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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 · #**312** 01-19-2004, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mbanje

I have read the install file and followed it to the letter and all has installed okay. I even mnaged to install the Arcade which is more complicated than the Vbadvanced homepage. I just cannot seem to get the side blocks to appear. I purchased 2 licences and when installing Vbulletin myself there were 13 steps. My colleague installed the same version and there were 42 steps. I am totally confused. The Vbulletin forum is working ok. Help, please.

if your willing can you PM me OR Tigga an Admin Account so either one of us can check things out, i know ill be avlaible today but Tigga comes and goes and checks the board when he can

if you dont feel safe with me checking you can more than wait for him

if you do pm him make sure i told you to pm him ^^

Alone Wolf · #**313** 01-19-2004, 12:45 PM

I installed this portal but now I have a question.
I want to log_in to forum when I am at index. However, I did not see the button to link to forum. If I want, I must type htt://mysite/forum.

RobAC · #**314** 01-19-2004, 01:17 PM

Is it possible to get the latest forum topics in a center block rather than a side block?

Zachery · #**315** 01-19-2004, 04:47 PM

yes i belive it just needs moving ^^

Alonewolf, if youd like a link on the front page that ONLY shows on the front page, but on the forums it shows a link back to the front page

try this

open adv_index.php

find

PHP Code:


			
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);

add

PHP Code:


			
under define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'adindex');

open your navbar and find

HTML Code:

<!-- nav buttons bar -->
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top-width:0px">
<tr align="center">

add under

HTML Code:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == adindex"><a href="link to forum"> Forums </a><else /><a href="link to index page"> Index </a></if>

Symbian.info · #**316** 01-19-2004, 04:51 PM

How can I ad a welcome block above the news blocks?? And that welcome message block must be a template. So anyone?

tgmorris · #**317** 01-19-2004, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Symbian.info

How can I ad a welcome block above the news blocks?? And that welcome message block must be a template. So anyone?

Well, not sure if you've seen it already but there's this.

Symbian.info · #**318** 01-19-2004, 05:40 PM

Thanks, that is what I mean. Nope didn't see it.. sorry..

snakes1100 · #**319** 01-19-2004, 05:54 PM

Hey All
Well looks like there may still be one bug, read all thru the post, didn't see a comment on it, just downloaded the file yesterday, had no issues installing it.

vb 3.0 RC 2

Seems that on refreshing the buddy list is adding dupes to your buddy list, on inital navigation to the front page, the buddy list displays the names only once.

After a refresh it begins to add duplicate listings of ppl in your buddy list.

Has anybody seen this yet or is it just me?

mbanje · #**320** 01-19-2004, 08:31 PM

Hi Guys

I told you I was a newbie. A mate told me how to config the templates and all working ok. LOL Now I'm ready to take over the world.

Anyone want to vice president? - thx again

CdaKnight · #**321** 01-19-2004, 10:32 PM

Hi, I am having a cookie problem. Logging in from the main page (so the welcome panel works) doesn't work. :\

I went through the template (the main one), and set all form references to be on the $vboptions[bburl] (or equivillant variable... I don't remember what its called).

My forum is a vB 3 RC2, and installed on a sub domain. My Cookie path is '/' w/o the single quotes, and my cookie domain is blank. vB told me to put these settings in, although they ahve been causing more problems than they've solved...

Any ideas on why the login won't work?

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