Major Additions - vBonjour - Portal System

vBonjour

Easy Customizable Portal System

Brought to you by www.peterska2.co.uk

Welcome to the launch of vBonjour. This is the base package which is required for all installations of this system.

What is vBonjour?
vBonjour is an alternative to vBAdvanced. It is an easy to install, modular portal system designed as a gateway to your site.

Why vBonjour?
This is pretty simple really. As the front page is the first thing that your visitors see, it is a welcome page. The first few names that were thought of were either very boring, or far too long winded and not at all catchy.

This is a base package. What is included?
The base package includes a news feature from up to two forums. The news from the first forum will be displayed first, followed by the news from the second forum. It also includes the left and right columns which can be activated or deactivated via some simple settings in the ACP. These columns can be customised without using any of the Add On Modules, or Add On Modules can be installed to expand on the functionality.

Why is it so modular?
vBonjour is extremely modular to allow for maximum customization of the page. The idea is to make it as easy as possible to install the items that you want to have included, and not have anything which you would be simply turning off. By using a modular method it means that every site can easily achieve their own custom portal without having to know any coding.

I want to add something that isn't already included. How do I go about this?
vBonjour makes use of the plugin system and includes it's own hooks. This allows easy devlopment of additional Add Ons and maximum flexability.

What about the ACP? Is it really complicated?
Unlike other systems, almost all the settings for vBonjour are collected in one setting group in the vBOptions. Because you only install what you want to use, you don't need to have lots of settings. Anything which does not use settings in the Portal settings group is highlighted in the documentation for that Add On.

Ok, so where are the screen shots?
Why have screen shots when you can have a live demo?
The demo is available at www.peterska2.co.uk

What versions of vBulletin does vBonjour work with?
vBonjour will work with vBulletin 3.6.0 and above. Support for sites running versions earlier than 3.6.0 will not be given.



Contributers to the base system: [name]christianb[/name]


I hope that you like this system. Please remember to mark it as installed to recieve notification of updates and support. Support will only be provided to those who have clicked install.

[TheBlackPoet]

yeah... that did it bro! thanks a lot...

[asj]

Invalid forum path specified! Please edit this file and be sure to include the correct path for your $forumpath variable.?

[peterska2]

Originally Posted by iran.gs

Installed just few minutes ago humm real nice but don't think this can handle
big news and big post forums news, and thats is our biggest viewed and this does not handle that

Yes, change the character setting in the options from 250 to what ever you want. I have mine set to 25000 and it displays the full post. You may need to experiement with this setting until you find one that works best for you.

Originally Posted by Smoothie

Can this be installed in /root or does it need to go in the root/forum directory?

Yes, it can be installed in root or in the forum directory. Instructions for both are in the instructions.txt file included in the zip.

Originally Posted by TheBlackPoet

man!! thank you very much!!! for whatever reason, i could not install the other cmps.. but this one came through like a champ!! now i dont have to install a seperate portal system..
your hack has helped me tremendously...

Thanks a lot Glad it works for you

Originally Posted by redlabour

1. Really need the possibility to enter different Boxes (more then in your Addon for 2 custom Contents) with own HTML Content from the AdminCP like it is possible at vBa.

2. Sure a RSS Feedsystem for external Feeds is a must have. Look here for a Example : Customizable RSS feed module

3. And can i move the Boxes from AdminCp wherever i like (left, center, right)?

1. How many boxes are we talking about? I can do some additional boxes in another plugin if required.

2. This is currently in an early development stage.

3. All movement is done via the style manager. This may change in future editions, but at the moment the style manager is the most efficient way of doing it hence that method.

Originally Posted by TheBlackPoet

my members are having a problem with the arcade.. when it tries to record scores, it goes to the index (portal)... i tried to look for the line in arcade.php where i could change it to forum.php.. no good... i looked at the xml... for the arcade.... struck out...

any ideas on how i can get the arcade back on track???

Is this IBProArcade? If so, I'll rumble up a fix for it shortly.

[peterska2]

Originally Posted by asj

Invalid forum path specified! Please edit this file and be sure to include the correct path for your $forumpath variable.?

Check the instructions and edit the portal.php file accordingly. There are comments in the php file for where to edit (you aren't running in the same place as my test board so it won't find it ) and instructions in the txt file on an easy way to get your forum path from the ACP

[davidw]

Originally Posted by TheBlackPoet

my members are having a problem with the arcade.. when it tries to record scores, it goes to the index (portal)... i tried to look for the line in arcade.php where i could change it to forum.php.. no good... i looked at the xml... for the arcade.... struck out...

any ideas on how i can get the arcade back on track???

Originally Posted by christianb

According to the instructions, this code needs to be put in the index.php page right after the <?php

// ibProArcade modification
if($_POST['module'] == "pnFlashGames"){
    $_GET[act] = "Arcade";
    $_GET['module'] = "arcade";
}
if($_POST['func'] == "storeScore"){
    $_GET['do'] = "pnFStoreScore";
}
if($_POST['func'] == "saveGame"){
    $_GET['do'] = "pnFSaveGame";
}
if($_POST['func'] == "loadGame"){
    $_GET['do'] = "pnFLoadGame";
}
$act = $_GET[act];
$showuser= $_GET[showuser];
if($act == "Arcade") {
include "arcade.php";
exit();
}
if(!empty($showuser) && $showuser >= 1) {
$u = $showuser;
$_GET[u] = $showuser;
include "member.php";
exit();
}
// end of ibProArcade modification

Originally Posted by peterska2

Is this IBProArcade? If so, I'll rumble up a fix for it shortly.

Fixed (above)

[peterska2]

I know, but I've also done a proper fix using the plugin system.

[davidw]

I just now saw that. :P - A plugin works better.

[HMBeaty]

/me installed. Going to uninstall vBadvanced before I upgrade to 3.6.4 and try this out.

Thanks

[ManagerJosh]

Kerry,

Does this support multiple domain installations?

For example, I'm trying to install vBadvanced CMPS over at http://beta.simgames.net but there's an indirect installation of vBulletin which is tied in over at http://forums.worldsims.org

[peterska2]

Not the faintest idea to be honest as I don't have any complex setups to test on.

PM me full details of exactly how your setup works and I'll see if I can figure anything out for it.