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

[T3MEDIA]

Awsome software.
Is it ok to release the template you 80% helped me create?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

Awsome software.
Is it ok to release the template you 80% helped me create?

Sure thing.

[RichieBoy67]

Logician.... I love this hack by the way!!! Great job... One of the best out there!!

[greenhybrid]

How does this script differ from vBadvanced CMPS?

[Uno]

Is truly beautiful and powerful, also if you say that is not make for a site, the my site is nearly all on the forum, therefore this is perfect and help me to also script php.
I think.... if it could be translate, would be available for the Italian... but currently it must make it on the file php, just?
Heheheh my English is not beautifulst
Hello and thanks

[hambil]

Exceptional hack. I was able to use this to build a highly customized ezine/portal instead of having a portal that looked like every other one in the vb world. It saved me countless time. Thank you, and great work.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by greenhybrid

How does this script differ from vBadvanced CMPS?

You could probably build vBadvanced with this hack.

[greenhybrid]

Is there a way for non-admin users to have designated pages they can edit?

[BigIke]

I would like a special menu to appear on the left side of the page that I created. In the vBadvanced instructions, it says to

4. Now you will want to open your /forums/index.php file. In that file, right after the opening <?php tag, you will want to add this code:

define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'include');


Note that if you changed the 'Page Identifier' setting for this page above then you will want to replace 'include' (marked in bold above) to whatever you used for the 'Page Identifier' option.

5. For the next step, you will want to search your file for the phrase "print_output" (without the quotes). In our example here, you would find the following code:

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('FORUMHOME') . '");');


You will want to replace this with:

eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('FORUMHOME') . '";');

print_portal_output($home, $HTML);


As you can see, the main part that you should be concerned with is 'FORUMHOME'. When integrating other vBulletin pages or hacks with vBadvanced CMPS, you will want to replace whatever template name is in the "print_output" part of the code. Once you have done this, save and upload your file, and you're done.

In the view.php file, what do I edit to replace the

PHP Code:

eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('FORUMHOME') . '";'); 


with? Thanks in advance

[greenhybrid]

Gee. I just installed and that admin page looks pretty confusing. Gotta sort through everything now and see what this hack is all about