Major Additions - vBonjour - Portal System

vBonjour

Easy Customizable Portal System

Brought to you by www.peterska2.co.uk

Welcome to the launch of vBonjour. This is the base package which is required for all installations of this system.

What is vBonjour?
vBonjour is an alternative to vBAdvanced. It is an easy to install, modular portal system designed as a gateway to your site.

Why vBonjour?
This is pretty simple really. As the front page is the first thing that your visitors see, it is a welcome page. The first few names that were thought of were either very boring, or far too long winded and not at all catchy.

This is a base package. What is included?
The base package includes a news feature from up to two forums. The news from the first forum will be displayed first, followed by the news from the second forum. It also includes the left and right columns which can be activated or deactivated via some simple settings in the ACP. These columns can be customised without using any of the Add On Modules, or Add On Modules can be installed to expand on the functionality.

Why is it so modular?
vBonjour is extremely modular to allow for maximum customization of the page. The idea is to make it as easy as possible to install the items that you want to have included, and not have anything which you would be simply turning off. By using a modular method it means that every site can easily achieve their own custom portal without having to know any coding.

I want to add something that isn't already included. How do I go about this?
vBonjour makes use of the plugin system and includes it's own hooks. This allows easy devlopment of additional Add Ons and maximum flexability.

What about the ACP? Is it really complicated?
Unlike other systems, almost all the settings for vBonjour are collected in one setting group in the vBOptions. Because you only install what you want to use, you don't need to have lots of settings. Anything which does not use settings in the Portal settings group is highlighted in the documentation for that Add On.

Ok, so where are the screen shots?
Why have screen shots when you can have a live demo?
The demo is available at www.peterska2.co.uk

What versions of vBulletin does vBonjour work with?
vBonjour will work with vBulletin 3.6.0 and above. Support for sites running versions earlier than 3.6.0 will not be given.



Contributers to the base system: [name]christianb[/name]


I hope that you like this system. Please remember to mark it as installed to recieve notification of updates and support. Support will only be provided to those who have clicked install.

[flyingmongoose]

the add-on modules allow for external simple development.

[JamieLee2k]

I got it installed but getting this issues

http://www.xleagues.net/index.php

[mjname]

I have installed the portal.php file in the root of my site and the forum of course is in the forum folder. During setup it was sort of implied to do this... Now I'm having issues getting the navigation links to work.

They're missing the /forum/ in the code. I figured out how to update the image links by just putting the /forum/ infront of the image url's. but can't seem to figure out where the Nav bar information is stored?

Any clues for a newbie?

Thanks
Matthew

[JamieLee2k]

mjname is right, my links in the navbar arn't working either, I also installed a few plugin's and the stats one is giving me a database error, not sure why.

Think I am going to look at this at the weekend

[JamieLee2k]

I have this installed outside of the forums, in the root dir

[mjname]

IF YOU'RE INSTALLING OUTSIDE OF THE FORUM DIRECTORY?

You may have to edit these files in Templates. Header, Navbar, footer and if your forum is in a directory called forum then you need to put this into the code, '/forum/'. Don't put in the 'quote'. I did a search .php through out these pages here are some examples.

First I went to Styles & Templates>Styles Manager>Edit Templates

I edited these files Footer, Header, & Navigation & Breadcrumb Templates> Navbar

In these files I did a search for .php and found code that looked like this
<a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]">
and I added the '/forum/' to it so it looked like this.
a href="/forum/$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]">

I also found code that looked like this:
<form action="login.php?do=login" and changed it to
<form action="/forum/login.php?do=login"

The beginning slash lets the server know that / is the reference to the root directory of the site regardless of the domain name. I'm hosted on NT I think so don't knwo if this is the case with Unix or Linux but can't image it not being.

I've clicked around a bit and it seems to have corrected my proplems.

I hope this helps, and I think this needs to be edited to some degree and included in the install file. I'm new to vBulletin and didn't even know what editing a template from the admincp was possible. I just bought it because it was pretty. I like pretty.

Also there needs to includded in the directions on how to edit the nav and block template modules, too. It might be obvious to the people who actually read the manual for vBulletin but it's really long and I haven't gotten to it yet.

Thanks
Matthew


/forum/

[peterska2]

The best way to get navbar links working all the way though is to add

$vboptions[bburl]/

to the start of all the links in there, including the forms for the login box and search box.

This is only needed if you have installed outseid the forum directory.

[JamieLee2k]

So what you are saying is it is easier to install if within the forums? Since there is no messing about

[mjname]

Thanks PetreSKa2
thats a better hack.

[JamieLee2k]

Found an issue, I have selected a forum in which I want the news to be displayed on my front page, but it is showing threads that are moderated (invisable to users) but they are showing up, even when I logged out they are still showing up, so that needs looking at.