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.

[Gladhatter]

While I appreciate your comments and reassurances as well as your contributions to the community, I do not appreciate you saying I am hijacking your thread with non relevant material when all I have given is sound advise that any less than bloated and inflated self rightous coder would have given already.

Such unfounded opinions that everything should be fine are not supported by the lack of support nor excused by the non relevance of where or not you choose to or in this case choose not to support the product and it also is no favor for the community for you to suppose the product is fine for any valued purpose when it is completly untested for that purpose.

An attorney of all people should be aware of the proper language to use in such a non supported and non tested proposition.

Certainly your taking offence to sound advise and making an unfounded attack on myself and assuming that as I did not use this solution for one area means I did not use it for others is about as unfounded as your other suppositions here and all are without merit.

[Paul M]

This thread is for direct support of the modification. If you wish to discuss other things with the author, please use the PM system. Thank you.

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by Paul M

This thread is for direct support of the modification. If you wish to discuss other things with the author, please use the PM system. Thank you.

Thank you Paul for your kind advise and be advised that I am in contact with the author by PM discussing other things. My post on here however, I thought related to the support of this product or lack of it.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by Saviour

Logician...

I'm upgrading to vb 3.8. Will I have any issues with this version of your mod?

Originally Posted by Logician

I haven't yet tested with 3.8 but I wouldn't expect any problems. So if you want to use it with 3.8, I'd say go on.

This mod works perfectly with 3.8.

And for the record - I didn't see anything at all wrong with either Logician's reply, nor his attitude, in the preceding posts.

[Gladhatter]

For the record, I did not see anything wrong with anyones replies. What I do see is opinioned people here that are wishing to take sides on sideless issue. Being wrong and not being the best response are worlds apart.

[dartho]

I've upgraded a forum from 3.7.2 to 3.8 which uses this add-on with no noticable issues

Gladhatter - you are complaining about support for a product which is explicitly listed as 'Not Supported'.

That aside, you should have a test forum set up which mirrors your live site so that scenarios such as this can be tested on your own data without affecting your live site.

The vBulletin license agreement allows for a second installation for this purpose, provided it is password protected (ie. no members of the public can access it). It is invaluable in testing new products/addons/template changes and vBulletin upgrades.

By running through these processes on a test site first, you can remove the possibility of serious issues on your live site and by 'practising' teh upgrade process significantly reduce down time of your live site when you do take the plunge.

[Gladhatter]

I am sorry that you are confused as I have no complaints of any kind what so ever in a most beautiful universe that I live in.

[Rene Kriest]

Wow this is indeed awesome:

Gladhatter
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[JackFranklin]

Has anyone tried installing this whilst running 3.8? So far I can find only those who have used it then upgraded.

[JVSP]

Originally Posted by JackFranklin

Has anyone tried installing this whilst running 3.8? So far I can find only those who have used it then upgraded.

Just installed it on one of my forums running 3.8 and works fine.