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Official Support Forums vBadvanced.com is now open! There you will find more information regarding vBadvanced Homepage, FAQ's, hacks & modifications, and more.
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)
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.
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This modification may not be copied, reproduced or published elsewhere without author's permission.
I want now to set up the forum so that everyone has to go through the portal. The portal sits at http://legionsofloki.com/adv_index.php. If someone were to go to http://legionsofloki.com/Forum they get to the forum main page. Is it possible for that link to resolve down to the adv_index to make them use the portal?
VB3.0 allows you to change the name of index.php page of the forum. Try re-naming it to forum.php and change the setting in the Admincp to reflect that change. Then create a blank index.php page in the /forum directory and re-direct that to http://yourdomain.com/ via Cpanel or whatever.
Hell, that's the only way I know to do it, but I'm sure there's tons of ways like .htaccess.
What's the easiest way to get the top bits (nav bar, logo, etc) on the index page to work? I believe pasting "$vboptions[abspath]" before URL's in the templates will get you there but which templates will require editing?
The new version of Vbadvanced uses VB's $navbar. I just copied my forums $header into my index_header template for the header.
VB3.0 allows you to change the name of index.php page of the forum. Try re-naming it to forum.php and change the setting in the Admincp to reflect that change. Then create a blank index.php page in the /forum directory and re-direct that to http://yourdomain.com/ via Cpanel or whatever.
Hell, that's the only way I know to do it, but I'm sure there's tons of ways like .htaccess.
would that involve rejigging all of my hacks etc that refer to the forum index.php
Create a file called info.php with the following content:
<? phpinfo(); ?>
Then upload that file to your server and go to it in your browser. You will see a list of options that were set by your host. One of them is called:
_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]
Copy that path, paste it over what you currently have for your path in the adv_index.php file, and reupload your adv_index.php file.
<a href="http://forums.rebelliongfx.com/adv_index.php" target="_blank">http://forums.rebelliongfx.com/adv_index.php</a>
i tried to add the shoutbox on another page... the phrases dont show up and the scroll-section where the shouts should be dont show up
if it doesnt take a lot of your time could you possibly tell me how i could fix it
Thanks alot
*EDIT* my mistake, meant to put this in the shoutbox thread, not the portal
http://forums.rebelliongfx.com/adv_index.php
i tried to add the shoutbox on another page... the phrases dont show up and the scroll-section where the shouts should be dont show up
if it doesnt take a lot of your time could you possibly tell me how i could fix it
Thanks alot
*EDIT* my mistake, meant to put this in the shoutbox thread, not the portal
LOL if the phrases dont show up its because you didnt include a ceratin file id image or preform somthing that makes them requred
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01-10-2004, 05:15 PM
