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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.

[ImportPassion]

Originally Posted by FastAttack

did you use the new installer he put out? and did you do the code changes to the index file ?

i don't know if it is a new installer. I have v 1.01
yes, i did the code changes. I am not new to hacking vb, but this has got me stumped.

In a prev post a mentioned that if I remove lines 3-77, I don't get an error.

[M.C.]

so what the problem with database and attachements? i did clean install as well, no prev installations, RC3

[Zachery]

check my post on the first page please

[ImportPassion]

i went back to the installer to just install templates, but that step 3 seems to not exist in the installer?

[Zachery]

wierd, im now having problems as well >.< im not sure why

[krit]

Hi guys,

Firstly thanks for the great addon. I'm new to vB and vBadvanced but they're both fantastic from my short fiddle with them. I noticed a post earlier in this thread but cant seem to find a reply on the same topic.

I want to include as a custom block a random post from a specific forum. If anyone could help me out with the coding for this it would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks again for the great addon and great forum support.

Cheers
Krit

[ImportPassion]

I have uninstalled and reinstalled and still a blank page

[digitalSite]

Originally Posted by FastAttack

yes thats correct.

Well, I tried that and although it keeps my front page looking normal, my icons are still not showing. Only some, but the newer ones are not showing. I changed all the links in the index_header template by adding /forums/ in front of them, but I don't know how it fixes the icons which are below the header area.

Anyway...we'll see what happens. I guess I will uninstall vbAdv and try it again and this time not have a "default" icon.

Thanks.

[CarolinaKid]

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Well, I tried that and although it keeps my front page looking normal, my icons are still not showing. Only some, but the newer ones are not showing. I changed all the links in the index_header template by adding /forums/ in front of them, but I don't know how it fixes the icons which are below the header area.

Anyway...we'll see what happens. I guess I will uninstall vbAdv and try it again and this time not have a "default" icon.

Thanks.

the default icon is changed in admincp options and as far as editing your index header template why not change the folder and add /forums/ uders the image icons in the styles edit options.

[digitalSite]

If I understand you correctly, you are saying to go to edit templates and look for where they have "Latest Threads" and just add "/forums" in front of the icon variable...if this is what you are saying, I have already tried this.

This is what the threadbit template looks like:

<!-- cut -->
<tr>
<td class="$getbgrow">$thread[icons]<span class="smallfont"><b><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?t=$thread[threadid]" title="$vbphrase[a_last_post_by] $thread[lastposter] $vbphrase[a_at] $lastposttime">$title</a></b><br />
<if condition="$vboptions['showthreaddate']">$thread[date] $thread[time]<br /></if> 
<!-- cut -->

Notice the $thread[icon]...if I do this /forums/$thread[icon] then all the threads on the latest threads column show /forums/ in front of the title of the thread. What's so weird is that everything there seems to be "relative" and works fine...all but the icons. Now, I can have it looking nice & pretty if I just don't select an icon (because I left the default icon url empty when I installed this again), but I don't want to. I want the icons to work...So, right now I am looking inside the actual "index.php" page to see what else I may try to do.