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.
Show Your Support
This modification may not be copied, reproduced or published elsewhere without author's permission.
There isn't, but I'll get one taken later tonight when I'm on the other computer. In the meantime, to put it simply, have a look at, lets say, forum display options found in the vB options. Thats just one picked at random, but the entire minimalistic ACP is set in the vBOptions so it gives you an idea. The base system (ie the main portal with no add-on's) is a mere 6 settings in vBOptions, and once they are set you should never have any need to change them.
Yeah the portal deserves all appreciation .. great Job.
Only one issue this and all past portals have, can't optimize the portal page outside the forums folder, it's annoying to change all images in templates that might be used in the portal, or to have the CSS embed instead of linked, or even putting full URL of CSS images.
What's the solution to have the portal page outside the forum's folder, without doing those modifications?
What's the solution to have the portal page outside the forum's folder, without doing those modifications?
No matter what you do it will require some sort of modification to a template somewhere. You could try just using a <base> directive in your headinclude. Not sure what the overall effect would be but I really can't foresee any problems. It simply makes relative links into absolute links.
vBonjour - Portal System Details »»
About Developer
Visit Web Site
Uses Plugins 
No support by the author.
01-29-2007, 01:34 PM
