Portal Software - WebTemplates 4.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 4.x and above. For vb 3.x, version see my profile for relevant threads.)

"WebTemplates" is a vBulletin integrated Content Management System which allows you to create vb integrated "HTML" pages in your vb admin cp very easily. The pages can inherit your vbulletin skin/style, can recognize logged-in user, can be applied permissions per user or usergroup basis, can keep visit logs, hit counts and do many more.


WEBTEMPLATES 4.x BASIC FEATURES:

• Very Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file. It is coded as a vb product and can be imported very easily.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroups easily. 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.
• Page Counter : Each webtemplate has a built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF/ON per webtemplate basis.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking : You can track certain users' (by usergroup or userid) webtemplate visits to see who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support : 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. vB's WYSIWYG editor is supported in Editor interface.
• Page Browsers & Who is Online Display: Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while visitor is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin). Webtemplate visits can also be monitored in who is online page.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can automatically use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• Help Documents : The script comes with an extensive help document.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates : 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.
• SEO friendly URLs: You can make webtemplate URLs seo friendly in vb settings (Requires apache server).
• XML Import/Export : XML Import/Export feature allows you to backup your webtemplates and use other hack users webtemplates in your board.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR ADVANCED USERS:

• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add "last 10 threads forum X", "most active users list" etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Multi Parsing : Webtemplates can parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts). This means you can design a page just like vb posts (TEXT parsing), standart HTML (HTML parsing) or even in PHP (PHP parsing).
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Theme Support : 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 single theme for all of them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates supports VB3 template conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions.
• 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.

Sample WebTemplates from Sites using this hack:
(Most are from 3.x versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so all will give you the idea.)

http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_mission.htm
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/view.php?pg=aboutus
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_guidelines.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_info.htm
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_books.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_spread.htm
http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/view.php?pg=makeuptalk-newsletter
http://www.bklab.com (entire site is designed with Webtemplates only)
(Actually this hack is one of the most popular vb hacks so it is used by hundreds -if not thousands- of vbulletin sites and you can easily find them if you go to google and search "Logician's WebTemplates" WITH quotation marks)

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..

From FAQ 13: Vbulletin already has a CMS now , why would I need this hack?

If you have CMS license, you might not need Webtemplates. On the other hand, CMS license is paid, webtemplates is free and many forum owners don't have CMS licenses.

Also please note that vb has CMS since 2010. Webtemplates was first released for vb2.x in 2002 and it was around in vb3.x, 3.5.x and above for thousands of vbulletin users who have developed their sites around webtemplates CMS. So regardless of new vb CMS owners might or might not need it, Webtemplates 4.x is still realased and supported as a courtesy to its old users and fans. I personally prefer and use Webtemplates over vb CMS and this hack lives for people who agrees with me.

Version Updates:
12.October.2013 - > Version 4.0.2
* Minor fixes for PHP 5.4.x (Fixes "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated" errors in new PHP versions.
14.July.2012 - > Version 4.0.1
* Vbulletin changed WYSIWYG editor parsing in vb4.2.x so hack's editor.php is updated accordingly.
9.September.2010 - > Version 4.0.00
* Hack 4.00.00 is released.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ryancooper

Get an error with this:

Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list

This query works on 3.x structure but apparently it is not possible to do this with one query in vb 4.x due to db changes

[FlyingRon]

I've inherited an existing vB/WebTemplates installation. The files installed seem to be identical to the 4.0.1 I downloaded. The TEXT and HTML webtemplates when run display the header and footers (and even insert the edit this page link if that is allowed) but the actual contents of the template do not appear in the output. The webquery used also is executed.

If I use the PHP type, then I get output that I specifically print (but no headers or footers).

Pretty much behave the same if I use the test ones, old ones we had lying around, or attempt to generate new ones.

Any ideas?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by FlyingRon

I've inherited an existing vB/WebTemplates installation. The files installed seem to be identical to the 4.0.1 I downloaded. The TEXT and HTML webtemplates when run display the header and footers (and even insert the edit this page link if that is allowed) but the actual contents of the template do not appear in the output. The webquery used also is executed.

If I use the PHP type, then I get output that I specifically print (but no headers or footers).

Pretty much behave the same if I use the test ones, old ones we had lying around, or attempt to generate new ones.

Any ideas?

Edit the webtemplate you have this problem and check which theme its using. (In the section that says "Using a Theme?").

Then edit that theme (eg. Two Column Theme) and make sure it has this variable in it:
{includedtemplate}

If it does, try disabling all other pluggins/products/hacks but webtemplates and see if this solve the problem (in case another hack is clashing with WT).

If this also does not solve the problem, give me admin cp/ftp access to your board and I can check.

[FlyingRon]

Thanks, Log....putting the includedtemplate into the style fixed it.

[Christos Teriakis]

Hello,

Seems to be very useful addon. Can someone tell me if it supports CMS widgers or Forum blocks? Or do I need to build my own?

Thank you
Chris

[Naijasite]

best page creator

[Naijasite]

Please how do i make all the Template to be edited by WYSIWYG?

[ged]

Hi, first of all, I'd like to say I've searched the entire topic to prevent double posting same problem.

I'm trying to modify webquery WQ_lastxthreadfromforumy only to show thread title's first 20 characters:

PHP Code:

SELECT threadid, LEFT(title, 20), dateline
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread 
WHERE sticky=0 AND visible=1 AND forumid=6
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 5 


Can you tell me what I did wrong?

Thank you very much.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ged

Hi, first of all, I'd like to say I've searched the entire topic to prevent double posting same problem.

I'm trying to modify webquery WQ_lastxthreadfromforumy only to show thread title's first 20 characters:

PHP Code:

SELECT threadid, LEFT(title, 20), dateline
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread 
WHERE sticky=0 AND visible=1 AND forumid=6
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 5 


Can you tell me what I did wrong?

Thank you very much.

I believe this should work:

SELECT threadid, LEFT(title, 20) as title, dateline
FROM thread
WHERE sticky=0 AND visible=1 AND forumid=6
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 5

[ged]

Originally Posted by Logician

I believe this should work:

SELECT threadid, LEFT(title, 20) as title, dateline
FROM thread
WHERE sticky=0 AND visible=1 AND forumid=6
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 5

Thank you very much, unbelievable support speed!