mYvBindex v3.1

mYvBindex 3.2.2 released! (5/22/03)

mYvBindex 3.2 will allow you to include different options from your vBulletin message board on your website's index page. Everything is completely 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.
• 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.
• Current weather and updates on your homepage.
• 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, weather, 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 v2.6+

Screen Shots:
Guest Homepage
Admin Homepage
User Homepage
Admin CP


Queries:
A nice feature of mYvBindex is that it performs only 11 queries with all the options turned off, no matter how many news articles or latest threads you choose to display. Some options will cause the script to perform extra queries, but even with all the options turned on it still performs only 29 queries at max.

Here is a list of each extra function that will cause extra queries:

• Poll - 2 queries
• User's Avatar - 1 query
• Private Messages - 1 query
• Buddy List - 1 query
• Online Users - 3 queries
• Mini Calendar - 1 query
• Weather - 2 queries
• Poll and/or News Smilies - 1 query
• Stats - 5 queries

*Mini Hacks:*
Adding More Custom Templates
To add more custom templates to your mYvBindex, please see this post.

Stylin' Buddy List - by MartynJ
This will add your the users avatar and usertitle to the buddy list (Similar to and inspired by velocd's Stylin' Buddy List hack), and adds no extra queries to your homepage.
Download (Screen shot included in zip)

Shoutbox Integration - by MartynJ
This hack integrates the ever popular Shoutbox hack with your mYvBindex.
Download (Screen shot included in zip)

TWCommish's vB Shoutbox Integration - by Brahm
This is a slightly different shout box made by TWCommish. His hack is required and can be found here. After downloading his hack, use Brahm's instructions here to integrate it with mYvBindex.

Attachments in News Posts - by Tigga
This hack allows attachments posted in news posts to be viewed in the news section on your homepage.
Download

Allow users to set homepage options - by Tigga
This mini-hack will allow your users to set which options they would like displayed on the homepage. They will be able to turn on/off avatars, weather, custom templates, and etc on a per user basis.
Download *Note* It may be necessary to open this file in a text editor (other than notepad) to get it to display properly.

Multiple News forums from different links - by Tigga
This hack allows allows you to have a link to a "different index file" which will pull news posts from a different forum.
Instructions can be found here


Credits:
mYvBindex uses modified versions of the following hacks:
Mini Calendar from vbPortal - by wajones
vB Weather Mk. 2- by JJR512


Copyright:
This hack is NOT to be re-distributed or placed on website for download without permission. All copyright notes in the script itself must remain unchanged.

Please don't forget to hit the Install Button


Updates from version 3.2.1
After the release of v3.2.1 a couple of small bugs were found. They affected the ability to edit a news post from the link on the homepage, pulling the wrong post from a thread for the news section, and updating your most users ever online if a new record is set. The changes from v3.2 to 3.2.1 were minimal, so those should be the only bugs found. Upgrading once again is very easy. Just download the new files, change the path in the myvbindex.php file, and upload it over your existing one.

Updates from version 3.2
v3.2.1 is again just a small maintenance release. The main change in this version is the way the forum permissions are done. Before, the forum permissions would cause the latest threads query to take much longer than it should (mostly on larger forums). Now with the new permissions system in place, the query to pull the latest threads should take less than 0.01 seconds. Other than the permissions section, the only other changes were a few optimizations to the code syntax. Upgrading from v3.2 is simple - Just upload the new myvbindex.php file over your existing one and you're done.

Updates from version 3.1
v3.2 is mostly another maintenance release, and will hopefully be the last release for vBulletin 2.X (unless any bugs are found). Here are a list of all the changes.
Fixed a bug where setting the "Show Latest Threads Icon?" option to "No" could disable the latest threads section.
Fixed a bug where signatures with vBcode were not displayed properly in the news section.
Fixed a bug where the icons in the news and latest thread parts weren't displaying the right icon for some users.
Added an option to completely disable signatures in news posts.
Added an option to select a random poll from any forum for the poll part of the hack.
Further optimized parts of the code and slightly changed part of the structure.
Now shows "No Buddies Online" in the buddy list if no buddies are online.
Changed so it will no longer show a default icon for the news and latest threads unless your options are also set to show a default icon on the forumdisplay page.
Now shows the last poster and last post time when you hold your mouse over the title of a thread in the Latest Threads part.
The install script has been re-written so you can install, upgrade, uninstall, update your news posts (useful for first time installations where a news forum already exists), or install just the templates (useful after upgrading vBulletin to a new version) all from one file.
Significantly reduced the size of the weather_install.php file (from 3.0 MB to 1.25 MB) so it will not take so long to upload to your server.
Fixed a couple of small spacing issues in the poll templates.
Fixed a problem with JJR512's weather hack not pulling the weather forcast.
Added a FAQ section to the readme file to help common problems.

Upgrading should take no longer than 2 minutes and instructions can be found at the bottom of the readme file.


Updates from version 3.0
v3.1 is mostly a maintenance release to help cut down on first time installation problems. Other than that, the biggest difference you will notice is the template "style" has changed to mesh better with vBulletin (see screenshots above). You do not have to install the new templates as you will have the option to install the new templates or to skip that step in the install file. Other than the templates, here is a list of the other changes:
A few more "error checking" features have been added to ensure you won't get a nasty sql error if you leave your News or Poll Forum ID, or any of the other fields blank.
The problem some users were experiencing with the temperature for the weather part of the hack should be fixed for good.
The "Show Poll" option in the Admin CP is removed as this can now be disabled simply by leaving the "Poll Fourm ID" filed blank.
Fixed a small typo and optimized parts of the code a little further.
Slightly changed the position of the days and numbers in the calendar part.
Fixes a bug where the Today's Birthday part wouldn't point to the correct url.

Upgrading should take no longer than 2 minutes and instructions can be found at the bottom of the readme file.


Updates from version 2.0
Removed the option from the Admin CP to allow smilies in News posts as this can now be set per post just as you would when making a regular post.
Added a stats section with info such as total members, threads, posts, newest member, top poster, and today's birthdays.
Added a "Today's Events" section under the calendar that will display any events that are scheduled for the current day, and will only be visible if there are events listed for the current day.
Added an option to show the poster's avatar with the news post.
You can now have your signature displayed with the news post. This is controlled when posting the message just as you would with a regular post.
Added an option to display the news post's rating with the news.
Added options to show small icons to allow users to show a printable version of the news post and an option to allow users to email their friends a link to the news post.
Added an option to allow/disable HTML in news posts.
Added an option to allow/disable the [img] tag in news posts.
Shows the number of times a news post has been viewed.
Shows the number of new posts since the users last visit.
Shows the number of replies to the poll if poll discussions are allowed.
Fixed a bug where the search box would take you to the search page rather than displaying the results.
Fixed a bug where setting the News Posts Maximum to 0 would disable the news rather than giving it no limit.
Optimized the code a little more to increase performance.


Help & Support
Before asking for support Please read the F.A.Q in the readme.html file! Most common problems are answered there! If you have any problems or questions that are not covered in the F.A.Q. please please post them here. I will be more than happy to help in any way I can if the request for help is made here. Anyone trying to contact me via email, private message, my website, or any other means will be ignored.

[Intex]

TIgga - thx for that - the code you mentioned wasn't there so I added it, but this still doesn't allow me to change the option to know in the UserCP - Edit Options.

Would you mind telling me where in the myvbindex.php file I change the width. I thought this was taken from the main forum settings, which in my case is 75%. For the myvbindex page I would like this to be 100% but the forum width remain at 75%.

Thanks .

[Tigga]

Intex - Sorry about the calendar thing. That mini-hack is pretty old and apparently I had a small mistake in the html code. If you look in your modifyoptions template for "homecalendar" and replace that with "bbshowcalendar" it should fix the problem.

The code to change the main width of your index page is in the index_header template, at the very bottom.

[Intex]

Yep worked a treat Tigga for the calendar option - thx.

I see what you mean abou changing the width in the index_header (currently using the tablewidth variable - however, having seen that template its now apparent that changing that won't help me as I changed the original coding so that it used my standard header and footer for the forums, as mine was heavily modified. I guess therefore there isn't a way for me to control this for that page (myvbindex) individually?

[Cloudrunner]

I am curious as to whether or not the weather module install problem of this has been addressed / fixed?

I'm obviously not the only one to have had this problem from reading in the posts, and mine is the same as the others. When I try to do the install of the weather module, I get a "This page cannot be displayed" error. Here's the shot. Everything uploaded fine in ASCII and all is well with everything else, just no weather. it's annoying me.

I have my .htaccess redirecting any 404 errors to the index page as well, so it's somehow bypassing that as well.

Any help?

[jarvis]

05-15-03 at 12:25 PM Tigga said this in Post #1239
[B]jarvis - That's odd... Was it giving you problems before you changed the newsforumid part? You could try changing that query to something like this:

PHP Code:

WHERE isnews='Y' AND forumid=41 OR forumid=42 OR forumid=39 OR forumid=47 


If that doesn't work let me know.

Tigga,

I tried the query change, and still am having some problems. The test link is www.mhogaming.com/myvbindex.php and the active link, which is old 3.0 stuff, is at www.mhogaming.com .

Do I need to reset all the news posts, like some trigger?

Thanks in advance!

[Tigga]

Intex - About the only way you could really fix that would be to go back to using the index_header template for your homepage instead.

Cloudrunner - A few people have reported problems like that... The last person that reported that problem allowed me to log into their site to test some things out, and the only thing I can figure out is your host has a problem with executing PHP files that are that large. On their site, I tried taking out the part which inserts the cities, countries, and etc into the database (the bulk of the code) and was then able to load up the file without a probelm. The best thing I can suggest for you would be to download JJR512's original hack here. In there he has 7 or so files with the queries you can run through phpMyAdmin to add all the cities and such. After you do that, download the file I have attached here and go to it in your browser (it's the same as the regular weather install file, but without the queries for the cities and etc).

jarvis - Check your PMs.

[ivanmcp]

Hi all,

After some further work, I would like to invite everyone to have a look at mYvBindex in action on my personal web site. Purpose of this is to share with you my implementation of mYvBindex and to hopefully get some feedback or answer any questions that you/I may have.

www.ivansville.com

Why did I choose mYvBindex? Well, it has some nice features that are usefull on any personal web site. It allows me to run a 'blogg' style news on my home page. I can have a quick weather report for my city (London), but also any other city in the world.
Mini calendar reminds me of upcoming events, and pulling this information from vBulletin, shows me private as well as public events.
Last ten posts show me the latest forum activity at a glance, without the need to go to the forum itself, and it pulls site visitors to it.
Displaying poll on the home page adds some valuable content and lets visitors get involved further.
These are only a few features that I use at the moment, but many more are to be found in the mYvBindex hack.

But some of the greatest advantages for me are:

- the ability to back up the whole thing in one go
- the ability to update my home page from anywhere in the world with no need for FTP access.

I am trying to find a way to integrate my other (non vB) pages into the vBulletin (like my 'about.html' page, so that whole site is inside mysql database, meaning easy backup and restore, as well the ability to update any page within the admin cp.

I still have long way to go in order to create the site that will cover most of the angles of what I need in the personal web site area. Nor do I 'speak' the word of PHP, which I must start to learn, in order to achieve some of my goals. But hats-off to people like Tigga and others who give large ammounts of their time to us, in order to help and resolve any problems we may have.

[Cloudrunner]

Sweet Tigga! Thanks, I'll get on that tomorrow when I wake up.

I'll give that a shot and see how it goes, it does make sense however with the size constraints.

[Cloudrunner]

Couldn't sleep....

It workied!!!! Thank you Tigga!

Thank you kindly!

[Harley D]

First off, Thansk for the hack and taking the time to help.

I have read up to 1140 posts, I have repaired most problems doing so.
Most Eveything is working correctly now,
Yet I am unable to fix 1 thing.

1) when a person has to login from myvbindex.php "which has been renamed index.php" they are directed to a blank page due to the /forums/ missing from the address. example (http://streambandits.com/member.php) It should be (http://streambandits.com/forums/member.php)
Now my client has VB version 2.3.0 with very few mods, I have changed the URL to "chdir('/usr/local/etc/httpd/vhosts/streambandits/forums');"
and have added this from a post I saw in hopes that even a unregesterd guest would be able to view the page thus getting rid of the login from myvbindex.php all together.

require('./global.php');
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
$bbuserinfo[bbshowonline]=1;
$bbuserinfo[bbshowonline]=1;
$bbuserinfo[bbshowstats]=1;
$bbuserinfo[bbshowpoll]=1;
$bbuserinfo[bbshowsearch]=1;
$bbuserinfo[bbshowcustom1]=1;
$bbuserinfo[bbshowcustom2]=1;
}

I have also added $bburl in front of the member.php in the forumhome_loggedinuser template, I also tried using the full address there as well (<a href="http://www.streambandits.com/forums/member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&userid=$userid">$username</a>$invisibleuser).

In addition, my cookie Domain is set to .streambandits.com, and the path is / .

My client is waiting for me to get this page working before he can open to the public. "No pressure there LOL"

Can this be corrected?

Thank you in advance.

Harley D