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.

[Wilfred1]

I have been having a look into vb4 and my current 3.8.5 site. I think one issue that will need to be overcome with this great mod and vb4 is how the vb4 menu is structured.

I will be wanting to add different sections to the vb4 menu and it seems the only way is to use the "THIS_SCRIPT" method to determine which tab is to be displayed as active.

As I currently use webtemplates in different areas of my site I will be needing different menu tabs displayed as active for different templates.

Just flagging this as a potential issue.

[Khan_]

i used this mod for a long time, now i upgraded forum to vb4 ..

Will there be a release of logicans webtemplates for vb4 version ? if yes what will be the approximate time ? Just curious cant wait to have it again on vb4 ..

[vFranky]

Hello,

I have advertisments in my ad_navbar_below template, which I want do disappear, when showing certain Webtemplate pages. But how can I write vB Code to identify a Webtemplate Page? Something in the ad_navbar_below template like "if you are a webtemplate, then do not show advertisments".

I have tried the forum-id, which is 0 for Webtemplates (because only forums have ids). But it is == 0 for the homepage/startpage of a vBulletin forum too. :erm:

Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

Kind regards,
vFranky

[Logician]

Originally Posted by vFranky

Hello,

I have advertisments in my ad_navbar_below template, which I want do disappear, when showing certain Webtemplate pages. But how can I write vB Code to identify a Webtemplate Page? Something in the ad_navbar_below template like "if you are a webtemplate, then do not show advertisments".

I have tried the forum-id, which is 0 for Webtemplates (because only forums have ids). But it is == 0 for the homepage/startpage of a vBulletin forum too. :erm:

Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

Kind regards,
vFranky

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == view">
Show this if we are on a webtemplate
<else />
dont show this when we are on a webtemplate
</if>

[vFranky]

Originally Posted by Logician

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == view">
Show this if we are on a webtemplate
<else /> dont show this when we are on a webtemplate </if>

Thank you, Logician! :up:

Please allow me another question: I have choosen a user-friendly name for my web templates. But I in the HTML <title> appears the [forum name] first an the user-friendly name after it.

How can I remove [forum name] from the webtemplates HTML <title>? Which vb-template I have to modify?

[Wilfred1]

But is there anyway to determine which template is being viewed as the THIS_SCRIPT method would apply to all Web Templates? - thanks

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Wilfred1

But is there anyway to determine which template is being viewed as the THIS_SCRIPT method would apply to all Web Templates? - thanks

I didn't test but
<if condition "$pg=='webtemplate_name'>
</if>
might work.

[vFranky]

And which vBulletin template is used to display the webtemplate?

I want to remove the leading [forum name] from the html <title>. The <title> should only be the choosen "user-friendly name".

[Logician]

Originally Posted by vFranky

And which vBulletin template is used to display the webtemplate?

I want to remove the leading [forum name] from the html <title>. The <title> should only be the choosen "user-friendly name".

Depends on webtemplate. If it is a child webtemplate using a theme then title section is inside THEME webtemplate. (Eg. "Default Basic Theme"'s source code)

[vFranky]

Works --> Logician, thank you very much.