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.

[Jorrit787]

Originally Posted by John1uk

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

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

Try 'C:/kunden/homepages/xx/xxxxxxxxx/htdocs/mm/forum/'

[John1uk]

thanx for that i have just sussed it.......but now something looks weared! if you go here i get this.

if you go to our main forum homepage you see this......the columns down the left and right are another mod that i am in the middle of installing from marie....plz any advice would be greatfull.

[Jorrit787]

Originally Posted by John1uk

thanx for that i have just sussed it.......but now something looks weared! if you go here i get this.

if you go to our main forum homepage you see this......the columns down the left and right are another mod that i am in the middle of installing from marie....plz any advice would be greatfull.

So what exactly is the problem?

And just a word of advice: It's usually not a good idea to try installing two mods at the same time.

[John1uk]

Thanx for the advice mate i have removed the left and right column mods.....back to how the forum looked in the first place.

the problem is, excuse my ignorance, i thought this mod would add colums down my main forum homepage, like marie's. with navagation etc....but i don't see anything?????

[John1uk]

like i said im such a noob....i have just twigged on whats going on.......i haven't install the
vbonjour column addon........... so sorry to waste everyones time. thanx for all your help.....

[Jorrit787]

Originally Posted by John1uk

Thanx for the advice mate i have removed the left and right column mods.....back to how the forum looked in the first place.

the problem is, excuse my ignorance, i thought this mod would add colums down my main forum homepage, like marie's. with navagation etc....but i don't see anything?????

It will add columns to your new Portal page, not your forum's main page. And yes, you need to have something IN the columns before they show up on the Portal page.

[Jorrit787]

If one of the threads in the forums you are pulling threads from is a redirect, it comes up as this... (in other words: no message text.)

[Mythotical]

Just a bit of info, if you wish to have your navbits reflect your vB title instead of vB title > Portal.

Open portal.php:
Find

PHP Code:

$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'Portal';

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 


Remove it completely, save and upload.

This will add a breadcrumb when viewing your forum.

Next open index.php (if you renamed opened the renamed file)
Find:

PHP Code:

eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 


Above add:

PHP Code:

$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'Forum';

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 


Edit 'Forum' to whatever you wish.

Cheers
Steve

[TruthElixirX]

I tried installing this, but I'm having a problem getting the index.php to show up. I jsut get a nice white blank page.

I edited the portal.php to reflect the forum path (/home/cporg/public_html/forums), but it doesn't change anything.

http://www.computerproblems.org/index.php
http://www.computerproblems.org/forums

Any idea?

[Wayne Luke]

Toss:

ini_set('display_errors',1);

Into your config.php under the <?php and paste the actual error here.