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.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ZatroX

What do you mean right here? I also followed everything correctly its just that

So can you load test webtemplate fine for example?

If yes, give me admin cp access and I can check.

[ZatroX]

I found out the problem for some reason i missed this

(There are 2 XML files, please make sure you import the file named "webtemplate_export.xml"!)

Do i uplpoad the webtemplate_export.xml where? as a product?

EDIT: Im such a dummy did this like at 12 am, and its 7:30 pm today so i just saw that i shouldnt be doing this stuff when im tired LOL thank you so much haha im looking like a newb right now hehe ty Logician!

[Ohiosweetheart]

So did you get it fixed Zatro?

If not, look in the menu under WebTemplates, and you'll see an export/import (or import/export) button. That's where you import the webtemplate_export.xml

[Emre Goren]

this is a great hack thanks for this and here is the page that I created

http://www.cgflame.net/forum/view.php?pg=cargo

[TheFocusElf]

I thought I had posted here yesterday - reinstalled this mod on a fresh version of IPB 3.74 PL1, and I love this mod, the only question I have is I cannot use the HTML parsing option, or I get a bizarre error, consistently when i actually paste HTML into the box :

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@mydomain.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.6 Server at www.vbforumname.com Port 80

[Logician]

Originally Posted by TheFocusElf

I thought I had posted here yesterday - reinstalled this mod on a fresh version of IPB 3.74 PL1, and I love this mod, the only question I have is I cannot use the HTML parsing option, or I get a bizarre error, consistently when i actually paste HTML into the box :

Internal Server Error
 
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
 
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@mydomain.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
 
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
 
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.6 Server at www.vbforumname.com Port 80

Assuming you meant VB, not IBP: please see Post number 223.

[ishare]

I've created a very nice and very useful list which saved me from weeks of job with this wonderful mod. So i would like to thank you again for all of your works...

Am not sure whether its possible or not but i would like to try my chance...

I have 2 forum categories. And each categories has movie reviews inside. But with different language content. Forum1 is in English and Forum2 is in Turkish language. And sometime, both forums contains same title but with different languages. Instead of preparing different lists for both forums, doing just 1 list but with both forums content will be much more better. But ofcourse, if i am able to do what i plan (think) to do. The problem starts here If you dont mind i would like to ask you if it is possible to

For example, if the thread pulled from Forum1, it will automatically put an English flag icon (english.gif) and if the thread pulled from Forum2, then there will be Turkish flag icon (turkish.gif).

Is it possible to do something like that ? or no need for that ?

Regards...

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ishare

I've created a very nice and very useful list which saved me from weeks of job with this wonderful mod. So i would like to thank you again for all of your works...

Am not sure whether its possible or not but i would like to try my chance...

I have 2 forum categories. And each categories has movie reviews inside. But with different language content. Forum1 is in English and Forum2 is in Turkish language. And sometime, both forums contains same title but with different languages. Instead of preparing different lists for both forums, doing just 1 list but with both forums content will be much more better. But ofcourse, if i am able to do what i plan (think) to do. The problem starts here If you dont mind i would like to ask you if it is possible to

For example, if the thread pulled from Forum1, it will automatically put an English flag icon (english.gif) and if the thread pulled from Forum2, then there will be Turkish flag icon (turkish.gif).

Is it possible to do something like that ? or no need for that ?

Regards...

Nope you can't do that, but you can write forum name next to them.

[yahoooh]

i have page in folder which is only one page that give all result on it
how to include it with php code
because i use frame code

any help plz

[sparklywater]

I think this mod is good enough to be sold to vBulletin / vBadvanced, they should make Logician a good deal and then support the product themselves. Logician has been doing a phenomenal job on his own but it would be easier on him if there was a team working on it rather than on his own. What do you think Logician?