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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.

[ConqSoft]

Just installed this. Looks great!

I did have one question though, the post icons are showing up as broken links, even though they do have the full, correct paths shown in the AdminCP (and they showed correctly during the install of this mod, where it changes the paths for you.)

In AdminCP, on the Post Icon manager, the path to each image is:

For example: http://www.fireblades.org/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif

But on the home page, the broken image properties shows:

http://www.fireblades.org/images/icons/icon1.gif

(I did hard-code /forums/image/etc in my Style too, btw.)

Any ideas of what I may have missed?

[Tigga]

Try modifying one of your icons in the Admin CP. You don't have to actually change anything, just save it. The icon cache needs to be updated which is something I missed when writing the install file.

[ConqSoft]

Yep, that fixed it. But, I decided I liked the way it looked without them turned on anyway.

[ConqSoft]

I found a bug, I think.

I have vb set to notify me of a new PM with a pop-up. If I'm on the vBadvanced page and get the pop-up, it tries to send me to private.php in the root of my site instead of in the /forums directory.

[13th_Disciple]

Originally Posted by Tigga

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.

good to hear that Tigga.. I am actually not too far away from you.. i live in Georgia as well.. anyway.. would be good to know a bit more info as i have to make a decision soon.. my vbportal subscription runs out the end of this month and i need to make a decision to renew that subscription or move on to something that will give me as much if not more site based and admin based functionality..

if you could maybe tell me how to speak to you outside of the forums.. i am an IRC regular, and i have ICQ.. i am by no means asking for support or for my requests to be talked about, i am just wanting to know a bit more about what you are thinking as it pertains to what i have mentioned and what your response was.. also, if you are going to charge for anything, i would like to speak to you about that as well..

if you have a few minutes, let me know how best to reach you outside of the vb.org forums.. thanks..

[AshAbed]

Im going to run my whole website(50+ pages) through your portal (adv_index.php?page=xxx) and was wondering if i should start adding pages now or if the next time you upgrade the portal i would have to re-start the pages.... in other words should i start building my site through the portal or should i wait for the "gold" version to be released?
thanks

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by 13th_Disciple

good to hear that Tigga.. I am actually not too far away from you.. i live in Georgia as well.. anyway.. would be good to know a bit more info as i have to make a decision soon.. my vbportal subscription runs out the end of this month and i need to make a decision to renew that subscription or move on to something that will give me as much if not more site based and admin based functionality..

if you could maybe tell me how to speak to you outside of the forums.. i am an IRC regular, and i have ICQ.. i am by no means asking for support or for my requests to be talked about, i am just wanting to know a bit more about what you are thinking as it pertains to what i have mentioned and what your response was.. also, if you are going to charge for anything, i would like to speak to you about that as well..

if you have a few minutes, let me know how best to reach you outside of the vb.org forums.. thanks..

i can tell you from persoanl and friends expirence that vBportal is one of the worst addons to vBulletin there is, it can seen querry loads sky high >.<

[Tigga]

ConqSoft - Are you running the most receint version of the script? There's some code in the file that should add your forum's URL in front of private.php. Have you modified your "pm_popup_script" template at all?

13th_Disciple - I'm hoping to have vBadvanced.com up within the next couple of days to start providing better support, add-ons, and etc for this script. Then I'm hoping to have the links directory up within a week or two, and the other scripts to follow... I can't really give any estimate on time for the others right now, and I'm not sure what order they will be available in. I don't really use IRC or ICQ, so the best way to contact me would be through email. If you'd like to email me at brian@plurplanet.com I'll gladly try to answer any questions you have.

AshAbed - You can go ahead and start making as many pages as you'd like - None of them will be lost in any upgrades.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Tigga

ConqSoft - Are you running the most receint version of the script? There's some code in the file that should add your forum's URL in front of private.php. Have you modified your "pm_popup_script" template at all?

13th_Disciple - I'm hoping to have vBadvanced.com up within the next couple of days to start providing better support, add-ons, and etc for this script. Then I'm hoping to have the links directory up within a week or two, and the other scripts to follow... I can't really give any estimate on time for the others right now, and I'm not sure what order they will be available in. I don't really use IRC or ICQ, so the best way to contact me would be through email. If you'd like to email me at brian@plurplanet.com I'll gladly try to answer any questions you have.

AshAbed - You can go ahead and start making as many pages as you'd like - None of them will be lost in any upgrades.

[high] * Faranth pokes tigga[/high]
Tigga check your email

[rinkrat]

I'm trying to build custom templates named index_template or whatever and when I try to load them with the ?page=template I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: parse_bbcode() in /www/htdocs/index.php on line 555

[EDIT]

Never mind, a little searching and I found the answer here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=53