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.

[wacnstac]

Looks like this hack might be dead with the addition of a CMS to VB4

[digitalhype]

This is just fantastic man. Absolutely exactly what I was wanting. Opted for a long time not to use any vb cms based system because I didn't like the ones that I saw and seemed to completely overlook this one. A big thank you.

You have a donation bro. Keep up the good work.

[CardMafia]

Excellent Mod, Nominated. Thank you.

[brainfood]

Hi,

Thanks for this great modification. I saw a discussion about bring in outside variables from a form using get or post. Did this ever get integrated into WebTemplates. If yes, is there a post with instructions.

Thanks!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by brainfood

Hi,

Thanks for this great modification. I saw a discussion about bring in outside variables from a form using get or post. Did this ever get integrated into WebTemplates. If yes, is there a post with instructions.

Thanks!

Yes, it is integrated. You can find details in the user manual.

[Gladhatter]

Mr. Logician I am not sure what others call this but I think I just died and went to heaven.

If the coder that showed me this is incapable, unwilling, not enought time, gets run over by a train, are you available for paid work?

I think I just found my custom greeting page and much more.

Thank you kind sir and may you be supported with more than words alone and your pockets bulge with coins as your heart has with kindness.

Charlie Swindall and note me as installed as it will be quite soon.

[XtremeOffroad]

Thank you so much for this Fantastic Addon.
Just the thing I was looking for.
Installed and working like a charm.

[brainfood]

Originally Posted by Logician

Yes, it is integrated. You can find details in the user manual.

Hi read through the users manual again and did not see what I am looking for. I did see a section titled "1.4.Variables You Can Use In Your WebTemplates:".

What I want to do is bring in a form variable (not an existing vBulletin variable) and then insert that form variable value into my SQL statement. I can do this just fine using just PHP/MySQL but the part that I am getting hung up on is where to place the appropriate code in the different sections of the WebQuery. For example do I bring in the variables from the form in the "Query PHPInclude Code (Before)" section of the WebQuery? I tried this and it didn't work.

How should the SQL syntax look for bringing in variable values that pull just those results from a particular column?

Thanks

[Logician]

The default webtemplate priv_privatemessages does exactly what you want. Have you checked it as a sample?

[Voyager-S]

Can anybody help me with this display issue I keep having? I posted the details in the Ultimate Side Columns, cause it seems to be related to it, but nobody has replied. Maybe you guys can help.

Thank you.