Portal Software - WebTemplates 4.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 4.x and above. For vb 3.x, version 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.


WEBTEMPLATES 4.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:
(Most are from 3.x versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so all 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://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)

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..

From FAQ 13: Vbulletin already has a CMS now , why would I need this hack?

If you have CMS license, you might not need Webtemplates. On the other hand, CMS license is paid, webtemplates is free and many forum owners don't have CMS licenses.

Also please note that vb has CMS since 2010. Webtemplates was first released for vb2.x in 2002 and it was around in vb3.x, 3.5.x and above for thousands of vbulletin users who have developed their sites around webtemplates CMS. So regardless of new vb CMS owners might or might not need it, Webtemplates 4.x is still realased and supported as a courtesy to its old users and fans. I personally prefer and use Webtemplates over vb CMS and this hack lives for people who agrees with me.

Version Updates:
12.October.2013 - > Version 4.0.2
* Minor fixes for PHP 5.4.x (Fixes "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated" errors in new PHP versions.
14.July.2012 - > Version 4.0.1
* Vbulletin changed WYSIWYG editor parsing in vb4.2.x so hack's editor.php is updated accordingly.
9.September.2010 - > Version 4.0.00
* Hack 4.00.00 is released.

[Ramsesx]

Fantastic work as always Logician, thank you.

[Kevlar21]

Originally Posted by Logician

Doesn't it work when you make it like:

<font color=red>Page Visitors:</font>

Thanks again!!

works great!

[Gn_Snake]

Hello everyone,
I'd like to integrate this script in php WebTemplate but unfortunately I can not do it?

Can anyone help me?

<?php
    if(isset($_REQUEST['idf']))$idf=$_REQUEST['idf'];
    else die("http://www.xxx.com/forum/?idf=ID");
    $conn=  mysql_connect('host','user','pass');
    if(!$conn)die(mysql_error($conn));
    $ris=mysql_select_db("dbnam",$conn);
    if(!$ris)die(mysql_error());
?>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Lista Automatica vBulletin</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
  <center>
    <h1>Lista Automatica</h1>
        <a href="#0">0</a> <a href="#1">1</a> <a href="#2">2</a> <a href="#3">3</a> <a href="#4">4</a>
        <a href="#5">5</a> <a href="#6">6</a> <a href="#7">7</a> <a href="#8">8</a> <a href="#9">9</a>
        <a href="#A">A</a> <a href="#B">B</a> <a href="#C">C</a> <a href="#D">D</a> <a href="#E">E</a>
        <a href="#F">F</a> <a href="#G">G</a> <a href="#H">H</a> <a href="#I">I</a> <a href="#J">J</a>
        <a href="#K">K</a> <a href="#L">L</a> <a href="#M">M</a> <a href="#N">N</a> <a href="#O">O</a>
        <a href="#P">P</a> <a href="#Q">Q</a> <a href="#R">R</a> <a href="#S">S</a> <a href="#T">T</a>
        <a href="#U">U</a> <a href="#V">V</a> <a href="#W">W</a> <a href="#X">X</a> <a href="#Y">Y</a>
        <a href="#Z">Z</a> <a href="#TOP"></a>
    </center>
    <?php
        $msg="select * from vb_thread where forumid=$idf and sticky=0 ORDER BY title ASC";
        $query=  mysql_query($msg);
        if (!$query)die(mysql_error());
        $l="";
        while($riga= mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
            if(strcasecmp($l,substr($riga['title'],0,1))!=0){
                $l=substr($riga['title'],0,1);
        ?>
		<br>
    <a name="<?php echo strtoupper ($l) ?>"><?php
                    echo strtoupper("<font color='#4b4b4b' size='5'><strong>$l</strong></font>");
					echo "&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href='#TOP'><img src='top.gif' border='0'></a>";
                                        echo "<br>";
                                        echo "<br>";
                    }
                ?></a>
    <a href="showthread.php?<?php echo $riga['threadid']."-".$riga['title'] ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo  $riga['title']?></a>
	<br />
    <?php } ?>

Thanks for all! :up:

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake

Hello everyone,
I'd like to integrate this script in php WebTemplate but unfortunately I can not do it?

Do you want the integration so that you can run the script with vb header/footer?

I guess you can do it with iframe. Create a webtemplate similiar to default webtemplate theme and then in the content section run your script via iframe like:

<iframe src ="http://domain.com/yourscript.php" width="100%" height="300">
  <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>

WT will give you vb header/footer and your script will run independently in the middle of it via iframe.

[Gn_Snake]

Logician Thank you so much for your support.
Unfortunately, gives me a blank page, I think the problem is in the configuration of this part of the script:

<?php
    if(isset($_REQUEST['idf']))$idf=$_REQUEST['idf'];
    else die("http://www.xxx.com/forum/?idf=ID");
    $conn=  mysql_connect('host','user','pass');
    if(!$conn)die(mysql_error($conn));
    $ris=mysql_select_db("dbnam",$conn);
    if(!$ris)die(mysql_error());
?>

This script is used as an external file returns the index of all the threads present in the ID forum.
It works very well but I would like to integrate it with vb

[Logician]

Blanks screen usually means there is a PHP error in your code and server is repressing it. If you run the script (get blank page again) and then go check your error log file, you should be able to see the error message which should give you a hint to fix the problem to your external script.

As you know in iframe method your external script does not deal with other scripts running outside iframe so I don't think there is a confliction with webtemplates, it sounds like a problem on your script end.

[Gn_Snake]

Strange because the script works, you can see how it works at this link:
http://www.test.xx/forum/test.php?idf=XX

I can not understand how to integrate it into your product?!

[Drago13]

Best MOD ever. I am having this problem, I have a custom skin, its 1180 wide fixed, but my web template pages are 1280 , any ideas how I can fix this..

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Drago13

Best MOD ever. I am having this problem, I have a custom skin, its 1180 wide fixed, but my web template pages are 1280 , any ideas how I can fix this..

Please give urls so that I can see source code.

[Gn_Snake]

Ok I managed to integrate the php script in WebTemplate.
But I had to use the command <iframe>, I wonder if it can be dangerous malware attacks on the site?

<iframe src="http://www.hardwaregame.it/forum/xxxx.php?idf=XX" width="100%" height="2000" framespacing="0" frameborder="0" border="no">
Contenuto alternativo per i browser che non leggono gli iframe.
</iframe>

Thanks