Portal Software - WebTemplates 3.7.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 3.7.x & 3.8.x ONLY. For vb 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.x and 2.x see my profile for relevant threads.)

"WebTemplates" is a vBulletin integrated Content Management System which allows you to create vb integrated "HTML" pages in your vb admin cp very easily. The pages can inherit your vbulletin skin/style, can recognize logged-in user, can be applied permissions per user or usergroup basis, can keep visit logs, hit counts and do many more.

VB4 version Update (9.9.2010): Please find 4.x version of WebTemplates4.x in its own thread.


WEBTEMPLATES 3.7.x BASIC FEATURES:

• Very Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file. It is coded as a vb product and can be imported very easily.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroups easily. 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.
• Page Counter : Each webtemplate has a built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF/ON per webtemplate basis.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking : You can track certain users' (by usergroup or userid) webtemplate visits to see who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support : 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. vB's WYSIWYG editor is supported in Editor interface.
• Page Browsers & Who is Online Display: Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while visitor is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin). Webtemplate visits can also be monitored in who is online page.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can automatically use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• Help Documents : The script comes with an extensive help document.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates : 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.
• SEO friendly URLs: You can make webtemplate URLs seo friendly in vb settings (Requires apache server).
• XML Import/Export : XML Import/Export feature allows you to backup your webtemplates and use other hack users webtemplates in your board.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR ADVANCED USERS:

• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add "last 10 threads forum X", "most active users list" etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Multi Parsing : Webtemplates can parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts). This means you can design a page just like vb posts (TEXT parsing), standart HTML (HTML parsing) or even in PHP (PHP parsing).
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Theme Support : 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 single theme for all of them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates supports VB3 template conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions.
• 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.

Sample WebTemplates from Sites using this hack:
(Some 3.5 and some are 3.0 versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so both will give you the idea.)

http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_mission.htm
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/view.php?pg=aboutus
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_guidelines.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_info.htm
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_books.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_spread.htm
http://www3.fertilethoughts.com/forums/view.php?pg=acronyms
http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/view.php?pg=makeuptalk-newsletter
http://www.bklab.com (entire site is designed with Webtemplates only)
(Actually this hack is one of the most popular vb hacks so it is used by hundreds -if not thousands- of vbulletin sites and you can easily find them if you go to google and search "Logician's WebTemplates" WITH quotation marks)

3.5 version Admin CP screenshot attached to this post. 3.0.x screenshots (here and here) also still applies for this version.

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..

About this 3.7.xx Version: This 3.7.xx version is same as previous 3.6.x version. 3.6.x version was already working in vbulletin 3.7.x except a few minor bugs and these bugs are fixed in this version to make it dedicated solely to vbulletin 3.7.x. Please see "what's new" in the next post for more details.

Version Updates:
29.July.2008 - > Version 3.7.00
* Hack 3.7.00 is released.

[dartho]

Originally Posted by Chris-777

Yup, definitely using the vb H/F.

This is the page in question, but all the test pages do it.

Though the more I look at it, I think it's my custom header that's doing it.

I think you problem stems from your web temapltes not having this code:

<!-- open content container -->

<div align="center">
	<div class="page" style="width:980px; text-align:left">
		<div style="padding:0px 5px 0px 5px" align="left">

whilst the forum pages do. The code which closes these divs is also missing from your footer template for the webtamplate, but is in your forum.

		</div>
	</div>
</div>

<!-- / close content container -->

Check which templates your webtemapltesa are using for header/footer.

[Kihon Kata]

updated http://www.bklab.com!

[wmlvb]

is webtemplates an alternative to vbadvance or can you use both if already have vbadvance?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by wmlvb

is webtemplates an alternative to vbadvance or can you use both if already have vbadvance?

Your answer is in the FAQ document in post 2 of this thread.

[lsatblu]

Hi,

I am really interested in this mod. In the past I have been using Expression Engine to power my site. Is it possible to remove the /forums/ from the url for each page?

Where can I edit the style of $WT_Login and the topics on the test2 page?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by lsatblu

I am really interested in this mod. In the past I have been using Expression Engine to power my site. Is it possible to remove the /forums/ from the url for each page?

Where can I edit the style of $WT_Login and the topics on the test2 page?

If your forum is running on /forums/ webtemplates will also run on /forums/view.php.

If you want to run webtemplates on root, best method to do is to move your forum folder to root as well. If you wouldn't consider this, FAQ item 3 applies for you.

$wt_login's style is inside "WebTemplates_LoginCode" template. Topics in test2 style should be edited in relevant webquery's Result Prefix Code, Query Result Row and Result Affix Code sections.

[MysCha]

i have been add

$header

my page here

$footer

but isnt work
can u see my attachement

[johan204]

Very nice, gonna play a bit with it before i put it live on my forums...
Great... clicked Installed and nominated it for the motm

[Logician]

Originally Posted by MysCha

i have been add

$header

my page here

$footer


but isnt work
can u see my attachement

If you selected, a "theme" for this webtemplate, you don't need to add $header/footer. Just add your content.

If you didn't selected a theme (that is theme setting is set to "no parent webtemplate), then add whole HTML code to your page. Eg.

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top"> 
  
 YOUR CONTENT
  
</td>
</tr>
</table>
$footer
</body>
</html>

On my end I got it almost working:

http://www.metalguitarist.org/forum/view.php?pg=lesson1

But MAN does the W3 validator go bananas on it.