vBadvanced CMPS - Old Support Thread

Tigga - let me be the first to say what an absolutely outstanding hack this is. I've been using it now for about a month (or whenever you first released it on your website).

Installed and working great on 3.0.1. Fantastic work !!!! Waiting to vote for it on 'Hack of the Month'.



* Intex clicks INSTALL. Even though it was installed a few weeks ago .

[TheMusicMan]

Originally Posted by jarvis

Great. Thank you for the update. I look forward to visiting his site and putting the hack to use.

Hey no probs Jarvis.... you are very welcome.

I am just setting up my 3rd vB forum that uses vBa... I love it. I use one on my busy site, my son uses it on his and I am just setting up one for my wife. Happy to help you in my limited way whenever I can... I am happy to let you have the 3 sites I use it on if you want a peek, here you go... one, two and three...

John

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by DaPro

Hey, I have a bit of a template problem, when I installed this portal onto my forums I got this line going down the left side that seems to be underneath everything on the left side. I have no idea where it came from as I disabled all on the left side. Can anyone help, here is a live view: http://www.otakutalk.com

Any help is appreciated!

I see the line. It seems be caused by a carriage return in the html or something like that. Try using a different style and see if you can narrow it down that way. I believe it's something in the style that's causing that.

[Tru Smiles]

I'm having ugly problems with the image path. When I set the style to /forum, some of the images on my forum page don't load, and it makes no difference to the actual index - They miss out the forum directory altogether, so no images loading at all.

I'm using a skin other than the default one, but I don't see how it should affect it, but anything I do does not seem to make the slightest difference, or it makes the images on the main forum get worse.

This is frustrating me like you wouldn't believe. I'm tried installing the hack and the skin twice already >_<;;

[traderx]

Originally Posted by Tru Smiles

I'm having ugly problems with the image path. When I set the style to /forum, some of the images on my forum page don't load, and it makes no difference to the actual index - They miss out the forum directory altogether, so no images loading at all.

I'm using a skin other than the default one, but I don't see how it should affect it, but anything I do does not seem to make the slightest difference, or it makes the images on the main forum get worse.

This is frustrating me like you wouldn't believe. I'm tried installing the hack and the skin twice already >_<;;

This a direct quote from the install readme that is included in the script

Step 1 - Admin CP Modifications
Go to your Style Manager under "Styles & Templates" in your Admin CP. Choose to modify All Style Options. On this page, you will see a section for "Image Paths". Here you must change the path for each image directory (Title Image, Button Images Folder, Miscellaneous Images Folder, etc) to the full path (ex - /forum/images or http://yoursite.com/forum/images).

You must do this for each of your styles, otherwise your images will not show up!

[Tru Smiles]

I'm not stupid, I HAVE done that. Actually, I should point out that the actual icons and noavatar images are loading fine. Its my normal skin images that are not o_O

[blueuniverse]

I am planning on setting up something along these lines as a revision for my current site. Link. I'm not sure how flexible it might be for this though, so I've got a few questions to ask.

How easy is it to extensively modify in the display, and probably the code too. I am going for a pretty complex look, so it will hopefully look absolutely nothing like vbulletin in the end. I'll post a link to the new design if you want, but its sort of the colours I've got now, but with rounded sidebars and a rounded navbar.

Firstly, how easy is it to remove modules, so there are only 1 or 2 left. I'll probably only need log in, links to different pages (can this be user specified) and who's online down the sides. In the middle, I'll probably only need latest post (can this be set to just 1, and for just 1 category?).

Also, would it be possible to have another section lower down on the page, where I could have a post that rotates with other posts in the forum? Or, if this isn't possible is it possible to have another block at the bottom, which works by showing the latest post, from one of the forums. For this, would it be possible to name it, and also remove the buttons to comment it etc. I'd also need both post things, to be able to lose the who posted it thing, and if there is an avatar by it, they'd probs need to be replaced by a pic, if this is possible?

How easy is it to create pages as well, and what can go on these. Can you post any php code or html code to go on these pages?

Finally, how much would it cost to remove the copyright?

Thanks for the help.

[traderx]

Hello all, perhaps someone can help me here. I have been able to add left and right columns using modules but I am having a problem on some pages. The pages that I can't get them to load is New Post... if there IS NOT any new pages. I was told that it probably is an error template, I tried making the changes to functions.php below

I put this in the beginning of the file:

PHP Code:

define('VBA_PORTAL', true);
define('VBA_PAGE', 'include'); 


Find this:

PHP Code:

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('$templatename') . '");'); 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template($templatename) . '";'); 
print_portal_output($home, $HTML); 


Now after I do this it show up like the attachment.... Anyone know how I can fix this so I can get my left and right column to show up in my error pages?

Thanks to all the reply
Coll

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by Tru Smiles

I'm not stupid, I HAVE done that. Actually, I should point out that the actual icons and noavatar images are loading fine. Its my normal skin images that are not o_O

I'd look and see where the skin is putting its images. It may not be in the default place. That's the only place I can think to start.

[Torqued]

Originally Posted by Tru Smiles

I'm not stupid, I HAVE done that. Actually, I should point out that the actual icons and noavatar images are loading fine. Its my normal skin images that are not o_O

If you do a right-click, properties on the broken images, what is the path that it is looking for?

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by blueuniverse

How easy is it to extensively modify in the display, and probably the code too.

If you can mod vb's php files and templates, then you can mod this.

Originally Posted by blueuniverse

Firstly, how easy is it to remove modules, so there are only 1 or 2 left.

Very, very, very easy. If you can add and remove forums and usergroups, you can do the same with modules.

Originally Posted by blueuniverse

Also, would it be possible to have another section lower down on the page, where I could have a post that rotates with other posts in the forum? Or, if this isn't possible is it possible to have another block at the bottom, which works by showing the latest post, from one of the forums. For this, would it be possible to name it, and also remove the buttons to comment it etc. I'd also need both post things, to be able to lose the who posted it thing, and if there is an avatar by it, they'd probs need to be replaced by a pic, if this is possible?

Some of this will require some mods or custom php, but it's easy to integrate things like that. The random image and video modules on my site at www.huntsvillecarscene.com were done from scratch.

Originally Posted by blueuniverse

How easy is it to create pages as well, and what can go on these. Can you post any php code or html code to go on these pages?

Very, very, very easy. If you can add and remove forums and usergroups, you can do the same with pages. You can have php, html or a mixture of both.

Originally Posted by blueuniverse

Finally, how much would it cost to remove the copyright?

That I don't know. See www.vbadvanced.com and do a search. There's a wealth of information there too.