Portal Software - WebTemplates 3.7.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 3.7.x & 3.8.x ONLY. For vb 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.x and 2.x see my profile for relevant threads.)

"WebTemplates" is a vBulletin integrated Content Management System which allows you to create vb integrated "HTML" pages in your vb admin cp very easily. The pages can inherit your vbulletin skin/style, can recognize logged-in user, can be applied permissions per user or usergroup basis, can keep visit logs, hit counts and do many more.

VB4 version Update (9.9.2010): Please find 4.x version of WebTemplates4.x in its own thread.


WEBTEMPLATES 3.7.x BASIC FEATURES:

• Very Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file. It is coded as a vb product and can be imported very easily.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroups easily. So for instance you can design a webtemplate which only members can see while guests can not, or only user A can not see etc.
• Page Counter : Each webtemplate has a built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF/ON per webtemplate basis.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking : You can track certain users' (by usergroup or userid) webtemplate visits to see who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support : You can grant editing permissions for certain users or usergroups for your webtemplates individually and they will be able to update these webtemplates using their own editor interface. vB's WYSIWYG editor is supported in Editor interface.
• Page Browsers & Who is Online Display: Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while visitor is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin). Webtemplate visits can also be monitored in who is online page.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can automatically use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• Help Documents : The script comes with an extensive help document.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates : Your webtemplates can include an "admin panel" displayed to only admins and by using them you can access many details and stats of your page while you are browsing them.
• SEO friendly URLs: You can make webtemplate URLs seo friendly in vb settings (Requires apache server).
• XML Import/Export : XML Import/Export feature allows you to backup your webtemplates and use other hack users webtemplates in your board.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR ADVANCED USERS:

• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add "last 10 threads forum X", "most active users list" etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Multi Parsing : Webtemplates can parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts). This means you can design a page just like vb posts (TEXT parsing), standart HTML (HTML parsing) or even in PHP (PHP parsing).
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Theme Support : Webtemplates support "themes" which are parent webtemplates which include child webtemplates in them. For instance if you have 20 similiar pages which uses the same visual look, you can make a single theme for all of them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates supports VB3 template conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions.
• Default variables : You can use/display certain variables in your webtemplates like username of the visitor, visitor email address, last visit time, page creation time, page last edit time, Last visitor name, last visit time etc.

Sample WebTemplates from Sites using this hack:
(Some 3.5 and some are 3.0 versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so both will give you the idea.)

http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_mission.htm
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/view.php?pg=aboutus
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_guidelines.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_info.htm
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_books.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_spread.htm
http://www3.fertilethoughts.com/forums/view.php?pg=acronyms
http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/view.php?pg=makeuptalk-newsletter
http://www.bklab.com (entire site is designed with Webtemplates only)
(Actually this hack is one of the most popular vb hacks so it is used by hundreds -if not thousands- of vbulletin sites and you can easily find them if you go to google and search "Logician's WebTemplates" WITH quotation marks)

3.5 version Admin CP screenshot attached to this post. 3.0.x screenshots (here and here) also still applies for this version.

If you use the hack, clicking here will make sure you'll know about updates&bug fixes. It will also help me understand how many people is using the hack so please click the install button if you use it. Thank you..

About this 3.7.xx Version: This 3.7.xx version is same as previous 3.6.x version. 3.6.x version was already working in vbulletin 3.7.x except a few minor bugs and these bugs are fixed in this version to make it dedicated solely to vbulletin 3.7.x. Please see "what's new" in the next post for more details.

Version Updates:
29.July.2008 - > Version 3.7.00
* Hack 3.7.00 is released.

[dartho]

Maybe if you iframe it, you could check the referer in the autoindex page? something like the following added to the top?

PHP Code:

if ($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER] != 'http://www.forum.com/vb/view.php') {
print("GO AWAY!!");
exit;
} 


[gsmph]

@dartho

yes this will really works but i already have tried it the problem with this

PHP Code:

if ($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER] != 'http://www.forum.com/vb/view.php') {
print("GO AWAY!!");
exit;
} 


is that everytime you click a folder or download something the iframe just goes to blank screen and it never shows any data on it or list..

[singabaloo]

Originally Posted by singabaloo

Great Mod. Installed it fairly easily and now I'm having a play.

I have seen a minor issue between this Mod and the BBCode Table mod The bbcode table mod has a .js script which it uses to automagically have any table column sortable by clicking on it. I have found that while the script does work when I create bbcode tables in posts, it doesn't seem to work within WebTemplates.

Has anyone else tried mixing these two Mods together ?

Bumping this question. Seems to have gotten lost. Has anyone managed to get these two mods working together properly ?

[Elenna]

Good morning!

I am trying to make a "My RSVPs" page, that uses a WT query to pull in someone's RSVPs from Farcaster's modification.

I have the query working when I hard-code the username into the WT Query, but I can't seem to get it to automatically pass the currently-logg-in username to the query.

I attempted to use the private messages sample to get it to pass it via a form, but it isn't working for me.

Is there a way to pass a vBulletin variable (like $bbuserinfo[username]) to a query without using a form?

If a form (like the private message sample) is the only way to do it, does anyone know the "must have" parts of the template and query to make it work?



Edit: I answered my own question! You can use $user_username, so I was using the wrong variable. All is well!

[zelnik]

Hoping someone can help.

I've been using a custom style for my forum and webtemplates was working fine on it but I have reverted back to the default vB style and I'm having problems.

Basically it's not showing the white of the background, See attached photo.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm using VB 3.8.2

[Logician]

Originally Posted by zelnik

Hoping someone can help.

I've been using a custom style for my forum and webtemplates was working fine on it but I have reverted back to the default vB style and I'm having problems.

Basically it's not showing the white of the background, See attached photo.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm using VB 3.8.2

Tried to change header/footer info in the webtemplate your are using?

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by Logician

Tried to change header/footer info in the webtemplate your are using?

If you mean have I copied the info from the vb default style header/footer templates into the header/footer section on webtemplates then yes I have done that and it's still doing it

[Logician]

Originally Posted by zelnik

If you mean have I copied the info from the vb default style header/footer templates into the header/footer section on webtemplates then yes I have done that and it's still doing it

Please edit your webtemplate, and tell me what it tells for "Header" and "Footer" options. If it is set as "Default Webtemplate Header", set it as "Default Vbulletin Header" (or viceversa!) and let's see if it will help

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by Logician

Please edit your webtemplate, and tell me what it tells for "Header" and "Footer" options. If it is set as "Default Webtemplate Header", set it as "Default Vbulletin Header" (or viceversa!) and let's see if it will help

Hi Logicon, firstly thanks so much for your support and help it's really appreciated.

I have changed the the head/footer from Default vbulletin header/footer to default webtemplate and it does exactly the same.

I've also mixed it up with header/footer so having the header as default vb and footer as default webtemplate and vis versa and still the same

I have also reinstalled the main .xml and that has done nothing

Edit: Also all the default templates that came with the package (like site rules etc) suffer from the same problem!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by zelnik

Hi Logicon, firstly thanks so much for your support and help it's really appreciated.

I have changed the the head/footer from Default vbulletin header/footer to default webtemplate and it does exactly the same.

I've also mixed it up with header/footer so having the header as default vb and footer as default webtemplate and vis versa and still the same

I have also reinstalled the main .xml and that has done nothing

Edit: Also all the default templates that came with the package (like site rules etc) suffer from the same problem!

If you changed header/footer templates or header/footer webtemplates or WT themes, please try reverting them. If you are sure all are default and you have the problem, let me know your URL and give me admin cp access so that I can check. But I'm positive it must be related to something you changed in templates or webtemplates.