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.

[Saviour]

Update...

Logician...disregard the help request for vMoods. I fixed the issue. Thanks, anyway.

[eric8476]

step 3 is missing in the installation. The menu option is not in the left sidebar.

[eric8476]

Fixed the problem, files in the wrong directories.

[Rideharder]

I've had this for a while and love it vBulletin® v3.8.3... nominating

The reason I love this say that if you have a page that you want to make just about one topic this modworks excellent..

So many different unique ways to use this it's all up to the designer

[bulbasnore]

I've been looking through programming discussions with no luck. I'm displaying certain info from the database in my webtemplate. Now, I'd like to let the user click and have the following happen:

1. Create a reply to a specific thread.
2. Prepopulate the reply with some info I'm displaying in the webtemplate
3. Land the user on the editor, as if they had typed the info and hit preview.

I know this isn't a WT 'issue' but I'm wondering if someone fellow WT user can point me in the the right direction.

[JVCode]

Thank you, installed.

[Saviour]

Logician...

Not sure if you remember this fix you supplied me: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=343

Anyway...

The problem I'm having is with one existing page and any new pages I create using your template mod.

They pass W3C's validation for CSS, but fail for XHTML with one error.

The problem stems from this code in the fix you provided (marked in red):

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == view">
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="vbbloglinks_menu" style="display:none;margin-top:3px" align="left">

The problem is the template blog_navbar_link_menu. This template uses the exact same code, so the page fails stating that particular id has already been defined.

So if I remove it from either the navbar or blog_navbar_menu_link template...it results in a non-functioning blog menu for either your pages or the forum's pages.

I can't win for losing...heh.

Any further suggestions?

I know you don't use the blog...but any advice you have to offer...I'll always try...and, as always, appreciate any help you have to offer.

[Saviour]

Logician,

Please disregard the previous post. I just removed the popup menu for Blogs...it's all good.

I do have one question as it pertains to the .htaccess file, though...if we're trying to use SEO friendly URLs for our templates. I currently use the following .htaccess file in our forums:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forums/
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

My question...

How do I append the above .htaccess info to include the script you included in your Read Me file? I'd like to get this right...so, just asking for some advice. I'm not sure if I need to change any of the code you have suggested in your file, or just copy and paste it into my existing file, or insert it between code that is already there.

Any advice is greatly appreciated...

[johnny713]

First of all, I would like to say THANK YOU for the hack, because it is exactly what I been looking for :up:. But there is a little confuse for me in your INSTALLATION TEXT that I copy and quote it below. So, if I using Vbulletin version 3.7.0 right now. Do I need to do the step 4 or not ?

--- First time installation and upgrade from an old version is SAME except step 4. So you can follow the steps below for either scenario.

STEP 4- (For first time installation! Skip if you are upgrading your version) In admin cp, click Scheduled Tasks/Add New Scheduled Task/ and enter this data:

[Logician]

Originally Posted by johnny713

First of all, I would like to say THANK YOU for the hack, because it is exactly what I been looking for :up:. But there is a little confuse for me in your INSTALLATION TEXT that I copy and quote it below. So, if I using Vbulletin version 3.7.0 right now. Do I need to do the step 4 or not ?

Have you been using the hack before? If not, apply step 4. If you already had it before, just skip it.