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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.

Amzadi · #**1152** 06-07-2004, 12:34 AM

You mean for VB?
Best VB Pro - Still the best Forum software available.
Worst VB Con - Only works with MySQL database software. Not a good choice for corporations wanting to use Oracle, MsSQL or any other database software.

As for your problems regarding hacks, it sounds like you need to get someone more in touch with MySQL and PHP to fix it for you.

0zone · #**1153** 06-08-2004, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FallingIdol

I have a question in the read me it says to in the includes/adminfunctions_template.php to find 'forumhome' => $vbphrase['forum_home'], I can only find this 'forumhome' => $vbphrase['group_forum_home'] I was wondering if anyone could help me i searched using the find and everything can anyone help.

'forumhome' => $vbphrase['group_forum_home']

That is the phrase you want.

In the install file they left out 'group_.

|oR|Greg · #**1154** 06-09-2004, 01:43 PM

With this hack, can the index.php be renamed to something like main.php and everything still work?

Highlander · #**1155** 06-10-2004, 05:33 AM

everything is working fine, but i noticed a little error.
This error only shows up, if the user is not logged in or a guest (unregitered user).

The Error:
The page loads normally, but a script error is reported in IE v6.0 on line 2. You know the script Errors reported in IE, you can klick on details or klick OK so the browser will go on, the page still loads and the content is showing without problems, but this message is slicky for first time visitors .. they see an error and are closing the page ..
If users are logged in, no script error message is reported, also in the bottomline of the brwoser nothing is reported .. only guests or not logged in users get this error.

It says something from undefined ... error on line 2

i have no idea what this can be, please help me out to kill this little bug/error

thanx
Highlander

himerus · #**1156** 06-14-2004, 04:09 PM

Does anyone have a query set up to pull the last posts from the DB rather than the original thread?

I want to highlight a couple of forums, and have the most recent post & posters info show up rather than the original post from thread, as many of them are well outdated, and not always related to most recent posts.

Any Ideas??????? TIA

lichtflits · #**1157** 06-14-2004, 04:13 PM

you shoud use the new adv version. The cms version. Its a lot better.

himerus · #**1158** 06-14-2004, 04:43 PM

Is that the only one being developed on anymore?

My main issue is wanting to highlight new posts rather than news in the main newsbit section of the index page....

Can I upgrade from vbadvanced homepage to the CPMS?

Zachery · #**1159** 06-14-2004, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by himerus

Is that the only one being developed on anymore?

My main issue is wanting to highlight new posts rather than news in the main newsbit section of the index page....

Can I upgrade from vbadvanced homepage to the CPMS?

Im not sure if brian plans to continuely update this system anymore, i think he might release a final fix and continue to fix bugs, but im not sure about new features.

Yes you can

Reeve of shinra · #**1160** 06-15-2004, 03:11 AM

Two quick questions for those that are using the CMPS or are familiar with it:

1. If I post an image to the thread will it show in the news section of the front page?

2. If I have a thread thats news worthy in one of the forums, can I select that and have it appear on the news section of the main page?

Zachery · #**1161** 06-15-2004, 03:50 AM

1. yes if you enable img code in the options otherwise no

2. No, but you could copy it into your news forum.

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