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]

Originally Posted by Mark41

Sorry for the double post, but now I'm just confused. Can anybody make this? I'm nearly beside myself.

I'd like it to be four things. The name of the forum the post is in with a link to the forum (like it is on my homepage). The name of the thread linking to the newest post. The name of the poster linked to them. The date the latest post was made.

Currently on my front page, it lists it as the latest threads created, not posts made. Can anyone help with this?

PHP Code:

SELECT thread.threadid AS threadid, thread.title AS title, thread.postusername AS postusername, thread.postuserid AS postuserid, thread.dateline AS dateline, forum.title AS ftitle, thread.forumid
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread thread LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum forum ON thread.forumid= forum.forumid 
WHERE thread.sticky=0 AND thread.visible=1
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 10 


PHP Code:

<tr align="center"> 
 <td class="$alternate" align="left" WIDTH="35%" VALIGN="TOP"><div class="smallfont"><a href='forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$WQfield[forumid]'>$WQfield[ftitle]</a></div></td>
 <td class="$alternate" align="left" WIDTH="35%" VALIGN="TOP"><div class="smallfont"><a href='showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$WQfield[threadid]'>$WQfield[title]</a></div></td>
 <td class="$alternate" WIDTH="15%" VALIGN="TOP"><div class="smallfont"><a href='member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$WQfield[postuserid]'>$WQfield[postusername]</a></div></td>
 <td class="$alternate" WIDTH="15%" VALIGN="TOP"><div style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 10px;">$WQfield[dateline]</div></td>
</tr> 


[rolandogomez]

I went to export XML templates so I can use them on another site, I get 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

Well then I downloaded your current version, think the last time I upgraded was in August, so I was still running fairly new version. I uploaded all the files as stated in the installation manual including step 3, then when I went to follow the upgrades, during the upgrade script, I get the following

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT wtid, title
FROM wt2_templates
WHERE headerfooter = '0'
ORDER BY category DESC,
title ASC;

MySQL Error : Table 'glamour1.wt2_templates' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Sunday, December 24th 2006 @ 01:06:06 PM
Script : http://www.glamour1.com/forums/admin...e.php?do=start
Referrer : http://www.glamour1.com/forums/admincp/wt_upgrade.php
IP Address : 70.125.158.16
Username : deleted on purpose by me
Classname : vb_database

The system still works, but I want to finish the upgrade.

Please help, thanks, and Happy Holidays, rg sends!

[Sophonax]

Installed, cause it rocks and it's needed. <3 Thanks for the awesome addon. ;D

[Mark41]

Thankyou very much for helping me but there is still one more thing I would like for it to do...

Instead of having the author of the thread being shown, is there a way to put the username of the last person to post in the thread? And then have the thread name link to the latest post?

[digitalSite]

I would like to uninstall this product because I need to change some things. The FAQs say:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Select "uninstall" in Product Manager and it will automatically uninstall. Uninstalling does not remove database tables so that your custom webtemplates will not be lost when you reinstall. If you want to delete database records too run this query :
DROP TABLE `wt35_query`, `wt35_theme`, `wt35_visitlog`, `wt35_webtemplate`;
----------------------------------------------------------------------
But, where do i find the "Product Manager"? I don't see this anywhere. Any help is greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Sorry, I haven't been here in a while...I figured it out. To uninstall, log into your admin panel in vb, click on "Plugin System" > "Manage Products" and then select "uninstall" and GO.

[ldsfiles]

This very slick, Logician - thanks!

Hey team - is there a good online resource for sample queries that have been posted? Would save a lot of time for many of us.

[ldsfiles]

When I first installed Webtemplates, I wanted to figure out how to change the location of the view.php pages so that I could have a site that looked like this to the end users:

www.delicto.com/finance (instead of http://www.delicto.com/vb/view.php?pg=finance_main)

Here's what I did.

1 - On my server, I created a PHP page called www.delicto.com/finance/index.php

2 - On that page I inserted this code:

<base href=http://delicto.com/vb/>
<?php
include("http://www.delicto.com/vb/view.php?pg=finance_main");
?>

This just uses the "include" feature of PHP to pull the content of that individual page into the desired location.

Not very elegant, because I'll have to set up each page that way (I hate it when things aren't dynamic) but it gets the job done. Hopefully this will help someone else too.

And, as alwyas, if anyone has other ideas of how to do it better, I'd love to hear it. Thanks!

[LTW]

I'm in the process of upgrading my forums, and this hack, (3.5.4 ==> 3.6.4) but it's not going so well. I've searched in this thread for others that may have had "upgrade" problems, but i seem virtually alone ... :cry:

The old template(s) shows up in the acp but when i click to view it, it says page not found. Of course i can't go directly to it either. I tried this fix, renaming them and such, but the results are the same.

Any suggestions?

TIA

LTW

[mike the mix]

I am an absolute Newbie and struggling. I have a simple vB running very well (latest release) and wish to add a simple "web site" on the same server containing some html pages which link to pdf files. I want to control access to the "web site" using vB, so that only registered users get access.

Is it possible to convert the existing html web pages into "webtemplates" and get the whole of my existing website working in vB?
Ideally I want to upload the web site with its files (about 250mb) and the whol lot be automatically converted so it can work under vB (with vB controlled access rights).

Regards,
mike

[jluerken]

HI Mike the mix,

you can implement a lot into a running vBulletin but answering your question in details is hard without knowing your page.

An automatic process to create a template out of an html page does not exist, you have to do it manually!