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

[tokenyank]

I know it's late and I'm probably missing something stupid, but I just installed/tried this and am getting:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /forums/admincp/wt_wt.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

The file in question, I've chmod'd 777 just incase, but it's still not working. I'll revisit this after Iv'e had some sleep, hopefully in the meantime someone can shed some light on why I'm getting this error! (yes, i did upload the structure properly! )

Thanks in advance!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by tokenyank

I know it's late and I'm probably missing something stupid, but I just installed/tried this and am getting:


The file in question, I've chmod'd 777 just incase, but it's still not working. I'll revisit this after Iv'e had some sleep, hopefully in the meantime someone can shed some light on why I'm getting this error! (yes, i did upload the structure properly! )

Thanks in advance!

It sounds like a server permission issue to me. You checked chmod'ing but it can be about the user account uploading the file. Please make sure you uploaded (and owned) with a FTP account which is used to upload your other vb files in the folder.

It is definetely not a hack issue.

[tokenyank]

Hmm... I've reupped the files and I do own the account but still getting the same error...

chmodded to 666 664 755 777 but all still give same error

same again after I reimported xml.

/confused!

[tokenyank]

Ok, figured it out...

Appearently putting php makes it cry a little bit.

<?php
// # THE FOLLOWING BLOCK IS USED TO RETRIEVE AND DISPLAY LINK INFORMATION.
// # PLACE THIS ENTIRE BLOCK IN THE AREA YOU WANT THE DATA TO BE DISPLAYED.

// # duser key:
$UserKey ="blahblah";

// # MODIFY THE VARIABLES BELOW:

// # The following variable defines how many links to display per page
$LinksPerPage = "25";

// # The following variable defines how many columns are used to display categories
$CategoryColumns = "2";

// # The following variable defines whether links are opened in a new window
// # (1 = Yes, 0 = No)
$OpenInNewWindow = "0";

// # DO NOT MODIFY ANYTHING ELSE BELOW THIS LINE!
// ----------------------------------------------

$QueryString  = "script=php";
$QueryString .= "&UserKey=" .urlencode($UserKey);
$QueryString .= "&CategoryColumns=" .urlencode($CategoryColumns);
$QueryString .= "&LinksPerPage=" .urlencode($LinksPerPage);
$QueryString .= "&OpenInNewWindow=" .urlencode($OpenInNewWindow);
$QueryString .= "&siteid=529" ; 

foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
	$value = urlencode(stripslashes($value));
	$QueryString .= "&$key=$value";
}

// congfigure our headers
if(intval(get_cfg_var('allow_url_fopen')) && function_exists('readfile')) {
	if(!@readfile("http://www.domain.com?".$QueryString)) {
		echo "Error processing request";
	}
}
elseif(intval(get_cfg_var('allow_url_fopen')) && function_exists('file')) {
	if(!($content = @file("http://www.domain.com?".$QueryString))) {
		echo "Error processing request";
	}
	else {
		echo @join('', $content);
	}
}
elseif(function_exists('curl_init')) {
	$ch = curl_init ("http://www.domain.com?".$QueryString);
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	curl_exec ($ch);

	if(curl_error($ch))
		echo "Error processing request";

	curl_close ($ch);
}
else {
	echo "Your web hosting provider has disabled all functions for handling remote pages pages and as a result the LinksPile software will not function on your web site.";
}
echo "<input type='hidden' name='userkey' value='".$UserKey."'>";
?>

Since this was the only thing I was trying to add, it always 'broke'... Adding plain txt or html works fine.

I've tried adding the above as straight php and in the phpinclude. Since it's not working, I'm assuming it has to do with the fopen and/or the curl commands and the vB sanitizer is not liking it?

[hobbybox]

I installed this on a new site (have used on others with no problems) - for some reason the custom pages stretch across the whole screen instead of staying within the body - I have used the 'default basic theme' on other sites with no alterations and never had a problem - any idea what im doing wrong?

1st picture is the normal site - 2nd picture is what happens with custom page.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by hobbybox

I installed this on a new site (have used on others with no problems) - for some reason the custom pages stretch across the whole screen instead of staying within the body - I have used the 'default basic theme' on other sites with no alterations and never had a problem - any idea what im doing wrong?

1st picture is the normal site - 2nd picture is what happens with custom page.

It is your custom skin's vb header/footer/css that is not coded well to go along with other applications that are inheriting it. You should check their syntax. If you switch to default webtemplate header/footer, the problem will go.

[hobbybox]

just started to work with no problems - not sure if it was CACHE or not...

I do have another question though....

I would like to customer the top bar that goes around the page - On the line that shows the page name I would like to add an image to the right and left side to give the box rounded corners...is it possible for you to give me the code to change the default basic them so I can add the images for rounded top corners?

[onnenkolikko]

I get:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0:

Invalid SQL:
navbar;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'navbar' at line 1
Error Number : 1064

I'm using vbseo 3.2.0 RC5. Could that do the error?

Edit: The error comes when I try enter mysite.com/view.php?pg=test
When I go to mysite.com/view_test.htm i get page not found

[Logician]

Originally Posted by onnenkolikko

I get:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0:

Invalid SQL:
navbar;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'navbar' at line 1
Error Number : 1064

I'm using vbseo 3.2.0 RC5. Could that do the error?

Edit: The error comes when I try enter mysite.com/view.php?pg=test
When I go to mysite.com/view_test.htm i get page not found

Apply this fix and see if it will help:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=855

[onnenkolikko]

Now it works with view.php?pg=test but now with view_test.htm. I have SEO Friendly URLs turned on and the .htaccess file is edited..... I would be very happy if you have any idea how to get seo links working. Thank you.