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

[Logician]

Originally Posted by m0nde

Will this hack conflict with my vBadvanced installation?

As stated in FAQ, the answer is no.

I got this error after running the MySQL queries:

Please run the query in phpmyadmin. More info in FAQ and installation document.

[DanCan]

I did, but now I learned how to do it in the way you preferred, and now it works. - and I actually learned how to run a SQL query.

Thanks.

[DanCan]

And wow! Just checked the test page. This looks great! Can't wait to use it.

Thanks

[m0nde]

I hadn't read the FAQ properly. Thanks for the quick reply.

I don't have phpmyadmin installed to run the sql query.

So I added my account into the appropriate line in config.php and ran the query from Admin CP | Import & Maintenance | Execute SQL Query

After doing this, I received the errors below:

An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned.
error number: 1064
error desc: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ';
CREATE TABLE `wt2_queries` (
`qid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_incremen' at line 19

I really want to try out WebTemplates.

[EH-Jay]

Originally Posted by Logician

I don't get your problem exactly. All I'm saying is that IF your webtemplate is "PHP parsed" you can NOT include any header and footer in it, otherwise you'd get PARSE error. (This is also stated in help document). Headers and footers are for "TEXT" or "HTML" parsed webtemplates.

If your webtemplate is already TEXT or HTML parsed but you still get an parse error, then paste the content of your header and webtemplate that gives the error and I'll check.

"Header/Footer Templates:" was what I was talking about. It says in the 2 files "Header/Footer Templates are always HTML parsed."

So? I'm lost

[Logician]

Originally Posted by m0nde

I hadn't read the FAQ properly. Thanks for the quick reply.

I don't have phpmyadmin installed to run the sql query.

So I added my account into the appropriate line in config.php and ran the query from Admin CP | Import & Maintenance | Execute SQL Query

After doing this, I received the errors below:

You gotto install phpmyadmin. It is a free script anyway. Please read the FAQ.

[neocorteqz]

You can also run Queries from the vBull admin CP

[Logician]

Originally Posted by neocorteqz

You can also run Queries from the vBull admin CP

No, not for this hack's installation. It involves a long query list which vb admin cp run query tool can not handle, so phpmyadmin is strongly recommended.

[m0nde]

Originally Posted by Logician

You gotto install phpmyadmin. It is a free script anyway. Please read the FAQ.

I managed to work through this myself, but you're right, PHPMyAdmin was easy and straight forward to install and made it work.
I did have some problems with pathing because I'm running all this on Windows 2003 SBS. But i changed the Windows pathing scheme on line 29 of webtemplate.php from ..\ to .\ and it worked fine.

All said and done, WebTemplates is a very good add-on and I can see myself using it for various custom pages.

I would like to see you create an auto-install script, Logician, which will place all the files automatically and even execute the query automatically. This would make things simpler, even though the install is fairly straight forward.

Again, thank you very much for your help and for an exellent piece of work. :up:

[Izze_de]

hi,

i am trying to create a new theme based on the "Two Column Theme".

i want to insert the vbadvanced portal left column instead of the stats.

code is following:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] $WT_PageName</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
$nowbrowsing
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
<td width="$vba_options[portal_leftcolwidth]" valign="top">
<if condition="$show['left_column']">
$home[leftblocks]
</if>
   <br>
  </td>
  <td width="20"><input type="image" src="$vboptions[cleargifurl]" width="20" height="1"></td>
  <td valign="top"> <table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
    <thead> 
    <tr>
	    <td class="tcat" align="left">&raquo; $WT_PageName</td>
</tr>


 <tr> 
  <td class="alt2" align="left"> 
			<div class="normalfont">
$includedtemplate
      </div> 
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr> 
  <td class="thead" align="left"> Page 
      Visitors: <b>$count</b>, Last Visitor was $WT[lastvisitorname] 
      at $WT[lastvisitdate]. $WT_Editor_link<br>
      Page Created at <b>$creationdate</b>, Last Modified 
      : <b>$lasteditdate</b>.</td>
 </tr>

</thead>
</table>
		
		
		</td>
 </tr>
</table>
 $footer

</body>
</html>

but when i try to view the testpage it says:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in /path/to/forum/view.php(657) : eval()'d code on line 14

is it possible to include the portal boxes and when, how ?

Thank you.