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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.

Tigga · #**132** 01-09-2004, 12:09 AM

Are your index templates listed with the others?

Gio Takahashi · #**133** 01-09-2004, 12:25 AM

yes it is.

I figured out the problem, and it was the server thats being a dumbass. Its all fixed. No wI have to determine WHICH portal to use >.>

Tigga · #**134** 01-09-2004, 12:45 AM

What exactly was the problem? One other person so far has said that they had the same problem with the page being blank... They uploaded the older version of the script and it worked just fine, so I'm wondering if there's something in there that certain server configurations don't like...

Nmidia · #**135** 01-09-2004, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tigga

What exactly was the problem? One other person so far has said that they had the same problem with the page being blank... They uploaded the older version of the script and it worked just fine, so I'm wondering if there's something in there that certain server configurations don't like...

Hi there - still loving your portal!! However, I would like to use the Shout bar from vbindex on this as well.

Fisrtly, would that be a problem for you? I mean, would you be offended if we mixed and matched? Secondly, how the hell would I do that?

Casparian · #**136** 01-09-2004, 10:22 AM

Love it! It's perfect. Though there are a few small things....
The who's online list has a space after names and before the comments which looks a bit messy? Can that be sorted? It also doesn't display users custom colours - for example, our Admin group members should be in red, and Paid Members should be in Green...
Listing Who's Online as one person per row would be great, like how it's done in most of the Nuke system modules? Then you could have a PM link beside each name?

On the Whos Online page, those on the portal index are displayed as being at "Unknown Location", any way to sort that out?

It also doesn't use the selected theme for header and footer? How do I add this manually, or make it work?
(For example, see http://forums.wiccauk.com/ for how it should look, at http://forums.wiccauk.com/adv_index.php for how it's displayed).

Finally - better instructions (or admin options!) to move the blocks about would be great. I'd like everything on the left except Recent topics on the right.... can anyone point me in the right direction?

Nmidia · #**137** 01-09-2004, 10:31 AM

how do I make the News boxes recognise html code?

Casparian · #**138** 01-09-2004, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nmidia

how do I make the News boxes recognise html code?

That's in the admin options.

Jean147 · #**139** 01-09-2004, 12:09 PM

very very good work mate. Works like a sharm.

Rids · #**140** 01-09-2004, 12:29 PM

Only problem I seem to have is that the news and latest topic icons only show up if no icon is selected and the default icon is automatically inserted.

Default: http://www.technonuts.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif
Selected: http://www.technonuts.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Jean147 · #**141** 01-09-2004, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rids

Only problem I seem to have is that the news and latest topic icons only show up if no icon is selected and the default icon is automatically inserted.

Default: http://www.technonuts.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif
Selected: http://www.technonuts.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Go to your Admin Panel and click on Post Icon Manager

You have to give your icons the complete path

now you have: 'icons/'

but you need to put in: 'http://www.technonuts.com/forums/images/icons/iconXYZ.gif'

It is the same with smilies in your NEWSbits. If you want to show them up you need to edit their path.

Then it will work for sure.

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