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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.

[TexasHorns]

Grrr, It will not let me download this file, can someone please tell me what's up with it?!

[NuclioN]

Originally Posted by Faranth

looks like your using an older version, im almost positive this was fixed

No sir i've installed it fresh after upgrading to VB3 RC3. Was there a patch?

[Zachery]

ill search for it in a moment here,

Also, Tigga PLEASE PLEASE! check your email asap.

TexasHorns if you cannot download vBadvanced your not appearing as licensed ill give you the standard moderator speach ;D

You are currently showing up as unlicensed. To be able to download hacks and/or receive support here at vBulletin.org, we ask you to please click here (vB-germany users click here) and enter your email address, to show us that you are licensed.

You will need to use your customer number and password (which will be in the email you got when you paid for your license) to access that page. Please note that your email is case sensitive.

Thank you.

[TexasHorns]

Mkay mkay i got it, now i have a question
in the adv_index
do i ut this..

Now open your adv_index.php file in this folder and find:
chdir('./forum');

Replace this with the full path to your forum on your server.
(ex. /home/yoursite/public_html/forum)

(ex. /home/minesite.com/public_html/forum)

or leave out the .com?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by TexasHorns

Mkay mkay i got it, now i have a question
in the adv_index
do i ut this..

Now open your adv_index.php file in this folder and find:
chdir('./forum');

Replace this with the full path to your forum on your server.
(ex. /home/yoursite/public_html/forum)

(ex. /home/minesite.com/public_html/forum)

or leave out the .com?

you can use either a ful path or relative location either works

its not .com

usualy if your using cpanel it will be your username youd login with

[TexasHorns]

Okay this thing is f%%king up my forum . Can you add my on msn or on AIM?

[Zachery]

there is no way for it to mess up your forum in any way shape or form., please feel free to drop me a line on aim, neofaranth

[TheBlueFalcon]

I installed it....

Clean version of RC3

Clean install downloaded today!!!

I actually can get a home page IF i leave the news forum number in contol panel blank...otherwise I get this...


Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 3:

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(1)
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: Tuesday 27th of January 2004 03:38:31 PM
Script: http://www.teamfalcononline.com/adv_index.php
Referer:



PLEASE HELP!!!!

[Tigga]

Well I think I'm finally going to open up vBadvanced.com. It's been available since last night, but registered users have been extremely restricted in what they can do. I'm posting the password to verify your license status in the next post, so anyone that would like to join over there can upgrade their accounts.

[Tigga]

vBadvanced.com Account Upgrade Password:

PHP Code:

hsbumrdoaslvotenss 


If you cannot see the password in the box above it is because you are showing up as unlicensed here. To be able to download hacks and/or receive support here at vBulletin.org, we ask you to please click here (vB-germany users click here) and enter your email address, to show us that you are licensed.

You will need to use your customer number and password (which will be in the email you got when you paid for your license) to access that page. Please note that your email is case sensitive.


Note: This will change on a regular basis, but once you have been marked as licensed there will be no need to enter the password again.