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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.

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  #212  
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Blackbeard - Try removing that quote from your first news post, or changing the Max News Characters to a higher number so that the closing quote tag will be included. That error is being caused because the quote table is never closed. It's strange that this seems to be such an issue with this script, but I can't think of one complaint with the vB2 version (myvbindex). I may have to add some code that will close the quote since this seems to be an issue affecting so many people now.

Abbas - Can you show me the file that you're trying to include this script with?
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Thanks removing the quote worked.
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Abbas - Can you show me the file that you're trying to include this script with?
Sure- Let me see if I can attach files in a PM and I'll send it across

Thanks!
-Abbas
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Just a tiny tidbit, not important really, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Heh. I spent an hour puzzling over why the gradients weren't working, on the pkg default theme and that was because you need to go through the css and full path the background image attributes.

Love the hack, btw - fab job.
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Tigga i realy would like you to look at this: http://cutephp.com/

It's a fantastic free news script with a lot of options such as xml/rss feeds. It can display 5 headlines in a sideblock and when you click on it (i haven't figured out how they do that) the news can be displayed in a centerblock above the forum newsitems for example. What's great is the quick comment system beneath the newsitems. Visitors can read the news and react. I hope someone can let this work togheter with this portal. You can share the news with other sites trough rss.
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Tigga i realy would like you to look at this: http://cutephp.com/

It's a fantastic free news script with a lot of options such as xml/rss feeds. It can display 5 headlines in a sideblock and when you click on it (i haven't figured out how they do that) the news can be displayed in a centerblock above the forum newsitems for example. What's great is the quick comment system beneath the newsitems. Visitors can read the news and react. I hope someone can let this work togheter with this portal. You can share the news with other sites trough rss.
vB has built in RSS feed you can use that
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Are you serious Faranth I will study it. I've looked quite some time for a way to catch headlines in a sideblock to display the content in a centerblock.
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Are you serious Faranth I will study it. I've looked quite some time for a way to catch headlines in a sideblock to display the content in a centerblock.
you need to enable it in vBulletin ACP options but yes, RSS JS and somthing else if memory serves
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so far i have looked into both vbindex and vbadvanced homepage.. i am leaning towards this one a bit more than the other as it looks like it gives a bit more functionality with minimal queries..

right now i run vb2.3.3 with the calendar patch for 2.3.4 and a vbportal front-end.. they have no estimated time for release yet for vbportal for vb3 and i am not sure if i want to stick with it anymore.. but it does offer a more thorough solution to what i need right now.. but in the way of a portal solution, here is what i would like to see, and i am not sure if these things will be added, have been thought of, or are even considered an option at a later date:

a seperate admin section for the portal aside from it being within the adminCP..

a reviews section to rate certain things that pertain to what is relative on the site itself with user submitted reviews that have to be approved by a mod, smod or admin..

an uploads/downloads section.. the uploads use pfp ftp instead of relying on the php.ini.. once a user/member uploads a file, a mod, smod or admin approves the upload and then creates a link for it, moves it to a proper DL file location via a file manager based system, and the link is then posted in a DL section only registered users and higher being allowed to DL.. (there is a secure downloads deal, but the guy is so slow in updating anything with it that many of us from vbportal are tired of asking, although he says his new version will do most of what i ask, if it is ever released).. as well as a rating system for the downloads..

a links section to allow for member based link submission and a rating system is allowed for the links as they relate to the relevance of the site the links reside on..

the ability to easily create sideblocks, centerblocks and additional content for the sites front end.. almost a nuke style blocks system.. although i am not too keen on the nuke style, you can't really beat it in its ease of use..

that's all i can think of for now.. i would say a gallery, but i already have a license for photopost.. and i would by a license for reviewpost for the review section.. but i just can't bring myself to purchasing something like that right now since i am so short of bread the way it is..

now i know that's a lot.. and i am by no means a vbulletin hacker/guru/know-it-all.. but i am very interested in a more robust DL section for sites such as mine that offer DL's to their members.. something like i mentioned above for the upload bit and working similar to paFileDB for the download bit.. but i am very willing to offer help in anyway necessary.. i have looked for solutions and studies on some stuff Dark_Wizard has done as well as Erwin and several others.. will do whatever it takes to make a really good DL hack/add-on.. but would like to see it integrated with a nice portal system, and vbadvanced homepage looks like a very good portal based front end for such a DL type add-on.. if anyone is interested in such a deal and would like to help me do such a task, please contact me.. but bare in mind, i am a beginner.. if you are doing something like thisTigga or are interested, let me know.. be glad to do whatever i can..

i also think i saw wayne luke mention vbulletin was working on a cms.. anyone know much about that? nd sorry for asking that in this thread..

Tigga, very quality work.. i believe faranth helped as well.. nice job.. well done..
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13th_Disciple - I'm actually working on scripts for most everything you mentioned. Though they won't be free, they will be relatively inexpensive. Hopefully some of them will be available on vbadvanced.com shortly after I get that site launched.
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