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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.

[Zachery]

Ok, for a quick solution uninstall and reinstall.

The only thing i can think of is somehow your ACP Options got overwritten and such.

if this doesnt solve the problem please let me know

[NuclioN]

That did it. Somehow i've installed a previous version. The minicalendar display however is not correct as showed in the screendump earlier.

[TexasOutdoors]

Originally Posted by infiniterb

This could be a bug...

When you make a news post, and then edit the title of the post, the previous title will show on the portal page, but will remain edited in the forums...

on www.clantt.com check out the post that says A little under 23 hours remaining. Click on the link to go to that thread and it will show you the edited title.

Did you edit it through the edit button? Or through the Thread tools? If you use the edit button, I don't believe it will change the title. You have to use the Thread Tools to edit the thread. It's been like that in VB as long as I can remember.

[Tigga]

infiniterb - Actually that is intended behavior. You changed the post's title, not the threads. If you use the admin options to edit the thread and change it that way then it will display the new title.

NuclioN - Try running this query and see if it returns anything...

SELECT * FROM setting WHERE varname = 'home_navbar';

If it does, then the settings are there, just not being displayed properly. If the settings are there, try saving your Admin CP options and see if that helps any... Other than that there's not much else I can suggest at the moment... If your settings aren't there, the best thing I can suggest would be to uninstall and re-install once again. Also be sure you're using the most current version (1.1, uploaded a couple of days ago).


Just a quick note for everyone else... I'll be out of town until next Tuesday. Hopefully Faranth and others will be able to help if there are any problems, but if there's anything they can't help with then I will try once I get back.



*Edit* Oops, didn't notice that there was another page. Guess those problems were already fixed.
For the calendar problem, make sure you made the changes to your includes/functions_calendar.php file, and to the templates.

[Cossa]

Originally Posted by TexasOutdoors

In your index_footer, is this code in the URL for modcp ?

PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['admincplink']"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/$admincpdir/">$vbphrase[admin]</a> -</if>
                <if condition="$show['modcplink']"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/$modcpdir/">$vbphrase[mod]</a> -</if> 


When you say header, are you referring to the Navigation? On mine, I opened the navbar template and added

PHP Code:

../forum/ 


in front of all the forum links.

Thanks v1.1 and your template tip fixed it! You guys are great!

[krit]

Hi guys,

I posted b4 in this thread but i think it got swallowed up with a few error problems people were having. Basically i want to include custom blocks that will 1) show a random quote from a specific forum and 2) list todays events. There was mention of the events idea possibly being made as an addon? Any more news on this? Any help that anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Krit

[Symbian.info]

I like to have this in the welcome when you are a admin or mod (same what you have in ACP):
Threads Awaiting Moderation [look] 1
Users Awaiting Moderation [look] 2

How can I do that?

[PET]

Hi.

I'm interested for adding a new NEWS category. There is the news topic ho ands news in the first page. If i click on another page...for exemple :

/index.php?page=regulament

when do this i want to show topic from another forum. Is this posibile ?

thanx

[Nebby]

*headutts install*

amazing hack/addon!

[Dolamite]

edit... nevermind i fixed my problem...

looks good man... so far i like it better than vbindex...