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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.

[eblivion]

Figured out problem

[MustangLisa]

I just installed this and for the most part, it's fine.

Can someone look at my site and let me know how to get these images to load: http://www.blackmustangclub.com/forum/index.php?

Thanks,
Lisa.

[Morwyn]

best hack I ever installed

[MPM.com]

Right, I have read 40+ pages now and cant seem to find the answer to this.

I have installed this hack and everything seems fine, I still need to change path to smilies though.

The only problem is, I use a flash header which has links to forum and home. This seems to have been changed when I installed the hack. It is pointing to the wrong address on the home page.

I havent renamed the home page yet so see the link here:

http://www.mobilephonemadness.com/vbindex.php

Any idea what I need to change to fix this? Where are the variables such as $stylevar[imgdir_misc] defined?

Also, off topic - I have registered at vbadvanced.com over 2 hours ago and still not had the activation email, you may want to have a look at it.

Thanks In Advance
Mark
www.mobilephonemadness.com

[SVTBlackLight01]

Looks like your using vBindex. You might wanna check here. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=59524

[MPM.com]

What a fool I am. Thanks!

[GamerzWorld]

Hello,

this may of been mentioned before but i cant find it. My Smilies are not appearing on my front page. They link without the /forum . Which file do i need to edit with the full address for the smilies to work

[kamu]

Pardon me if this is a stupid question or if I'm missing the obvious here. I just downloaded this for my website, and I'm wondering I've found myself stumped in the whole module thing. First of all, I was advised to go to my "vBa CMPS." I have absolutely no idea what that is. Second, I search through the options in my adminCP, but there is only an option to select 2 modules, which are dependant on 1 template. What if I want a 3rd module?

Specifically, I'm attempting to install the addon module by Zack or "Harrybutt?" https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=67474 which allows me to include my forum contributors. I noticed that the first vBa included a modules directory and a whole lot of files that were not included with this release. So maybe these features are not found in 1.1? Should I have installed 1.0 first?

Thanks, and I appologize if I've made anybody more confused as I am

Upload: contrib.php

\forums\modules\contrib.php

\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
vBa CMPS: Add Module

Title: Contrib

File to Include: contrib.php

Templates Used:
adv_portal_contrib
contrib_bit

[inshad]

can some one help ?

Originally Posted by GOP MissingLink

I've got a very simplified version of my main forum directory on my index page which simply says the names of the forums without any other information. To the left of those is the forum icons.

I'd like those icons to change, the way they do on forum/index, when there is a new, unread post in the forum. Basically, that's a toggle between forum_old.gif and forum_new.gif depending on the status of the forum. I know the code is out there, but I'm not very good at mining it. Can someone tell me how to set this up, and how to make sure that each icon is properly associated with the correct forum?

Thank you!

[SHANE-D-PAIN]

this is amazing, i can do anything with this!

ill be integrating it into my homepage design over the next couple of days, check it out: www.TeenageForums.com

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