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.

[subvertbeats]

Logician

Thanks for your prompt reply, its really appreciated.
ill look into the registration page.

Re: login form - thanks - I embarrassingly missed that in the doc.


Also, Im not sure if your aware of the Easy Forms mod (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201097) ?

Have you had any experience with showing these forms in a WT site?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by subvertbeats

Logician

Thanks for your prompt reply, its really appreciated.
ill look into the registration page.

Re: login form - thanks - I embarrassingly missed that in the doc.


Also, Im not sure if your aware of the Easy Forms mod (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201097) ?

Have you had any experience with showing these forms in a WT site?

I don't have any experience with this hack but I'd think including it in a wt via iframe should be possible.

[subvertbeats]

Excellent suggestion thanks Logician - have it working well....just a couple of challenges left to overcome

- how to put a logout link in the userinfo panel inserted by $WT_Login

- need the Easy Forms mod to be able to choose a style per form - then I could create a style with the correct colours, no header etc (at the moment im wrapping the vB header, footer and navbar templates with a conditional to detect this page)

- registration form redirect back to this site (but only when called from this site)

[dartho]

Originally Posted by Ohiosweetheart

dartho, I replaced my template content with yours above, and it worked great, except that I'm still having a table issue.

The biggest issue I have with tables is with <THEAD> and <TBODY> tags. Rather than work them out I just removed them from the temaplates I posted earlier (they're really only useful for CSS declarations). If you do use them within your web templates, having one without the other may cause a validation error? (I'm guessing here )

[TheLastSuperman]

Logician... if you have time could you reccomend how to remove the navbar links in webtemplates.... could I just edit the installer files or am I thinking to simple?

Reason: I moved my navbar from navbar template to header template for aesthetic reasons and to place 32 x 32 icons in front of each (it looks nice ) but it still tends to add in the extra options like Blogs etc in the header template even though in my forums they are not there but only in a webstemplate? I cannot code in the images unless I go into all those mods and try to remove it from each when I would simply like to remove the display of the navbar links in webtemplates.

If it's a simple fix please post, if it's not and your busy just point me in the right direction perhaps?

Thanks!!

3.8.1

S-MAN

[Logician]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Logician... if you have time could you reccomend how to remove the navbar links in webtemplates.... could I just edit the installer files or am I thinking to simple?

Reason: I moved my navbar from navbar template to header template for aesthetic reasons and to place 32 x 32 icons in front of each (it looks nice ) but it still tends to add in the extra options like Blogs etc in the header template even though in my forums they are not there but only in a webstemplate? I cannot code in the images unless I go into all those mods and try to remove it from each when I would simply like to remove the display of the navbar links in webtemplates.

If it's a simple fix please post, if it's not and your busy just point me in the right direction perhaps?

Thanks!!

3.8.1

S-MAN

You can just edit the theme webtemplate you are using and remove $navbar part.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by subvertbeats

Excellent suggestion thanks Logician - have it working well....just a couple of challenges left to overcome

- how to put a logout link in the userinfo panel inserted by $WT_Login

Don't you have one when you are logged in?

[mmoore5553]

Just a thought. I would go into the webtemplates and then the themes at the bottom. Just click on edit on the one you use and take out $navbar

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Logician

You can just edit the theme webtemplate you are using and remove $navbar part.

See Below...

Originally Posted by mmoore5553

Just a thought. I would go into the webtemplates and then the themes at the bottom. Just click on edit on the one you use and take out $navbar

Guys, thanks so much for the suggestions and quick replies ... THAT would normally work however I should have been more specific when I posted but my lunch break was almost over and the boss is a HAWK lol

I already did that but the style I use has other stuff I would love to have in the navbar... I reworked the code to include the icons and removed a lot of links that were there to streamline it as the style did not look right w/ the nav menu going to the right about half a mile :erm: but if push comes to shove I'll simply redo the whole navbar in another template i.e. the parts I need and make the navbar template itself nearly empty and do what you suggested! There's always more than one way to skin a cat (just a phrase I have 2 & luv em') but I was hoping Logician would have a simpler solution but what you posted is the simplest way and I need to work around it as I decided to slice & dice my navbar.

Thanks to you both but especially you Logician... this is one of my favorite and most useful vb mods! Every site I help out on or admin on has installed it so far and that's 4 and soon to be 5.

S-MAN

[TimberFloorAu]

where it says

example : 32 times visited

Can we amend this to

This page has been visited 32 times