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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]

Originally Posted by Milhouse

Why not include the correct install file with the zip in he first post? Would avoid this.

dont ask me, tigga might have forgoten to update the first post :P

[Milhouse]

Originally Posted by Darnell 0216

As someone mentioned either here or on vb.com, even though settings are automatically inputted, they don't always stick. In this case it is necessary to "Save" the instruction anyway even when it appears correctly. I've had to go to my smilies and click save on them anyway to make them work with the index page.

If only it was that easy.. LOL i tried it with no luck the icons display on forums but not on the portal

[Milhouse]

Originally Posted by Faranth

dont ask me, tigga might have forgoten to update the first post :P

I think so cuz i downloaded it yesterday adn i had to make that change manually.

:ermm:

[eger]

Originally Posted by tgmorris

Change:

,attachment.filename, filesize, attachment.visible

To:

,attachment.filename, attachment.filesize, attachment.visible

this code change worked. now i have a new problem. the middle news column does not display any posts. it only displays the very first thread created under the news forum with only the subject. see here: http://vbp.h4xed.us/ (this is a test site for the registered domain lglan.net)

also. i went through the install many times and it asked to set the icon options. but still,he icons next to the latest threads do not show. they are pointing to / instead of /forums i am guessing. maybe there is a template i can edit to fix this?

[Cossa]

Originally Posted by eger

this code change worked. now i have a new problem. the middle news column does not display any posts. it only displays the very first thread created under the news forum with only the subject. see here: http://vbp.h4xed.us/ (this is a test site for the registered domain lglan.net)

also. i went through the install many times and it asked to set the icon options. but still,he icons next to the latest threads do not show. they are pointing to / instead of /forums i am guessing. maybe there is a template i can edit to fix this?

I too have the same issue with the middle news column. It seems the oldest thread in the news forum is the only listed and without text.

I am on a virgin rc3 install.

[blubbi]

Just one little noob question ....

How can I show my forums when someone klicks on a Link. The forums should appear instead of the news.
I tried it with a Link '<a href="adv_index.php?page=index>Forum</a>' in the template 'index_custom1'.
Nothing I tried worked. Is it possible ??

Thx for any help

[trinitym]

I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before, there are so many posts to go through that I just skimmed and I probably missed it.

I've noticed that if a newsbit that posts to the font page contains a large block of quoted text using the tags, when it gets cut off per the character count specified it leaves out the end div tag and throws the whole layout out of wack. Is there a way around this?

If I missed it can someone link me? Thanks!

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Milhouse

If only it was that easy.. LOL i tried it with no luck the icons display on forums but not on the portal

Milhouse can you send me an admin login account? ill be happy to take a look at whats up
make sure i have full admin rights and am not just a admin, if you dont edit the admin permissions i cant help.

[eger]

im trying to find the previous version so i can compare what might have changed to fix the problem... i'm guessing it may just be a small typo or somethin like the previous.

[ImportPassion]

I am getting the blank page issue myself. New install of vBA with RC3. I have no clue what the prob is.