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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.

[Tigga]

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[Zachery]

Originally Posted by TheBlueFalcon

any idea on my issue tigga- Great work too!

Thanks!

are you using the latest version?


change filesize to attachment.filesize i belive is the fix

[TheBlueFalcon]

Originally Posted by Faranth

are you using the latest version?


change filesize to attachment.filesize i belive is the fix

Yes latest version on VB3 and the zip filre from this thread.....

where do I change the filesize??

[Tigga]

Search for ",filesize" (without the quotes) and replace with ",attachment.filesize" (again, without the quotes).

[TheBlueFalcon]

Originally Posted by Tigga

Search for ",filesize" (without the quotes) and replace with ",attachment.filesize" (again, without the quotes).

Got it!


Thanks fellas!

[stlracing]

TOPICS

In vbPortal, I post a new story to go on the front page, I can select a TOPIC for it to be assigned to.

For instance, I run a racing website, so when I post a news story, I can select a particular track for the Topic.

Then in a sideblock, I have a dropdown menu that has all the Topics in it, if I select a particular track from the Topic, it will load a page with all the news stories on that particular topic (track).

It also assigns an image that goes in the top right corner of the news story, such as the track logo.

You can see my site at www.stlracing.com and see what I am talking about.

[ivanmcp]

Hey guys, I have request to make.

This one might be familiar to Tigga, since I asked him to do same thing in vBadvanced 2, to which he responded immediately and upgraded his script. I wonder if same addition can be performed in vBadvanced this time round.

In 'Latest Threads' box, I would like to see body (text) of latest posts, on top of what is there already, like thread name, thread starter, dates...).

I think that ability to show a bit of an actual messages on a portal page helps draw people into your forum. Tubedoqq's script springs to mind here.

Ivan

[M.C.]

and very useful will be if all boxes can be moved in any position like UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER!

[Tigga]

stlracing - I'm not sure if that will ever be a default option, but that might make for a good hack. I can try to look into creating one when I have the time, but I can't guarantee when that will be.

Ivan - Do you mean basically like the preview option on forumdisplay? If so, check vbadvanced.com for v1.1.

M.C. - All of the blocks can easily be moved by editing the index template. They're all well commented, so it shouldn't be hard at all to figure out how to place them where you'd like.

[FastAttack]

Ok well after running it for a few days on a 550+ concurrent user site.. I got several bugs..

1 is that the portal can't sustain the users.. even though the queries are low.. it takes the portal time to draw itself out. ( this is still with the server at .78 load ) I've used both my modified and non modified version of the templates and it makes no diffrence.

while being out of the /forums/ directory the whole portal acts diffrently.. some things work some thing do work.. I think for later versions you should make it in the control panel where you can specify where your vbadvanced is located so that the program recognizes the proper paths.

Addition of new blocks:

I've tried diffrent methods and the only way to get a new block is to hardcode the code on the index or hardcode into the template. I think there should be a feature where you can add new templates at will and able to add diffrent types of blocks ( ie php , regular html etc)

Question:

Is there a simple way just to pull out the header/ and blocks using a regular php page? ( I am just wondering since in 2.0 you could but everything seems diffrent under 3.0)