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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 paratek

Because regular users don't have access to those forums so they should not be able to see those posts on the latest post page.

Also, when i click on the calendar it is pointing to the wrong url. where would i change that?

and lastly, how would i go about putting php code in the custom box? Something like a server status block for a gaming server etc.

Great program

have you logged out to check to see if there generating posts from a pirvet forum to regular / unregistered members?

if it is you havent setup your permissions correctly

[paratek]

All permissions set correctly. they do not have access to these forums. I just excluded the forums i don't want to be seen....i'll have to live with that for now.

[Zachery]

if permissions are set correctly via the forum manager no user that cant see it would see it. YOU can see it because your permissions to see it

[Tigga]

Sarge - I have no idea how that could have happened... All you did was modify the URL's in the vB options section? About the best thing I could suggest would be to upload the original, unhacked files to your site and see if that makes a difference. If not, the only other thing I could think of is something you put in one of those fields is causing it. If that's the case, about the only way to fix it would be to manually edit those things in the datastore table in your database.

paratek - I'm about to send you a PM regarding the permissions...
The calendar URL can be fixed by looking in your calendar_smallmonth_header template, finding calendar.php, and adding $vboptions[bburl]/ in front of it.
You can't put php code in any of the custom templates... You can put the code in the adv_index.php file and use the variables in the custom templates though, or you can use vBulletin's conditionals.

[sarge0087]

Originally Posted by Faranth

you have extra space somewhere after ?> or before <?php

The first line in the file says: "<?php"

Without the quotes of course.

[Zachery]

what about at the end of the file is there anywhite space after ?>

[Tigga]

It's affecting his entire forum, so it wouldn't have anything to do with an error in the index.php file... I would almost put money on my guess that he entered something into the value for those settings and that's what's causing the problem... Either that, or another file had to have been changed.

[sarge0087]

It started to happen after I changed the homepage URL for my site. Now I can't get back to my admincp

[sarge0087]

Nope, no space at the end of that.

[sarge0087]

What file could I go into to manually change the homepage settings?