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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.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by charlyc

Nice hack!

Is there a way to include photopost or other php pages in the center blocks?

youd have to manually edit the php functions to gather the required files

[Blackbeard]

Originally Posted by Faranth

remove <table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
see if it works after that

that didnt work m8 just made it worst, just trying to insert a nav bar in the custome1 but dont seen to work

[Blackbeard]

Originally Posted by Blackbeard

iam having a small problem at moment, i use custome box 1 for a site nav box and now things are not playing, it is more than likely me, so i will post what i did and attach a screenie.

<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="tcat"><span class="smallfont"><b>$vboptions[blockbullet] Site Navigation</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1"><span class="smallfont">

<li><a href="http://Myweb site/index.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://Myweb site/forums/index.php">Forum Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://Myweb site/chat.html">Chatroom</a></li>


</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />

could someone help please

here was my post so you all understand what last post was about

[Blackbeard]

The changes i have done dont seem to be the problem as i have reverted all them plates.

can some have a look at my homepage, also can i just run the install script again and over write it all???

http://learnall-forum.com

[Abbas]

I installed this and its working great. However, what I want to do is include the output produced by this page into a part of my home page. I tried two things

1) include the file with the

<?php
$included_file = "$page.txt";
?>

2) Cutting'n'Pasting the contents of adv_index.php into my current home page where I need the output.

Unfortunately, both of these results in the following error:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/tbreak/public_html/index1.php
Line: 16

If I access the adv_index.php by itself- it shows up just fine. I tried removing all the meta tags from the templates for adv_index, but still get the cookie error. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Abbas

[The Dude]

What happens to the main page when the forums are turned off for maintenance?

[charlyc]

Originally Posted by Faranth

youd have to manually edit the php functions to gather the required files

Can you be more specific?

Thanks

[The Dude]

Well if the board is down can you still login on the vbadvanced main page or be seen by the system as 'logged in'.

Thanks

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by The Dude

Well if the board is down can you still login on the vbadvanced main page or be seen by the system as 'logged in'.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Abbas

I installed this and its working great. However, what I want to do is include the output produced by this page into a part of my home page. I tried two things



1) include the file with the



<?php

$included_file = "$page.txt";

?>





2) Cutting'n'Pasting the contents of adv_index.php into my current home page where I need the output.



Unfortunately, both of these results in the following error:



Unable to add cookies, header already sent.

File: /home/tbreak/public_html/index1.php

Line: 16





If I access the adv_index.php by itself- it shows up just fine. I tried removing all the meta tags from the templates for adv_index, but still get the cookie error. Any help would be appreciated.



Thanks

Abbas

i dont belive you can correctly include your page.txt that way



if you get that its beclause there is somthing happening after ?> or before <?php

Originally Posted by The Dude

What happens to the main page when the forums are turned off for maintenance?

the front page will be down as well, if your the admin you will see it as online

Originally Posted by charlyc

Can you be more specific?



Thanks

not really i dont use photopost so i wouldnt know where to start, sorry

[Abbas]

Originally Posted by Faranth

i dont belive you can correctly include your page.txt that way

if you get that its beclause there is somthing happening after ?> or before <?php

Well, the funny thing is that the output produced by the script works great at times and not at others. I mean, you see the output on my home page and then do a refresh and that cookie thing appears and then again a couple of rerfeshes later, I can see the output.

Really weird!

-Abbas