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.

[mmoore5553]

this has nothign to do with the mod ....webtemplates is a blessing ...

this just pulls your header and footer and other information.

Since you did not want this to be in your navigation bar then all you had to do was remove it from the navigation bar
blog_navbar_link template

you just had to comment out the line per below. This will take it out of the navigation bar at top for everything .

this was located at <!-- <td class="vbmenu_control"><a id="vbbloglinks" href="blog.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[blogs]</a><script type="text/javascript">vbmenu_register("vbbloglinks");</script></td> -->

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by mmoore5553

this has nothign to do with the mod ....webtemplates is a blessing ...

this just pulls your header and footer and other information.

Since you did not want this to be in your navigation bar then all you had to do was remove it from the navigation bar
blog_navbar_link template

you just had to comment out the line per below. This will take it out of the navigation bar at top for everything .

this was located at <!-- <td class="vbmenu_control"><a id="vbbloglinks" href="blog.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[blogs]</a><script type="text/javascript">vbmenu_register("vbbloglinks");</script></td> -->

Brilliant thanks!

[zelnik]

VBSEO problem..

Is there an easy fix?

I have added the content to my htaccess file, turned on SEO in the vboptions/webtemplates.

My site then tries to load a SEO friendly url but 404's even on the default examples that are in webtemplates.

Any ideas?

[ryancooper]

I love this addition to my boards. I am currently in the process of taking all my static pages and moving them into webtemplates.

One Question: How can I get a webquery that shows the latest 5 posts with the word X in the title.

On each page I want to show the latest 5 posts that have to do with the subject of that page. Thanks!

[ryancooper]

I tried something like this and it didn;t work

SELECT threadid, title, postusername,postuserid,dateline 
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread 
WHERE sticky=0 AND visible=1 AND title=castle
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 5

I was trying to show the 5 latest posts with the word castle in the subject line.

[1Unreal]

Could someone tell me how to put the following code into a page please. I don't understand this mod at all :|

PHP Code:

<?php
include('includes/config.php');

$sql = "SELECT * FROM list WHERE title LIKE '%$search%'";
//Create a PS_Pagination object
$pager = new PS_Pagination($con,$sql,10,10);
//The paginate() function returns a mysql
//result set for the current page
$rs = $pager->paginate();
//Loop through the result set

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs)) {
    $title=$row["title"];
    $url=$row["url"];
    $description=$row["description"];
    $lastcrawl=$row["lastcrawl"];    
    
echo '<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="600" align="center">
        <tr> <td class="tcat"><a href="'.rawurldecode($url).'">'.$title.'</a></td> </tr>
        <tr> <td class="alt1">'.$description.'</td> </tr>
        <tr> <td class="alt1">Date Crawled: '.$lastcrawl.'</td> </tr>
    </table>';
}

//Display the navigation

echo '<br /><center>' . $pager->renderFullNav() . '</center>';

?>

[singabaloo]

Great Mod. Installed it fairly easily and now I'm having a play.

I have seen a minor issue between this Mod and the BBCode Table mod The bbcode table mod has a .js script which it uses to automagically have any table column sortable by clicking on it. I have found that while the script does work when I create bbcode tables in posts, it doesn't seem to work within WebTemplates.

Has anyone else tried mixing these two Mods together ?

[externalaw.com]

Great add-on, externalaw.com has implemented it here http://www.externalaw.com/view.php?pg=jobsearch

[Ohiosweetheart]

Logician, are there any plans in the future to make this valid xhtml?

[GoTTi]

how do i get a site to load in a frame i guess using this? if i want www.yahoo.com to load on one of the webtemplates, what do i put in the template field and what do i set it to? php, html, text?

i cant figure out it. im trying to use a frame code and its not working. its showing the site i want to load but in a small little box and i dont have a size command in the code.