WebTemplates 3.x: VB Integrated Content Management System

After a long wait, here is the new 3.x version of Webtemplates for vB 3.x boards. First a short introduction for users who are not familiar with the old version:

This hack is a vBulletin integrated content management system. Term "Webtemplates" stands for dynamic webpages that reside in your MYSQL database and administered inside your vbulletin admin control panel. But they are more than regular site pages because they can automatically inherit visual design of your forum, can apply permissions according to your vb usergroup settings, can keep track of page counts, last visitorname/visit time, display page browsers in the page itself and in your whoisonline page etc. So basically webtemplates are dynamic web pages of your site which are powered by vbulletin. Or more simply putting, with this hack you can create regular HTML pages in your vB admin cp and these pages will be integrated into your vbulletin database about permissions, styles etc.


WEBTEMPLATES 3.x FEATURES:

• Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file, nor does it modify any vbulletin database table! It is coded as an add-on, not a hack.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroup according to their userids or usergroupids. 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.
• Private Webtemplates : With 1 click you can make a webtemplate "private" and it will be displayed to only certain usergroups.
• Draft Webtemplates : You can put webtemplates in "draft" mode which makes them invisible to all but admins.
• 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 or ON per webtemplate basis.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking : You can track certain users' (by usergroup or userid) webtemplates visits to see who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis. Webtemplates have visits logs which admins can see.
• 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 Display : Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while people is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin)
• Who is Online Display : Webtemplates can display page visitors in who is online (This is Optional and require a simple hacking in file /functions_online.php). You can create private webtemplates which are hidden in who is online too.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can automatically use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• Help Documents : The script comes with built-in & detailed help documents (they are webtemplates too).
• 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.
• Good Performance : Webtemplates 3.x structured so that it performs well even under heavy load conditions and high traffic servers. (See Performance issues below)
• Easy Back up: Simply back up your database (inside vbulletin or externally) and all your webtemplate structure is also backed up automatically.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR ADVANCED USERS:

• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can now add 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 has built-in support for Logician's advanced templates conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions. (Even if you don't have that hack installed)
• 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.
• Archieve to Text File : Webtemplates/Webqueries can be downloaded to a text file with one click for archiving purposes. You can also easily share these text files with other hack users.
• Outside Variables : Advanced users can now use outside variables in webtemplates, then webtemplates will accept/use/process user sent variables via HTTP_GET and HTTP_POST methods (eg. a HTML form can post to a webtemplate with this feature)

For screenshots, FAQ, performance issues, migration from old version to new version, see below.

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..


Version Updates:
16.Feb.2005 - > Version 3.01

* Hack released.




3.5 Version :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=103076

[vulture]

Could I use webtemplates to integrate an rss news feed?

So when a user click on a rss news feed, it pulls the content from the news site and displays it in a page generated by webtemplates?

[Buddha]

installed.
exactly what i needed... very very nice work done. thank you very much for this addon.

i've got it setup to show X posts from XX forum right now, which was simple to setup. i'm wondering if anyone could tell me how to set it up that the poster's avatar appears too.

thanks.

edit

also, when someone is viewing the page, it shows in Who's Online as an unknown location. is there a way to change that?

thank you.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Buddha

also, when someone is viewing the page, it shows in Who's Online as an unknown location. is there a way to change that?

You need to install "OPTIONAL STEP 2" for this request.

[Buddha]

my apologies... i misread that to mean something else. completely my fault though.

again, thanks for the great add-on.

[bamaster]

Can someone tell me if WebTemplates can do this?

I have a script, similar to a user log/diary, which I'd like to give each of my users... essentially link to the user table. I need a way to run this script, query a database with stats/text, and display results. The script will need to be as secure as the user session, meaning they have to be logged in to use it and cannot view other people's log/diary.

Can WebTemplates allow me to run a php/mysql script inside the vB skin and tap into the vB user/security?

Many thanks in advance!

[EH-Jay]

Logican can you help me? All I did was I copied the coding from my forums' header template and pasted it into the header that came with the installation of this hack.

On the top of the basic page, I'm getting this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/deathleg/public_html/forums/view.php(617) : eval()'d code on line 20

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/deathleg/public_html/forums/view.php(623) : eval()'d code on line 23

What can I do to fix this? What do I do?

Thanks

[Logician]

Originally Posted by EH-Jay

Logican can you help me? All I did was I copied the coding from my forums' header template and pasted it into the header that came with the installation of this hack.

On the top of the basic page, I'm getting this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/deathleg/public_html/forums/view.php(617) : eval()'d code on line 20

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/deathleg/public_html/forums/view.php(623) : eval()'d code on line 23

What can I do to fix this? What do I do?

Thanks

Do NOT use VB3 conditionals in webtemplates. If you need to use conditionals you have to use my conditional syntax.

For instance your source code has:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['left_column']">
$home[leftblocks]
</if> 


which is in VB3 conditional format.

[actolearn]

i'm still trying to grasp the full potential of this hack....seems wonderful....any screenshots of the admincp? seeing that could help.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by actolearn

any screenshots of the admincp? seeing that could help.

here you go.

[BigIke]

If I have an URL whose target I would like to ="blank", how would I do that if my page is parsed in text mode? Thanks