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.

[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by TheBlackPoet

this portal is working great for me...

Can we see a demo of your site ?:classic:

[flyingmongoose]

Originally Posted by peterska2

This is something I am looking into for the next build.

Thanks a lot, it'll be great .

[peterska2]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

Peter,
I'm looking forward to installing this on my live site in a week or so. I've been looking at VB CMPS for a while but never installed it or know what VBadvanced offers that you do not.

1) I assume your mod will use the default skin of the forum ? Will the header banner from the forum be on the front page ? I'm looking for something like we have here on Vb.org

2)Do you have mini calendar modules ? Current poll ? Today birthday ?

3) I mostly need latest 10 thread modules, mini-calendar, news, events, etc

thanks

Originally Posted by TheBlackPoet

this portal is working great for me... i would like to know if a poll and small calendar could be developed... peterska2., you did a damn good job with this hack!

These are on the list of items to be developed.

[flyingmongoose]

I don't know if you have a "module request" thread or something anywhere, in fact I should probably search from it, but at the moment don't have time. But I'm sure a plethora of people here would love to see a Paypal module. Including a donate page (and maybe even a goal system, where you set a goal and it displays amount until goal met with a bar or something). Just something to think about, but I don't expect it, at least not until you've worked out the bugs and whatnot that are of more pressing issues .

[napukjon]

Is there anyway to get the blocks to show up on the forum pages? ie index, view forum, view topic?

Thanks

Jon

[Datenpapst]

found the mistake

[Deimos]

I like it, looks alot cleaner to
Good job

[Datenpapst]

how about a calendar addon as well as a random v3arcade game addon, a quick moderation addon?

and also an avatar of the user who posted news would be nice, just like in the vbadvanced.

[peterska2]

Please use the thread in the Modification Questions forum for feature requests, and also please be aware that I am not doing any development work until January now due to Christmas commitments.

[Ziki]

This is very good peterska but I think you could made the add on modules a part of this not extra