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.

[brycea]

<a href="http://healthcommunity.co/view.php?pg=invalid_pg" target="_blank">http://healthcommunity.co/view.php?pg=invalid_pg
</a>

I would like to change or delete the 'page visit log' that appears on this page and change the URL. Can this be done?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by brycea

http://healthcommunity.co/view.php?pg=invalid_pg


I would like to change or delete the 'page visit log' that appears on this page and change the URL. Can this be done?

To "not to log" a page's visitors, edit that webtemplate, find section "Logged Usergroups" and uncheck all usergroups. Also make sure "Logged Usernames" section is blank.

To delete log, go to log page (URL /editors.php?do=readlogs&pg=WEBTEMPLATE), at the end of page, click "Clear logs for this webtemplate" page.

URL to "invalid_pg" webtemplate can not be changed because this is not a regular webtemplate it is an "error page". However you can edit its content to display anything you like in it.

[forumrunt]

Can I get the Site navigation on the right side using this? I installed it and like it but a few issues I have

Seems I cant use tables as it pushes all the info to the botom

Cant figure out how to get the site navigation block or other blocks on the page

Can someone help me please

[N8]

Hey Logician - Is there a way to change dateline from displaying the time: "5 Hours Ago - 11:57 PM"

And have it only display ie. "5 Hours Ago" ?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by N8

Hey Logician - Is there a way to change dateline from displaying the time: "5 Hours Ago - 11:57 PM"

And have it only display ie. "5 Hours Ago" ?

In which section do you mean exactly? logs?

[N8]

Sorry I mean from within a webquery

[Logician]

Originally Posted by N8

Sorry I mean from within a webquery

That part of the hack is inheriting date/time format you set in vbulletin options. So if you change vb option, it will also change accordingly.

But if you want to keep your vb option like that but only change webqueries, you can modify "view.php", find this line:

PHP Code:

$WQfield[$WTWQqdateparsedvalue] = WTdatelineTOusertime($WQfield[$WTWQqdateparsedvalue]);} 


and replace it as:

PHP Code:

$WQfield[$WTWQqdateparsedvalue] = 
vbdate("Y-m-d", $WQfield[$WTWQqdateparsedvalue], true).' - '.vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $WQfield[$WTWQqdateparsedvalue]);} 


There are 2 instances of this line and you need to change both. You can use anyother format you like instead of "Y-m-d". For other formats check:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

[N8]

Thanks Logician

I tried those edits, however It changed (ie.) 3 days ago - to Y-m-d format.

Is there a way to have it simply say "X Days ago" without the time after?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by N8

Thanks Logician

I tried those edits, however It changed (ie.) 3 days ago - to Y-m-d format.



Is there a way to have it simply say "X Days ago" without the time after?

Try this line:

PHP Code:

$WQfield[$WTWQqdateparsedvalue] = 
vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $WQfield[$WTWQqdateparsedvalue], true);} 


[N8]

Perfect. I really appreciate it, thanks!