vBadvanced Homepage

Official Support Forums
vBadvanced.com is now open! There you will find more information regarding vBadvanced Homepage, FAQ's, hacks & modifications, and more.


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]

restless - Strange that it was doing that, but glad you got it to work.

kneesparx - That error means you didn't enter the correct path in your adv_index file. If you're having problems figuring out what the path is, see the FAQ section of the readme file.

gc1 - What exactly do you mean by "get index.php in the news section"?

Lacrosse Boy - That's being caused by the quotes in your news posts. I would set the "News Maximum Characters" to a higher number so the posts will be able to read the entire quote.

[kneesparx]

thanks Tigga, its pretty damn cool of you aswering all our questions like this! much respect!!

[gc1]

Tigga i would like to have the borders where they are and the index.php listing all my boards in the news section in the middle..

I have read you here and you are a great asset to this forum, if this cant be done thats cool I was just wondering, I have a big site with a bunch of truckdrivers and we aren't too smart

GC

[FleaBag]

Tigga, is there any way without using an external php file I can show all of the news within an iframe?

[jeff225]

Can someone inform me on how to change default text on the index page. I would like to change the 'Welcome Back' text on the login block to just 'Welcome'. This way users with longer usernames will not have the intro text folding into 2 lines. Thanks, Jeff

[SnowBot]

Just to help some ppl out, and thanks to Apoco for pointing me to the right place.

As theres no link back to the forums you may want to add one on the navbar. Heres how

navbar Template

Find:

<!-- nav buttons bar -->
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center" style="border-top-width:0px">
<tr align="center">

BELOW Add:

<!-- extra link --> 
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[forumhome].php?$session[sessionurl]">Forums</a></td>
<!-- extra link -->

Hope this helps

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by jeff225

Can someone inform me on how to change default text on the index page. I would like to change the 'Welcome Back' text on the login block to just 'Welcome'. This way users with longer usernames will not have the intro text folding into 2 lines. Thanks, Jeff

open the index template and change it id assume ;D

[jeff225]

The pointer on the index template for the welcome message is '$vbphrase[a_welcome_back]'. Is this the part I change?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by jeff225

The pointer on the index template for the welcome message is '$vbphrase[a_welcome_back]'. Is this the part I change?

ah if its a phrase you could remove it and just hard code it

[jeff225]

Cool, just wanted to make sure their wasn't an easy way to change the phrase it points to before I replace it. That will work. Thanks, Faranth