vBindex

Latest Version: 1.3

This hack is not very special for me. I just wanted to create a mainpage on which you can see.. (as a member) everything what u like to see. The idea of the script is similar to the vbHome of nakkid and also a little bit to the vBPortal. I tested all of them.. but i was looking for something better . so i decided to write such a script myself...

Features:

• Active threads & newest posts
• News & Polls (read from a newsforum and a pollforum)
• Quick CP Links on the index-site
• Buddies on the index-site
• Very easy to customize. Just edit the templates!
• Available in english and german!

Summary: On this index-site you can see everything what you as a member would like to see .

Demo-Sites:

• http://partylife.ch [German Version]
• http://www.kampfkunst-info.de.vu [German Version]
• http://www.ukwinternet.co.uk/forum/home.php [English Version]

Screenshot 1: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex1.jpg // the original version and arrangement of the tables.
Screenshot 2: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex2.jpg // the nav on the right side.
Screenshot 3: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex3.jpg // or if u like 2 navs, left & right
Screenshot 4: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex4.jpg // another screen
Screenshot 5: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex5.jpg // buddies etc.


Installation
All instructions can you find in the readme.english/german.txt


Download
vBindex 1.3: http://partylife.ch/misc/vBindex1.3.zip
vBindex with Link-DB Script (Link-Script by The_Sisko; Integration of the Link-Script in vBindex by KarateKid): http://www.kampfkunst-board.de/sonst...tabasehack.rar


Credits
Newscode part from vBHome by nakkid.
Onlinetodaycode part from Online Today Hack by Mystics.
Pollcode part from vBPortal by wajones.


Note!
I'd really like to get every feedback you guys can give me. Also post bugreports and suggestions to improve this script. If you have installed this hack, pls click on the install button to receive updates thru email. Thank you .

[indiamike]

Perfect, that seems to have fixed it.

Thank you!!!!!

Mike

[wintz]

ok would it be possible and if so how would i do it, but instead of having the most user every online stats, replace it with online today stats? thanks

[NTLDR]

Originally posted by wintz
ok would it be possible and if so how would i do it, but instead of having the most user every online stats, replace it with online today stats? thanks

Thats what the hack origionally did, had the online today stats, it is posible to keep this feature in, but then you lose the ability to store the most ever online users (in a day and members in a day), although I am looking into a solution for this.

[LightBringer]

How would one go about applying this hack so that when a user wants to access this they don't have to go to:

http://www.url.com/forums/home.php

Instead, they can go to http://www.url.com
?

[NTLDR]

The quickest and easist was I have found is to have a simple HTML redirect page that just sends them to http://www.url.com/forum/home.php when they go to http://www.url.com

[JoeHarrison]

Hi... I just installed vbIndex and everything is working except the news icons. A blank pic with an [X] in it comes up folled by '.gif" border="0"> News Title' This may have already been answered, but I didnt see anything on the pages I looked at. (I gave up after about page 8).

Thanks,
Joe

[wintz]

All i did was to put this <img src="{imagesfolder}/icons/icon0.gif" border="0"> in the home_newsbit name a gif to icon0 and upload it to the icon dir

[FlyingDutchman]

I need help...
I have installed the hack... it works perfect except for 2 things:

-It says 'No poll available'
-No news shows up, only the 'latest threads' and that's it

I tried everything, I DO have the variables set correctly, but it just doesn't show up!?!?!
please help me, because I REALLY want to get this hack installed

[erdem]

@FlyingDutchman :
recheck ur variables at the top of index.php .. maybe its because the permissions :lick:

@LightBringer :

i did that thing. put ur new index.php to ur root. and ur forum's index.php is in forum/index.php .. i mean:

..root
/index.php -> this is new one.. vbindex thing
/forum/index.php -> normal forum index file .

here what u have to do :

put chdir("forum"); before require('./global.php'); in vbindex's index.php.
then modify all ur vbindex templates.. all you have to do is putting "forum/" before all links and imgs

it should work :lick:

greetz

[FlyingDutchman]

Originally posted by erdem
@FlyingDutchman :
recheck ur variables at the top of index.php .. maybe its because the permissions :lick:

uhm, I may be dumb, but I'm not so dumb after all, and as I said I tried everthing, from editing the permissions to changing templates to changing index.php, tried the german version, and so on...

[erdem]

hey dont get me wrong!
may be sometimes u can miss little [better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth]s!

anyway...
:lick:

[indiamike]

Originally posted by FlyingDutchman
I need help...
I have installed the hack... it works perfect except for 2 things:

-It says 'No poll available'
-No news shows up, only the 'latest threads' and that's it

I tried everything, I DO have the variables set correctly, but it just doesn't show up!?!?!
please help me, because I REALLY want to get this hack installed

I wish you had a link to it so we could check it out, maybe it's just a simple fix.
The one thing I noticed that when I did this hack and created the new forums, news and polls, they don't show up unless there is a new post in them. Could it be as simple as that? Dunno?

Could you post a link, if not PM me and I will take a look. I pulled my hair trying to get this thing to work right and am pretty confident now that I know it in and out.


Mike

[NTLDR]

Originally posted by indiamike
The one thing I noticed that when I did this hack and created the new forums, news and polls, they don't show up unless there is a new post in them. Could it be as simple as that? Dunno?

Thats correct Mike, if there isn't a poll as the Latest Thread then it will not show up at all.

Another thought is you do have $news in your home template?

[neuron]

any fix for the poll time yet?

I got a dual amd 1800MP proc on a oc3, server load 0.03 atm, running the poll query takes 12 seconds...

there HAS to be a better way of doing it

[NTLDR]

Originally posted by neuron
any fix for the poll time yet?

I got a dual amd 1800MP proc on a oc3, server load 0.03 atm, running the poll query takes 12 seconds...

there HAS to be a better way of doing it

Only takes 0.136secs to generate mine with 49 queries at the moment, thats on a dual 1GHz Itel Pentium III, server load around 0.60-0.70.

I've never had any problems with the load time, even when the page had 60 queries on it and was on an AMD K6-3 450, still didn't take that long.