I would rename them to say templateName-old and then create new templates with just templateName and copy and paste the code from the old templates into them. Same with the WQs if needed.

Nost sure if that is what you need tho?

Sinan - thanks for the reply, it was something in the actual Query Result Row that I wanted to change... could possibly do it if I can call a '$WQfield[fieldhere]' in the phpclude after and assign it a variable that I then call in the GRR tho... (basically wanted to 'not' show part of the QRR to guests). I will give it a go and see what happens..

[carpefile]

Thank you, Logician. I've pm'ed the requested access to you. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you help me.

Razasharp- the older templates don't show in my admincp webtemplates at all.
Thank you for the help, none the less.