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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.

Zachery · #**482** 01-26-2004, 04:35 AM

its not somthing you can just do $thread[icon] is whats pulling it. and its a database call

digitalSite · #**483** 01-26-2004, 04:37 AM

If anyone knows some of this stuff, please let me know if you can help. This is what the Thread Icon stuff looks like in the index page:

Code:

// Thread Icon
		if ($vboptions['showthreadicon'])
		{
			if (!$thread['iconid'])
			{
				if ($vboptions['showdeficon'])
				{
					$thread['icon'] = '<img src="' . $vboptions['showdeficon'] . '" border="0" alt="' . $thread['icontitle'] . '" />';
				}
				else
				{
					$thread['icon'] = '';
				}
			}
			else
			{
				$thread['iconpath'] = $iconcache["$thread[iconid]"]['iconpath'];
				$thread['icontitle'] = $iconcache["$thread[iconid]"]['icontitle'];
				$thread['icon'] = '<img src="' . $thread['iconpath'] . '" border="0" alt="' . $thread['icontitle'] . '" />';
			}
		}

		$getbgrow = getrowcolor();
		eval('$threadbits .= "' . fetch_template('index_threadbits') . '";');
 	}
  $DB_site->free_result($threads);
  unset($thread);
}

So, i guess i will play with this, lol.

Zachery · #**484** 01-26-2004, 04:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by digitalSite

If anyone knows some of this stuff, please let me know if you can help. This is what the Thread Icon stuff looks like in the index page:

Code:

// Thread Icon
		if ($vboptions['showthreadicon'])
		{
			if (!$thread['iconid'])
			{
				if ($vboptions['showdeficon'])
				{
					$thread['icon'] = '<img src="' . $vboptions['showdeficon'] . '" border="0" alt="' . $thread['icontitle'] . '" />';
				}
				else
				{
					$thread['icon'] = '';
				}
			}
			else
			{
				$thread['iconpath'] = $iconcache["$thread[iconid]"]['iconpath'];
				$thread['icontitle'] = $iconcache["$thread[iconid]"]['icontitle'];
				$thread['icon'] = '<img src="' . $thread['iconpath'] . '" border="0" alt="' . $thread['icontitle'] . '" />';
			}
		}

		$getbgrow = getrowcolor();
		eval('$threadbits .= "' . fetch_template('index_threadbits') . '";');
 	}
  $DB_site->free_result($threads);
  unset($thread);
}

So, i guess i will play with this, lol.

just a note to you. if your using a standard vB3 style and not a vB2. all your counters have been updated and both your post icons and smilies have been given correct paths they should all be displaying fine

however if you cannot figure out what is wrong just copy the corosponding folders into the root dir and your problems will be solved quicker that way

CarolinaKid · #**485** 01-26-2004, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by digitalSite

If I understand you correctly, you are saying to go to edit templates and look for where they have "Latest Threads" and just add "/forums" in front of the icon variable...if this is what you are saying, I have already tried this.

This is what the threadbit template looks like:

Code:

<!-- cut -->
<tr>
<td class="$getbgrow">$thread[icons]<span class="smallfont"><b><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?t=$thread[threadid]" title="$vbphrase[a_last_post_by] $thread[lastposter] $vbphrase[a_at] $lastposttime">$title</a></b><br />
<if condition="$vboptions['showthreaddate']">$thread[date] $thread[time]<br /></if> 
<!-- cut -->

Notice the $thread[icon]...if I do this /forums/$thread[icon] then all the threads on the latest threads column show /forums/ in front of the title of the thread. What's so weird is that everything there seems to be "relative" and works fine...all but the icons. Now, I can have it looking nice & pretty if I just don't select an icon (because I left the default icon url empty when I installed this again), but I don't want to. I want the icons to work...So, right now I am looking inside the actual "index.php" page to see what else I may try to do.

not exactly forget about templates. when you go to styles manager do not click nothing bet go that will take you to main style options like colors, style width and such there you should have the correct folder. Also go the the icon manager and smile manager and see what the folders there are i have mine set to /forums/.... there also.

digitalSite · #**486** 01-26-2004, 04:45 AM

Copy what corresponding folders? You mean upload all the smileys again? I've done that a few times already. I just finished deleting vbAdv again and reinstalling it. Then I went through all the icons and clicked the checkbox so they are all updated.

All my smileys and icons in the forum display with no problems. The problem is only on the vbAdvanced index page. It just doesn't want to look into the /forums/ folder and just goes straight to /images/

In admincp there are paths to every image folder except for icons ??? It would have made life so much easier if there was an "icons" folder and I could just define it there...am I missing it? Because I don't see it in admin cp. <sigh>

digitalSite · #**487** 01-26-2004, 04:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarolinaKid

not exactly forget about templates. when you go to styles manager do not click nothing bet go that will take you to main style options like colors, style width and such there you should have the correct folder. Also go the the icon manager and smile manager and see what the folders there are i have mine set to /forums/.... there also.

Yup...already went to "Post Icons" area a few times and checked the path of every icon there. Any other ideas? lol. Did the admincp Styles & Templates thing last night. All have correct path to /forums/images/ etc.

Updated counters a few hundred times already, clicking on every single process.
Deleted my cache from computer (thinking it may be just me), deleted Temp Internet files, deleted cookies, rebooted computer, etc. Still...icons that seem fine in the "News" area on my forum, don't want to show on the front page.

There HAS to be something I am missing.

Where can I find out what is inside 'iconpath'?

Code:

else
			{
				$thread['iconpath'] = $iconcache["$thread[iconid]"]['iconpath'];
				$thread['icontitle'] = $iconcache["$thread[iconid]"]['icontitle'];
				$thread['icon'] = '<img src="' . $thread['iconpath'] . '" border="0" alt="' . $thread['icontitle'] . '" />';
			}

Zachery · #**488** 01-26-2004, 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Yup...already went to "Post Icons" area a few times and checked the path of every icon there. Any other ideas? lol. Did the admincp Styles & Templates thing last night. All have correct path to /forums/images/ etc.

Updated counters a few hundred times already, clicking on every single process.
Deleted my cache from computer (thinking it may be just me), deleted Temp Internet files, deleted cookies, rebooted computer, etc. Still...icons that seem fine in the "News" area on my forum, don't want to show on the front page.

There HAS to be something I am missing.

i dont see how its possible to be honestsly

digitalSite · #**489** 01-26-2004, 05:00 AM

Right, that's what I'm saying. You can go here and see my site:
[edited]
You will see the broken icons...I will add a few more test posts.

Faranth, if you want, log back into my site and you update the counters or whatever, then refresh my page and you'll see that it stays as a broken image. I have ran out of ideas.

Zachery · #**490** 01-26-2004, 05:02 AM

imo the quick fix would be to remove $thread[icon] as i dont think there entiry nessary or copy the folders into the corospodnig locations

CarolinaKid · #**491** 01-26-2004, 05:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Yup...already went to "Post Icons" area a few times and checked the path of every icon there. Any other ideas? lol. Did the admincp Styles & Templates thing last night. All have correct path to /forums/images/ etc.

Updated counters a few hundred times already, clicking on every single process.
Deleted my cache from computer (thinking it may be just me), deleted Temp Internet files, deleted cookies, rebooted computer, etc. Still...icons that seem fine in the "News" area on my forum, don't want to show on the front page.

There HAS to be something I am missing.

Where can I find out what is inside 'iconpath'?

Code:

else
			{
				$thread['iconpath'] = $iconcache["$thread[iconid]"]['iconpath'];
				$thread['icontitle'] = $iconcache["$thread[iconid]"]['icontitle'];
				$thread['icon'] = '<img src="' . $thread['iconpath'] . '" border="0" alt="' . $thread['icontitle'] . '" />';
			}

/admincp/image.php?do=modify&table=icon all urls should be /forums/images/icons/xxxx
then check admin options>>sitename/url/contact info and make sure forums url is http://www.site.com/forums and make sure homepage url is http://www.site.com
I am using rc3 and this set up and all works fine. Also check Vboptions>>thread dispaly options(showthread) and make sure default thred icon is set to /forums/images/icons/xxxx

(note replae xxxx in both places with image name such as icon1.gif, also replace www.site.com ith ur domain name.)

this is where ur url is pointing http://www.dstcentral.com/images/icons/icon5.gif
is icon5.gif ur default icon if so follow directions about to fix

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