Major Additions - [DBTech] vBSlider v3 (vB4)

vBSlider: What is it?
vBSlider is a professional slider mod, allowing administrators to show the latest threads, articles, blogs, and custom-defined content in a jQuery based slider. vBSlider can be used on both the CMS and Forum, and is compatible with vBulletin 4.x Suite, vBulletin 4.x Forum Only, and vBulletin 3.x

Uses

vBSlider can be used on both the CMS and Forum to promote your latest content, as well as custom content, and can be separately configured for both the CMS and Forum.

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Differences between Pro and Lite

Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Translations may be available @ http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List (Lite)

General Settings

• Option to display version number in widget footer
• Option to not load jQuery, if it is already being called by another modification
• Option to select which version of jQuery to load
• Default image for CMS content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided) [vB4.x only]
• Default image for Forum content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)
• Default image for Blog content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)
• Default image for DragonByte Gallery content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)

Multiple Slider Instances

• Ability to create and insert virtually unlimited sliders across your forum
• All settings below are customised on a per-instance basis

CMS Options (as a Widget on CMS pages) [vB4.x only]

• Option to select how many articles from the CMS you want to display
• Option to select which CMS sections you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many threads from the forum you want to display
• Option to select which forums you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many blog entries from the blogs you want to display
• Option to select which blog categories you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many [DBTech] Gallery images you want to display
• Option to select which [DBTech] Gallery instances you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many custom content items you want to display
• Option to select how many characters of the content item you want to display

Forum Options (as a Widget on Forum Home, vB3 & vB4)

• Option to enable or disable the widget on Forum Home
• Option to select location for the widget on Forum Home (above or below forums)
• All of the other options listed for the CMS [vB4.x only]

Customisation

• Stylevars available for both the CMS and Forum versions, so that you can match each one to your specific design [vB4.x only]
• External CSS file available so you can match the slider to your forum [vB3.x only]
• Ability to define a maximum width and height for the slider (in StyleVars for vB4, in CSS for vB3)
• Fully phrased to allow for customization for different languages

Additional Feature List (Pro)

General Settings

• Option to move Copyright location from below slider to site footer
• Option to change the default image for CMS content items that do not have an associated image (vB4 Only)
• Option to change the default image for Forum content items that do not have an associated image
• Option to change the default image for Blog content items that do not have an associated image
• Option to use IMG tags inside the content types to allow for external images to be used inside of the slider

CMS [vB4.x only] and Forum Options (as a Widget on CMS/Forum pages, CMS is vB4 Only)

• Option to select how long each content item displays before transitioning to the next slide
• Option to pick the location inside the slider for the content
• Option to pick the text alignment of the content

Custom Content Options

• This gives you the ability to create your own content items to display to your users
• Ability to define a title for the content
• Ability to define a message for the content. Message can include HTML formatting
• Ability to define a link if you want to provide additional information in a separate location
• Ability to define a link to an image for the content item
• Option to pick the location inside the slider for the content
• Option to pick the text alignment of the content
• Option to enable/disable on the CMS [vB4.x only]
• Option to enable/disable on Forum Home
• Option to enable/disable site wide
• Option to select the target location for the link to open in
• Option for 'banner-only', so if no text is in the message area, the content slider doesn't show
• All of the above options are definable for each custom content item

Customisation

• Ability to define the width of the content area when located on the left or right side (in StyleVars for vB4, CSS for vB3)

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Neptun]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

This is due to an issue with vB's built-in friendly URL function for the CMS. It is currently due to be fixed in the 4.1.12 release. In the mean time, give me the structure of your CMS links, and I can tell you the code modifications to make in order for it to work on your site.

Brad

great - because i love this mod

i have instead of content.php -> /portal/

for example www.url.com/content.php?... -> www.url.com/portal/articel1


i hope that is what you mean - would be great if we can save this issue

[DragonByte Tech]

I may need a little more information than that, but we'll try for now. In the file widget.php (found in [forum]/dbtech/vbslider/actions), on lines 450 and 460, find the following code snip...

PHP Code:

<a href="' . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/content.php/' . $row[$i]['nodeid'] . '-' . $row[$i]['url'] . '"> 


Replace the content.php with portal. As I mentioned, we'll have to see, as it may need more changes, usually in the remainder of that code, for the order of the nodeid, dash, and url (123-this-is-your-article). If it is exactly how you show above(this-is-your-article-123), then make the overall code as follows:

PHP Code:

<a href="' . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/portal/' . $row[$i]['url'] . '-' . $row[$i]['nodeid'] . '"> 


Remember that you must change it on both line 450 (title link) and 460 (read more link). Hope that helps.

Brad

[Neptun]

great works perfect

[thecore762]

looking forward to see this working with vBadvanced.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by thecore762

looking forward to see this working with vBadvanced.

Ask, and ye shall receive. vBAdvanced module is available in the DO_NOT_UPLOAD folder of the v2.0.0 download. Let me know how it works for you.

Brad

[thecore762]

I went ahead and bought the pro version!
Buy it asap before this gets out of beta!
Price will go up once beta is done!!!

DBTech, excellent mod, I am loving it!!!!!!!!!!

Voted MOTM!

[ScarlosSantana]

I've recently downloaded and installed the lite version of this on my forum and I really like it but the only thing I'm wondering is why it shows no images for the threads even thought the actual threads have an image in every one of them.

I would buy the pro version if I could be assured that the problem can be fixed or at least minimized.

Also I've noticed that it doesn't work well with user's default text font & color.

[ScarlosSantana]

Upon further review I just paid for the 3 month version and it's not even loading images at all.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by ScarlosSantana

Upon further review I just paid for the 3 month version and it's not even loading images at all.

I've sent you a PM over on DBTech to try to help you solve your issue. Thanks.

Brad

[DragonByte Tech]

An issue with the CMS widget was discovered with the original v2.0.0 release. If you downloaded the latest version before this post, please re-download the package and reinstall. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Brad