vBadvanced CMPS (Content Management & Portal System)

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Current Version: 1.0.0 (Updated 06/03/04)

vBadvanced CMPS (Content Management & Portal System) is an advanced portal / content management system that will allow you to easily include different options from your vBulletin message board on your site's homepage. It also allows you to easily create and manage new pages in which you can set different settings other than the default. It's module system also makes it very easy to add custom modules without hacking any of the files, plus it is very easy to integrate with other vBulletin pages and hacks. Everything is also template based and completely integrated with vBulletin, so it is very easy to customize and change everything through your Admin CP.


Features:

• Easily create and manage your site's content and new pages through your vBulletin Admin CP.
• Easily add new modules without hacking any vBulletin or vBadvanced files.
• Ability to set a different value for each module's settings on a per-page basis.
• Easily enable/disable modules on a per-page basis.
• Set and change all 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 3.01, 3.00, RC1, RC2, RC3.
• 100% validated XHTML 1.0 compliance
• And Much more!

Included Modules:

• Welcome Block - Creates a login box for members to log into your site on the homepage, or shows logged in users their avatar, last visit, and new PMs (all of which may be enabled/disabled).
• News - Post News in a forum you specify and have it appear on your page. Additional options to show attachments, icons, images, HTML, and more in your news posts.
• News Archive - A condensed version of older news posts. Includes options to control the number of archived posts to show.
• Latest Topics - Show the latest threads started in your forum. Additional options to set the number of threads to display, show a preview of the first post, icons, and last post info.
• Currnt Poll - Show a poll and allow users to vote and see the results on your homepage.
• Buddy List - Show the user's buddy list for members who are logged in.
• Online Users - Shows a list of active users, including the stats for your 'most users ever online'.
• Stats - Shows statistics such as total members, threads, posts, top poster, newest member, and today's birthday's.
• Mini Calendar - Shows a mini calendar with links to days with scheduled events.
• Search - Search box to allow users to quickly search your forums.
• Quick Moderation - Shows the number of posts, threads, users, attachments, and calendar events awaiting moderation for users that have permission to moderate these items.
• Custom Page Content - Allows you to easily specify a template to include the content from on a page.

More modules available in the Addon Modules, Hacks, & Modifications forum.


Screenshots:
http://www.vbadvanced.com/images/scr...s/homepage.gif
http://www.vbadvanced.com/images/scr...it_modules.gif
http://www.vbadvanced.com/images/scr...add_module.gif
http://www.vbadvanced.com/images/scr...s/add_page.gif


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 and visible at all times.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Aunt Clara

Thanks. Another question, would this work even if CMPS is installed in the forums folder? I am guessing it would not.

Just to make things clearer: both vBulletin and CMPS are installed under mydomain.com/forums, neither is in the root directory.

Sorry, I should've specified better... Zachery's instructions mention the root folder but a better description for that change is for whenever CMPS is in the same folder as the forums.

Essentially you ended up renaming your current index.php (which is your forums script home page) to something else like forums.php, go into your ACP to specify the new name of the forums script home page, and then rename cmps_index.php to index.php.

[Aunt Clara]

Excume me if I am being a bit too dense, but would that turn the /forums/index.php into index.php?

[Omega Prime]

Originally Posted by Aunt Clara

Excume me if I am being a bit too dense, but would that turn the /forums/index.php into index.php?

You can put the cmps_index file whereever you'd like, so you can put it within your site root or your forum root for instance (although you'd have to alter the settings in the admincp should you decide to have the cmps as your new index)

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Aunt Clara

Excume me if I am being a bit too dense, but would that turn the /forums/index.php into index.php?

You want something like this...

BEFORE:
Forums = /forums/index.php
CMPS = /forums/cmps_index.php
 
ACP Option Named 'Script Name for Forum Home Page' = index

AFTER:
Forums = /forums/forums.php
CMPS = /forums/index.php
 
ACP Option Named 'Script Name for Forum Home Page' = forums

[Aunt Clara]

Never mind, the solution as you said was incredibly simple. Thanks a lot.

You can check what I meant by going to www.dominicancooking.com

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Aunt Clara

Never mind, the solution as you said was incredibly simple. Thanks a lot.

You can check what I meant by going to www.dominicancooking.com

Looking good. :classic:

Before I forget, you want to change one other thing...

Choose ACP => vBa CMPS => Default Settings => CMPS URL and change the value their to reflect the fact that CMPS is now named "index.php" instead of "cmps_index.php" -- I remembered that because I saw in your header that some links are still pointing to cmps_index.php yet.

With CMPS 1.x.x that value doesn't exist but with CMPS 2.x.x it does so I tend to forget it sometimes.

[Aunt Clara]

I noticed that when I called a cmps page it took a while longer than calling a forum/cmps page (I didn't delete it), for some reason. I created a special style just for the now-renamed index.php with all links pointing to forum/cmps pages. There are no broken links, just a funky navigation experience.

[cookiepants]

we have the CMPS as our home and would like to add a left column to the rest of the site forum pages.

I've followed this:
http://www.vbadvanced.com/membersare...tid=4&pageid=6

I get to the end, #6, and can't figure out where to put the coding correctly. I try in FOURMHOME but nothing happens.

my site:
http://www.sewingmamas.com/b/

Thank you!

Megan

[mschvili]

Hi!
I've installed the vBadvanced and find it very usefull. But i have one problem. The CMPS-page is the index.php. But once the visiter is in the forum, HOW DO I LINK THEM BACK TO THE HOMEPAGE?

I tried the mod Custom Links, but it didn't worked with my skins.

My forum:
http://www.jonselektriska.se/forum/

Thankful for help!

[TheMusicMan]

<a href="http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9689&highlight=dynamic" target="_blank">http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/show...hlight=dynamic</a>

There you go...