WebTemplates 2.x: VB Integrated Content Management System

After a long wait, here is the new 2.x version of Webtemplates. First a short introduction for users who are not familiar with the old version:

This hack is a vbulletin integrated content management system. Term "Webtemplates" stands for dynamic webpages that reside in your MYSQL database and administered inside your vbulletin admin control panel. But they are more than regular site pages because they can automatically inherit visual design of your forum, can apply permissions according to your vb usergroup settings, can keep track of page counts, last visitorname/visit time, display page browsers in the page itself and in your whoisonline page etc. So basically webtemplates are dynamic web pages of your site which are powered by vbulletin.


WEBTEMPLATES 2.x FEATURES:
([New] indicates feature that is recently introduced in this 2.x version)

• Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without hacking even a single vbulletin file! It is coded as an add-on, not a hack.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates has built-in support for Logician's advanced templates conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions. (Even if you don't have that hack installed)
• Private Webtemplates (NEW): With 1 click you can make a webtemplate "private" and it will be displayed to only certain usergroups.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroup according to their userids or usergroupids. So for instance you can design a webtemplate which only members can see while guests can not or only user A can not see etc.
• Draft Webtemplates (NEW): You can put webtemplates in "draft" mode which makes them invisible to all but admins.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking (NEW): You can track certain users (by usergroup or userid) to monitor who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support (NEW): You can grant editing permissions for certain users or usergroups for your webtemplates individually and they will be able to update these webtemplates using their own editor interface.
• Categories (NEW): Webtemplates 2.x supports multi-categories for better webtemplate organizations.
• Multi Parsing (NEW): Webtemplates can now parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts)
• Default variables : You can use/display certain variables in your webtemplates like username of the visitor, visitor email address, last visit time, page creation time, page last edit time, Last visitor name, last visit time etc.
• Outside Variables (NEW): Advanced users can now use outside variables in webtemplates, then webtemplates will accept/use/process user sent variables via HTTP_GET and HTTP_POST methods (eg. a HTML form can post to a webtemplate with this feature)
• Page Counter : Webtemplate has built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF or ON per webtemplate basis.
• Page Browsers Display (NEW): Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while people is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin)
• Who is Online Display (NEW): Webtemplates can display page visitors in who is online (This is Optional and require a simple hacking in file online.php). You can create private webtemplates which are hidden in who is online too.
• Theme Support (NEW): Webtemplates support "themes" which are parent webtemplates which include child webtemplates in them. For instance if you have 20 similiar pages which uses the same visual look, you can make a theme for them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate (NEW) : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Help Documents : The script comes with built-in & detailed help documents (they are webtemplates too).
• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can now add create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add member count/post count/thread count/last 10 threads forum X etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Archieve to Text File (NEW): Webtemplates/Webqueries can be downloaded to a text file with one click for archiving purposes. You can also easily share these text files with other hack users.
• Login/Logout box (NEW): You can insert login/register box to your webtemplate if visitor is a guest and log off box if she is a member.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates (NEW): Your webtemplates can include an "admin panel" displayed to only admins and by using them you can access many details and stats of your page while you are browsing them.
• Better Performance (NEW): Webtemplates 2.x structured so that it performs well even under heavy load conditions and high traffic servers. (See Performance issues below)
• Easy Back up: Simply back up your database (inside vbulletin or externally) and all your webtemplate structure is also backed up automatically.

For screenshots, FAQ, performance issues, migration from old version to new version, see below.

If you use the hack, clicking here will make sure you'll know about updates&bug fixes. It will also help me understand how many people is using the hack so please click the install button if you use it. Thank you..


Version Updates:
30.July.2003 - > Version 2.03

* Adds feature to include regular vbtemplates into webtemplates

2.02 users: apply this fix to update.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.

12.July.2003 - > Version 2.02

* Fixes a bug with outside variables.

2.01 users: apply this fix to update.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.

2.July.2003 - > Version 2.01

* Fixes bug that bothers webqueries if "Show Template Name" option enabled in vb admin cp
* Fixes bug in webquery $WQ_mostactivemembers
* Fixes visual look of webtemplate test
* Fixes visual look of admin panel and makes sure it looks ok in dark backgrounded boards too.

2.00 users: update here.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.


Webtemplates 3.x (for vb.3.x) is released here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=76422

[Rein Masamuri]

Wow... just... Wow
This is excelent.
When vB3 comes out this will be, bar none, one of the best hacks for it!

[jluerken]

Hi Logician,

sound like a pretty cool hack. vb3 RC2 is out now and I want to know if you will bring this hack out for vb3 and letter and if yes when?

Thanks in advance
jluerken

[Logician]

Sorry there is no ETA for porting of my VB2 hacks because there is no ETA for my migrating to VB3. I plan to stick with VB2 for a while until I decide that a VB3 version is stable enough and my plan is to work on VB3 hacks afterwards. I have no idea when this will happen. All I can say is that I'll port all my hacks when it does.

[XtReMaTriX]

How do I make this work where members and non-members can see my pages?

I DID NOT add the guest or unregistered id into the banned box...

I just installed this and was testing it out and i wanted to see how unregistered people see the template and it wont let me view it if I am not logged in...

[Logician]

Originally Posted by XtReMaTriX

How do I make this work where members and non-members can see my pages?

I DID NOT add the guest or unregistered id into the banned box...

I just installed this and was testing it out and i wanted to see how unregistered people see the template and it wont let me view it if I am not logged in...

so that a webtemplate will be visible to all:
1- clear "Banned IDs" field
2- Do NOT make it private
3- Do NOT make it draft

Then all will see it including guests.

[XtReMaTriX]

Wow.. Logican. I dont know what i did wrong but it works now... I guess I just had one of those fields on yes...

Thanks a bunch it works great.

I would like to ask for help with one thing though. Is could you please give me a tip on how I could add a template into the headder/footer of the webtemplates?

I have a menu and some other things that I have displaying on all the other pages. It was pretty easy to do this with your old template but not so with the new one. If you could just give me a hand it would be greatly parriciated...

Thanks in advance...

[Logician]

Originally Posted by XtReMaTriX

I would like to ask for help with one thing though. Is could you please give me a tip on how I could add a template into the headder/footer of the webtemplates?

Included VB Templates
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If you want to include regular vb templates into your webtemplate enter their names here (seperated by space). You can then use them in your webtemplate as $WTT_templatename. If you have more than 1 template sets, make sure included templates exist in all. Note: every template you added here will add 1 query to your webtemplate when loaded.
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[XtReMaTriX]

...I added that to the header template and its not working. Am I adding these things to the wrong place?

Where does the template name go? Do I put it in view.php?

Then I put $WTT_templatename into the header or footer, right?

Sorry, I am just a little confused w/ all this...

[Logician]

Included vb templates do not work on headers. You have to add inside regular templates. So you'll add $WTT_templatename (of course rename "templatename" section in this variable!) inside your webtemplate that you want to inherit.

Or create a webtemplate header template and copy/paste your templates content into this one and then you can use this webtemplate header in your other webtemplates

[cindyd]

Logician: very nice job! I have it installed and it's working great. I have a question for you. I have a forum already for anyone to look & post at (well almost) and I am using your template program for a totally different look and HTML pages, this section will be for paid membership people only.

I need to know how to tie the new pages into the regular forum? Do I just set up a parent forum and list all the links? I know I could do that, but there must be another way.....I just don't know what to call what I want on a search.

Thanks