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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.

[GuruXL]

Tigga, I don't plan on using this script now, however, it looks promising. I am waiting for the gold release before I start messing with the underlying code in vB3. I am wondering if you can create extra pages that have just the header and footer for vB3 and can it be used with this script to create a page like say: page.php?id=reviews and then load up a reviews page?

Just wondering. Let me know...

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by EVO VIII Chris

Anyone?

i figured it was better left for tigga to anwser you. :P as i know how to do it but he might know a better way

[rinkrat]

Okay, here's my wish list, a shoutbox and a block that links to Gallery random pics.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by rinkrat

Okay, here's my wish list, a shoutbox and a block that links to Gallery random pics.

Shoutbox wont be default, maybe as an addon id guess

You CAN make a block to display random gallery pics your self, but you must remember there are tons of differnt gallery softwares so youd be best off making it your self

[NuclioN]

I've problems to include a php on the index. www.cyberty.nl (Two links in centerblock 'headlines') In this centerblock it loads headlines out of a newsscript but the links are stripped so they point to url?actionetcetc. instead of url/news.php?actionetcetc. Maybe this has to do with globals?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

I've problems to include a php in the index. In the centerblock it loads headlines out of a newsscript but the links are stripped so they point to url?actionetcetc. instead of url/news.php?actionetcetc. Maybe this has to do with globals?

how are you trying to include it?

[NuclioN]

In adv_index.php

ob_start(); 
require("news.php"); 
$file = ob_get_contents(); 
ob_end_clean();

And the $file in custom_index5 template

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

In adv_index.php

ob_start(); 
require("news.php"); 
$file = ob_get_contents(); 
ob_end_clean();

And the $file in custom_index5 template

why not just include the file and add the HTML directy into the templates with the varibles?

[NuclioN]

When i include a file in adv_index.php the output is placed above the header. I've tried this with other php files and they do the same. Maybe there is another method?

Hm..a variable! Do you have an example? It would open the door to many more include options if this works.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

When i include a file in adv_index.php the output is placed above the header. I've tried this with other php files and they do the same. Maybe there is another method?

Hm..a variable! Do you have an example? It would open the door to many more include options if this works.

why not do what i said

require_once("./file.php");

now if theres any html with varibles in there, copy it into a template eval this template

eval('$woot = "' . fetch_template('woot') . '";'); before the final call i thin that shoudl work