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.

[captainslater]

Still getting the error message from above. Strange?

edit: works now, mistake in path

May someone delete this message.

[goodguy]

The new file solved the database problems but now the portal homepage looks weird, probably me being dumb but any advice gratefully received.
Here is the portal Link

[Wayne Luke]

Did you customize the PORTAL template in any way? Try reverting it.

I'm using this system on a site without problems.

http://www.ridersofconquest.org/

[goodguy]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Did you customize the PORTAL template in any way? Try reverting it.

I'm using this system on a site without problems.

http://www.ridersofconquest.org/

The only ones I edited were the right and left columns kinda like this?


<if condition="$vboptions[portal_left_column]">
<td width="160" valign="top">
</td>
<td width="10">&nbsp;</td>
</if>
$navigation
$who_has_posted

[mxdan]

For some reason I get:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT t.threadid, t.title, t.lastpost, t.forumid, t.open, t.replycount, t.postusername, t.postuserid, t.lastposter, t.dateline, t.views, t.visible, t.firstpostid, f.title AS forumtitle, post.pagetext AS preview
FROM exeforum f
INNER JOIN exethread t ON t.forumid = f.forumid
LEFT OUTER JOIN exepost AS post ON post.postid = t.firstpostid WHERE t.forumid = 0 AND visible = 1
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 3;

Referrer :

(The reason it doesn't say index.php were it says portal is because I renamed it to figure out the problem and bring back the boards.)

[mxdan]

Sorry, please disregard that post, I got your new version =D.

[peterska2]

Originally Posted by goodguy

The only ones I edited were the right and left columns kinda like this?


<if condition="$vboptions[portal_left_column]">
<td width="160" valign="top">
</td>
<td width="10">&nbsp;</td>
</if>

Your edits to your columns are in the wrong place.

It needs to be

 <if condition="$vboptions[portal_left_column]">
<td width="160" valign="top">
$navigation
$who_has_posted
</td>
<td width="10">&nbsp;</td>
</if>

Check your right column template too, as its probably the same thing.

[goodguy]

Originally Posted by Kerry-Anne

Your edits to your columns are in the wrong place.

It needs to be

 <if condition="$vboptions[portal_left_column]">
<td width="160" valign="top">
$navigation
$who_has_posted
</td>
<td width="10">&nbsp;</td>
</if>

Check your right column template too, as its probably the same thing.

Magic, thanks a million, it looks great now.
Is it possible to display arcade scores in a custom block, can I find instructions somewhere?

Thanks for your help.

[osso12]

Before I mess my site up all over again, if we are upgrading from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3
what are the only changes need to be made?
I am assuming just reload the new product file, or do we need to upload all the php files as well?

[captainslater]

You need to update the php-file also.

Because there was the one mistake