Portal Software - WebTemplates 4.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 4.x and above. For vb 3.x, version 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.


WEBTEMPLATES 4.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:
(Most are from 3.x versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so all 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://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)

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..

From FAQ 13: Vbulletin already has a CMS now , why would I need this hack?

If you have CMS license, you might not need Webtemplates. On the other hand, CMS license is paid, webtemplates is free and many forum owners don't have CMS licenses.

Also please note that vb has CMS since 2010. Webtemplates was first released for vb2.x in 2002 and it was around in vb3.x, 3.5.x and above for thousands of vbulletin users who have developed their sites around webtemplates CMS. So regardless of new vb CMS owners might or might not need it, Webtemplates 4.x is still realased and supported as a courtesy to its old users and fans. I personally prefer and use Webtemplates over vb CMS and this hack lives for people who agrees with me.

Version Updates:
12.October.2013 - > Version 4.0.2
* Minor fixes for PHP 5.4.x (Fixes "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated" errors in new PHP versions.
14.July.2012 - > Version 4.0.1
* Vbulletin changed WYSIWYG editor parsing in vb4.2.x so hack's editor.php is updated accordingly.
9.September.2010 - > Version 4.0.00
* Hack 4.00.00 is released.

[Gn_Snake]

Originally Posted by Logician

Your custom skin has an additional CSS which you need to add to WT's head section:

<link href="http://www.hardwaregame.it/forum/clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00035l/additional.css?d=1458772949" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">

I'm sorry i did not understand what i enter, and where?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake

I'm sorry i did not understand what i enter, and where?

I think easiest will be if you pm me your admin cp details.

[dmm2020]

Question I have: Does the HTML version parse the PHP tags if I embed them into HTML in this mod? I want to create some custom forms for my website with it.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by dmm2020

Question I have: Does the HTML version parse the PHP tags if I embed them into HTML in this mod? I want to create some custom forms for my website with it.

HTML version does not parse PHP tags but there is also a PHP version which can directly run PHP so I believe you can use that one.

[dmm2020]

Originally Posted by Logician

HTML version does not parse PHP tags but there is also a PHP version which can directly run PHP so I believe you can use that one.

Question I have then, does PHP version parse embedded HTML or do I have to echo the whole thing?

[dmm2020]

Reason being, is when I get to it in the next few days, I need to design a form that receives GET and POST data and then pass that on via email or PM depending on what I decide to do with it.

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by dmm2020

Reason being, is when I get to it in the next few days, I need to design a form that receives GET and POST data and then pass that on via email or PM depending on what I decide to do with it.

In my opinion, you would likely be better off simply creating a custom page that renders a custom template containing the form, and a support script that handles the actions based on the data input into the form.

I'm not trying to discourage use of this product...we use it at MHB in fact, but for the purpose you have stated, I would use my own custom code instead.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by dmm2020

Question I have then, does PHP version parse embedded HTML or do I have to echo the whole thing?

It parses embed HTML. Eg. this works:

// This is a TEST PHP Code to demonstrate webtemplates hack PHP parsing  feature:

echo "Time now is $today<br><br>";

echo "You  registered <b>this</b> board at ".date('M-d-Y  h:i:s',$vbulletin->userinfo[joindate]);

?>

<p><i>hello</i></p>
<?php 

exit;

[dmm2020]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

In my opinion, you would likely be better off simply creating a custom page that renders a custom template containing the form, and a support script that handles the actions based on the data input into the form.

I'm not trying to discourage use of this product...we use it at MHB in fact, but for the purpose you have stated, I would use my own custom code instead.

Actually, too much effort to create a complete custom product. I finished a form in 2 daysusing dhtmlx ajax and it's working fine and hope to go live with it this weekend on my website.

Still trying to figure out what issues was with other coders in the forum because I have this product completely implemented and replacing the vB CMS on my website.

[WOLF-G4MIN-X]

Not to sound stupid or anything, but I really dont get this. I installed it, i also get what its for, but the whole themes thing I dont understand. How can I at least have the theme be the same as my current vB theme ? Is that whole thing very complicated ?

I wish i would have the vBCMS, but my vB4 license back then I bought without the CMS, and I sure dont pay 200 Dollar or more to get it now for something A) i already have, the forum, and B) I dont want/need vB5.

Could someone maybe explain to me, how I can theme it the way I have my current site theme ?
Any help would be appreciated.