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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.

rinkrat · #**372** 01-22-2004, 03:50 AM

Upgrade to RC3 went smooth.

NuclioN · #**373** 01-22-2004, 08:40 AM

Error:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO vb3_phrase (phraseid, languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (NULL, '-1', 'settinggroup_vbadv_index', 'vBadvanced Homepage Settings', '5000')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'settinggroup_vbadv_index--1-5000' for key 2

Tigga · #**374** 01-22-2004, 01:46 PM

NuclioN - I'm assuming you got that from the RC3 upgrade script, right? Were all your phrases and such removed during the upgrade? It should have removed that phrase as well if it removed the rest, so you may want to double check and see if the others were removed. If they were, try finding this bit of code in that file and removing it:

PHP Code:


			
        $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "phrase (phraseid, languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (NULL, '-1',  'settinggroup_vbadv_index', 'vBadvanced Homepage Settings', '5000')");

        echo "<font size=\"1\">Added vBadvanced Setting Group </font><br /><br />";

scottct1 · #**375** 01-22-2004, 06:17 PM

Getting the following error....

I upgraded to RC3 fine on my test server, however on my live server I get the following error...

Parsing functions.php Time before: 1074801976.8187 Time after: 1074801976.8452 Time taken: 0.026489973068237
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Processing sessions.php Time before: 1074801976.8455
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/satellit/public_html/includes/sessions.php on line 171

scottct1 · #**376** 01-22-2004, 06:24 PM

Got it fixed, I uploaded the main php again to the root and it worked.

Phew!

NuclioN · #**377** 01-22-2004, 08:35 PM

Where to check if the frases were removed, phpmyadmin, the phragemanager? I don't even know which frases i've to look for. I must first open the install file and look for each one of them?

PET · #**378** 01-23-2004, 12:04 AM

hi there.

I have a problem.
I have created a new templated called index_regulament where i have normaly put the thext that i want. Now i get this error when i'm trying to access the index_regulament page. This is the error :

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: parse_bbcode() in C:\apache\htdocs\ro-hattrick\vb\index.php on line 555

index.php is acutaly the vBadvanced index. I get this only when i'm trying to acces the new page :

http://localhost/ro-hattrick/vb/inde...age=regulament

Can you help me ?

Tigga · #**379** 01-23-2004, 12:14 AM

Nuclion - Just go to your phrase manager, then select "vBadvanced Homepage" from the select field near the top of that page. There should be about 15 phrases under that IIRC.

PET - See this post for the fix - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=53

NuclioN · #**380** 01-23-2004, 12:37 AM

Tnx Tigga..i did it the 'non sleep' method by deleting all the templates in phpmyadmin and then import a fresh vb language. It worked.

Ofcourse i have to spend more time to find the solutions for other problems such as the calendar and the login block and the full url's and where to put them. This is a great addon and i hope you can make an update soon where all those problems are history.

Tigga · #**381** 01-23-2004, 01:11 AM

Well I'm actually working on the next version right now. The problem with the phrases being removed after a vB upgrade is a simple fix, but the templates will most likely always be removed. That one's not a big deal though since it only removes any that you haven't customized, plus there's the option in the installer to only install the templates.

What do you mean about the problems with the login block and calendar? There aren't any issues with either of those that I'm aware of...

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