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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.

[Nmidia]

Originally Posted by Nmidia

If I wanted to integrate the New Posts code into the standard Navbar - what changes would I need to make?

bump

[EVO VIII Chris]

Originally Posted by EVO VIII Chris

Ok so I have got this think all installed and you can see it at my site www.vorspann.net. It is far from finished but its a start and its coming along. My question to you is this. I am going to start creating other pages now and its a little tricky trying to figure out how. I created a template titled "index_project_evo" and left the template completely blank. I went to the URL just to make sure it worked and this is what showed up...

http://www.vorspann.net/index.php?page=project_evo

Well thats kind of what I wanted and kind of not. I wanted to keep the vB navbar on the tob and the headers, footers and even the recent post column and what not. I didnt however want the Custom Templates there because that is where I wanted to put my content for this page. Can anyone tell me if there is a easy way to get around this?

Thanks alot!
Chris

Come on no one can tell me how to do this? Please?

[Lacrosse Boy]

I'm trying to upgrade, but I get the following error on step one. What do I do?

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO setting (varname, grouptitle, value, defaultvalue, optioncode, displayorder, advanced, volatile) VALUES ('home_navbar', 'vbadv_index', '1', '1', 'yesno', '33', '0', '0')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'home_navbar' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by EVO VIII Chris

Come on no one can tell me how to do this? Please?

Originally Posted by Lacrosse Boy

I'm trying to upgrade, but I get the following error on step one. What do I do?

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO setting (varname, grouptitle, value, defaultvalue, optioncode, displayorder, advanced, volatile) VALUES ('home_navbar', 'vbadv_index', '1', '1', 'yesno', '33', '0', '0')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'home_navbar' for key 1

mysql error number: 1062

looks like youve already tried to run the installer

Originally Posted by EVO VIII Chris

Come on no one can tell me how to do this? Please?

Evo im going to ask you to drop Tigga a PM with this to make sure he will read it

[FastAttack]

Originally Posted by EVO VIII Chris

Come on no one can tell me how to do this? Please?

I ended up making an extra index.php renamed to nav.. and change the templates around to use a secondary template set.. so that I can place my code anywhere I want.

Tigga made a goodjob with vbadvanced.. I just modded the hell out of it.. basicly its a diffrent type of vbadvanced

almost as close as phpportals.

[mbanje]

Hi

I was recently introduced to Vbulletin and I am experiencing problems in that the installation has gone okay but I cannot display any of the side blocks / custom blocks. I am a newbie so excuse my ignorance but i would be grateful for any links / advice. I have installed the vBadvance hack but can't get any side blocks working be it calendar, poll etc.

thanks in advance

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by mbanje

Hi

I was recently introduced to Vbulletin and I am experiencing problems in that the installation has gone okay but I cannot display any of the side blocks / custom blocks. I am a newbie so excuse my ignorance but i would be grateful for any links / advice. I have installed the vBadvance hack but can't get any side blocks working be it calendar, poll etc.

thanks in advance

did you login to the ACP and change any of the vBoptions?

[DaQuixlet]

QUESTION GUYS!

I installed the script without a problem. But there is no portal when people go to my website. Why is this? Do I have to set the domain to a certain link?

Where is the portal located?

[Zachery]

did you read the install file?

[mbanje]

I have read the install file and followed it to the letter and all has installed okay. I even mnaged to install the Arcade which is more complicated than the Vbadvanced homepage. I just cannot seem to get the side blocks to appear. I purchased 2 licences and when installing Vbulletin myself there were 13 steps. My colleague installed the same version and there were 42 steps. I am totally confused. The Vbulletin forum is working ok. Help, please.