Major Additions - vBonjour - Portal System

vBonjour

Easy Customizable Portal System

Brought to you by www.peterska2.co.uk

Welcome to the launch of vBonjour. This is the base package which is required for all installations of this system.

What is vBonjour?
vBonjour is an alternative to vBAdvanced. It is an easy to install, modular portal system designed as a gateway to your site.

Why vBonjour?
This is pretty simple really. As the front page is the first thing that your visitors see, it is a welcome page. The first few names that were thought of were either very boring, or far too long winded and not at all catchy.

This is a base package. What is included?
The base package includes a news feature from up to two forums. The news from the first forum will be displayed first, followed by the news from the second forum. It also includes the left and right columns which can be activated or deactivated via some simple settings in the ACP. These columns can be customised without using any of the Add On Modules, or Add On Modules can be installed to expand on the functionality.

Why is it so modular?
vBonjour is extremely modular to allow for maximum customization of the page. The idea is to make it as easy as possible to install the items that you want to have included, and not have anything which you would be simply turning off. By using a modular method it means that every site can easily achieve their own custom portal without having to know any coding.

I want to add something that isn't already included. How do I go about this?
vBonjour makes use of the plugin system and includes it's own hooks. This allows easy devlopment of additional Add Ons and maximum flexability.

What about the ACP? Is it really complicated?
Unlike other systems, almost all the settings for vBonjour are collected in one setting group in the vBOptions. Because you only install what you want to use, you don't need to have lots of settings. Anything which does not use settings in the Portal settings group is highlighted in the documentation for that Add On.

Ok, so where are the screen shots?
Why have screen shots when you can have a live demo?
The demo is available at www.peterska2.co.uk

What versions of vBulletin does vBonjour work with?
vBonjour will work with vBulletin 3.6.0 and above. Support for sites running versions earlier than 3.6.0 will not be given.



Contributers to the base system: [name]christianb[/name]


I hope that you like this system. Please remember to mark it as installed to recieve notification of updates and support. Support will only be provided to those who have clicked install.

[peterska2]

Originally Posted by goodguy

I managed to get it working by editing the links in Actinic but users are still having problems, any idea why I'm having to use the full path? I tried reverting the forums.php back to index.php but still the white page?

Sorry it's taken a while to get back to you.

I've just been over to your site and your forums are showing atwww.hairdivision.co.uk/forums just fine for me.

[peterska2]

@ adhari and Jorrit

I'm going to be taking your changes into consideration in the next build.

Thanks.

Keep the improvements coming.

[blogtorank]

Great Job KA and I think I'm going to convert now to the vBonjour since you said "simplicity" Gotta love it. I did note all of your add-ons........... You been pretty busy I see. Will be installing on a new board here this next week.

Hope to see soon a all-in-one simplicity vBonjour with every add-on already installed and ready to go, in lieu of the singles. However with your hard work involved I wouldn't put it past you not doing it that way

All the best!

[Thermit]

Originally Posted by adhari_com

And I'm also suggesting using this code, instead of the current one...

This is an improvement.

Although I'm still getting one post that has a title when shown on the portal page, but doesn't have any content on the portal page. Looks weird. This is the post for debugging referrence.

If this could be fixed, that would be great.

[masterme]

I will repeat my question:
Is it somehow possible to give the portal another template than the forum?
I use a design which does not work fine with this portal, the sidebars do'nt show etc.
So if it would be possible that I can add another design which I share with only the portal, that would be neat.

[Lee 2007]

Can anybody make an add on that will let me a poll on the front page?

[John1uk]

*Installed* i'm having big problems here.......the portal doesn't seem to be working, i would appreciate any help. i have followed the instructions as requested in notepad......i am sure i have done something wrong...could you plz help.

plz click on web address.... http://www.motormeet.co.uk/forum/forum.php

before i made changed it was http://www.motormeet.co.uk/forum/index.php

[Jorrit787]

You didn't set the forum path correctly in the portal.php file.

[John1uk]

hi.

the forum path that was described after the /admincp......is index.php

so it looks like this....../admincp/index.php

i am new to this, so trying to hard i think to get it right.....i new i made a mistake but not sure what to put in forum path, in portal.php.

your help would be gratefull

[John1uk]

this is what i see in Path_Translated.....

kunden/homepages/xx/xxxxxxxxx/htdocs/mm/forum/admincp/index.php