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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.

SVTBlackLight01 · #**662** 02-12-2004, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cosmin

--
yeah!

... more than one person interested in a PhotoPost addon through this awesome portal

I don't know if this is the best way to do it or not, but it's what I'm using to call php files on my VB2 forums and it works for displaying thumbnails in the vBadvanced custom blocks for VB3 as well.

This is for use with the Photopost thumnailincluder hack as a file.

In the phpinclude_start template, add

Code:

$photo = implode('', file("http://www.yoursite.com/file.php"));

Then add $photo to your custom block template to display the thumbnail.

Mickie D · #**663** 02-12-2004, 08:21 PM

hi this is gr8 hack

anyone know why i am getting this problem with the latest topics ??

everything else is gr8

maverick1236 · #**664** 02-13-2004, 01:01 AM

considering installing...

is there a way to display a php script as a center block?

Cloudrunner · #**665** 02-13-2004, 01:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tru Smiles

I posted a while back with a problem with the images (I've only just got my computer back to post this!) and tried the suggestions offered.

The problem is, the broken link is linking to the icons. And when posts have an icon selected, they DO appear - But no icon selected, means there shouldn't be an image - Yet a broken image link appears, even though its not linking to an icon! >_< Would some kind of clear.gif file sort it, and if so, how do I get it to recognize it? I don't know how to make it stop with the broken image linking thing >_>

If all else fails, is there an easy way to uninstall the Homepage and return image locations etc back to normal?

All help is really appreciated.. There is nothing more ugly than a broken image link on a website

set your default post icon setting in your vboptions in admincp. That will sort it out, make sure you use the FULL http://address (which is contrary to what it tells you in the admincp, ignore that).

tgmorris · #**666** 02-13-2004, 04:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maverick1236

considering installing...

is there a way to display a php script as a center block?

The short answer is "yes". Check over at http://www.vbadvanced.com for more details.

tpr · #**667** 02-13-2004, 09:15 PM

great portal
but

i need at least some of the side bars to be present at all the pages, is that possible ?
any way to make that happen without recoding a large part of my page ?
i already added a custom side bar of my own, but readding one to the entire site seems, well depressing

also, as a side suggestion i think you should make the avatar image apear only if selected (aka an option to remove it) i do not encourge people to use avatars in my forums and had to remove the code from your script

but still,
a great portal

str8ballin · #**668** 02-13-2004, 11:29 PM

<a href="http://www.str8ballin.com/adv_index.php" target="_blank">http://www.str8ballin.com/adv_index.php</a>

im having errors with images ive uninstalled it and reinstalled it 3 times.

any advice cause im at breaking point?

KevinUK · #**669** 02-13-2004, 11:33 PM

Jason,

I've just looked at your site and I'm assuming you're having problems with images not being displayed?

If this is the case then I've found the fix for you

In the first part of the installation where you specify your image directory you have missed out /board/ from the URL - should read http://www.str8ballin.com/board/images/misc for the "Misc" entry etc.

Hope this helps you mate.

Kevin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Original Installation Instructions

Next go to your Style Manager under "Styles & Templates" in your Admin CP. Choose to modify All Style Options. On this page, you will see a section for "Image Paths". Here you must change the path for each image directory (Title Image, Button Images Folder, Miscellaneous Images Folder, etc) to the full path (ex - /forum/images or http://yoursite.com/forum/images).

igowoofwoof · #**670** 02-14-2004, 02:32 AM

This doesn't seem to work with RC 4

Zachery · #**671** 02-14-2004, 03:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by igowoofwoof

This doesn't seem to work with RC 4

working with RC4 just fine @
http://www.digitalkore.net
http://www.vbadvanced.com
http://www.usshomestarrunner.com

^_^

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