Portal Software - WebTemplates 4.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 4.x and above. For vb 3.x, version see my profile for relevant threads.)

"WebTemplates" is a vBulletin integrated Content Management System which allows you to create vb integrated "HTML" pages in your vb admin cp very easily. The pages can inherit your vbulletin skin/style, can recognize logged-in user, can be applied permissions per user or usergroup basis, can keep visit logs, hit counts and do many more.


WEBTEMPLATES 4.x BASIC FEATURES:

• Very Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without modifying even a single vbulletin file. It is coded as a vb product and can be imported very easily.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroups easily. 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.
• Page Counter : Each webtemplate has a built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF/ON per webtemplate basis.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking : You can track certain users' (by usergroup or userid) webtemplate visits to see who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support : 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. vB's WYSIWYG editor is supported in Editor interface.
• Page Browsers & Who is Online Display: Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while visitor is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin). Webtemplate visits can also be monitored in who is online page.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can automatically use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• Help Documents : The script comes with an extensive help document.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates : 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.
• SEO friendly URLs: You can make webtemplate URLs seo friendly in vb settings (Requires apache server).
• XML Import/Export : XML Import/Export feature allows you to backup your webtemplates and use other hack users webtemplates in your board.

ADVANCED FEATURES FOR ADVANCED USERS:

• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add "last 10 threads forum X", "most active users list" etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Multi Parsing : Webtemplates can parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts). This means you can design a page just like vb posts (TEXT parsing), standart HTML (HTML parsing) or even in PHP (PHP parsing).
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Theme Support : 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 single theme for all of them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates supports VB3 template conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions.
• 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.

Sample WebTemplates from Sites using this hack:
(Most are from 3.x versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so all will give you the idea.)

http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_mission.htm
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/view.php?pg=aboutus
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_guidelines.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_info.htm
http://www.hystersisters.com/vb2/view_books.htm
http://www.worldwideknights.com/view_spread.htm
http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/view.php?pg=makeuptalk-newsletter
http://www.bklab.com (entire site is designed with Webtemplates only)
(Actually this hack is one of the most popular vb hacks so it is used by hundreds -if not thousands- of vbulletin sites and you can easily find them if you go to google and search "Logician's WebTemplates" WITH quotation marks)

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..

From FAQ 13: Vbulletin already has a CMS now , why would I need this hack?

If you have CMS license, you might not need Webtemplates. On the other hand, CMS license is paid, webtemplates is free and many forum owners don't have CMS licenses.

Also please note that vb has CMS since 2010. Webtemplates was first released for vb2.x in 2002 and it was around in vb3.x, 3.5.x and above for thousands of vbulletin users who have developed their sites around webtemplates CMS. So regardless of new vb CMS owners might or might not need it, Webtemplates 4.x is still realased and supported as a courtesy to its old users and fans. I personally prefer and use Webtemplates over vb CMS and this hack lives for people who agrees with me.

Version Updates:
12.October.2013 - > Version 4.0.2
* Minor fixes for PHP 5.4.x (Fixes "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated" errors in new PHP versions.
14.July.2012 - > Version 4.0.1
* Vbulletin changed WYSIWYG editor parsing in vb4.2.x so hack's editor.php is updated accordingly.
9.September.2010 - > Version 4.0.00
* Hack 4.00.00 is released.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ryancooper

Does anyone know how to include the latest posts (only found in the post title) of the page your are on?

Example I am browsing a page called Space mountain - I would like to have on that page the last 5 posts that have Space mountain in the title of the post?

I know I can make a web query for just Space Mountain and inclue it but then I would have to have a query for every search term. Is there a way to have it show the $WT_PageName% in the Query?

I did try

SELECT threadid, title, postusername,postuserid,dateline 
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
WHERE taglist LIKE '$WT_PageName%'
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 5

and that did not work Thanks!

$WT_PageName variable can be used in WebQueries, I don't see a problem with this.

I believe your query is somehow wrong. Can you run the same query in phpmyadmin and return valid results with it?

There are certain things you need to check. Eg. your WHERE query is checking the keyword in "taglist" field, not title. I'm not sure if this is intentional. Also when you use '$WT_PageName%' instead of "'%$WT_PageName%'" you are querying results that begins with $WT_PageName rather than including.

[ryancooper]

Logician,
Would you able able to post the code to use that will return the latest 5 threads about %$WT_PageName%

I was using tags because I couldnt figure out how to search the title of posts LOL

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ryancooper

Logician,
Would you able able to post the code to use that will return the latest 5 threads about %$WT_PageName%

I was using tags because I couldnt figure out how to search the title of posts LOL

I believe this should work:

SELECT t.threadid, t.title, t.firstpostid, t.lastpost, t.replycount, t.postusername, t.postuserid, t.lastposter, t.dateline, t.views, p.pagetext
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread t
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post p ON p.postid = t.firstpostid
WHERE t.title LIKE '%$WT_PageName%'
AND t.open = '1'
AND t.visible = '1'
ORDER BY t.dateline DESC
LIMIT 0 , 5

[ryancooper]

AWESOME thanks Again!

[mathforum]

Any comments on highlighting the proper navbar tab on custom pages?

[vBThemer]

Thanks for addon. its easy & handy to add new pages.
I have installed this & got only 1 navtab to work correctly by using Tab Script(s) "view" & for other 2 tabs I used "Append 'tabid' to URL" & this stays highlightend.

[ryancooper]

Logican Can I use t he Webtemplate name in the Result Prefix Code.
I would like to put latest topics on $WT_PageName But it does not seem to pick it up?

[ryancooper]

I am also trying to exclude a series of forum ID's I tried added:
t.forumid to the select

then adding:

AND t.forumid NOT IN '36,37,77'

But it tosses a error

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ryancooper

I am also trying to exclude a series of forum ID's I tried added:
t.forumid to the select

then adding:

AND t.forumid NOT IN '36,37,77'

But it tosses a error

Try:

AND t.forumid NOT IN (36,37,77)

[ryancooper]

nope they still show...