Major Additions - vBonjour - Portal System

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.

[Thermit]

Love this hack. (Have marked it as installed, too.)

I've been occasionally having some problems with portal posts. This only happens with posts that include special formatting, so possibly it's just an issue with the code properly dealing with all possible cases. When this problem occurs the post body fragment is fine, but the post title includes text that should not be there.

Here is an example...

The title should read simply:

What Features Do You Like in banner exchanges?

However, it's reading as...

[/PHP] That is just an Example of Code so :-) Yeah, I still am working on it it's going to be very secure, which Is taking me the longest to fix for the password enc and dec type... Well just leave suggestions :-)" target="_blank">What Features Do You Like in banner exchanges?

For reference, the post causing this problem is...

Hello Everyone!!!


As some of you know I am currently working on a banner exchange script which is going good but had to scrap half of it, it wasn't loading fast enough. Just to let you know I have the total 5 Beta testers so far. Needing 5 More! For once i release the script, but anyways what I came here to post is what do you like or what do you think should be in a banner exchange, like special features, like


Paid Services -
Intergrated Support
3D Stats - Maybe in Flash or Something.
Live Stats,
Etc...

Please Post any Ideas as I am still working on this and would like to know what to create in this Script so I can rearange or reconfigure the MySql Database

But the Features are Including and Soon will include for all of the Script ownerz and Beta testers.


1.) Very Secure Script, For Example:

	
PHP Code:
	

		
			



<?php

if( $_GET['ref'] != "$url"){
die("SORRY!!! Accessing the Page is Restricted only to $url");
}
else
{
include "./index.php?page=member_stats";
}

?>


		
	
That is just an Example of Code so :-)
Yeah, I still am working on it it's going to be
very secure, which Is taking me the longest to fix for the password
enc and dec type... Well just leave suggestions :-)

(Very minor addtional point, but just in case it matters, I should note that here at vbulletin.org, in the example post body above, the PHP Code block should be displaying "?>" at the very end, but it doesn't, although this works correctly on my forum. )

[ComputerForumz]

need desperate help on this:
check out my site: www.computerforumz.com
it seems to continue loading index.php even though i have already changed the default page to forum.php.

help!

[subzero06]

go to admin cp>>>vbulletin options>>forum home page options> and change the script name to forum instead of index.

Note: dont put forum.php, only forum without "php" at the end.

[ComputerForumz]

already did that.... this is what u get in the link above
actually, wasn't sure what i'm supposed to get, so i modified the .htaccess file to point to forum.php
but i guess that's not the point rite?

anyway, to see my problem now... goto www.computerforumz.com/index.php

i will modify the .htaccess file back once i get this problem sorted out.

[ComputerForumz]

it just does not display anything else below the horizontal menus... help???

[newhere]

This is a pretty nice mod. Thanks. A decent alternative to paying for vBadvanced just for a little homepage.

One question I have though, I notice in my news articles, someone posted a thread with a youtube clip, (we don't use the youtube vB plugin / tag, it's just the default embed html tag) but the video does not show up in the article on the portal page. Anyone know why this is?

[newhere]

Oh I see, you are doing a regex replace to remove the tags from the preview.. why is that?

My solution is to only remove tags if the preview is larger than the allowed number of characters. Then alter the template to change it so that the "preview" when you mouse over the thread title is not the full html. (Just remove this, or change it to $news['title'] ) Now youtube posts show correctly. (though who knows what other kidns of bugs allowing this html could introduce. hmm.)

Awesome mod. Thanks again! Clicked install...

[almightyone]

how hard is it to get vbshout integrated into this system? i read the htread and didnt really see an answer just that it will work with it

[BACANERIA]

This is a wonderful hack will nominate for hack of the month but an having a serous problem $who_has_posted and $wol are bigger in width and it looks ugly and olso $wol and $member_message are stuck together what can i do about this. thank you in advance..

How can you center the content in the body?

[Malach]

bookmarked to install after my site comes back up from being moved to a new server.