Portal Software - WebTemplates 3.7.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 3.7.x & 3.8.x ONLY. For vb 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.x and 2.x 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.

VB4 version Update (9.9.2010): Please find 4.x version of WebTemplates4.x in its own thread.


WEBTEMPLATES 3.7.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:
(Some 3.5 and some are 3.0 versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so both 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://www3.fertilethoughts.com/forums/view.php?pg=acronyms
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)

3.5 version Admin CP screenshot attached to this post. 3.0.x screenshots (here and here) also still applies for this version.

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..

About this 3.7.xx Version: This 3.7.xx version is same as previous 3.6.x version. 3.6.x version was already working in vbulletin 3.7.x except a few minor bugs and these bugs are fixed in this version to make it dedicated solely to vbulletin 3.7.x. Please see "what's new" in the next post for more details.

Version Updates:
29.July.2008 - > Version 3.7.00
* Hack 3.7.00 is released.

[ishare]

This is the best mod/hack/addon (or whatever we call it) i've seen on vBulletin. Everything depands on what you can imagine. And this mod makes everything much easier for who dont know lot about php or other coding language.

So thank you very much Logician for this great mod. You simply rock....

I also need an idea about something i would like to do.

Through "$WQ_last10threadfromforum2" i would like to list all the threads in a certain category. And i've changed the limit to 500. So it lists all the threads in ASC without a problem. But i would like to learn if it is possible to make this page with a letterbar (same as vbulletin memberlist.php) ? So users could find the threads much easier. Or even listing the threads like : threads starts with letter A or B.... would be great.

Is that possible ? Anyone can give me an idea about how to do that...
Thanks in advance...

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ishare

This is the best mod/hack/addon (or whatever we call it) i've seen on vBulletin. Everything depands on what you can imagine. And this mod makes everything much easier for who dont know lot about php or other coding language.

So thank you very much Logician for this great mod. You simply rock....

I also need an idea about something i would like to do.

Through "$WQ_last10threadfromforum2" i would like to list all the threads in a certain category. And i've changed the limit to 500. So it lists all the threads in ASC without a problem. But i would like to learn if it is possible to make this page with a letterbar (same as vbulletin memberlist.php) ? So users could find the threads much easier. Or even listing the threads like : threads starts with letter A or B.... would be great.

Is that possible ? Anyone can give me an idea about how to do that...
Thanks in advance...

It can be done. Here is a sample webtemplate/webquery for this

[ishare]

Logician, i dont know how to thank you for your very kind relation and very quick response... You are my hero....

I really wish that i could send more and i know that its nothing but i've send you a donation through paypal. That was the amount in my paypal account.

[ishare]

Is it possible to remove the first row of the alphabetical table (image2.png) so i can show just the letters seperate as same as on the memberlist.php ? (image4.png)

And is it also possible to add the numeric option which we can then list the threads start with the humbers. I've added "#" but i guess its not working.

Thanks again for this wonderful mod.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ishare

Is it possible to remove the first row of the alphabetical table (image2.png) so i can show just the letters seperate as same as on the memberlist.php ? (image4.png)

And is it also possible to add the numeric option which we can then list the threads start with the humbers. I've added "#" but i guess its not working.

Thanks again for this wonderful mod.

1- That part comes because wt uses default theme. If you don't use theme, you can customize it via HTML as you like.

2- Edit webquery like this:
SELECT threadid, title, postusername,postuserid,dateline
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
WHERE sticky=0 AND visible=1 AND forumid=3 $letterquery
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 500

Query PHPInclude Code (Before) : like this:

$myletter1 = substr($myletter, 0, 1);
if ($myletter == '_')
{
$letterquery = "AND (title LIKE '0%' OR title LIKE '1%' OR title LIKE '2%' OR title LIKE '3%' OR title LIKE '4%' OR title LIKE '5%' OR title LIKE '6%' OR title LIKE '7%' OR title LIKE '8%' OR title LIKE '9%') ";
}
else
{
$letterquery = "AND title LIKE '$myletter1%'";
}

and then use
<a href='view.php?pg=alphabeticalthreads&myletter=_'> #</a>
for linking numbered threads.

[ishare]

Would "thank you" be enough for all your helps ?

Now i can use my imagination to create very useful and nice pages with your wonderful mod.

Thank you very very much again Logician...

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by ishare

Would "thank you" be enough for all your helps ?

No it's not. Click on the link in the first post to nominate WT for Mod of the Month

[ishare]

I've already done that Ohiosweetheart

[Ohiosweetheart]

Hopefully it will win one of these days.

[ishare]

With "zero" knowledge of php, i did my best to solve the problems. And actually i did solve most of my problems through google them or search for the possible answers through vb.org

But i still have some problems which i can not solve.

Can not find the right variable for the forum title :
When i list the threads of forumid=2, i can sort them through the letterbar. In the current letterbar, there are "Title", "Author" and "Date" sections. I did add another section called "Forum" which will show the forum title of the thread which it belongs to.

 <td class="$alternate" WIDTH="25%" VALIGN="TOP" NOWRAP><div class="smallfont">$forum[forumtitle]</div></td>

I've also tried $forumid, $forum[title], forumid and maybe +20 different tries which i do not remember now. But none of them worked.


I would like to make a "movie list" for my forum. Due to i have lot of categories such as "Dvd Movie Reviews", "HD-Bluray Movie Reviews", "TV Series Reviews" etc.., i tried to make css navigation menu as shown on below image.

I used "Site Information Pages Template" for this movie list but it did not work due to a reason i do not even remember right now. I feel like my head will blow soon due to those complicated, puzzling, meaningless php codes.



***Above picture is just an example to give an idea about what i would like to do



Is it possible to pull threads from different forums at same time ?

SELECT threadid, title, postusername,postuserid,dateline
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
WHERE sticky=0 AND visible=1 AND forumid=103 $letterquery
ORDER BY dateline DESC
LIMIT 500

I did below adding :

forumid=103 or forumid=104 or forumid=105

I've also tried below :

forumid=103 AND forumid=104 AND forumid=105

But none of them worked. So i guess i do something wrong or maybe its not possible to do what i want to do...