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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.

[NuclioN]

eval('$woot = "' . fetch_template('woot') . '";'); before the final call in adv_index i guess. I'll try it.

[rinkrat]

Originally Posted by Faranth

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

I meant the one called Gallery. It's the best! I used to use Postnuke and that is what I miss!

Here is someone who has it working with VBAdvanced. I need to know how to do this!

http://differentdawn.com/


Here is where Gallery is.

http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php

[NuclioN]

Originally Posted by Faranth

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

I'm sorry this i don't understand correct. Maybe if you have time you can look at this file that is included to see what and how this must be placed in custom_template3. I hope you can help because this is haunting me for days.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

I'm sorry this i don't understand correct. Maybe if you have time you can look at this file that is included to see what and how this must be placed in custom_template3. I hope you can help because this is haunting me for days.

what do you need this extra script for ?

[jancarlo]

@ Tigga

if a user ago login it does not go forum/login.php but login.php, this
avvine if the board is closed to to you.

it happens also with "register" and "forgotten your password".

hello
jancarlo

Italian

se un user fa login non va forum/login.php ma login.php, questo avvine se si chiude la board ai non registrati.

succede anche con "register" e "forgotten your password".

ciao
jancarlo

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by jancarlo

@ Tigga

if a user ago login it does not go forum/login.php but login.php, this
avvine if the board is closed to to you.

it happens also with "register" and "forgotten your password".

hello
jancarlo



Italian

se un user fa login non va forum/login.php ma login.php, questo avvine se si chiude la board ai non registrati.

succede anche con "register" e "forgotten your password".

ciao
jancarlo

did you have a previous version of vBadvanced installed?

[NuclioN]

Originally Posted by Faranth

what do you need this extra script for ?

When managed by a few newspublishers it can become a quick way to read and respond to newsitems. It has a small replyfield under each news ID and stores the reactions under it, you don't need to login the forum for that. Also this newssystem produces a RSS. It can be used as an extra headline source togheter with the forumnews.

This program is freeware and i saw examples where news headlines are stored in sideblocks and when you click on it the full news displays in the center(block) with reactions + reply field to make it interactive. It would be an awesome addon for VBadvanced Homepage i guess.

[Zachery]

vB has a built in RSS feed already

[jancarlo]

Originally Posted by Faranth

did you have a previous version of vBadvanced installed?

I have the version "Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.0.0 Release
Candidates 2"

the problem is born if I close it to guest, if instead I leave
it opened works the all good, why in this case use the navbar for the
login.

hello
jancarlo



Italian

ho la versione "Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.0.0 Release Candidate 2"

il problema nasce se lo chiudo ai guest, se invece lo lascio aperto funziona tutto bene, perch? in questo caso uso la navbar per il login.

ciao
jancarlo

[ciaranirl]

Would someone be able to install this for me?

I am not really sure what I am doing.