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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.

[Sergio68]

Originally Posted by Lady Ginasue

I tryed my best to put this up on my board. I had a lot of things that had to be changed just to get it to work.

After all the work I did, It didn't work for me. Maybe in time will be able to once more try it.

It's a good hack, just didnt work.

Oh I went ahead and uninstalled it already. Maybe after RC goes gold will try again.

It works fine on mine... And cut also the characters news that vbindex doesn't

[PET]

Tigga i will repet my question again. I'm not shoure that the answer you have me is the answer i want I don't want to modify something and then...everything to go wrong.

I have several categoryes. Made them by ?page=blabla . When i click on a link ho will open me a page i want to open a news category. But not the one from the begining, another one from other forum. How can i do that ?

P.S. Just in case you know. I have adv_index.php as index.php and forum index is index2.php. In Who is Online i get UNKNOW LOCATION (.index2.php......) and if a member is in index.php i get Forum Index. I want for index.php to say SITE and for index2.php Forum Index. I know this isn't vBadvanced...but maybee sombody knows

[PET]

Tigga.

PHP Code:

if ($page == 'mypage') 
    { 
        $vboptions['newsforum'] = 1000; 
    } 


MYPAGE shall be a link ? Like index.php?page=BLABLA ? Or my FORUM name ?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by PET

Tigga.

PHP Code:

if ($page == 'mypage') 
    { 
        $vboptions['newsforum'] = 1000; 
    } 


MYPAGE shall be a link ? Like index.php?page=BLABLA ? Or my FORUM name ?

Read the first post you can get priotiry support at the vBa forums

[Tigga]

Lady Ginasue - What exactly didn't work? If you could tell me exactly what problem you were having I'll be more than happy to help you figure out what the problem is.

PET - Yes, "mypage" would be the the part in the link. Say you changed "mypage" in the php code to "yourpage", then the link would look something like http://yoursite.com/index.php?page=yourpage. If you need to be able to do this with several forums then you would need to add some elseif statements to that code.

[milkmycow]

i searched but couldnt find. is it possible to change the layout of things? i only want a lef sidebar. help plz!

[Tigga]

Yes. Everything is template based just like vBulletin, so all you would need to do is modify the template and move the blocks where you would like them.

[milkmycow]

*slams head against desk*

i have no templates in my admincp for vbadvanced... wtf? ive uninstalled/reinstalled, and still nothing.

[Tigga]

They should be listed with the rest of your vBulletin templates, grouped under "Index".

[milkmycow]

wow im an idiot. i was looking for orange "custom" templates and overlooked those. thanks

last thing i promise,

http://www.milkmycow.com/forum/adv_index.php

it seems my BG for forums is being repeated (as you can tell behind content boxes on left side. any idea on how to prevent this?


and what template is the welcome box in?