Portal Software - WebTemplates 4.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 4.x and above. For vb 3.x, version see my profile for relevant threads.)

"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 4.x BASIC FEATURES:

• Very Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file. It is coded as a vb product and can be imported very easily.
• 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:
(Most are from 3.x versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so all will give you the idea.)

http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_mission.htm
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/view.php?pg=aboutus
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_guidelines.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_info.htm
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_books.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_spread.htm
http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/view.php?pg=makeuptalk-newsletter
http://www.bklab.com (entire site is designed with Webtemplates only)
(Actually this hack is one of the most popular vb hacks so it is used by hundreds -if not thousands- of vbulletin sites and you can easily find them if you go to google and search "Logician's WebTemplates" WITH quotation marks)

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..

From FAQ 13: Vbulletin already has a CMS now , why would I need this hack?

If you have CMS license, you might not need Webtemplates. On the other hand, CMS license is paid, webtemplates is free and many forum owners don't have CMS licenses.

Also please note that vb has CMS since 2010. Webtemplates was first released for vb2.x in 2002 and it was around in vb3.x, 3.5.x and above for thousands of vbulletin users who have developed their sites around webtemplates CMS. So regardless of new vb CMS owners might or might not need it, Webtemplates 4.x is still realased and supported as a courtesy to its old users and fans. I personally prefer and use Webtemplates over vb CMS and this hack lives for people who agrees with me.

Version Updates:
12.October.2013 - > Version 4.0.2
* Minor fixes for PHP 5.4.x (Fixes "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated" errors in new PHP versions.
14.July.2012 - > Version 4.0.1
* Vbulletin changed WYSIWYG editor parsing in vb4.2.x so hack's editor.php is updated accordingly.
9.September.2010 - > Version 4.0.00
* Hack 4.00.00 is released.

[brycea]

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I have a number of MODS on our website, which represent a very small amount of the total MODS that I have downloaded. Through trial and error, I have found for the most part, that some MODS just don't work, a few will ruin your website, and to further, in most cases, if in fact the MOD does come with instructions, they are vaguely written.
Being that 4.2 does not come with templates for a privacy policy and terms of use, I thought that I would give this MOD a try. Yes, it does work favorably with my custom skin, and the instructions are immaculate. For one that wants to create additional pages on their website, this MOD is an essential.

[ryancooper]

I am looking to hide ads on my pages... I used

<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == view AND $pg == 'hours'">

Dont Show Ad

<vb:else />

Show Ad

</vb:if>

but the code shows everywhere. I am wondering if it is because I am using SEO friendly links os my links look like

.../forums/hours.htm

in stead of

.../forums/view.php?pg=hours

Is this why? Is there a way around this?

Thank

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ryancooper

I am looking to hide ads on my pages... I used

<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == view AND $pg == 'hours'">

Dont Show Ad

<vb:else />

Show Ad

</vb:if>

but the code shows everywhere. I am wondering if it is because I am using SEO friendly links os my links look like

.../forums/hours.htm

in stead of

.../forums/view.php?pg=hours

Is this why? Is there a way around this?

Thank

You are probably putting this code inside header/footer templates but these templates are produced before webtemplates loads. So they are already parsed (and
$pg == 'hours' conditional is always wrong) when your hours page starts. (Hence ads display).

Reparsing them inside phpinclude section of webtemplate might help:

PHP Code:

        $templater->register('footer', $footer);
        $templater->register('header', $header); 


[ryancooper]

Originally Posted by Logician

You are probably putting this code inside header/footer templates but these templates are produced before webtemplates loads. So they are already parsed (and
$pg == 'hours' conditional is always wrong) when your hours page starts. (Hence ads display).

Reparsing them inside phpinclude section of webtemplate might help:

PHP Code:

        $templater->register('footer', $footer);
        $templater->register('header', $header); 


Thank you for your quick response. Can You explain in a little more detail on how to

Reparsing them inside phpinclude section of webtemplate might help

Thanks. Send donation to for this amazing mod.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ryancooper

Thank you for your quick response. Can You explain in a little more detail on how to

Edit your webtemplate named hours. In the edit page, you'll see a section named "PHP Include". Put this code inside it and save:

PHP Code:

        $templater->register('footer', $footer); 
        $templater->register('header', $header); 


Let me know if it does not help (and admin access can be handy in that case so that I can look.)

[ryancooper]

No go on that. Tried putting the code in header. I will PM you so we can keep this thread on topic. Thanks! Ryan

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ryancooper

No go on that. Tried putting the code in header. I will PM you so we can keep this thread on topic. Thanks! Ryan

ok now, please check your page.

What I did is:
change navbar template:

{vb:raw ad_location.ad_navbar_below}
{vb:raw ad_location.global_below_navbar}

as

<vb:if condition="$pg != 'hours'">
{vb:raw ad_location.ad_navbar_below}
{vb:raw ad_location.global_below_navbar}
</vb:if>

And in hours webtemplate use this phpinclude:

$templater = vB_Template::create('navbar');

    // Resolve the root segment
    $templater->register('bbmenu', $vbulletin->options['bbmenu']);

    $templater->register('ad_location', $GLOBALS['ad_location']);
    $templater->register('foruminfo', $GLOBALS['foruminfo']);
    $templater->register('navbar_reloadurl', $GLOBALS['navbar_reloadurl']);
    $templater->register('navbits', $navbits);
    $templater->register('notices', $GLOBALS['notices']);
    $templater->register('notifications_menubits', $GLOBALS['notifications_menubits']);
    $templater->register('notifications_total', $GLOBALS['notifications_total']);
    $templater->register('pmbox', $GLOBALS['pmbox']);
    $templater->register('return_link', $GLOBALS['return_link']);
    $templater->register('template_hook', $GLOBALS['template_hook']);
    $templater->register('pg', $pg);
$navbar = $templater->render();

[ryancooper]

You are amazing! Thank you so much! Although you totally lost me

[ryancooper]

Does anyone know how to include the latest posts (only found in the post title) of the page your are on?

Example I am browsing a page called Space mountain - I would like to have on that page the last 5 posts that have Space mountain in the title of the post?

I know I can make a web query for just Space Mountain and inclue it but then I would have to have a query for every search term. Is there a way to have it show the $WT_PageName% in the Query?

I did try

SELECT threadid, title, postusername,postuserid,dateline 
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
WHERE taglist LIKE '$WT_PageName%'
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 5

and that did not work Thanks!

[mathforum]

Another question about setting "THIS_SCRIPT". I have one tab that is a drop down menu and contains all of my custom template using this mod however when any of those pages are viewed the "Forums" tab is highlighted. I've found out that if I add the appropriate "THIS_SCRIPT" into the navigation manager then I can force a different tab to be highlighted.

How can I make all of the custom webtemplates highlight a certain tab? Do I need to add in define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'scriptname'); somewhere?

EDIT: Actually this is going to be harder than I thought I have two pages associated with this mod so can't assign all custom pages to one tab. Really would appreciate any insight still!