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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.

[ImportPassion]

appears to be craping out on this

globalize($_REQUEST, array('page' => STR));

I did some echo tests and the output appears everywhere b4 this line but not after, but it isn't throwing any errors?

[AutomatikStudio]

I've read all the posts here about fixing to make the post icons and smilies show up on the front page...but I just can't get them to work. I'm using direct paths to my images (http://boards.site.com/images/....) but it's just not working. When I check my source code for the front page it's showing the images as being linked like this: images/icons/ .....so i'm a bit confused. I can't give you a link to my site b/c it's closed as I upgrade to RC3

[ImportPassion]

this is weird. If I delete lines 3-77 and run it, I get no errors?!

[digitalSite]

Tigga, I Love the plurplanet.com site! That is the look I have been searching for about a year now! Can you show me how you made it? Or at least point me to the right direction on how to create those "faded" images? I am looking for a red/black fade.

Because your site has the look that I want, I am moving to vbAdvanced and upgrading my vb. PLEASE let me know what I have to do to put those faded images in the boxes.

Your help and advice is GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks!

[Sergio68]

Updated right now to VB3 RC3 and uninstalled then installed again your hack.
When I select the news forum I got an error like this :

mysql error: Column: 'filesize' in field list is ambiguous

mysql error number: 1052

www.digitalforum.it

Any ideas?

[CarolinaKid]

Originally Posted by Sergio68

Updated right now to VB3 RC3 and uninstalled then installed again your hack.
When I select the news forum I got an error like this :

mysql error: Column: 'filesize' in field list is ambiguous

mysql error number: 1052

www.digitalforum.it

Any ideas?

here is prob more than likely https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=368

[CarolinaKid]

Originally Posted by AutomatikStudio

I've read all the posts here about fixing to make the post icons and smilies show up on the front page...but I just can't get them to work. I'm using direct paths to my images (http://boards.site.com/images/....) but it's just not working. When I check my source code for the front page it's showing the images as being linked like this: images/icons/ .....so i'm a bit confused. I can't give you a link to my site b/c it's closed as I upgrade to RC3

I could be wrong but, Your forums images such as smile and all are located at www.board-site.com/forums so you need the image folders to use ...../forums/images/icons/ not images/icons/

[Sergio68]

Originally Posted by CarolinaKid

here is prob more than likely https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=368

Thx

[Lee Wisener]

Fantastic addon, really easy to use, which it easier for me!

[jaliam]

Originally Posted by Tigga

What did you enter in the chdir line in your adv_index.php file?

Here is what I posted in the chdir line in my adv_index.php file.

chdir('/home/bibletr/public_html/forums')

What is wrong with this directory? Please advise so I can work on my portal again. Thanks very much.

And now, I got these lines...

Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/bibletr/public_html/index.php on line 13

Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bibletr/public_html/index.php on line 74

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/bibletr/public_html/index.php on line 74