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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.

DivisionByZero · #**832** 03-20-2004, 08:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Areku

Run article indexer from the installer...

umm... no that won't work.

Areku · #**833** 03-20-2004, 08:47 PM

So in the end we can't upgrade to VB gold?

cscgal · #**834** 03-20-2004, 09:00 PM

I upgraded by vB 3 RC 4 to gold with absolutely no problems at all. Check it out at http://www.daniweb.com

Areku · #**835** 03-20-2004, 10:33 PM

Which steps (in which order) did u follow to not overwrite vbadvanced?

Thanks!

chas_h · #**836** 03-20-2004, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Areku

Which steps (in which order) did u follow to not overwrite vbadvanced?

Thanks!

Here's what I did;

1) Upgrade to Vb-3 Gold (upload all files and run upgrade script, as per instructions).

2) Depending on which templates that you revert when upgrading to Gold (you have a choice) you may have to make all the edit changes as per the Vbandvanced instuctions (calendar templates, some files in the 'includes folder etc). Check those now and edit as needed.

3) Important! Re-upload the 'advindex_install.php' to the admincp folder and run that script again (http://yoursite.com/forum/admincp/advindex_install.php) but after you give the admin login CHOOSE THE THIRD OPTION , it;s something like;
Click here to install ONLY the templates (useful after upgrading vBulletin) -->
This will make the necesary updates to the new VB-3 files and you shouldn't lose any of your VBadvanced hacks, because those are left untouched, they don't get overwritten by VB-3 files with a couple of exceptions like the Navbar template etc.

Pretty much just following the original instructions except not uploading the index.php file and choosing the third option when runniing that script.

Chas.

P.s. To answer Powerpig's question, if you run the script to re-install the tempaltes you will probably have to go back into the Vbadvanced options section of the admincp and enter your news forum ID number etc to get that to show up again on the index page. This is all in the instructions for a 'new' install, you can download the zip again if you don't have those instructions.

Alien · #**837** 03-21-2004, 01:01 AM

chas above is correct... Follow that and you won't go wrong..

However, when you are doing the file edits you will notice one change from RC4 to GOLD:

Instead of looking for:

Code:

'forumhome' => $vbphrase['forum_home'],

In your includes/adminfunctions_template.php file, you'll want to search for this instead:

Code:

'forumhome' => $vbphrase['group_forum_home'],

That's it, you should be good to go!

Zachery · #**838** 03-21-2004, 01:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien

chas above is correct... Follow that and you won't go wrong..

However, when you are doing the file edits you will notice one change from RC4 to GOLD:

Instead of looking for:

Code:

'forumhome' => $vbphrase['forum_home'],

In your includes/adminfunctions_template.php file, you'll want to search for this instead:

Code:

'forumhome' => $vbphrase['group_forum_home'],

That's it, you should be good to go!

This hack works 100% fine with the one listed change by snowy and Alien above.

im about as offical as Tigga on the subject for vBa

Alien · #**839** 03-21-2004, 01:53 AM

You can take that to the bank!

chas_h · #**840** 03-21-2004, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien

chas above is correct... Follow that and you won't go wrong..

However, when you are doing the file edits you will notice one change from RC4 to GOLD:

Instead of looking for:

Code:

'forumhome' => $vbphrase['forum_home'],

In your includes/adminfunctions_template.php file, you'll want to search for this instead:

Code:

'forumhome' => $vbphrase['group_forum_home'],

That's it, you should be good to go!

Oops, you're right, I forgot to add that part. I was able to find it without that but it was a pain. Thanks for pointing that out.

Chas.

d3nnis · #**841** 03-21-2004, 04:58 AM

so is vbadvanced ready for vb 3 gold?

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