Major Additions - [DBTech] vBSlider v3 (vB4)

vBSlider: What is it?
vBSlider is a professional slider mod, allowing administrators to show the latest threads, articles, blogs, and custom-defined content in a jQuery based slider. vBSlider can be used on both the CMS and Forum, and is compatible with vBulletin 4.x Suite, vBulletin 4.x Forum Only, and vBulletin 3.x

Uses

vBSlider can be used on both the CMS and Forum to promote your latest content, as well as custom content, and can be separately configured for both the CMS and Forum.

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Differences between Pro and Lite

Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Translations may be available @ http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List (Lite)

General Settings

• Option to display version number in widget footer
• Option to not load jQuery, if it is already being called by another modification
• Option to select which version of jQuery to load
• Default image for CMS content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided) [vB4.x only]
• Default image for Forum content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)
• Default image for Blog content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)
• Default image for DragonByte Gallery content items that do not have an associated image (a default DragonByte Tech image is provided)

Multiple Slider Instances

• Ability to create and insert virtually unlimited sliders across your forum
• All settings below are customised on a per-instance basis

CMS Options (as a Widget on CMS pages) [vB4.x only]

• Option to select how many articles from the CMS you want to display
• Option to select which CMS sections you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many threads from the forum you want to display
• Option to select which forums you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many blog entries from the blogs you want to display
• Option to select which blog categories you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many [DBTech] Gallery images you want to display
• Option to select which [DBTech] Gallery instances you want to include/exclude from the slider
• Option to select how many custom content items you want to display
• Option to select how many characters of the content item you want to display

Forum Options (as a Widget on Forum Home, vB3 & vB4)

• Option to enable or disable the widget on Forum Home
• Option to select location for the widget on Forum Home (above or below forums)
• All of the other options listed for the CMS [vB4.x only]

Customisation

• Stylevars available for both the CMS and Forum versions, so that you can match each one to your specific design [vB4.x only]
• External CSS file available so you can match the slider to your forum [vB3.x only]
• Ability to define a maximum width and height for the slider (in StyleVars for vB4, in CSS for vB3)
• Fully phrased to allow for customization for different languages

Additional Feature List (Pro)

General Settings

• Option to move Copyright location from below slider to site footer
• Option to change the default image for CMS content items that do not have an associated image (vB4 Only)
• Option to change the default image for Forum content items that do not have an associated image
• Option to change the default image for Blog content items that do not have an associated image
• Option to use IMG tags inside the content types to allow for external images to be used inside of the slider

CMS [vB4.x only] and Forum Options (as a Widget on CMS/Forum pages, CMS is vB4 Only)

• Option to select how long each content item displays before transitioning to the next slide
• Option to pick the location inside the slider for the content
• Option to pick the text alignment of the content

Custom Content Options

• This gives you the ability to create your own content items to display to your users
• Ability to define a title for the content
• Ability to define a message for the content. Message can include HTML formatting
• Ability to define a link if you want to provide additional information in a separate location
• Ability to define a link to an image for the content item
• Option to pick the location inside the slider for the content
• Option to pick the text alignment of the content
• Option to enable/disable on the CMS [vB4.x only]
• Option to enable/disable on Forum Home
• Option to enable/disable site wide
• Option to select the target location for the link to open in
• Option for 'banner-only', so if no text is in the message area, the content slider doesn't show
• All of the above options are definable for each custom content item

Customisation

• Ability to define the width of the content area when located on the left or right side (in StyleVars for vB4, CSS for vB3)

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[illusioNtEk]

as soon as the bugs are fixed i will glady pay! plz hurry

[ProFifaLeagues]

Originally Posted by illusioNtEk

as soon as the bugs are fixed i will glady pay! plz hurry

I dont think there is any bugs as such the mod works Superb for most people who have used it and with updates will only get better!:up:

[jack-d]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

For the drop down screen, you can resize it via Stylevars, just look for the content width stylevar. In the pro version, you have the ability to move the slider to the top, but with the title, message, and link, it still ends up taking up a lot of space.
Brad

Everyone has different tastes and I just feel a slider should be just that, not a huge obtrusive block hiding everything you are trying to show. Just a suggestion for you to build upon.

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Not sure on your comment on lo-res... If images in your threads or articles, etc., are small, then this upsizes them (currently) to fit inside the slider, therefore making them appear lo-res. This will happen no matter how I do it. If I keep the image the size it is (so that it appears hi-res), you may end up with a lot of blank space just so the image looks "hi-res". Like I said, maybe I'm just misunderstanding you.

Brad

I actually made a few posts and made some images up that were sized to fit the slider so no resizing would be required and when I look at them in the forums they look fine but viewing the same image in the slider they look like a jpg compressed to 40 or 50%. Now this was one test and I have not had time to test it anymore so it might be something else. I know they are not "upsizing" as you say so that is not the issue.

All of my images are on the large size and the only way this slider would work is for me to manually re-size them all and that would be no fun. I for one would need no enlarging as it will always look low-res but if this could reduce size that would be great.

[DragonByte Tech]

Well, I am using vB's built-in attachment system via attachment.php to display the attachments, so I don't see how they should be any different than in the forum. There is nothing in the code that should be changing the quality of the images. I'm not sure what else I can say.

Brad

[New Joe]

When I had it installed the quality of he pictures were really bad for some and fine for others,

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by New Joe

When I had it installed the quality of he pictures were really bad for some and fine for others,

My guess is that for the ones it was really bad for, the images actual width was significantly less than the width of the slider, in which case it was getting upsized.

Brad

[sergarch]

Hello Brad,
I've found a bug with VBSEO integrated in my portal.

When I click on slider, the link led me to not VBSEO articles or themes and show me only my main CMS or forumhome page.

Example:
http://www.xpam.org/content.php/250-...83%D1%80%D0%B0

Instead of this it must led me to
http://www.xpam.org/content/250-pulsa-denura.html

I'm using Russian language and utf-8 on my portal.

[DragonByte Tech]

Its an issue with vB and their lack of a friendly URL function that works for the CMS. It is being corrected in 4.1.11 (at least, according the the latest Jira). Until then, you just need to edit the widget.php file in (forum)/dbtech/vbslider/actions/widget.php, search for "content.php" and replace it with "content" (at least that's how it looks given your links), and it should work. If not, let me know.

Brad

[sergarch]

It does not work.

http://www.xpam.org/content/250-%D0%...83%D1%80%D0%B0

"Page not found" error occured.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by sergarch

It does not work.

http://www.xpam.org/content/250-%D0%...83%D1%80%D0%B0

"Page not found" error occured.

Ok, so it appears that it's pulling the exact name of the article, which is in ??Russian??, and using those letters in the URL instead of regular letters. It might take me a bit to figure this out, as I'm not even sure where to begin testing this. I do some searching and let you know what I find out. Thanks!

Brad