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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.

[Zachery]

all good i think i got everything fixed

[TheEDIGuy]

Tigga and Faranth, remember when I installed a while back, and I said that the calendar events weren't showing up on the index page? I found out why, but not how to fix it.

What's happening is that only events that *I* add to the calendar show up. Since I have another (supermod) who does regular calendar additions, none of her additions show up on the front page.

Any ideas?

By the way, just installed on a fresh RC3, and things look great. Nice job!

[digitalSite]

Hi all:

Does anyone know:

1) Why all my images except "icons" folder don't show?
I have searched everywhere to make sure I have absolute paths for my images so that it shows, but I can't find where to tell vb where to go for the icons folder.

2) How I can make my vb forum as wide as the screen? I check the "index" template on vb, and it shows 100%, yet the forum is very narrow on a 1024 x whatever resolution.

3) How to prevent non-registered users from seeing the main FORUM page (i.e. forums/index.php) - It shows too much info to non registered user on my site, i.e. Who's Online, etc. I don't want anyone who is not registered to view the forum at all.

If I block non-registered users from "Viewing the Forum" then my vbAdvanced page doesn't work because then you'll just see the "You are not allowed to view this page, login, etc." page.

I'm sorry for all the questions, but I only had 3 hours of sleep last night messing with the new vb 3.0 C 3 and still haven't had this site up running properly.
It messed up another program I was running so I have been trying to get that fixed too (looks like I overwrote an "index.php" by accident and that's where the whole thing messed up.)

Anyway, I would appreciate any help Thank you.

[digitalSite]

Originally Posted by TheEDIGuy

Tigga and Faranth, remember when I installed a while back, and I said that the calendar events weren't showing up on the index page? I found out why, but not how to fix it.

What's happening is that only events that *I* add to the calendar show up. Since I have another (supermod) who does regular calendar additions, none of her additions show up on the front page.

Any ideas?

By the way, just installed on a fresh RC3, and things look great. Nice job!

Hi:
Have you tried checking "Usergroups"?
After clicking usergroups, click Supermod.
Then scroll down to the Calendar permissions and check there.

[TheEDIGuy]

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Hi:
Have you tried checking "Usergroups"?
After clicking usergroups, click Supermod.
Then scroll down to the Calendar permissions and check there.

The supermod is able to add things to the calendar just fine. But the items that the supermod adds to the calendar don't show on the front page (they do not cause a clickable link under the day in the mini-calendar). Only items that *I* add produce the clickable link.

If you look at the calendar, however, everything shows, regardless of who added it.

Sample at http://www.fansofrealitytv.com

Cali, a supermod, has added most of the items except for the one item I (the admin) added on the 22nd, which has produced the only clickable link (even though every single day has calendar items).

[M.C.]

strange but straight after changing The ID number of news forum i`ve got MySQL error:

PHP Code:

Invalid SQL: SELECT thread.threadid, thread.title, replycount, postusername, postuserid, thread.dateline, IF(views<=replycount, replycount+1, views) AS views, forumid, thread.iconid, votenum, votetotal, post.postid, pagetext, allowsmilie, showsignature
              , avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(avatardata) AS hascustom, customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline  
              ,thread.iconid 
               ,attachment.filename, filesize, attachment.visible, attachmentid, counter, thumbnail, LENGTH(thumbnail) AS thumbnailsize 
                FROM thread AS thread
                LEFT JOIN post AS post ON (post.postid = thread.firstpostid) 
                LEFT JOIN user AS user ON (user.userid = post.userid) 
                LEFT JOIN avatar as avatar ON (avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid)
                LEFT JOIN customavatar as customavatar ON (customavatar.userid = user.userid)  
                LEFT JOIN attachment AS attachment ON (post.postid = attachment.postid)
                WHERE forumid IN(3)
                GROUP BY post.postid
                ORDER BY dateline DESC, attachmentid LIMIT 5
mysql error: Column: 'filesize' in field list is ambiguous

mysql error number: 1052

Date: Sunday 25th of January 2004 08:58:22 PM
Script: http://localhost/adv_index.php?styleid=2
Referer: 
Username: M.C.
IP Address: 127.0.0.1 


I was testing on localhost that hack when i got that...

What i did wrong?

Ok i got it, I disabled "show attachements" and it`s work fine, BUT i want it work fine with "show attachements" enabled

And one more strange thing - in installation a gave right icons path (http://localhost/forum/images/icons/icon1.gif), but it show path like that: http://localhost/images/icons/icon1.gif

And for emprovement of hack i`d love to have option to change blocks position (left, right, center and up and down)

Thanks!

[jaliam]

<font color="DarkOrange">* Clicks install *</font>

Ok, I have made some modifications in my portal already but I want to do more. How about making an image display on the main page instead of a simple image path? This is what I am talking about...

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by M.C.

strange but straight after changing The ID number of news forum i`ve got MySQL error:

PHP Code:

Invalid SQL: SELECT thread.threadid, thread.title, replycount, postusername, postuserid, thread.dateline, IF(views<=replycount, replycount+1, views) AS views, forumid, thread.iconid, votenum, votetotal, post.postid, pagetext, allowsmilie, showsignature
             , avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(avatardata) AS hascustom, customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline 
             ,thread.iconid 
              ,attachment.filename, filesize, attachment.visible, attachmentid, counter, thumbnail, LENGTH(thumbnail) AS thumbnailsize 
                FROM thread AS thread
                LEFT JOIN post AS post ON (post.postid = thread.firstpostid) 
                LEFT JOIN user AS user ON (user.userid = post.userid) 
                LEFT JOIN avatar as avatar ON (avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid)
                LEFT JOIN customavatar as customavatar ON (customavatar.userid = user.userid) 
                LEFT JOIN attachment AS attachment ON (post.postid = attachment.postid)
                WHERE forumid IN(3)
                GROUP BY post.postid
                ORDER BY dateline DESC, attachmentid LIMIT 5
mysql error: Column: 'filesize' in field list is ambiguous
 
mysql error number: 1052
 
Date: Sunday 25th of January 2004 08:58:22 PM
Script: [url]http://localhost/adv_index.php?styleid=2[/url]
Referer: 
Username: M.C.
IP Address: 127.0.0.1 


I was testing on localhost that hack when i got that...

What i did wrong?

Ok i got it, I disabled "show attachements" and it`s work fine, BUT i want it work fine with "show attachements" enabled

And one more strange thing - in installation a gave right icons path (http://localhost/forum/images/icons/icon1.gif), but it show path like that: http://localhost/images/icons/icon1.gif

And for emprovement of hack i`d love to have option to change blocks position (left, right, center and up and down)

Thanks!

you didnt upgrade vBadvanced when you upgraded to RC3

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Hi all:

Does anyone know:

1) Why all my images except "icons" folder don't show?
I have searched everywhere to make sure I have absolute paths for my images so that it shows, but I can't find where to tell vb where to go for the icons folder.

2) How I can make my vb forum as wide as the screen? I check the "index" template on vb, and it shows 100%, yet the forum is very narrow on a 1024 x whatever resolution.

3) How to prevent non-registered users from seeing the main FORUM page (i.e. forums/index.php) - It shows too much info to non registered user on my site, i.e. Who's Online, etc. I don't want anyone who is not registered to view the forum at all.

If I block non-registered users from "Viewing the Forum" then my vbAdvanced page doesn't work because then you'll just see the "You are not allowed to view this page, login, etc." page.

I'm sorry for all the questions, but I only had 3 hours of sleep last night messing with the new vb 3.0 C 3 and still haven't had this site up running properly.
It messed up another program I was running so I have been trying to get that fixed too (looks like I overwrote an "index.php" by accident and that's where the whole thing messed up.)

Anyway, I would appreciate any help Thank you.

for 2
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88013
read that

you sorta need to let them view at least the news forum.

closing off your board to all guests isnt a good idea

1 you still need to update your counters and stuff

Originally Posted by jaliam

* Clicks install *

Ok, I have made some modifications in my portal already but I want to do more. How about making an image display on the main page instead of a simple image path? This is what I am talking about...

enable BB code and img code for the front page

[digitalSite]

Okay. My web site is only for certain members of an organization. Guests can still view vbAdvanced on the front page, but they cannot read the entire article though.

Basically, the reason I did this was because I am using the referral system and WISH that only those with a referral can get inside. But since that doesn't exist,

I have guests get referred by current members, verify their email, and then must be approved by me, while double-checking with the referrer to make sure they did invite them in. It's too bad I have to do this one by one.

Because of the referral system, I did not want tguests to view forum members' username, which would allow them to register by entering in the referral ID - one less security wall for me. So that's why I didn't want them viewing anything on the forum.

P.S. Why isn't it a good idea for me to block out guests? Was the counter update to me?

If anyone has an easier system of "only referred guests can enter" please let me know. Thanks!

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Okay. My web site is only for certain members of an organization. Guests can still view vbAdvanced on the front page, but they cannot read the entire article though.

Basically, the reason I did this was because I am using the referral system and WISH that only those with a referral can get inside. But since that doesn't exist,

I have guests get referred by current members, verify their email, and then must be approved by me, while double-checking with the referrer to make sure they did invite them in. It's too bad I have to do this one by one.

Because of the referral system, I did not want tguests to view forum members' username, which would allow them to register by entering in the referral ID - one less security wall for me. So that's why I didn't want them viewing anything on the forum.

P.S. Why isn't it a good idea for me to block out guests? Was the counter update to me?

If anyone has an easier system of "only referred guests can enter" please let me know. Thanks!

well i guess if your going to get alot of invite traffic...

yes you do need to update the counters

i think this could be solved with a conditional but im not sure