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

[Logician]

in a PHP parsed webtemplate do not temper with other webtemplate options such as conditionals, header, footer etc. Make sure your template's all other settings as same name sample webtemplate "phptest". (Especially header and footer regarding your error message) .

Also make sure your PHP syntax is correct.

[soccerclue]

I can gurarantee that my php code is correct because it works fine before integrating with the hack. I still cannot find what's wrong. I use this hack to help me with the displaying of the header and footer and also I would like to have the login and logout box to appear in the non vb page. Do you mind if I PM you the PHP code?

[Logician]

Today at 02:33 PM soccerclue said this in Post #162
I can gurarantee that my php code is correct because it works fine before integrating with the hack. I still cannot find what's wrong. I use this hack to help me with the displaying of the header and footer and also I would like to have the login and logout box to appear in the non vb page. Do you mind if I PM you the PHP code?

Try this:

Copy paste your PHP code in that template inside default "phptest" template. And make sure you do NOT change anything else in phptest template except "webtemplate" field.

If it works it means that you tempered with a setting that you shouldn't inside your webtemplate.

If it does not work, try to put your code inside default PHPINCLUDE template of vb. If a problem occurs, then it means vb did not like your code for a reason, then webtemplate will inherit this behavior either. If it works in the PHPINCLUDE template, then let me know your PHP code.

[soccerclue]

OK...I have tried to put the PHP code in the phptest and it gave the same error.

I don't know exactly putting the code inside default PHPINCLUDE template of vb. Is it in AdminCP or in webtemplate file edit? I saw a PHP include input box in the webtemplate file edit though. I tried putting the code in that field in phptest and it gave the same error also. I don't have any idea how to fix it. Really hope you can help me. Thank you.

[Logician]

let me know your PHP code

[roxics]

Hi I have bit of a problem. I set up a page I would like for someone else to edit. I put their userid in the editors field (459) however I notice myself as Admin that when I click on [Edit this page] on taht page editors.php pops up blank. Why could this be?

thanks

[Logician]

I would firstly suspect a template problem. Check if all templates created ok and in all template sets too..

[roxics]

Everything looks fine and seems to be working fine. Just that is that working.

Just to clearify the problems seems to be with editors.php. Though nothing was changed with that file. Every other part of your system is working great and I'm very happy with it.

Does the editors.php file need a certain CHMOD value?

[Logician]

Yesterday at 09:32 PM roxics said this in Post #168
Everything looks fine and seems to be working fine. Just that is that working.

Just to clearify the problems seems to be with editors.php. Though nothing was changed with that file. Every other part of your system is working great and I'm very happy with it.

Does the editors.php file need a certain CHMOD value?

Have you checked templates as I suggested?

There are very few sections that uses the templates you created in the installations so if there is a problem with your template installation, the hack will still work fine but you'll get blank pages in a few sections one of which is webtemplate editing.

So make sure:
1- Installation templates are created correctly
2- Their names are correct (it is CASE-SENSITIVE) and there is no trailing space etc. at the end.
3- If you have more than 1 template sets, templates are created in ALL sets.

[roxics]

I see what you are saying. The templates for the style. They were all blank. Somehow I missed filling those in. Everythign is fixed now and working great.

Thanks for your help.