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.

[Jennifer Marx]

I apologize if this question has been asked already -- I searched but could not find it.

I want to use a a vBulletin style I've already created and used on parts of my board, but it is not my default style. Is there a way to call this style when creating a WebTemplates theme? If not, how would I recreate the look and feel of that style in a WebTemplates page? I tried copying the header information from that style and putting into a new WebTemlates header, but no changes was affected.

Thank you in advance.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Marx

I apologize if this question has been asked already -- I searched but could not find it.

I want to use a a vBulletin style I've already created and used on parts of my board, but it is not my default style. Is there a way to call this style when creating a WebTemplates theme? If not, how would I recreate the look and feel of that style in a WebTemplates page? I tried copying the header information from that style and putting into a new WebTemlates header, but no changes was affected.

Thank you in advance.

I think this will help:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=449

[Jennifer Marx]

Originally Posted by Logician

I think this will help:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=449

Thank you, but no, that doesn't address my question. Let me try to explain it better. In my vBulletin I have several styles -- I have my Default Style and I have several other child styles, including one I call Club. The Club style uses a different background color and has special information in the header.

Here is what my Default Style looks like: http://www.passporterboards.com/forums

Here is what my Club style looks like: http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...sporters-club/

I want to use this Club style in a WebTemplate. Is there a way to apply this style?

Thank in advance!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Marx

Thank you, but no, that doesn't address my question. Let me try to explain it better. In my vBulletin I have several styles -- I have my Default Style and I have several other child styles, including one I call Club. The Club style uses a different background color and has special information in the header.

Here is what my Default Style looks like: http://www.passporterboards.com/forums

Here is what my Club style looks like: http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...sporters-club/

I want to use this Club style in a WebTemplate. Is there a way to apply this style?

Thank in advance!

ok please see if this will help:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...eid#post651570

[Jennifer Marx]

Originally Posted by Logician

ok please see if this will help:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...eid#post651570

I tried this -- and put $styleid = 8; in the phpinclude field, but it seems to do nothing. It appears the original poster had this issue as well. But thank you for trying to help me -- I do appreciate it!

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Marx

I tried this -- and put $styleid = 8; in the phpinclude field, but it seems to do nothing. It appears the original poster had this issue as well. But thank you for trying to help me -- I do appreciate it!

ok try putting this into phpinclude of the webtemplate:

PHP Code:

    $styleid = 8;
    $vbulletin->userinfo['styleid'] = $styleid;
    $userselect = true;

$style = $db->query_first_slave("
        SELECT *
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "style
        WHERE styleid = '$styleid'
            
        
        LIMIT 1
    ");

eval('$header = "' . fetch_template('header') . '";');
eval('$footer = "' . fetch_template('footer') . '";');
eval('$headinclude = "' . fetch_template('headinclude') . '";'); 


[paul41598]

Logician: Is there a way to call a webtemplate to put on the forumhome for example? For example in VB if I wanted to create a new template called test with some text, then make a new plugin (forumhome_start) with eval('$test .= "' . fetch_template('test') . '";');

Then put $test variable in my forumhome template, I could call the contents of that template (test)

Can I somehow do this with webtemplates? Reason I ask is I want to be able to call a webtemplate on my forumhome in a module type setting.... in a (sidebar column) for example

[Logician]

Originally Posted by paul41598

Logician: Is there a way to call a webtemplate to put on the forumhome for example? For example in VB if I wanted to create a new template called test with some text, then make a new plugin (forumhome_start) with eval('$test .= "' . fetch_template('test') . '";');

Then put $test variable in my forumhome template, I could call the contents of that template (test)

Can I somehow do this with webtemplates? Reason I ask is I want to be able to call a webtemplate on my forumhome in a module type setting.... in a (sidebar column) for example

You can do it with iframe.

[paul41598]

Could you provide some guidance on that? Maybe not the iframe part, but the plugin part? Would you use the typical eval command for this type of process? I"m guessing no because your templates arnt stored in the same place as the default VB ones.


update
---------------------

ahhh, unless you meant something like this: ??

PHP Code:

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


1.) Oh also, how do you remove the current active users part that shows in each template. Do I have to edit the template and remove that bit, or an on/off switch? Thx!

2.) What if I don't want a header/footer in my template within my iframe? I've tried switching the header to default_webtemplate_header with no luck. So I built my own header, but it doesn't allow me to keep the template body empty..so that doesn't work. Any other suggestions?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by paul41598

Could you provide some guidance on that? Maybe not the iframe part, but the plugin part? Would you use the typical eval command for this type of process? I"m guessing no because your templates arnt stored in the same place as the default VB ones.


update
---------------------

ahhh, unless you meant something like this: ??

PHP Code:

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


1.) Oh also, how do you remove the current active users part that shows in each template. Do I have to edit the template and remove that bit, or an on/off switch? Thx!

2.) What if I don't want a header/footer in my template within my iframe? I've tried switching the header to default_webtemplate_header with no luck. So I built my own header, but it doesn't allow me to keep the template body empty..so that doesn't work. Any other suggestions?

yes that is what I meant by iframe.

current active users part belongs to the webtemplate theme you are using. You can edit the theme and remove relevant html code from there. This also applies to removing header/footer. Just edit webtemplate theme you are using in that webtemplate.