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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 scottct1

Ok, for my users who are not logged in / not registered I would like to display a box ie "custom 1" which will display ads from google.

However if they are registered and logged in I do not want them to see these ads.

I know VB has usergroup options, how do I setit up so if the usergroup is the unregistered/not logged in to show custom1 but for any other usergroup to not display it?

Any TECHNICAL detail on how to do this would be great. (like actual code)

Thanks in advance.

just to unregistered users?

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] == 0"> $custom1</if>

just find $custom1 in the main index template and replace it with that

(site note 1,000th post )

[Blackbeard]

iam having a small problem at moment, i use custome box 1 for a site nav box and now things are not playing, it is more than likely me, so i will post what i did and attach a screenie.

<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="tcat"><span class="smallfont"><b>$vboptions[blockbullet] Site Navigation</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1"><span class="smallfont">

<li><a href="http://Myweb site/index.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://Myweb site/forums/index.php">Forum Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://Myweb site/chat.html">Chatroom</a></li>

</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />

could someone help please

[Acido]

Can you tell me how avoid that the unknow Location legend apears in Online Users when a visitor is looking at index.php ?

Thanx in advance

[Dark Jim]

Nice hack but I'm having a problem. I created a template index_project_Oz. But when I go to index.php?page=project_Oz I get the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: parse_bbcode() in /home/thegamin/public_html/beta/index.php on line 555

Also the news avatar is not working. I have a custom avatar (custom avatars are stored as files, not in the database) and it's not showing because the url is http://beta.thegaminguniverse.com/fo...ine=1070663498. In the welcome box the url is correct (http://beta.thegaminguniverse.com/fo.../avatar1_0.gif).

What did I do wrong?

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by Dark Jim

Nice hack but I'm having a problem. I created a template index_project_Oz. But when I go to index.php?page=project_Oz I get the error:
Also the news avatar is not working. I have a custom avatar (custom avatars are stored as files, not in the database) and it's not showing because the url is http://beta.thegaminguniverse.com/fo...ine=1070663498. In the welcome box the url is correct (http://beta.thegaminguniverse.com/fo.../avatar1_0.gif).

What did I do wrong?

Check all the threads prior to posting...this answers your error --> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=53

[gc1]

is there anyway to insert your whole index.php where the news section is supposed to go?
Great hack BTW, I love it
TIA

gc

[kneesparx]

will this work with gamma?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by kneesparx

will this work with gamma?

it should, but you need to upgrade as vB.com no longer supports previous beta version

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Blackbeard

iam having a small problem at moment, i use custome box 1 for a site nav box and now things are not playing, it is more than likely me, so i will post what i did and attach a screenie.

<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="tcat"><span class="smallfont"><b>$vboptions[blockbullet] Site Navigation</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1"><span class="smallfont">

<li><a href="http://Myweb site/index.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://Myweb site/forums/index.php">Forum Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://Myweb site/chat.html">Chatroom</a></li>


</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />

could someone help please

remove <table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
see if it works after that

[restless]

crap... i got this:

Invalid SQL: 
		SELECT 
		userfield.*, usertextfield.*, user.*, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(passworddate) AS passworddate,
		IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid,
			language.phrasegroup_calendar AS phrasegroup_calendar,
			language.phrasegroup_advindex AS phrasegroup_advindex,
			language.phrasegroup_postbit AS phrasegroup_postbit,
			language.phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
			language.options AS lang_options,
			language.languagecode AS lang_code,
			language.charset AS lang_charset,
			language.locale AS lang_locale,
			language.imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
			language.dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
			language.timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
			language.decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
			language.registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
			language.calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
			language.calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
			language.logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
			language.thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep
		FROM user AS user
		INNER JOIN userfield AS userfield ON (user.userid = userfield.userid)
		INNER JOIN usertextfield AS usertextfield ON (usertextfield.userid = user.userid) INNER JOIN language AS language ON (language.languageid = IF(user.languageid = 0, 1, user.languageid)) 
		WHERE user.userid = 1
	
mysql error: Unknown column 'language.phrasegroup_advindex' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054