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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.

d3nnis · #**862** 03-23-2004, 02:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by a43079

Well I don?t know where to go anymore I have posted on vb.org earlier this week and got one reply and it wasn?t much help but I thank him for the effort? but the problem is when I log in, the home page doesn?t change to reflect that I am logged in, but, when I try and register, it notice that I am logged in. How do I fix this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

My site url is

http://erowebs.org

and the test account I made is

U/N: homet
P/W: homet

Thank you,
A4

how about just disabled the login used by vbadvance ? Since there is already login function on the navbar... its rather redundant and confusing to have two login on the same page. Probably u can wait till this have been solved by Tigga. Meanwhile disable it and use vbulletin navbar login. :ermm:

d3nnis · #**863** 03-23-2004, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by a43079

Well I don?t know where to go anymore I have posted on vb.org earlier this week and got one reply and it wasn?t much help but I thank him for the effort? but the problem is when I log in, the home page doesn?t change to reflect that I am logged in, but, when I try and register, it notice that I am logged in. How do I fix this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

My site url is

http://erowebs.org

and the test account I made is

U/N: homet
P/W: homet

Thank you,
A4

okies i fixed it. If you read my findings earlier, what I assume is correct.

replace your login crumb with mine :

Code:

<!-- Welcome / Login Block -->
	<if condition="!$bbuserinfo['userid']">
	<script src="http://forums.keeptouch.net/clientscript/md5.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	<form action="http://forums.keeptouch.net/login.php" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password,vb_login_md5password)">
	<input name="vb_login_md5password" type="hidden" />
	<input name="s" type="hidden" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
	<input name="do" type="hidden" value="login" />
	</if>
			
	<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
	<tr>
	<td class="tcat"><span class="smallfont"><b>$vboptions[blockbullet] 
	<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">
	<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/usercp.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[a_usercp]</a><else />$vbphrase[a_login]
	</if></b></span></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td class="$getbgrow">
	
	<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">
	<span class="smallfont">$vbphrase[a_welcome_back], <b>$bbuserinfo[username]</b></span><br />
	
	<if condition="$vboptions['showavatar']">
		<table cellpadding="3">
		<tr>
		<td><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/profile.php?do=editavatar"><img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="$vbphrase[a_edit_avatar]" /></a>
		</td>
		</tr>
		</table>
	</if>

	<span class="smallfont">Last visit: $lastvisitdate $lastvisittime<br />
	<if condition="$vboptions['showpm']"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/private.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[a_new_pms]</a>: $bbuserinfo[pmunread]<br /></if>
	<if condition="$vboptions['shownewposts']"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew">$vbphrase[a_new_posts]</a>: $newposts<br /></if>
	<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout" onclick="return log_out()">$vbphrase[a_logout]</a></span>
	
	<else />
		<table width="100%">
		<tr>
		<td>
		<span class="smallfont"><b>$vbphrase[a_username]:<br />
		<input class="bginput" name="vb_login_username" size="12" type="text" /><br />
		$vbphrase[a_password]:</b></span><br />
		<input class="bginput" name="vb_login_password" size="12" type="password" /><br />
		<input checked="checked" class="bginput" name="cookieuser" id="cb_cookieuser" type="checkbox" value="1" /><span class="smallfont">$vbphrase[a_remember_me]</span>
		</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
		<td>
		<input class="button" type="submit" value="Login!" />
		</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
		<td>
		<span class="smallfont">$vbphrase[a_not_a_member_yet]<br /><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/register.php">$vbphrase[a_register_now]</a></span>
		</td>
		</tr>
		</table>
	</if>
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	<br />

	<if condition="!$bbuserinfo['userid']">
	</form>
	</if>
</if>
<!-- End Welcome / Login Block -->

I only added $session[sessionhash] to the value parameter
<input name="s" type="hidden" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

which was previously

<input name="s" type="hidden" value="" />

I guess after login, as there is no sessionhash, the homepage cannot recognise you being logon.

ChuanSE · #**864** 03-23-2004, 03:26 AM

[high]* ChuanSE clicks install

[/high]

Osterling · #**865** 03-23-2004, 04:44 AM

is tehre a way to have it seach pages that are not off the forum?

d3nnis · #**866** 03-23-2004, 07:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChuanSE

[high]* ChuanSE clicks install

[/high]

can try if u have the duplicate buddy issue (see my post above)?

by the way haven upgrade to vb 3 gold final? :nervous:

and i think u need a <br /> between your poll and calendar :ermm:

ArcticZero · #**867** 03-23-2004, 01:21 PM

hmmm this seems ok but how does it compare to others like VBportal I know this is free and the other will cost 20$ just trying to weight my options here.

Also my forums are on a subdomain... will vbadvanced support that?

martinh4 · #**868** 03-23-2004, 01:35 PM

Just upgraded to VB3 and this install went perfect. Nice work.

d3nnis · #**869** 03-23-2004, 02:26 PM

hmm probably Tigga might want to optimise the loading of the homepage... a bit slow...

ChrisBaktis · #**870** 03-23-2004, 03:28 PM

I have read all the threads here and saw the problem I am having once, but the member solved it himself and never really explained what was wrong..

I have installed the portal with my 3.0 Gold version - install went great with no errors...problem is now when I go to the page www.rustysoptraders.com/adv_index.php all I get is a blank screen. I will rename the adv_index.php to index.php when the problem is resolved. I have verified that the path to the forums directory is correct.

I have noticed that when I vew the source (online) of adv_index.php all I see is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

Now I know the file I am uploading contains more then this - Im a total novice here...should I be seeing the rest of this file when I view source online?

Im really stumped here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

Zachery · #**871** 03-23-2004, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisBaktis

I have read all the threads here and saw the problem I am having once, but the member solved it himself and never really explained what was wrong..

I have installed the portal with my 3.0 Gold version - install went great with no errors...problem is now when I go to the page www.rustysoptraders.com/adv_index.php all I get is a blank screen. I will rename the adv_index.php to index.php when the problem is resolved. I have verified that the path to the forums directory is correct.

I have noticed that when I vew the source (online) of adv_index.php all I see is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

Now I know the file I am uploading contains more then this - Im a total novice here...should I be seeing the rest of this file when I view source online?

Im really stumped here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

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