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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]

Originally Posted by 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.

Your showing up as licensed please try again.

[Starshift]

Same thing, i must be in the "registered" usergroup.

[Zachery]

Star you are showing up as licensed otherwise you wouldnt be able to post here

[Starshift]

yah, i know i can post here but on vbadvanced site, it refuses to allow me to download the vbadvance unless I am registered, and that site claims I am not a licensed vbulletin user. So I know this site is a-ok it's the vbadvanced site that is not working properly

[Zachery]

No the vBa website is working fine,. if you have confirmed your email take a gander at this

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/announcement.php?f=2

[kaotic]

After installing this hack, I seem to have a problem with when people view threads. The amount of views, even though they should be higher, will always be the number of replies+1. Is this a result of the installation of this hack, or was that just coincidental?

[TheSwede]

Having the same problem...being a licensed vBulleting user and it says i have no rights downloading...

[SomeName]

Originally Posted by 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.

Sorry I am just finding my way back to this, all of these sites are a bit overwhelming at first.

I think maybe you misunderstood with regard to what was happening on my end. I did not know if I could post at vb.org as I had never posted before with the exception of this thread (which could have been set with looser permissions to allow users who are experiencing problems to post as is the case on several boards that I frequent) but I knew that I couldn't see code here. I could NOT see the password in the password post until I quoted it in a new post. When I looked back to read the post that I had written, there was the password for all to see (which is why I edited that post). When I looked back at the initial password post, I still could not see the password though, I had to get it from the quoted post, which was the something weird that I referred to in my next post. I didn't want to say it out loud because I didn't want to be pointing out glitches to be abused by unlicensed users and I hope that as soon as an admin sees this post they will edit this part out. I didn't want to post it, but specifically recalled reading from one of the mods, to never never message them in any way shape or form (paraphrased of course) unless they specifically requested it. I waited for one of them to reply to my message. Since they did not, I posted it here.

I still cannot see the password in this post unless I quote it in a new post, but I can view code and download.

[GeeNX]

If I try to install the hack with the advindex_install.php this message appears:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in \forum\includes\functions.php on line 1864

What to do?

I use vB v 3.0.1 without any mods.

Thanks in advance.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by GeeNX

If I try to install the hack with the advindex_install.php this message appears:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in \forum\includes\functions.php on line 1864

What to do?

I use vB v 3.0.1 without any mods.

Thanks in advance.

reupload your original functions.php page and try again