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.

[Shanj]

Originally Posted by Logician

Considering they are already making it a built-in feature, why don't they provide bbcode editing too? I bet their forum system would have WYSIWYG editor, so it shouldn't be too difficult for its devs to bring it into their pages. Do they tell why not?

Logician I totally agree. I was asking and asking for it and so were others.
Kier said it was not a difficult thing / would be an easy mod. Nor did he rule out adding it to the core XF. But a) it would interfere with the template syntax (I thin k that's what he said, meaning the bits of code like conditionals you can add in?) and b) it wasn't on the priority list.

I too made the point that we were using a WYSWYG editor whenever we wrote a forum post so this was much the same thing. I saw others saying this. I guess the only bit that fits this point is the one about code conflict? <shrug>

To me this is a major flaw. For one thing the modding community at XF is enthusiastic but not very developed. There are few mods of any substance. (Possibly because XF is designed on unfamiliar lines.) But I was trailing for a WYSWYG editor in my signature on daily posts for weeks with no response. So it's all a definitely later later situation.

Quite a few admins were very sniffy about it all - one even said you shouldn't be an admin if you can't code htrml !!!!
But although I can do it, it's a pain in the backside and much slower to log into admin, find the section, and code the page, instead of clicking on the page with usergroup access and just updating some info.
Also it means I can't delegate to my mods - forum mods need many social skills and it's a rare bird that has both these and html.

So finally I find the XFPages a lovely starter but pretty well unusable except in a small scale way - a FAQ or forum rules, or a handful of pages.
Whereas with WYSWYG on the frontend like your Templates we have a highly controllable cms - I use the VBSide Columns mod as well.

Thank you again and again for your excellent excellent mod. A real classic.

[viper357]

Quick question Logician

I have the following 4 tables in my db, I assume these are from when I had your old web template system installed, would it be safe to delete these tables or are they still used with this version?

wt35_query 7.5 KB 2.0 KB 0 Yes
wt35_theme 10.1 KB 2.0 KB 0 Yes
wt35_visitlog 288 Bytes 3.0 KB 0 Yes
wt35_webtemplate 1.35 MB 3.0 KB 0 Yes

[Logician]

Originally Posted by viper357

Quick question Logician

I have the following 4 tables in my db, I assume these are from when I had your old web template system installed, would it be safe to delete these tables or are they still used with this version?

wt35_query 7.5 KB 2.0 KB 0 Yes
wt35_theme 10.1 KB 2.0 KB 0 Yes
wt35_visitlog 288 Bytes 3.0 KB 0 Yes
wt35_webtemplate 1.35 MB 3.0 KB 0 Yes

These are part of webtemplates 3.7 version (and you are now in ITS thread). If you mean you upgraded to 4.x version, then yes they can be dropped as mentioned in the "UPGRADE FROM VERSION 3.x.TXT" file of WT 4.x version.

[viper357]

Thanks.

p.s. I'm still on vb 3.8, so if you add any updates to the 4.x version, don't forget about us mortals further down the food chain.

Thanks for the awesome hack :up:

[Logician]

Originally Posted by viper357

Thanks.

p.s. I'm still on vb 3.8, so if you add any updates to the 4.x version, don't forget about us mortals further down the food chain.

Thanks for the awesome hack :up:

If you are on vb 3.8, then please do not remove these tables. 3.7/3.8 versions use same (these) tables. They are only obselete in 4.x version.

Actually for now, 4.x users are mortals down the food chain because I myself is also using 3.5.x version.

[viper357]

If you are on vb 3.8, then please do not remove these tables. 3.7/3.8 versions use same (these) tables. They are only obselete in 4.x version.

Cool, thanks.

Actually for now, 4.x users are mortals down the food chain because I myself is also using 3.5.x version.

Good to hear :up::up::up:

[Shanj]

For some of my forums it would be great if I could set a redirect so after a reply the user goes to a specific page.
I just want this on selected forums. If anyone can help please let me know.

[Legend Killer1]

yes i installed this mod today exactly the way it tells u in the install instructions and now i got some kinda error saying:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 55

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 107

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 111

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 119

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 130

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 134

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 142

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 211

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 389

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 2552

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php
Line: 55

what does this mean and how can i fix this i would appreciate any help thanks

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Legend Killer1

yes i installed this mod today exactly the way it tells u in the install instructions and now i got some kinda error saying:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 55

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 107

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 111

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 119

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 130

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 134

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 142

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 211

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php on line 389

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/class_core.php on line 2552



Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/wlxstrea/public_html/forum/includes/init.php
Line: 55

what does this mean and how can i fix this i would appreciate any help thanks

This is vb 3.7 version of the hack. Are you sure you didn't install into a vb4.x board?

[Legend Killer1]

yes im sure this is the right install cause my vbulletin forum is 3.8 and this hack is suppose to be for 3.7 and 3.8 my forum is xws-hd.com/forum