mYvBindex v3.1

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• Current weather and updates on your homepage.
• 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, weather, 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 v2.6+

Screen Shots:
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:

• Poll - 2 queries
• User's Avatar - 1 query
• Private Messages - 1 query
• Buddy List - 1 query
• Online Users - 3 queries
• Mini Calendar - 1 query
• Weather - 2 queries
• Poll and/or News Smilies - 1 query
• Stats - 5 queries

*Mini Hacks:*
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.

[supersimon]

There seems to have been a slight problem with the LiquidFLO database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.


Database error in vBulletin 2.2.7:

Invalid SQL: SELECT thread.threadid,thread.title,thread.replycount,thr ead.postusername,thread.postuserid,thread.dateline ,thread.views,thread.iconid,thread.votenum,thread. votetotal,post.postid,post.pagetext,post.allowsmil ie,post.showsignature,user.signature,avatar.avatar path,NOT ISNULL(avatardata) AS hascustom,customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline FROM thread LEFT JOIN post USING (threadid) LEFT JOIN user ON (user.userid=post.userid) LEFT JOIN avatar ON (avatar.avatarid=user.avatarid) LEFT JOIN customavatar ON (customavatar.userid=user.userid) WHERE thread.forumid=62 AND isnews='Y' GROUP BY thread.threadid ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC LIMIT 5
mysql error: Got error -1 from table handler

mysql error number: 1030

Date: Wednesday 22nd of January 2003 05:34:42 PM
Script: http://www.liquidflo.com/rap/rap/myvbindex.php
Referer:


iv had my homepage up for 2-3 days and i come home,... and get this ??? can ayone help

[Tigga]

Supersimon - That looks like one of your tables has become corrupt. You should try running the repair.php file in the "extras" folder that came with vBulletin.

[papa]

Hi Guys,
I am trying to password protect my pages that are on myvbindex page so once they are logged in they can view our site. I have found a few things but nothing seems to work right. Is there anything like that in myVBindex?

So if they are not logged in it takes them to a reg. page and if they are it allows them access to the site.

Papa

[jeffj]

Originally posted by papa
Hi Guys,
I am trying to password protect my pages that are on myvbindex page so once they are logged in they can view our site. I have found a few things but nothing seems to work right. Is there anything like that in myVBindex?

So if they are not logged in it takes them to a reg. page and if they are it allows them access to the site.

Papa

papa:

this should work for you...assuming you do not want un-registered/un-logged-in users to see your myvbindex.php page;

right after:

require('./global.php');

insert the following code:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0) { eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");"); } 


[papa]

Thanks Jeff,
It worked like a champ blocking me out but if I enter my username and pass it takes me to the member.php page and not the page I was at??? Could this be a setting in the log in page?

One more questions. Can I use:
require('./global.php');
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");
}

on non vb pages can I use the above code as an include to protect those pages.

Thanks in advance

[ranger2kxlt]

plur planet, maybe you can help me with this

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=48130

please refer there, but we would also like this done on the vbindex pages we have, anyway?

Thanks

[jeffj]

Originally posted by papa
Thanks Jeff,
It worked like a champ blocking me out but if I enter my username and pass it takes me to the member.php page and not the page I was at??? Could this be a setting in the log in page?

One more questions. Can I use:
require('./global.php');
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");
}

on non vb pages can I use the above code as an include to protect those pages.

Thanks in advance

sure. I use it all the time...make sure you've got
require(./global.php');

at the beginning to make all the vb variables available.

[papa]

This is the error I get Jeff,
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_REQUIRE in /home2/mmdclab/mmdclab-www/forums/v_blur_tool.php on line 1

????

[papa]

OK I got the require thing going but now I get this at the top of the pages:
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/mmdclab/mmdclab-www/forums/v_blur_tool4.php:3) in /home2/mmdclab/mmdclab-www/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1573

You can enter your username and pass and it will work ok but I am not sure where this error is coming from.

[papa]

ok we are making progress.
We do not get an error and it works everytime as long as the file we add this code to is in the forums directory. If we place the file in a folder it will not work. It keeps taking us to the member.php file and it is looking for it in the folder our protected file is in.

Anyone have any solutions to this? I guess we could just place all of our files we want to require registration in our forums folder but that would just get crazy.

Thanks in advance.