WebTemplates 2.x: VB Integrated Content Management System

After a long wait, here is the new 2.x version of Webtemplates. First a short introduction for users who are not familiar with the old version:

This hack is a vbulletin integrated content management system. Term "Webtemplates" stands for dynamic webpages that reside in your MYSQL database and administered inside your vbulletin admin control panel. But they are more than regular site pages because they can automatically inherit visual design of your forum, can apply permissions according to your vb usergroup settings, can keep track of page counts, last visitorname/visit time, display page browsers in the page itself and in your whoisonline page etc. So basically webtemplates are dynamic web pages of your site which are powered by vbulletin.


WEBTEMPLATES 2.x FEATURES:
([New] indicates feature that is recently introduced in this 2.x version)

• Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without hacking even a single vbulletin file! It is coded as an add-on, not a hack.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates has built-in support for Logician's advanced templates conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions. (Even if you don't have that hack installed)
• Private Webtemplates (NEW): With 1 click you can make a webtemplate "private" and it will be displayed to only certain usergroups.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroup according to their userids or usergroupids. 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.
• Draft Webtemplates (NEW): You can put webtemplates in "draft" mode which makes them invisible to all but admins.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking (NEW): You can track certain users (by usergroup or userid) to monitor who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support (NEW): 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.
• Categories (NEW): Webtemplates 2.x supports multi-categories for better webtemplate organizations.
• Multi Parsing (NEW): Webtemplates can now parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts)
• 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.
• Outside Variables (NEW): Advanced users can now use outside variables in webtemplates, then webtemplates will accept/use/process user sent variables via HTTP_GET and HTTP_POST methods (eg. a HTML form can post to a webtemplate with this feature)
• Page Counter : Webtemplate has built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF or ON per webtemplate basis.
• Page Browsers Display (NEW): Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while people is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin)
• Who is Online Display (NEW): Webtemplates can display page visitors in who is online (This is Optional and require a simple hacking in file online.php). You can create private webtemplates which are hidden in who is online too.
• Theme Support (NEW): 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 theme for them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate (NEW) : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Help Documents : The script comes with built-in & detailed help documents (they are webtemplates too).
• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can now add create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add member count/post count/thread count/last 10 threads forum X etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Archieve to Text File (NEW): Webtemplates/Webqueries can be downloaded to a text file with one click for archiving purposes. You can also easily share these text files with other hack users.
• Login/Logout box (NEW): You can insert login/register box to your webtemplate if visitor is a guest and log off box if she is a member.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates (NEW): 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.
• Better Performance (NEW): Webtemplates 2.x structured so that it performs well even under heavy load conditions and high traffic servers. (See Performance issues below)
• Easy Back up: Simply back up your database (inside vbulletin or externally) and all your webtemplate structure is also backed up automatically.

For screenshots, FAQ, performance issues, migration from old version to new version, see below.

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..


Version Updates:
30.July.2003 - > Version 2.03

* Adds feature to include regular vbtemplates into webtemplates

2.02 users: apply this fix to update.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.

12.July.2003 - > Version 2.02

* Fixes a bug with outside variables.

2.01 users: apply this fix to update.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.

2.July.2003 - > Version 2.01

* Fixes bug that bothers webqueries if "Show Template Name" option enabled in vb admin cp
* Fixes bug in webquery $WQ_mostactivemembers
* Fixes visual look of webtemplate test
* Fixes visual look of admin panel and makes sure it looks ok in dark backgrounded boards too.

2.00 users: update here.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.


Webtemplates 3.x (for vb.3.x) is released here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=76422

[Highlander]

Hello Logician,

its me again and i read all posts in this thread.. before i figure out my quastion i have

If you have one minute to overview this .. i would be very happy ..

What i want to get done
You see this test Template i did .. it was work of 10 seconds
-> http://spielplanet2.de/forums/view.php?s=&pg=testone <-

i have in my forums .. espically these forums i showed up in this test template an news based posting style.. this means only news writer are allowed to start threads there, with uploading an image .. this News shows up like here .. www.spieleplanet.org/news.php ..you see i show the attachment file as simple link to attachment.php in IMG tags and the img is showing beside the topic title..

the same i want to get shown in a (for example) News WebTemplate .. this means not only the topic title should show up like here (http://spielplanet2.de/forums/view.php?s=&pg=testone) i also want to show up the attachment file (i only show up images) .. the thumbnailing is not my problem..the query itself is a problem to get the topic titel inclidiung the attachment image to show up..

Can you follow me?
My english is not always understandable .. sorry for that but you webtemplates are a better, faster and easier way to make a new News Based Website based on the forum .. with many oiptions i cozuld integrate .. your CMs is very mighty and i love it ..

i would marry you if you would be a nice looking girl *lol*

[Highlander]

Hi Logician,

You just heard this maybe thousand times .. but i want you to know that this thing is the right thing i am searching for over one year for my web study .. i managed a whole bunch of finishing projects with this hack

i cant believe that everything is just getting exactly as i want

and i cant wait to get from work to work on this new spieleplanet project

..okai .. that should be enough for you wounded fingers .. how many keybords did you crashed until you finished this hack ..hehe

Project Example (still not Finished)
http://spielplanet2.de/forums/view.p...lpha_news_v0_2

Question (planned features)
- how to migrate the search field? Can you give me an tip?
- How to migrate attachemnts from (for exapmple) listed threads you see on the example page link?

If you find time for this (just for me important) things .. it would be nice.. otherwise i am testing also till i find it out..

vBulletin 3 support
Just leave it alone *smile* i dont need it also and your hacks make an vb2.* more eficient than the naked vb3.*
One day maybe i have to start with the upgrade.. but everything is working better than fine .. and you know "never touch a running system"

Greetings from germany (Frankfurt)
Highlander
www.spieleplanet.org/forums
http://spielplanet2.de/forums/view.p...lpha_news_v0_2

[NORRITT]

hello,

I have some questions for modifying that great hack.

1. I know it is not supportet, but what have I to modify to use view.php in an other directory? (instead of site.com/forum/view.php I would like to see it in site.com/view.php)

2. How can I get templates generated by the vbhome lite hack working in the THEMES (Parent WebTemplates)? I would like to include:
- home_loggedinusers
- home_newposts
- home_userloggedin
- home_userloggedout
- home_threadbit
- home_welcomeguest
- home_welcomeuser

3. How can I use WebQuery to show all (or latest 5) headlines of all Webtemplates created for a category? How can I show all headlines of all categories? The Headlines should be links to the full Artikle (Webtemplate page).

thank you a lot
lukas

[GoTTi]

log, you got any movement on making this work with vb3 yet?

[NORRITT]

Hello friends,

I got my 1. question solved on my own: just copied the view.php into my root directory and changed every path ./admin/.... into forum/admin/....

Can anyone help me with 2 and 3?

lukas

[Highlander]

Hi there

have an problem creating a webtemplate including informations like this:

First i have this QUERY to find out the Threadid wich i can use in TABLE "Post" toi get the "postid" to get in the end the "attachmend_id" i can use to show up images

PHP Code:

$newsquery=$DB_site->query("SELECT threadid,title,replycount,postusername,postuserid,iconid,dateline FROM thread WHERE forumid='$newsforum' ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT $newsposts");
while ($news=$DB_site->fetch_array($newsquery)) {
  $newsthreadid=$news[threadid];
  $newstitle=$news[title];
  $newsicon=$news[iconid];
  $newstime=vbdate($timeformat,$news[dateline]);
  $newsdate=vbdate($dateformat,$news[dateline]);
  $newsusername=$news[postusername];
  $newsuserid=$news[postuserid];
  $comments=$news[replycount]; 


So now i get the postid to search for to create an image with when one is attachend to a post (ex: attachment.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&postid=$postid)

PHP Code:

  $getnews=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT postid,pagetext,iconid FROM post WHERE threadid='$newsthreadid' ORDER BY postid ASC LIMIT 1");
  $postid=$getnews[postid]; 


this are two queries to get an image out of a post a user makes
but how it seems with the webtemplates i can do only one query.. i dont know how to migrate this code into the qebqueries ?

please help me someone out with this.. i tried now for several days and did not manage this .. anyway i just need to show it up..

an working example with a *.php page i did here:
www.spielplanet2.de/news.php <- on the left site you see this code working.. and this option i just need to migrate into webtemplates..so i can turn off this news page and use webtemplates 100% for everything ..

Example of an early Alpha Layout of exisitng Webtemplates:
http://spielplanet2.de/forums/view.p...lpha_news_v0_2

[JohnXWA]

Logician,

I'm in major need of this hack to work with VB3 or i'm screwed. Is there a quick and dirty way to get it to play ball? I don't need the fancy features just plain html pages.

I have a over 200 hundred pages on WebTemplates I cannot afford to loose. VB3 is very stable, considering the extensive beta.

Thanks!

[Logician]

No promises but I am hoping to work on its VB3 version this month. I'm sorry to not to give you an alternative solution but your only way to save your 200 webtemplates would be using the VB3 version of this hack.

[NORRITT]

Logician, can you help me with the webquery and template questions:

1. How can I get templates generated by the vbhome lite hack working in the THEMES (Parent WebTemplates)? I would like to include:
- home_loggedinusers
- home_newposts
- home_userloggedin
- home_userloggedout
- home_threadbit
- home_welcomeguest
- home_welcomeuser

2. How can I use WebQuery to show all (or latest 5) headlines of all Webtemplates created for a category? How can I show all headlines of all categories? The Headlines should be links to the full Artikle (Webtemplate page).

Originally Posted by Logician

No promises but I am hoping to work on its VB3 version this month. I'm sorry to not to give you an alternative solution but your only way to save your 200 webtemplates would be using the VB3 version of this hack.

[JohnXWA]

Originally Posted by Logician

No promises but I am hoping to work on its VB3 version this month. I'm sorry to not to give you an alternative solution but your only way to save your 200 webtemplates would be using the VB3 version of this hack.

Cool,

I thought as it requires no editing of VB files it would be somethign quick and easy to get it going.

Thanks