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.

[TheLastSuperman]

Ohh so it's a problem with your navbar then i.e. you replaced the urls's in some of your menu items but the changes are not reflecting in the webtemplate and causing an error?

[drew82]

no no no ... my menu links are fine

see this page bluelight.ru

their default landing page is home.php not index.php

how is this done

[Michigan Morels]

Well, after reading all 27 pages of this thread. I'm impressed with two thing.

1. the low number of problems (most of those seem to be complicated and above my level anyway LOL)

2. "Not supported" support seems to be better in this mod than most "supported" mods.

So I am going to download and try it out. I'm all excited over it, but won't marks installed until after testing on my testvb. When I install it on my live forum, I'll mark installed.

I am very impressed with the feedback in this thread in spite of Gladhatter's rude remarks when he doesn't even use it.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by drew82

no no no ... my menu links are fine

see this page bluelight.ru

their default landing page is home.php not index.php

how is this done

You will need to get rid of the index.html or rename it to something else (Rename to save the original).

index.php will replace your index.html, the browser looks for one of these files as the default page to present based on the servers preferences. Most servers have default settings about the order in which a default file is presented. typical order is:

index.html
index.php
default.html
default.php
home.html
home.php

So basically if you don't have a index.html, it will start looking for index.php instead and so on, down the list!

Originally Posted by Michigan Morels

Well, after reading all 27 pages of this thread. I'm impressed with two thing.

1. the low number of problems (most of those seem to be complicated and above my level anyway LOL)

2. "Not supported" support seems to be better in this mod than most "supported" mods.

So I am going to download and try it out. I'm all excited over it, but won't marks installed until after testing on my testvb. When I install it on my live forum, I'll mark installed.

I am very impressed with the feedback in this thread in spite of Gladhatter's rude remarks when he doesn't even use it.

It is a very well made mod, the author is very nice and helps when he has time as I assume he is a busy man ... this is one of my favorite mods released for vB

S-MAN

[dartho]

There's probably a better way (you could probably do it with an htaccess edit only) but what I'd do (if I couldn;t be bothered googling better way) is create a new php file as gymph said in post #393 and call it myhome.php and put it in your forum root

Next edit your .htaccess file in your forum root and add a line:

DirectoryIndex myhome.php index.html index.htm index.php index.cgi index.pl default.htm

Now when someone visits your forum root (with out explicitly enterting a filename to access) it will defualt to myhome.php which redirects to whatever page you specified in the phpfile

[dartho]

OK, I googled - you shold be able to do this simpler. Assuming you don;t have an index.html in your forum root, simply add the following line to your htaccess

RewriteRule ^(index\.html)?$ view.php?pg=xxxxx[QSA,L]

Then when someone visits http://mysite.com your webserver will try and load up index.html which will be rewritten to view.php?pg=xxxxx (you swap xxxxx for the web template page identifier) and load up http://mysite.com/view.php?pg=xxxxx someone requesting http://mysite.com/index.php will still get that...

[drew82]

thanks guy for all the help

i moved my entire vbulletin out of the root into it's own directory

then i used gsmph's method to forward the index.php file in the root to the custom home page in the vbulletin directory.... this is working very well for me

[gsmph]

Originally Posted by drew82

thanks guy for all the help

i moved my entire vbulletin out of the root into it's own directory

then i used gsmph's method to forward the index.php file in the root to the custom home page in the vbulletin directory.... this is working very well for me

am glad to help...

now anyone cares to help me here

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=388

pleaseeeeeeeeeee.............

br
gsmph

[Martyh]

Hi,

Would it be possible to get one of BananaLive's Easy Forms into one of your templates ?

His product is here , where I asked the same question.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...highlight=easy

Thank you,

[Gamelobby]

Is there some reason i cant change the background color..?
We have tested a few different types of HTML pages, but the background wont change.. it just stays white.

Any thoughts.?