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vBadvanced Homepage v1.1 Released! (01.27.04)

vBadvanced Homepage is an advanced homepage / portal that will allow you to include different options from your vBulletin message board on your site's homepage. It also allows you to easily create and manage new pages which are completely powered by vBulletin and vBadvanced. There are over 40 options where you can enable/disable the features, plus everything is template based so it is very easy to customize and change everything through your Admin CP.



Features:

• Login box for members to log in to your site on the homepage.
• Post News in a forum you specify and have it appear on your homepage.
• Create new pages in which the content will replace the news section of your homepage.
• Show the latest threads started in your forum on your homepage.
• Show a poll and allow users to vote and see the results on your homepage.
• Shows users avatar, new private messages, and buddy list for members who are logged in.
• Shows a list of active users.
• Shows statistics such as total members, threads, posts, top poster, newest member, and today's birthday's.
• Shows a mini calendar with links to days with scheduled events, and a box with today's scheduled events.
• Search box to allow users to quickly search your forums.
• Set and change all options via the Admin CP.
• Ability to easily switch on/off the polls, users avatar, buddy list, online users, search box, calendar, custom templates, news icons, news comments, smilies, set the maximum number of news posts, and many other options via the Admin CP.
• Everything is completely template based so it is very easy to customize.
• Install file that will make all database queries and templates for you in seconds.
• Uninstalls in seconds.
• Tested and stable with vBulletin 3.0 RC.
• 100% validated XHTML 1.0 compliance
  

A nice feature of vBadvanced Homepage is that it is optimized and designed for large web sites. vBadvanced Homepage performs only 5 queries with all the options turned off. Some options will cause the script to perform extra queries, but even with all the options turned on it still performs only 17 queries at max.

Here is a list of each extra function that will cause extra queries:

• News - 1 query
• Latest Threads - 1 query
• Poll - 1 query (2 if the user has voted)
• User's Avatar - 1 query
• Buddy List and/or Online Users - 1 query
• Mini Calendar - 3 queries (none for the simple calendar)
• Stats - 2 queries
• New Posts - 1 query

Screen Shots:
Admin Homepage
Guest Homepage
Admin CP Options

Example Sites:
http://vbadvanced.com
http://plurplanet.com
http://digitalkore.net
http://differentdawn.com

Updates From v1.01 to v1.1

• News Archive where you can display links and info about older news posts.
• Online usere & buddylist now show "Username HTML Markup".
• Shows subscribed threads in news, news archive, and latest threads.
• Preivew on Latest threads and news archive (similar to the preview on forumdisplay).
• Option to display what forum(s) the latest threads were posted in.
• Poll icon in the latest threads section for threads which contain polls.
• New option to change the date/time format for news posts.
• Support for left/right text direction and languages.
• All known bugs from v1.01 have been fixed.

There are 7 new options in your Admin CP which include:

• News Date & Time Format (Allows you to change the date/time format for news posts)
• Show News Subscribed Threads (Shows the "subscribed" icon in the news posts if a user is subscribed to that post)
• Number of Archived News Posts to Display (Allows you to set the number of archived news posts you would like to display)
• Show Preview in Archive? (Similar to the thread preview, shows a preview of the threads in the News Arcive section)
• Show Subscribed Icon? (Shows the "subscribed" icon in the latest threads section for users that are subscribed to that thread)
• Show Preview of New Threads? (Similar to the thread preview option for the forumdisplay page, it shows you a preview of the thread)
• Show Latest Threads Forum? (Shows a link to, and the name of the forum the thread is in)

Most every template has changed as well, so it may be necessary to revert your templates and re-apply any chnages you have made.


Help & Support:
Before asking for support, Please read the F.A.Q in the readme file! If you have any problems or questions that are not covered in the F.A.Q. please here, or please check out vBadvanced.com for priority support. I will be more than happy to help in any way I can if the request for help is made there. Anyone trying to contact me via email, private message, or any other means will be ignored.

Copyright:
This script is ? 2003 - 2004 vBadvanced.com and PlurPlanet, LLC.
This hack is NOT to be re-distributed in any way or placed on a website for download without permission.
All copyright notes in the script itself must remain unchanged.


Thanks To:
Faranth & Littlebit for helping test the beta versions and hopefully squashing most of the bugs.

[Highlander]

hello, there

i have this hack installed now some weeks, but from beginning i have a syntac arror on line two ..

The error is in bottom line displayed and only by IE6.0 .. when i log in the error dissapears .. only geust user have this error.

ERROR REPORT:
(it opens a little popup in IE and says
LINE: 2
LETTER: 1
CODE: 0
TYPE: Syntax
URL: http://spieleplanet.com/board/adv_index.php

Try it oput, every guest with IE will get this error if he has standarts on his browser (for ex. fresh installed machines)

on the bottom (status line) there also show Error on this site .. on line 2 .. i searched everything .. but found nothing, on line two is following code:

<?php>
#copyright notce
<head>

and like i said, only guests get this error, when you log in or register it dissapears .. nothing is hacked its from beginning!

[seangworld]

this is the error i get, during install (clean):

Quote:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: build_datastore() in /home/www/seangworld/vbulletin/admincp/vbacmps_install.php on line 1353



what do i need to do?


i also posted this exact same thing on ya'lls forum:
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1433

[Michael Morris]

Originally Posted by Tigga

vBadvanced.com Account Upgrade Password:

Uhm, WHERE DO WE ENTER THIS PASSWORD?? I've looked everywhere on the site and managed to miss the "box" I'm supposed to use.

[o0stephane0o]

Sute I will install it, I´ve installed your first portal when I was using VB2 and it was so nice...
Thanks again for your work, you´re a king!

[mariannet]

Please help!

I have installed hacks:

PetzVB v2
uCash & uShop 0.95
v3 Arcade Version 1.0
vBadvanced Homepage version 1.1

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When trying to post thread:

Error in newthread.php line 554:

<form action="newthread.php" method="post" name="vbform" onsubmit="return validatePost(this, this.subject.value, 10, );" onreset="vB_RESET(this);">

When submitting thread or post:

Error in newthread line 554:

<form action="newthread.php" method="post" name="vbform" onsubmit="return validatePost(this, this.subject.value, 10, );" onreset="vB_RESET(this);">

Rapports:

Please complete both the subject and message fields. Press the back button, correct the problem and try again.
The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.

Thread does not get posted.

***

When trying to reply to thread:

Error in newreply.php line 556:

<form action="newreply.php" name="vbform" method="post" onsubmit="return validatePost(this, 0, 10, );" onreset="vB_RESET(this);">

When submitting the post:

Error in newreply.php line 556:

<form action="newreply.php" name="vbform" method="post" onsubmit="return validatePost(this, 0, 10, );" onreset="vB_RESET(this);">

Rapports:

Please complete both the subject and message fields. Press the back button, correct the problem and try again.
The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.

The reply does not get posted.

***

When trying to edit post:

Error in editpost.php line 620:

<form name="vbform" action="editpost.php" method="post" onsubmit="return validatePost(this, 0, 10, );" onreset="vB_RESET(this);">

When submitting it rapports no errors but it only says "edited by" in the post og the reason for editing, the new text is not present.
If I edit som of the original text, the change does not happen.

***

When playing in v3 Arcade and finishing a game, I type in the comments box but on submit gets: No permissions (I have the permissions).

***

I sure hope that someone can help. I'm supposed to open my upgraded forum monday and still have a long way to go

Sunshine from Denmark
-Marianne

[Sia Bani]

Hello all. I just installed the hack and I dont' see any visual difference on my forum. This is supposed to make the main page of my site http://www.tripleplate.com run the advanced homepage from my forum in http://www.tripleplate.com/vbulletin right?

There is no difference to either page, the forums, or the main page that I currently have redirecting to the forums. Do I need to do something to the mainpage of the website to call on vbadvanced or something?

Thanks in advance!

[chrisvonc]

It looks like you overwrote the cmps_index.php with the content of your pre-existing index page rather than renaming the cmps_index.php to index.php and then uploading it?
Both http://www.tripleplate.com/cmps_index.php and http://www.tripleplate.com/ are the same.

[Sia Bani]

when you click that first link you rpovided /cmps_index.php you get my error page which redirects to the homepage...it says "update yoru bookmarks"...

I didn't see anything about cmps_index.php what am I supposed to do with that?

[Sia Bani]

ahh..i got it. I deleted my index.html and put the adv_index as index.php

Thanks.

[chrisvonc]

Originally Posted by Sia Bani

I didn't see anything about cmps_index.php what am I supposed to do with that?

Thats because I had a brain fart and was telling you the index file for the wrong mod. I'm sorry.