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.

[Gamelobby]

Any ideas why i cant get $bbuserinfo[avatar] to work.?
$bbuserinfo[username] seems to be working fine..!?

[Wilfred1]

Originally Posted by Logician

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

Thanks Logician.
It worked using:

<if condition="$pg=='webtemplate_name'">

Any idea how I would do that in an array of web template names

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Any ideas why i cant get $bbuserinfo[avatar] to work.?
$bbuserinfo[username] seems to be working fine..!?

There is no $bbuserinfo[avatar] variable in vbulletin. Use WT variable $user_useravatar

[adwolf1]

Hi logician,
add me to the list of people waiting for a 4.0 release; I know you're very busy with your 'day job', but I was curious if you had a time-frame for at least an alpha release that we could play with?

Add me to the list that will be PayPal'ing you with a new release, you do great work!

[Neutral Singh]

With the release of vB 4.0.4, does new content type "Static Pages" rings a death bell for webtemplates?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Neutral Singh

With the release of vB 4.0.4, does new content type "Static Pages" rings a death bell for webtemplates?

I don't know yet how new content type works in 4.0.4. However I am about to complete 4.x version of WebTemplates and I'll release + support it as planned regardless of what Jelsoft plans for vb. We can consider this later when we see how their static pages work and how does it compare to WebTemplates.

[Neutral Singh]

Originally Posted by Logician

I don't know yet how new content type works in 4.0.4. However I am about to complete 4.x version of WebTemplates and I'll release + support it as planned regardless of what Jelsoft plans for vb. We can consider this later when we see how their static pages work and how does it compare to WebTemplates.

mind blowing!! regardless of how static pages work in vb4.0.4, i am going to love webtemplates. Can't wait to put my hands on the new version. Thanks for the update.

[Khan_]

Originally Posted by 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 ..

will this work with 4.0.3 ???

[zelnik]

Logician that's the best news I've had in awhile that webtemplates is near for vb4!

[inspiration100]

I am really looking forward to this release for VB4. I have a lot of content waiting on it