WebTemplates v.0.1 (Old Version)

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Attention: This version of webtemplates is obsolete since new version (2.xx) is released as of 30.June.2003.

If you are new user, please visit new hack's thread and install that one, not this version.

This thread is active for discussing migration issues and will be closed in the future.
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Introduction:
Basically this hack allows you create vbulletin powered non-vb pages within vb admin CP and administer them just like vb templates.

Your "webtemplates" reside inside MYSQL and have the same structure as regular vbulletin templates and you edit/modify/delete them inside your Admin CP. You can create as many as you like and display them like:
http://yoursite URL/yourboard URL/show.php?pg=YOUR_WEBTEMPLATE_NAME.

Features of Your WebTemplates:
* You can easily edit/update your non-vb pages from your vb control panel just like vb templates. No need to FTP or smt.
* Simply backup your vbulletin and your entire site (including your webtemplates) is backed up too.
* You can use some vbulletin variables in your non-vb pages, so eg. address your members with their member names in your entire site.
* Your entire web site can mimic your forum's visual interface. All your fonts/colors etc. are kept in your non-vb. pages too. Besides users' style sets apply for your web templates either. So for instance if you have 2 styles, every user will see your webtemplates in the style and colors they are using in the board.
* This hack allows you to specify usergroups/usernames which can or cannot see the page you designed. So your non-vb pages can inherit vb. access permissions. Every webtemplate can have different display permissions for different users/usergroups.
* You can have counters in your pages and show/trace page visits individually for all your pages. Every webtemplate has its own counter.
* You can have "last visitor's name and visit time" in all your pages.
* You can insert fixed header/footer for all your pages.
* The "conditionals" you can set, allow you to design advanced and dynamic web pages, which change themselves according to the conditions you set. For example you can set different texts/page designs IN THE SAME PAGE for different users and every user will only see the text that is addressed to him.

Webtemplates are very easy to create. Just copy paste the HTML code of your page into the webtemplate box, give it a name, click submit and voila, your webtemplate is up and running! By using this method, you can convert your existing non-vb pages into webtemplates with ease too. It is just a matter of copy/paste its HMTML code. Installation of the hack is easy too and the hack will work any version of vbulletin I know.

For Advanced Users: If you want your webtemplates to get data from your database and display it, you have an advanced feature named "webqueries". WebQueries feature allows you to run SQL queries in your MYSQL database and automatically create sorted tables for you which you can add in any WebTemplates. So your non-vb pages can be dynamic and you can have any kind of SQL results (related with vb or not) in any page you want. Webqueries are optional to use and appeals to people with basic SQL knowledge. You can still create webtemplates very easily without using webqueries if you don't know SQL or don't need to query your database in your webtemplate. If you want to play with webqueries, please read and follow instructions CAREFULLY. This hack gives you advanced tools to create powerful and dynamic web pages, so give yourself sometime and learn how to create these pages. I wrote help pages which you can find in your webtemplates section after installation, so please read them carefully and examine sample page's code before pelting me with questions!

If you installed this hack, share your webquery samples in this thread


Fixes and Add-ons:
* If you have than 1 MYSQL databases, webquery section might not work properly. If you encounter any problems related to that issue, apply the small fix in this post.[/COLOR]
* If you want to display your webtemplates in who is online, apply this small hack .
Also there is a small bug with "conditionals" feature of the hack, if you use more than 1 conditional in 1 webtemplate. I guess very few people use this feature but anyway I fixed it in the new release that is in progress..
* If you want your webtemplates search engine friendly and indexed in google or other search engines, read this tip by Piper.

Current version (BETA v.0.1) is NOT actually a beta anymore, it's proven to be working very well in many people's boards and is stable.

I plan to develop this hack. However to enhance it more, I need to change its algortihm which requires rewriting and I wait for VB3 so that the hack will will be competible with VB3 too. That's why development is pending at the moment.


If you install the hack please click install, thank you.

Regards,
Logician //=^))

[Logician]

nope performance will not change.. Enjoy

[refertech]

Some reason when i call the template i just created I keep getting the follwing:

Error Message
The page you requested does not exist!

Please check the address you want to visit. If you arrived this page by clicking a link inside this site, you may notify the Site Administrator about the broken link. Thank you!


Edit: Never mind I got it. I was being a dope.

[Craigr]

03-13-03 at 04:29 AM jbear6 said this in Post #205

I added the code above to online.php, and it works fine if you view "who's online" as an admin. When I view "who's online" as a registered member though, I see "Reading Webtemplate:", but nothing following the colon. For instance as an admin, I see "Reading Webtemplate: news", but as a registered user I see just "Reading Webtemplate:". I'm stumped

Thanks
Jbear6

I didn't even notice this. But the fix works great.

Thanks again Logician.

Craig

[Intex]

Logician - Nice Hack .

I have a few points to note:


Installation

On initial installation I received the following errors (even though everything seemed to go ok:


Error on Page 1:

Warning: Undefined index: p in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\forum\webtemplates_install.php on line 74


Error on Page 4:

Warning: Undefined variable: pagetitle in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\forum\webtemplates_install.php on line 312


As I mentioned the installation and testing afterwards suggests this worked ok anyway, so not sure how relevant those errors are.


Installation Documentation

Just a small point really, you mention in your installation instructions about getting the additional help relating to the hack, referencing:

To learn how to use the hack, please call {YOUR FORUM URL}/show.php?pg=Webtemplatehelp and {YOUR FORUM URL}/show.php?pg=Webqueryhelp files

I believe these should be pointed to:

show.php?pg=webtemplate_help and show.php?pg=webquery_help, respectively (with the forum path of course).



Style Issue

Although your test page loads successfully, my header and footer components don't show up. I'm not sure whether this is by design or not.

Of course it was easy for me to go to my relevant style and copy the code there which sorted it fine, but what happens if people have multiple styles.

Is there any way to point the webtemplates header and footer templates to their selected or default style?


I'll have a play with it in more detail now. Keep up the good work .

[Logician]

Today at 01:58 PM Intex said this in Post #214

Style Issue

Although your test page loads successfully, my header and footer components don't show up. I'm not sure whether this is by design or not.

Of course it was easy for me to go to my relevant style and copy the code there which sorted it fine, but what happens if people have multiple styles.

If you put $header and $footer variables to any webtemplate, it's suppose to insert your header and footer there. Doesn't it act so?

[ryancooper]

Is it possable to have individual pages

EX: http://myURL/show.php?pg=whoareyou = Viewing who are you page

http://myURL/show.php?pg=menus = viewing Menus page

etc . . .

work with Firefly's Add Who's Online locations from Admin CP hack? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=32849

Thanks!!

[Logician]

Yesterday at 08:31 PM ryancooper said this in Post #216
Is it possable to have individual pages

EX: http://myURL/show.php?pg=whoareyou = Viewing who are you page

http://myURL/show.php?pg=menus = viewing Menus page

etc . . .

work with Firefly's Add Who's Online locations from Admin CP hack? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=32849

Thanks!!

If what you are asking is to display webtemplate viewing in who is online, I've already given the code in this thread a few posts above.

[ryancooper]

Yesterday at 09:50 PM Logician said this in Post #217

If what you are asking is to display webtemplate viewing in who is online, I've already given the code in this thread a few posts above.

Awesome that was a lot easier than adding each page. Thanks!!

[WoodiE]

I get this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in /home/rcnitro/public_html/forum/online.php on line 295

When I use Logician's who' online mod as listed above. I'm using vb 2.2.8

-WoodiE

[Craigr]

Yesterday at 12:04 AM WoodiE said this in Post #219
I get this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in /home/rcnitro/public_html/forum/online.php on line 295

When I use Logician's who' online mod as listed above. I'm using vb 2.2.8


-WoodiE

Make sure you copy all the code to the exact location in online.php

If you miss something it may not work. It works great for me with vb 2.2.9

Craig