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vBonjour - Portal System · **Released**: 12-10-2006

vBonjour

Easy Customizable Portal System

Brought to you by www.peterska2.co.uk

Welcome to the launch of vBonjour. This is the base package which is required for all installations of this system.

What is vBonjour?
vBonjour is an alternative to vBAdvanced. It is an easy to install, modular portal system designed as a gateway to your site.

Why vBonjour?
This is pretty simple really. As the front page is the first thing that your visitors see, it is a welcome page. The first few names that were thought of were either very boring, or far too long winded and not at all catchy.

This is a base package. What is included?
The base package includes a news feature from up to two forums. The news from the first forum will be displayed first, followed by the news from the second forum. It also includes the left and right columns which can be activated or deactivated via some simple settings in the ACP. These columns can be customised without using any of the Add On Modules, or Add On Modules can be installed to expand on the functionality.

Why is it so modular?
vBonjour is extremely modular to allow for maximum customization of the page. The idea is to make it as easy as possible to install the items that you want to have included, and not have anything which you would be simply turning off. By using a modular method it means that every site can easily achieve their own custom portal without having to know any coding.

I want to add something that isn't already included. How do I go about this?
vBonjour makes use of the plugin system and includes it's own hooks. This allows easy devlopment of additional Add Ons and maximum flexability.

What about the ACP? Is it really complicated?
Unlike other systems, almost all the settings for vBonjour are collected in one setting group in the vBOptions. Because you only install what you want to use, you don't need to have lots of settings. Anything which does not use settings in the Portal settings group is highlighted in the documentation for that Add On.

Ok, so where are the screen shots?
Why have screen shots when you can have a live demo?
The demo is available at www.peterska2.co.uk

What versions of vBulletin does vBonjour work with?
vBonjour will work with vBulletin 3.6.0 and above. Support for sites running versions earlier than 3.6.0 will not be given.

Contributers to the base system: [name]christianb[/name]

I hope that you like this system. Please remember to mark it as installed to recieve notification of updates and support. Support will only be provided to those who have clicked install.

TruthElixirX · #**202** 02-23-2007, 12:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Toss:

ini_set('display_errors',1);

Into your config.php under the <?php and paste the actual error here.

Eh, I got it sorted out now I think.

Thanks though!

TigerWare · #**203** 02-24-2007, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adhari_com

It's working guys, to actually make the portal work without so many mods on the template is using the <base> directive as suggested earlier.

Insert right below the <head> in PORTAL template:

Code:

<base href="$vboptions[bburl]/" target="_self" />

Thank you so much!

This one line instruction has saved much head scratching. Having installed, I was a little miffed that the layout and links were incorrect. But reading the thread from top to bottom has proved very worthwhile.

@ Kerry-Anne, is it too presumptious of me to ask that this single instruction be included in your installation notes? I am sure it would help quite a few people who run the portal outside the forum folder.

Great portal, I am looking forward to reviewing and installing other modules for this.

:up:

I have included 2 attachments to show what a huge difference this one modification makes.

Cheers!

** Edit To Add **
When I log off, the portal looks like the first screenshot, so I guess I missed a modification out.

wpeloquin · #**204** 02-26-2007, 01:39 AM

I just read through all 14 pages thus far, and unfortunatly have a unique problem.

i installed the portal outside of the forums (http://rkccs.com), and i have the forums set as a subdirectory (http://forums.rkccs.com). they are linked, as you can see, through the header links at the top.

however, on the portal, the navbar paths are showing (http://rkccs.com/register.php) instead of (http://forums.rkccs.com/register.php)

do i have to edit the navbar template to show the full URL path? or is there another way?

masterme · #**205** 02-27-2007, 06:13 PM

Uninstalled...

Have asked 2 times a simple question but no answer. Shame, really would loved it to use it...

peterska2 · #**206** 02-28-2007, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by masterme

I will repeat my question:
Is it somehow possible to give the portal another template than the forum?
I use a design which does not work fine with this portal, the sidebars do'nt show etc.
So if it would be possible that I can add another design which I share with only the portal, that would be neat.

The templates are written to use the vBulletin style, however you can change this through extensive modification of the templates used. This will be done at your own risk.

peterska2 · #**207** 02-28-2007, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jorrit787

If one of the threads in the forums you are pulling threads from is a redirect, it comes up as this... (in other words: no message text.)

That is correct and I am aware of this. There will be a fix for this in the next version, but that is not expected for a while yet.

The only way around this for now is to not use redirects in the forum that you are taking the news from.

peterska2 · #**208** 02-28-2007, 03:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TigerWare

Thank you so much!

This one line instruction has saved much head scratching. Having installed, I was a little miffed that the layout and links were incorrect. But reading the thread from top to bottom has proved very worthwhile.

@ Kerry-Anne, is it too presumptious of me to ask that this single instruction be included in your installation notes? I am sure it would help quite a few people who run the portal outside the forum folder.

Great portal, I am looking forward to reviewing and installing other modules for this.

:up:

I have included 2 attachments to show what a huge difference this one modification makes.

Cheers!

** Edit To Add **
When I log off, the portal looks like the first screenshot, so I guess I missed a modification out.

The base instruction will be added to the instructions in the next release. The issue with the logging out is not one that I have come across before.

peterska2 · #**209** 02-28-2007, 03:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wpeloquin

I just read through all 14 pages thus far, and unfortunatly have a unique problem.

i installed the portal outside of the forums (http://rkccs.com), and i have the forums set as a subdirectory (http://forums.rkccs.com). they are linked, as you can see, through the header links at the top.

however, on the portal, the navbar paths are showing (http://rkccs.com/register.php) instead of (http://forums.rkccs.com/register.php)

do i have to edit the navbar template to show the full URL path? or is there another way?

Try this.

Quote:

Originally Posted by adhari_com

Insert right below the <head> in PORTAL template:

Code:

<base href="$vboptions[bburl]/" target="_self" />

If it doesn't work you will need to edit the navbar to use the full URL.

peterska2 · #**210** 02-28-2007, 03:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goodguy

I managed to get it working by editing the links in Actinic but users are still having problems, any idea why I'm having to use the full path? I tried reverting the forums.php back to index.php but still the white page?

Can you confirm where your vBonjour is installed and where your forums are?

wpeloquin · #**211** 03-01-2007, 01:35 AM

that last worked, thank you.

however, i noticed that when browsing it via IE7, it doesn't line up properly on the right side. i attached a picture for you. I'm not sure if this is just something with IE7 or not, but thought you might be interested in it nonetheless.

i have not tested it in IE6, only firefox and IE7. it works perfectly fine in firefox.

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