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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)
Stats - 2 queries
New Posts - 1 query

Screen Shots:
Admin Homepage
Guest Homepage
Admin CP Options

Example Sites:
http://vbadvanced.com
http://plurplanet.com
http://digitalkore.net
http://differentdawn.com

Updates From v1.01 to v1.1

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.

Zachery · #**382** 01-23-2004, 01:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tigga

Well I'm actually working on the next version right now. The problem with the phrases being removed after a vB upgrade is a simple fix, but the templates will most likely always be removed. That one's not a big deal though since it only removes any that you haven't customized, plus there's the option in the installer to only install the templates.

What do you mean about the problems with the login block and calendar? There aren't any issues with either of those that I'm aware of...

Tigga its sorta urgent but try to check your email

tonight if possible

Tigga · #**383** 01-23-2004, 01:32 AM

Checked & replied.

Zachery · #**384** 01-23-2004, 01:36 AM

^^ silly me thanks

PET · #**385** 01-23-2004, 02:26 AM

Quote:

PET - See this post for the fix - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/show...24&postcount=53

It works now. Thanx

PET · #**386** 01-23-2004, 02:28 AM

Ah...i forghot. I have a question :

I want to create another news page. Like the normal NEWS...but on other category. How can i do that ?

For exemple the first page load's the NEWS forum. If i click on a new link i want it to load the "BLABLA" forum.

AshAbed · #**387** 01-23-2004, 08:38 AM

if i upgrade to vb3 rc3 will the new templates i created be deleted(the ones like index_page)?
thanks

RobAC · #**388** 01-23-2004, 11:03 AM

Probably a stupid question....but how do you add custom blocks to the index page? There are provisions for handling index_custom1 and index_custom2, but I don't see any instructions on how to add more custom blocks?

Milhouse · #**389** 01-23-2004, 02:40 PM

OK i have VB RC3 installed, I downloaded the vbadvanced from the 1 st post followed all instructions everything went smooth. However I have one Minor problem. When a guest gets to the main page, it asks them to login or register. Well however all the links are linking to the wrong place.

ie.( regisger.php should be /forums/register.php
ie.(login.php should be /forums/login.php

Basically all links avaialable including those in the footer, for archive, contact aer all linking wrong.. not sure what I did wrong. In vb options the home URL and the forums URL is set correctly, just the index page is not linking right.

I looked through these 26 pages and found a few related problems but not exactly specifying the same. Any help would be great. Thanx

Zachery · #**390** 01-23-2004, 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Milhouse

OK i have VB RC3 installed, I downloaded the vbadvanced from the 1 st post followed all instructions everything went smooth. However I have one Minor problem. When a guest gets to the main page, it asks them to login or register. Well however all the links are linking to the wrong place.

ie.( regisger.php should be /forums/register.php
ie.(login.php should be /forums/login.php

Basically all links avaialable including those in the footer, for archive, contact aer all linking wrong.. not sure what I did wrong. In vb options the home URL and the forums URL is set correctly, just the index page is not linking right.

I looked through these 26 pages and found a few related problems but not exactly specifying the same. Any help would be great. Thanx

sorta thought we phased this problem out

are you usin the most recent copys of the templates?

Quote:

Originally Posted by AshAbed

if i upgrade to vb3 rc3 will the new templates i created be deleted(the ones like index_page)?
thanks

customtemplates are not overwritten

Quote:

Originally Posted by RobAC

Probably a stupid question....but how do you add custom blocks to the index page? There are provisions for handling index_custom1 and index_custom2, but I don't see any instructions on how to add more custom blocks?

look at the bottom of the page were the there evaled

its about the same process

or check my sig for basics of vB3 and look specificly at how things are "evaled"

Milhouse · #**391** 01-23-2004, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faranth

sorta thought we phased this problem out

are you usin the most recent copys of the templates?

As i stated, vb3 rc3 is a fresh install. No modyfications have been done to it. I simply downloaded the zip file from the first post in this thread. Followed all instructions. All went smooth, all linked fine as far as news, polls, etc.

If I am at the portal page and logged in, everything is linking fine to the forums. news, poll, pm's latest threads. However the bottom footer that has ADMIN/ MOD/ Archive all those link wrong.

If a gues comes they will have to register/login/forget pass, all those links are wrong as well as the footer.

I have not made any changes, and used the templates that come in the zip file.

Even the forumjump links don't work. They also link to the wrong place.

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