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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.

[digitalSite]

Thanks all for your help and suggestions

CarolinaKid, I followed your instructions and all my settings were set and still no difference.
I did notice that the default icon works only if no "news" has an icon, and that if I "CHOOSE" an icon, it will show broken.

So in summary, I guess my forum is "different", lol and requires me not to choose an icon.

Thank you again Faranth...I may just delete the icon thingy, or just not put an icon and let the default icon take care of it for me.

THANKS ALL!

[juno]

quick fix for icons on front page:

create a replacement variable that

Searches for: images/icons
replaces with: forums/images/icons

**edit**
damn, but that breaks your forum icons.. grrr

[digitalSite]

Didn't work for me...

For whatever reason, I tried to post in my forum and icons were broken.
Their path were all: /forums/forums/images/icons

[GameMania]

i've some problem with the the tables on the index-site...

clicke here to see to problem...

can anyone help me please???

thanks...

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by digitalSite

Didn't work for me...

For whatever reason, I tried to post in my forum and icons were broken.
Their path were all: /forums/forums/images/icons

try ./forums/images/icons

looks like you tried to add somthing or have somthing else installed into the navbar

[TheEDIGuy]

Originally Posted by TheEDIGuy

The supermod is able to add things to the calendar just fine. But the items that the supermod adds to the calendar don't show on the front page (they do not cause a clickable link under the day in the mini-calendar). Only items that *I* add produce the clickable link.

If you look at the calendar, however, everything shows, regardless of who added it.

Sample at http://www.fansofrealitytv.com

Cali, a supermod, has added most of the items except for the one item I (the admin) added on the 22nd, which has produced the only clickable link (even though every single day has calendar items).

A little more information on this, with some screen captures to help explain...

Picture 1: The actual calendar in the forum's calendar page, with all links to all events.

Picture 2: The calendar on the front page, with only the link to the event I added myself on the 22nd.

Picture 3: My event on the 22nd.

Picture 4: One of Cali's public events on the 23rd that doesn't show on the front page. She's a supermod, userid=3, and is adding events to calendar #1 like me.

[dandanfireman]

Please forgive the newbie question. This may be more vB than vbadv related, but the issue is more pronounced with vbadv. How can I force vbadv page to take up more of the page? With the 3 columns, the center column showing the news is rather narrow. How can I make this bigger/wider?

[Zachery]

its a style issue

id suggest taking a look at the gamma release thread at vbulletin.com

[alain4ever]

hi

i have install this hack on my vb3.0.0 rc1 and it works fine.... but after upgrade my vb to rc3 and try to use the hack every thing work fine exept news, when i try to set forum news number i got an error, i try to uninstall and reinstall it 2 times but i got the same error....

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 3:

Invalid SQL: SELECT thread.threadid, thread.title, replycount, postusername, postuserid, thread.dateline, IF(views<=replycount, replycount+1, views) AS views, forumid, thread.iconid, votenum, votetotal, post.postid, pagetext, allowsmilie, showsignature
	  		, avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(avatardata) AS hascustom, customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline  
	  		,thread.iconid 
	  		 ,attachment.filename, filesize, attachment.visible, attachmentid, counter, thumbnail, LENGTH(thumbnail) AS thumbnailsize 
				FROM thread AS thread
				LEFT JOIN post AS post ON (post.postid = thread.firstpostid) 
				LEFT JOIN user AS user ON (user.userid = post.userid) 
				LEFT JOIN avatar as avatar ON (avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid)
				LEFT JOIN customavatar as customavatar ON (customavatar.userid = user.userid)  
				LEFT JOIN attachment AS attachment ON (post.postid = attachment.postid)
				WHERE forumid IN(76)
				GROUP BY post.postid
				ORDER BY dateline DESC, attachmentid LIMIT 5
mysql error: Column: 'filesize' in field list is ambiguous

mysql error number: 1052

Date: Monday 26th of January 2004 09:02:42 AM

[Tigga]

AutomatikStudio - Go to your icon manager in your Admin CP, modify one of the icons, and save it. You don't actually have to change anything there, but just save the icon. That should update the icon cache for all of them and fix the problem with the icons.
As for the PM problem - Are you running the most current version of this script? That was an issue in one of the earlier versions, but was fixed. Did you by chance replace $index_footer with $footer in your index template? If so, that could also be the cause.

rinkrat - Something like that would be fairly easy to do with conditionals. Just find the beginning <td> tag for the column you would like to disable, and add <if condition"!$page"> before that, and then </if> after the ending </td> tag.

13th_Disciple - I'm *hoping* to have the site up sometime this week. I'll be leaving for Cincinnati this Thursdsay though, so I haven't decided if it would be best to wait until after I get back or not. With Faranth around though, I may just leave him in charge while I'm away.

digitalSite - If you add conditionals around the blocks you don't want guests to be able to see then that should fix the problem... Ex <if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid]">
As for the images - See my first response in this post.

TheEDIGuy - Could you possibly provide me with a temporary admin account at your forum, and FTP access to your site as well? I'm honestly not sure why the calendar would behave like that, but if you could PM me with that info I'll gladly take a look and see if I can figure out what the problem is.

FastAttack - I tried registering on your site to see what the problem is with the avatar, but apparently you turned that option off. Can you tell me what URL it's pointing at for your avatar? Are you using a default one from your site, a custom one that's been uploaded, or did you enter the URL for it?

Milhouse - See my first response in this post.

GameMania - Remove the quote from your news post, or change your "News Maximum Characters" setting to a higher number so the ending quote tag will be included in the post.

alain4ever - Open your adv_index.php file and look for "filesize," (without the quotes) and change that to "attachment.filesize," (again, wthout the quotes).