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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.

[Symbian.info]

Originally Posted by AshAbed

i have this installed on vb3 rc2 and am about to upgrade my board to rc3.. how would i do so without messing up this hack?
thanks

I did a upgrade to RC3, after that the news and last post don't work (templates gone), try to upgrad and install vBadvanced but also that don't work :disappointed:

So maybe uninstall and then install may work..

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Symbian.info

I did a upgrade to RC3, after that the news and last post don't work (templates gone), try to upgrad and install vBadvanced but also that don't work :disappointed:

So maybe uninstall and then install may work..

all you should have to do is run the install again

Symbian did you edit your templates at all ?

usualy templates that are edited wont get deleted

[Symbian.info]

Originally Posted by Faranth

all you should have to do is run the install again

Symbian did you edit your templates at all ?

usualy templates that are edited wont get deleted

The edit templates are still there (index and custom)! But the rest is missing, also the vBadvanced Phrases and the Dutch translations are gone :devious: :disappointed:

I try to install but get error that the tables already are there (offcourse!)
So must try uninstall?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Symbian.info

The edit templates are still there (index and custom)! But the rest is missing, also the vBadvanced Phrases and the Dutch translations are gone :devious: :disappointed:

I try to install but get error that the tables already are there (offcourse!)
So must try uninstall?

can if you need to, but my best advice is to wait for Brain's feedback

[Symbian.info]

Originally Posted by Faranth

can if you need to, but my best advice is to wait for Brain's feedback

Did a uninstall, everthing gone. new install. new setting in admin, Import Language file(ok)
Then change the index and costum_x templates again. So everthing is running again.

Pretty that the upgrade don't work.. (good hat I have backups from Language and templates

So very happy again!

[Tigga]

You should have waited just a few more minutes Symbian.
Apparently the upgrade script for RC3 removes quite a bit if it's not a vBulletin default setting, phrase, etc. Hopefully there will be a way around this for future versions. I'm hoping to release the next version of this script soon, so I will be sure to see if there are any solutions to these problems before that release.
For anyone that's upgraded, I've thrown together a quick & dirty upgrade script. It's the same as the install script, just with some things modified to only make the necessary changes. Just download the script from this post, upload it to your admincp directory, and run the script in your browser.
You will also need to open your adv_index.php file and look for "filesize," (without the quotes) and change that to "attachment.filesize," (again, wthout the quotes).

[AshAbed]

Originally Posted by Symbian.info

The edit templates are still there (index and custom)! But the rest is missing

i added probably around 100 pages through this portal... is there any way to keep those templates i added?

[Tigga]

Yes, any custom templates you added will still be there after the upgrade.

[mello_mike]

I'm having a major problem installing this.

I've done everything up to the point of using the advindex_install.php

When I click "Click here to continue to step 4 -->"

It forces me to try and download the advindex_install.php file. After I press "Click here to continue to step 4 -->" again.. it goes to the page but gives me a database error.

[dontpanic]

OK, I may have missed this in the last 24 pages, but I don't think so.

Looking at my root: http://www.mcseworld.com/

Lots of basic images are not showing up. I took care of the issues with the smilies and post icons RE the cache needed to be updated...but I cannot figure this one out. I did make the image path change as required.

Anyone????