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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.

[badham]

Ok, alittle help here. I love this portal, but Ihave one issue I need to correct and have yet to do so. I run my board so that unregistered user can not see the forums. So when the hit the url www.mysite.com, they get the vb3 login box. But when you enter your name and password it reverts to www.mysite.com to look for login.php instead of www.mysite.com/forums/login.php. I had this problem with vb2 using tecks portal but was able to modify a template and get it pointied to the right place. I have had no luck with VB3. any help is appreciated.

badham

[SomeName]

Originally Posted by Tigga

vBadvanced.com Account Upgrade Password:

PHP Code:

edited out because pw showed up even though it said "if you cannot see the password here..." 


If you cannot see the password in the box above it is because you are showing up as unlicensed here. To be able to download hacks and/or receive support here at vBulletin.org, we ask you to please click here (vB-germany users click here) and enter your email address, to show us that you are licensed.

You will need to use your customer number and password (which will be in the email you got when you paid for your license) to access that page. Please note that your email is case sensitive.


Note: This will change on a regular basis, but once you have been marked as licensed there will be no need to enter the password again.

Trying to use http://www.vbadvanced.com/index.php?page=license

have been through it 3 times now. even rearranged the e-mail addresses so that the one that matches this one is listed first. Any help?

Sure would be nice if we didnt hafta go chasin stuff from this board to that. :ermm:

edit: so I guess it's fixed... :tired: I hope you guys will find some way to combine all of your wonderful efforts into one place so that users don't have to keep logging in and out of 1500 sites (ok ok I exaggerate maybe 1499 sites).

[SomeName]

Something very strange happened here. I would rather not post it because it may or may not be a means for unlicensed users to obtain the password. Would a moderator or someone message me so I can inform you of what just occured with my registration? Thanks

[OGT]

you are misunderstanding the system.

in order for a site to offer vBulletin Hacks or mods in accordance with the vB terms of use, the site may only service licensed members of vBulletin. vB.org, vB.com, and vBtemplates.com are hte only 3 official sites that vBulletin recognizes, and they block out the code tags to anyone who is not registered with vBulletin.

vBAdvanced is using this blocking to ensure the only people able to download their hack from their site is by being a licensed vBulletin member.

Since you can post and see code at vB.org, the official vB hacks site, you can see the password typed in a code field in this thread. simply copy and paste this password in the link you provided above, and you can download and register the hack.

[scotshibee]

Hi got the password but when i enter it i get the following error

We're sorry, but you must be in the "Registered" usergroup to be able to verify your license. If you feel that you have reached this page in error, please feel free to contact us.

kenny

[badham]

Same for me, I get the password, but when I enter it it gives me the same error as above. And I know it is not a licence issue, I have several owned licences. Also can I get some help on that standard error lite template so it will work on the vbadvanced home page.

badham

[iChambers]

Some or all of my template was removed; So now the system is down cause of it. I figure I could just run the install to get them back but no that did not work I get the following errors.

Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/abcjoe/public_html/install/advindex_install.php on line 11

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/abcjoe/public_html/install/advindex_install.php on line 11

those errors come from the install file. How can I uninstall this system completely and reinstall it?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by iChambers

Some or all of my template was removed; So now the system is down cause of it. I figure I could just run the install to get them back but no that did not work I get the following errors.


Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/abcjoe/public_html/install/advindex_install.php on line 11

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/abcjoe/public_html/install/advindex_install.php on line 11

those errors come from the install file. How can I uninstall this system completely and reinstall it?

You need to put this file in your admincp directory, not the install folder.

[Loyalty4Life]

I installed - it went great. One minor problem though. I am logged in on my forum index page, but when I access my home page, it shows me as not logged in. How do I fix that?

[Starshift]

I left site feedback, but anyways for other to know, I have found a bug on the site that prevents people from downloading the software. Claiming that I am not a registered vbulletin user... lol, not true, and just wondering if anybody else ran against this.