vBindex

Latest Version: 1.3

This hack is not very special for me. I just wanted to create a mainpage on which you can see.. (as a member) everything what u like to see. The idea of the script is similar to the vbHome of nakkid and also a little bit to the vBPortal. I tested all of them.. but i was looking for something better . so i decided to write such a script myself...

Features:

• Active threads & newest posts
• News & Polls (read from a newsforum and a pollforum)
• Quick CP Links on the index-site
• Buddies on the index-site
• Very easy to customize. Just edit the templates!
• Available in english and german!

Summary: On this index-site you can see everything what you as a member would like to see .

Demo-Sites:

• http://partylife.ch [German Version]
• http://www.kampfkunst-info.de.vu [German Version]
• http://www.ukwinternet.co.uk/forum/home.php [English Version]

Screenshot 1: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex1.jpg // the original version and arrangement of the tables.
Screenshot 2: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex2.jpg // the nav on the right side.
Screenshot 3: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex3.jpg // or if u like 2 navs, left & right
Screenshot 4: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex4.jpg // another screen
Screenshot 5: http://partylife.ch/misc/vbindex5.jpg // buddies etc.


Installation
All instructions can you find in the readme.english/german.txt


Download
vBindex 1.3: http://partylife.ch/misc/vBindex1.3.zip
vBindex with Link-DB Script (Link-Script by The_Sisko; Integration of the Link-Script in vBindex by KarateKid): http://www.kampfkunst-board.de/sonst...tabasehack.rar


Credits
Newscode part from vBHome by nakkid.
Onlinetodaycode part from Online Today Hack by Mystics.
Pollcode part from vBPortal by wajones.


Note!
I'd really like to get every feedback you guys can give me. Also post bugreports and suggestions to improve this script. If you have installed this hack, pls click on the install button to receive updates thru email. Thank you .

[iblis]

Originally posted by danielhollands
Hi all, i've just installed this hack here (soon to be here), and so far it's looking really good.

What I want to do, once i've moved the forum to GameVine.co.uk is use this file in the root directory rather than the forum dir, what would I need to change in order for this to be possable?

Cheers (sorry if this quistion has already been asked, but over 300 posts is a bit too much to track though)

just add:

chdir("/home/yoursite/forum");

above "require('./global.php');" in vbindex index.php file..

then add "/forum" on all the url's in the vbindex templates

ps: sorry for my bad english..

[Ninth Dimension]

Hi, thank you for this, it works fantasticly (i just put in chdir("./forum"); rather than the whole path)

I do have another problem, voting on the poll does not work, I get the following error message:

The action you have attempted could not be performed as your session appears to be invalid. Click the below link to attempt this action again with a new session.

(Yet again, i'm sorry if this question has been answered, but like i said before, 300 posts in a little too much to read though)

Cheers again.

[NTLDR]

Originally posted by danielhollands
I do have another problem, voting on the poll does not work, I get the following error messageYet again, i'm sorry if this question has been answered, but like i said before, 300 posts in a little too much to read though)

Indeed this has been fixed somewhere in this thread, I'm going to contact el3m3nt and see if I can release a new version with all the bug fixes and maybe somemore features soon.

From memory you should have this line in the home_poll template:

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">

Which needs to be changed to:

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[dbsessionhash]">

To be able to vote correctly.

[NTLDR]

Originally posted by iblis
btw NTLDR, you know of a easy way to add the avatar on the user on the index page?

The way I have done this is to use the welcome panel hack that is avalible for your forums and applied it to the front page, take a look at mysite for an example. Is that the kind of thing you wanted?

[Ninth Dimension]

Thank you for the advice, i'll be looking foward to any new releases of this hack

[NTLDR]

No problem

I've contacted el3m3nt regarding a new (or updated) realease of this hack and am wating to hear back from him.

[iblis]

NTLDR: I used the code from the "welcome panel" to.. but my index.php is not in the /forum directory..

so the avatar image gets broken, pointing to www.domain.com/avatar.php ..

the correct url would be www.domain.com/forum/avatar.php ..

but I cant find the <a> to fix it

[Ninth Dimension]

I found the only way to solve this problem was to edit the {imagesfolder} patch in the replacements section of the admin.

Try that

[iblis]

huh? /vbimages?

[Grower]

I highly recommend everybody using this hack to install also "Thread Preview Hack". Some level of data redundancy is the only way to go with this kind of hack. Then you can remove extra queries in loop (putting query into a loop is always the worst solution and should be avoided).

For those who have installed this hack and have also "firstpostid" column in thread table here is code you can use for pulling news:

// news by nakkid (modified)
// -------------------------
$newsquery=$DB_site->query("SELECT thread.threadid,thread.title,thread.dateline,thread.postusername,thread.postuserid,
thread.replycount,thread.iconid,post.pagetext,icon.title AS icontitle,icon.iconpath
FROM thread
LEFT JOIN post ON thread.firstpostid = post.postid
LEFT JOIN icon ON icon.iconid = post.iconid
WHERE forumid='$newsforum' ORDER BY thread.dateline DESC LIMIT $newsposts");
while ($news=$DB_site->fetch_array($newsquery)) {
  $newsthreadid=$news[threadid];
  $newstitle=$news[title];
  $newstime=vbdate($timeformat,$news[dateline]);
  $newsdate=vbdate($dateformat,$news[dateline]);
  $newsusername=$news[postusername];
  $newsuserid=$news[postuserid];
  $comments=$news[replycount];

  $newstext=bbcodeparse($news[pagetext],$newsforum,1);
  $newstext=str_replace("<br />","",$newstext);

  if ($news[iconid]=='0') {
	$news[icontitle]="";
	$news[iconpath]="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/icons/icon.gif";
  }

  eval("\$newsbits .= \"".gettemplate('home_newsbit')."\";");
}

eval("\$news = \"".gettemplate('home_news')."\";");

Also there is an error on first few lines where templatesused string is filled (missing commas) which caused extra queries. Here is fixed code:

$templatesused='error_nopermission,home,home_buddy1,home_buddy2,home_footer,home_header,home_headinclude,home_left';
$templatesused.=',home_login,home_logout,home_news,home_newsbit,home_nothreads,home_poll,home_pollresult,home_right';
$templatesused.=',home_threadbit,home_threads,forumhome_loggedinuser,forumhome_loggedinusers,maxloggedin';

This thread is so long that I hope I'm not reposting something already fixed