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mYvBindex 3.2.2 released! (5/22/03)
mYvBindex 3.2 will allow you to include different options from your vBulletin message board on your website's index page. Everything is completely template based so it is very easy to customize and change everything through your Admin CP. Features:
Guest Homepage Admin Homepage User Homepage Admin CP Queries: A nice feature of mYvBindex is that it performs only 11 queries with all the options turned off, no matter how many news articles or latest threads you choose to display. Some options will cause the script to perform extra queries, but even with all the options turned on it still performs only 29 queries at max. Here is a list of each extra function that will cause extra queries:
Adding More Custom Templates To add more custom templates to your mYvBindex, please see this post. Stylin' Buddy List - by MartynJ This will add your the users avatar and usertitle to the buddy list (Similar to and inspired by velocd's Stylin' Buddy List hack), and adds no extra queries to your homepage. Download (Screen shot included in zip) Shoutbox Integration - by MartynJ This hack integrates the ever popular Shoutbox hack with your mYvBindex. Download (Screen shot included in zip) TWCommish's vB Shoutbox Integration - by Brahm This is a slightly different shout box made by TWCommish. His hack is required and can be found here. After downloading his hack, use Brahm's instructions here to integrate it with mYvBindex. Attachments in News Posts - by Tigga This hack allows attachments posted in news posts to be viewed in the news section on your homepage. Download Allow users to set homepage options - by Tigga This mini-hack will allow your users to set which options they would like displayed on the homepage. They will be able to turn on/off avatars, weather, custom templates, and etc on a per user basis. Download *Note* It may be necessary to open this file in a text editor (other than notepad) to get it to display properly. Multiple News forums from different links - by Tigga This hack allows allows you to have a link to a "different index file" which will pull news posts from a different forum. Instructions can be found here Credits: mYvBindex uses modified versions of the following hacks: Mini Calendar from vbPortal - by wajones vB Weather Mk. 2- by JJR512 Copyright: This hack is NOT to be re-distributed or placed on website for download without permission. All copyright notes in the script itself must remain unchanged. Please don't forget to hit the Install Button Updates from version 3.2.1 After the release of v3.2.1 a couple of small bugs were found. They affected the ability to edit a news post from the link on the homepage, pulling the wrong post from a thread for the news section, and updating your most users ever online if a new record is set. The changes from v3.2 to 3.2.1 were minimal, so those should be the only bugs found. Upgrading once again is very easy. Just download the new files, change the path in the myvbindex.php file, and upload it over your existing one. Updates from version 3.2 v3.2.1 is again just a small maintenance release. The main change in this version is the way the forum permissions are done. Before, the forum permissions would cause the latest threads query to take much longer than it should (mostly on larger forums). Now with the new permissions system in place, the query to pull the latest threads should take less than 0.01 seconds. Other than the permissions section, the only other changes were a few optimizations to the code syntax. Upgrading from v3.2 is simple - Just upload the new myvbindex.php file over your existing one and you're done. Updates from version 3.1 v3.2 is mostly another maintenance release, and will hopefully be the last release for vBulletin 2.X (unless any bugs are found). Here are a list of all the changes. Fixed a bug where setting the "Show Latest Threads Icon?" option to "No" could disable the latest threads section. Fixed a bug where signatures with vBcode were not displayed properly in the news section. Fixed a bug where the icons in the news and latest thread parts weren't displaying the right icon for some users. Added an option to completely disable signatures in news posts. Added an option to select a random poll from any forum for the poll part of the hack. Further optimized parts of the code and slightly changed part of the structure. Now shows "No Buddies Online" in the buddy list if no buddies are online. Changed so it will no longer show a default icon for the news and latest threads unless your options are also set to show a default icon on the forumdisplay page. Now shows the last poster and last post time when you hold your mouse over the title of a thread in the Latest Threads part. The install script has been re-written so you can install, upgrade, uninstall, update your news posts (useful for first time installations where a news forum already exists), or install just the templates (useful after upgrading vBulletin to a new version) all from one file. Significantly reduced the size of the weather_install.php file (from 3.0 MB to 1.25 MB) so it will not take so long to upload to your server. Fixed a couple of small spacing issues in the poll templates. Fixed a problem with JJR512's weather hack not pulling the weather forcast. Added a FAQ section to the readme file to help common problems. Upgrading should take no longer than 2 minutes and instructions can be found at the bottom of the readme file. Updates from version 3.0 v3.1 is mostly a maintenance release to help cut down on first time installation problems. Other than that, the biggest difference you will notice is the template "style" has changed to mesh better with vBulletin (see screenshots above). You do not have to install the new templates as you will have the option to install the new templates or to skip that step in the install file. Other than the templates, here is a list of the other changes: A few more "error checking" features have been added to ensure you won't get a nasty sql error if you leave your News or Poll Forum ID, or any of the other fields blank. The problem some users were experiencing with the temperature for the weather part of the hack should be fixed for good. The "Show Poll" option in the Admin CP is removed as this can now be disabled simply by leaving the "Poll Fourm ID" filed blank. Fixed a small typo and optimized parts of the code a little further. Slightly changed the position of the days and numbers in the calendar part. Fixes a bug where the Today's Birthday part wouldn't point to the correct url. Upgrading should take no longer than 2 minutes and instructions can be found at the bottom of the readme file. Updates from version 2.0 Removed the option from the Admin CP to allow smilies in News posts as this can now be set per post just as you would when making a regular post. Added a stats section with info such as total members, threads, posts, newest member, top poster, and today's birthdays. Added a "Today's Events" section under the calendar that will display any events that are scheduled for the current day, and will only be visible if there are events listed for the current day. Added an option to show the poster's avatar with the news post. You can now have your signature displayed with the news post. This is controlled when posting the message just as you would with a regular post. Added an option to display the news post's rating with the news. Added options to show small icons to allow users to show a printable version of the news post and an option to allow users to email their friends a link to the news post. Added an option to allow/disable HTML in news posts. Added an option to allow/disable the [img] tag in news posts. Shows the number of times a news post has been viewed. Shows the number of new posts since the users last visit. Shows the number of replies to the poll if poll discussions are allowed. Fixed a bug where the search box would take you to the search page rather than displaying the results. Fixed a bug where setting the News Posts Maximum to 0 would disable the news rather than giving it no limit. Optimized the code a little more to increase performance. Help & Support Before asking for support Please read the F.A.Q in the readme.html file! Most common problems are answered there! If you have any problems or questions that are not covered in the F.A.Q. please please post them here. I will be more than happy to help in any way I can if the request for help is made here. Anyone trying to contact me via email, private message, my website, or any other means will be ignored. Show Your Support
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#812
02-25-2003, 12:39 PM
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Hi, me again and sorry to bother you
 Um, I'm sure this can be done... adding below the news, the forums themselves? I mean, I can see it in my head where you have to eval the forumhome template, but can't for the life of me figure it out, get it down into code. I've attached a screenshot to show what I mean. Anyone know how?  Um, I actually can't find the screenshot. But basically, what I want is to have the templates at the side eg, login, calendar etc... then three news posts centred, and just below them, the forums themselves. 
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#814
02-25-2003, 01:40 PM
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@ Plur Planet: Here is the Link to the Top 10 Statistics (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ighlight=top10)!
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#815
02-25-2003, 05:04 PM
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muss ich bei diesem hack was in der newreply.php verändern?
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#817
02-26-2003, 02:10 AM
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Hey PlurPlanet, just wanted to say thanks one more time... I added a hidden forum on my board and when I posted it, only the people who have the right to see it can see it on the Latest Forum Topics... Very Nice!!! Keep up the good work!!!
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#822
02-26-2003, 02:19 PM
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I apologize that I don't had much time to help everyone right now... Things have been very busy with my business this week and I haven't had much time to help people customize things. If anyone is having an actual problem with the script I will still try to help, but most customizations will have to wait until I have some more free time.
Gamerforums - I'm not sure how good you are with PHP, but if you make similar changes to your myvbindex file as you did to your index file then you can add the most users in a day. If you can't figure it out let me know and I'll have a look in a day or two. arracing - If you add AND poll.active=1 in the WHERE clause of the poll query then that will keep polls that are closed from being displayed. And you are correct, right now it will not pull a poll where the thread has been closed. Lacrosse Boy - Right now it is set to display a default icon if none is selected with the thread. I will be releasing v3.1.1 in a couple of days that will fix a couple of small bugs and will change this to go by what you have selected in your forums options, so if you have that turned off for your regular forums, it will work the same way for your index page. MartynJ - That shouldn't be too hard to do... I will see if I can post instructions for you once I have the time. HarryBO - I think if you applied the instructions there to your myvbindex.php file instead of your forums/index.php file then it should work. One or two parts of the code may be slightly different, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. Kamui Shirou - Sorry, but the only word I understood there was newreply.php... Could somebody maybe translate that? XtReMaTriX - Glad you're enjoying the hack.  joeboo - I don't think it can unless that server has access to the same database. There *may* be a way to have it pull the info from the other server if it doesn't have access to the database, but I've never tried that and I'm not sure if it would even work or not. I can try to look into making a "mini-hack" if I can get that to work when I have some more time though.
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#823
02-26-2003, 03:49 PM
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For example, the myvbindex.php file is on Server A and the forums are on Server B. You would need to mimic certain files such as global.php etc on the Server A, and then on server B in admin/config.php don't put "localhost" as teh servername. Hmm, actually, this is getting more complex as I think about it. In order to be included, the admin/config.php would need to be on the same server also as the myvbindex.php - Hmm, I think then that you'd need to have it so that on Server A you had myvbindex.php, global.php and then all the contents of the admin folder. In the admin folder on Server A you'd specify the IP or full hostname of the MySQL server on Server B. Server B you would leave intact as a normal forum and use the term "localhost" in your admin/config.php The problem though may be a question of "What constitutes two uses of one licence?" EDIT Oh, it gets worse. While securing a MySQL server I'm running at home, I found out that you also have to specify from which hosts any given user can access the server. I'm betting 100% of Hosting Co's will just have this set to "localhost" purely for security reasons. That means that no matter what, you'll not be able to *directly* connect to the remote database from another server unless it is specifically enabled (maybe a second MySQL account would allow it, but you'd need to speak to your host)
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#825
02-27-2003, 03:24 PM
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Hmm... Are you sure you only lost the weather templates Chris? Normally when upgrading to a new version of vB it will delete any templates that haven't been customized. I'm not quite sure why it does that when many people will have new templates from hacks, but I guess it's easier for them to delete all that haven't been customized rather than listing them all out. There should be 37 index templates, not including the 4 for the weather. You may want to double check that you have all of them. If you are missing any you can upload the myvb_install.php file to your admin folder and go to http://yoursite.com/forums/admin/myvb_install.php?step=3. You don't have to worry about it overwriting any custom templates or anything as those should still be there, so it may be a good idea to do that anyways just to be sure. As for the weather... If you'll upload your weather_install.php file to your admin folder, go to that page in your browser, and only continue to the 2nd step, that will restore your weather templates. You shouldn't have any problems with that, but if you do let me know.
Oh, and incase anyone is wondering, Chen was kind enough to change my name to Tigga for me. 
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#826
02-27-2003, 03:36 PM
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Thank you, that's just what I needed to know! I ran your install page 3 for the other missing templates, but I no longer had a weather install file, and was thinking those templates were packaged with the others. I will get the weather install file, and give it a go again. Thanks so much for taking the time to follow up!
Take care, ~Chris
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