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

[nanaimobar]

A puzzle applet has a save function storing puzzle data in a cgi-bin file. When I click on the save button I get an invalid page notice, "The page you requested does not exist!" The page is the web template containing the puzzle which produces the invalid page notice.

The web template page is at https://my site/forums/view.php?pg=crswrdpuz
It is not an actual html page stored on my server and I think what the save function needs to do is save the puzzle data somehow for replacement in the puzzle grid the next time a visitor reloads the web template page.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
</HEAD>
<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<TITLE>Crossword Puzzle Test</TITLE>

<APPLET CLASS="CCJava" CODE="Grid_int.class" ARCHIVE="ccjava.jar" NAME="CCXWORD" CODEBASE="https://my site /forums/crswrds/" WIDTH=780 HEIGHT=483>
<param name="SAVE" value="https://my site/forums/view.php?pg=crswrdpuz?%PROGRESS%">
<PARAM NAME="DATAFILE" VALUE="https://my site /forums/crswrds/1.jpz">
<!--[CCPROGRESS]-->
You need Java enabled to view the crossword applet.
</APPLET>

<HR>

</BODY>
</HTML>

Anyone have a suggestion as to how to save the web template data for replacement in puzzle grid the next time a visitor loads a saved web template page?

Thanks.

[Logician]

Anyone have a suggestion as to how to save the web template data for replacement in puzzle grid the next time a visitor loads a saved web template page?

Have you tried using SEO friendly URLs? This might help since WT will be renamed as

https://my site/forums/view_crswrdpuz.htm
which your script might like better.

However please note that if script is trying to overwrite this HTML somehow (to insert score inside it etc), then it will still fail. I'm not sure why that script is trying to access that html file.

Instead of showing the users on this one page - how can I make it display the total number of users on the entire vb forum?

This is not possible as a default feature but if you don't mind hacking (and this hack will apply to ALL webtemplates too!), this should work:

In view.php, find line:

PHP Code:

session.lastactivity > $datecut AND  (session.location LIKE '%".$Search_Word_for_session_TB."?%' AND session.location LIKE '".$idSQL."') OR  (session.location LIKE '%".$Search_Word_for_session_TBURL."%') 


and replace it as

PHP Code:

session.lastactivity > $datecut 


Any suggestions as to why this applet works fine when loaded from server as a straight html page but when same html code placed in new web template page it fails?

I would think this is related to the applet. It is likely that it is coded to work in the same server enviroment. It doesnt sound like anything related to WT.

[klees]

Does it work on vB 3.7???

[birdie]

Originally Posted by klees

Does it work on vB 3.7???

Did you read the previous page of this thread before posting?

[Beermonster]

Since upgrading to 3.7 all I get now are pages that say header, any idea how to fix this?

[Logician]

If you give me FTP and admin cp access to your problematic board, I can check. But before that please make sure your WTs' content is fine.

[Beermonster]

Originally Posted by Logician

But before that please make sure your WTs' content is fine.

It was working fine before the upgrade, I've uninstalled the hack and still got the error

[nanaimobar]

Originally Posted by Logician

Have you tried using SEO friendly URLs? This might help since WT will be renamed as

https://my site/forums/view_crswrdpuz.htm
which your script might like better.

However please note that if script is trying to overwrite this HTML somehow (to insert score inside it etc), then it will still fail. I'm not sure why that script is trying to access that html file.

Changed to SEO friendly and managed to get Save button to save puzzle data to bookmarks or hard drive, but... when recalling the saved page, using a display saved puzzle cgi script, it just produces a blank page, let alone include any solved words or letters that were in the puzzle when it was saved.

Your quote above indicates overwriting will fail, and this may be the case.

[dilbert]

Originally Posted by Beermonster

Since upgrading to 3.7 all I get now are pages that say header, any idea how to fix this?

I'm getting the same error.

[iBaker]

Hi
I am using vB v3.7.0 with Web templates v3.5.0.05 - can someone tell me how I can update my version of Web templates to the latest version without losing any of my pages - thanks!