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 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.

I believe it is clashing with vbseo for this. Try to turn off my hack's SEO friendly URLs and try to convert URLs via vbseo. I'm not a vbseo user but if I remember correctly, they released a solution in their forum to use webtemplates with vbseo in SEO friendly way.

[tokenyank]

Hi Logician...

Just hoping I could get your advice...

I've never really used includes with vb because I never really needed to!

Now that I've found your modification, I would like to 'wrap' a script around your templates.

I've tried to 'wrap' this using the phpinclude section of your modification which returns a blank page and I've tried using <?php include(); ?> method which results in the permissions error I was getting previously when I was trying to stick 'raw' php in the template.

Do you have any suggestions or am I just out of luck? Thanks in advance!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by tokenyank

Hi Logician...

Just hoping I could get your advice...

I've never really used includes with vb because I never really needed to!

Now that I've found your modification, I would like to 'wrap' a script around your templates.

I've tried to 'wrap' this using the phpinclude section of your modification which returns a blank page and I've tried using <?php include(); ?> method which results in the permissions error I was getting previously when I was trying to stick 'raw' php in the template.

Do you have any suggestions or am I just out of luck? Thanks in advance!

It is really not very easy to say anything. WebTemplate's phpinclude section imitates vbulletin's phpinclude section and it is bound with its lines too. It is not possible to run everykind of PHP code in vbulletin's (hence webtemplate's) phpinclude code because that code runs "inside vbulletin engine" and it shouldn't clash with it somehow. For instance a variable or function which is already declared in vb can cause unexpected results if it also exists in the third party code.

So if vbulletin's phpinclude can handle your script, so does webtemplate. But if it does not, unfortunately webtemplate can not do a miracle as well.

[tokenyank]

Yeah... I finally got it to run, but it was above the header..

It went:

Script
----
Header
----
Content
----
Footer

I couldn't manage to get it to go:

Header
----
Script
----
Footer

I couldn't figure it out though so in end I just iframed it in... Not ideal, but atleast it works in the template! :P

[plasticsurgery]

This is fantastic!:up:

I have the count visitors not on but it still displays all this at the bottom:

Page Visitors: 0, Last Visitor was Guest at N/A. Edit This Page
Page Created at Never, Last Modified : Today - 06:28 AM.

How can I get rid of this info or just hide it? Thanks

[WoodiE]

I edited the Default Basic Theme to comment out the nowbrowsing as so:

<!-- $nowbrowsing -->

After saving the changes I now have this at the top of my Logician's Webtemplates admin page:

Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in [path]/admincp/wt_wt.php on line 49

Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in [path]/admincp/wt_wt.php on line 50

This is running on a newly installed 3.7.1 vB forum.

[WoodiE]

Anyone have any idea how to fix this error?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by plasticsurgery

This is fantastic!:up:

I have the count visitors not on but it still displays all this at the bottom:

Page Visitors: 0, Last Visitor was Guest at N/A. Edit This Page
Page Created at Never, Last Modified : Today - 06:28 AM.

How can I get rid of this info or just hide it? Thanks

You can edit theme template you are using in that wt to delete that section.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by WoodiE

I edited the Default Basic Theme to comment out the nowbrowsing as so:

<!-- $nowbrowsing -->

After saving the changes I now have this at the top of my Logician's Webtemplates admin page:

Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in [path]/admincp/wt_wt.php on line 49

Warning: unserialize() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in [path]/admincp/wt_wt.php on line 50

This is running on a newly installed 3.7.1 vB forum.

Was it working ok before you commented out that line? It seems irrelevant to me?

If it does, you can try deleting that line altogether instead of commenting out.

If it does not, delete all default webtemplates and webqueries, uninstall hack, reinstall it and see if it will help.

[hobbybox]

I installed this on 3.7.1 and it is working great except for one thing...when I was running 3.6, and had a page set to Draft - Yes - the word 'draft' was next to the page in the page list...however with 3.7 (and 3.7.1) the word draft no longer appears...is this something I did or maybe something with 3.7?