WebTemplates 2.x: VB Integrated Content Management System

After a long wait, here is the new 2.x version of Webtemplates. First a short introduction for users who are not familiar with the old version:

This hack is a vbulletin integrated content management system. Term "Webtemplates" stands for dynamic webpages that reside in your MYSQL database and administered inside your vbulletin admin control panel. But they are more than regular site pages because they can automatically inherit visual design of your forum, can apply permissions according to your vb usergroup settings, can keep track of page counts, last visitorname/visit time, display page browsers in the page itself and in your whoisonline page etc. So basically webtemplates are dynamic web pages of your site which are powered by vbulletin.


WEBTEMPLATES 2.x FEATURES:
([New] indicates feature that is recently introduced in this 2.x version)

• Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without hacking even a single vbulletin file! It is coded as an add-on, not a hack.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates has built-in support for Logician's advanced templates conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions. (Even if you don't have that hack installed)
• Private Webtemplates (NEW): With 1 click you can make a webtemplate "private" and it will be displayed to only certain usergroups.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroup according to their userids or usergroupids. So for instance you can design a webtemplate which only members can see while guests can not or only user A can not see etc.
• Draft Webtemplates (NEW): You can put webtemplates in "draft" mode which makes them invisible to all but admins.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking (NEW): You can track certain users (by usergroup or userid) to monitor who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support (NEW): You can grant editing permissions for certain users or usergroups for your webtemplates individually and they will be able to update these webtemplates using their own editor interface.
• Categories (NEW): Webtemplates 2.x supports multi-categories for better webtemplate organizations.
• Multi Parsing (NEW): Webtemplates can now parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts)
• Default variables : You can use/display certain variables in your webtemplates like username of the visitor, visitor email address, last visit time, page creation time, page last edit time, Last visitor name, last visit time etc.
• Outside Variables (NEW): Advanced users can now use outside variables in webtemplates, then webtemplates will accept/use/process user sent variables via HTTP_GET and HTTP_POST methods (eg. a HTML form can post to a webtemplate with this feature)
• Page Counter : Webtemplate has built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF or ON per webtemplate basis.
• Page Browsers Display (NEW): Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while people is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin)
• Who is Online Display (NEW): Webtemplates can display page visitors in who is online (This is Optional and require a simple hacking in file online.php). You can create private webtemplates which are hidden in who is online too.
• Theme Support (NEW): Webtemplates support "themes" which are parent webtemplates which include child webtemplates in them. For instance if you have 20 similiar pages which uses the same visual look, you can make a theme for them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate (NEW) : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Help Documents : The script comes with built-in & detailed help documents (they are webtemplates too).
• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can now add create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add member count/post count/thread count/last 10 threads forum X etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Archieve to Text File (NEW): Webtemplates/Webqueries can be downloaded to a text file with one click for archiving purposes. You can also easily share these text files with other hack users.
• Login/Logout box (NEW): You can insert login/register box to your webtemplate if visitor is a guest and log off box if she is a member.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates (NEW): Your webtemplates can include an "admin panel" displayed to only admins and by using them you can access many details and stats of your page while you are browsing them.
• Better Performance (NEW): Webtemplates 2.x structured so that it performs well even under heavy load conditions and high traffic servers. (See Performance issues below)
• Easy Back up: Simply back up your database (inside vbulletin or externally) and all your webtemplate structure is also backed up automatically.

For screenshots, FAQ, performance issues, migration from old version to new version, see below.

If you use the hack, clicking here will make sure you'll know about updates&bug fixes. It will also help me understand how many people is using the hack so please click the install button if you use it. Thank you..


Version Updates:
30.July.2003 - > Version 2.03

* Adds feature to include regular vbtemplates into webtemplates

2.02 users: apply this fix to update.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.

12.July.2003 - > Version 2.02

* Fixes a bug with outside variables.

2.01 users: apply this fix to update.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.

2.July.2003 - > Version 2.01

* Fixes bug that bothers webqueries if "Show Template Name" option enabled in vb admin cp
* Fixes bug in webquery $WQ_mostactivemembers
* Fixes visual look of webtemplate test
* Fixes visual look of admin panel and makes sure it looks ok in dark backgrounded boards too.

2.00 users: update here.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.


Webtemplates 3.x (for vb.3.x) is released here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=76422

[glo]

it very odd, i had no problems since installing the hack, but after i went to test the conditionals, i tried to log out, but i couldnt, so i was thinking "what has changed in the last 30minutes" I cant log out of the forums.

How can i manually clear the cookie? Ive tried changing the settings in Admin,but that didnt change things either.

Your probably right about the cookie being corrupted, but im not certain how to manually clear it.

[Logician]

check in vb.org or vb.com with keywords "corrupt+cookie" or "cant log out" you'll see many posts to see how you handle it.

[glo]

thanks.

Have you had a chance to have a look at the post i left on the WebTemplates/WebQueries thread?

[=DH=Demon]

hello im using this and its absolutly great
im using it together with your news script logician and it owns.

however i want the following thing

i made a webtemplate index and i wanna include other webtemplates in it , how do i do it? thanks

[Logician]

Yesterday at 07:17 PM =DH=Demon said this in Post #144
hello im using this and its absolutly great
im using it together with your news script logician and it owns.

however i want the following thing

i made a webtemplate index and i wanna include other webtemplates in it , how do i do it? thanks

Please check the thread, I already gave the webquery that does it.

[=DH=Demon]

i chekc everywhere and i only seem to find to list all templates but what i want is for example :

i created template : INFO
i created template : INDEX

now i want the content of INFO displayed in template INDEX by calling something like $INFO

is this possible? would be GREAT !

[Logician]

Today at 05:35 AM =DH=Demon said this in Post #146
i chekc everywhere and i only seem to find to list all templates but what i want is for example :

i created template : INFO
i created template : INDEX

now i want the content of INFO displayed in template INDEX by calling something like $INFO

is this possible? would be GREAT !

Check "theme" part in help document.

[soccerclue]

Hi,

I wonder if the webtemplate hack includes the user authentication or not? So, if the user is not logged in in that webtemplate page, there would be a login box there or sign up link there. Is the webtemplate page has the feature of session, checking the user's username and password in database if it is correct? I would like the page to include login box if not logged in. I am trying to make a form processing page using this webtemplate hack. Is it possible to achieve with this hack?

[Logician]

Today at 12:53 AM soccerclue said this in Post #148
Hi,

I wonder if the webtemplate hack includes the user authentication or not? So, if the user is not logged in in that webtemplate page, there would be a login box there or sign up link there. Is the webtemplate page has the feature of session, checking the user's username and password in database if it is correct? I would like the page to include login box if not logged in. I am trying to make a form processing page using this webtemplate hack. Is it possible to achieve with this hack?

If you want only your login box to show (not the webtemplate itself), just add 1 in banned users field of your webtemplates and you will have exactly what you want.

If you want your login box to show inside webtemplate (so webtemplate itself is also displayed), use $WT_Login in your webtemplate content.

[soccerclue]

Thanks a lot Logician for the quick reply. One more question here, if I want to create a php form processing page and copy the code to the webtemplate page, can it handle the user authentication already? So when the user hit the submission button, if the webtemplate page showing not logged in, it cannot proceed. But if logged in, the submission succeeds.

I got other question not related with the hack though. When I create form processing page using php, I would like to get the userid of the user who is processing the form based on the vbulletin username, what is the variable of it? Should I look into the SQL table of 'user' in vbulletin database? Is the webtemplate page already handles that?