Portal Software - WebTemplates 4.x: VB Integrated CMS (Content Management System)

(This hack is for vb version 4.x and above. For vb 3.x, version 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.


WEBTEMPLATES 4.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:
(Most are from 3.x versions but WebTemplate look and feel didn't change much so all 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://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)

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..

From FAQ 13: Vbulletin already has a CMS now , why would I need this hack?

If you have CMS license, you might not need Webtemplates. On the other hand, CMS license is paid, webtemplates is free and many forum owners don't have CMS licenses.

Also please note that vb has CMS since 2010. Webtemplates was first released for vb2.x in 2002 and it was around in vb3.x, 3.5.x and above for thousands of vbulletin users who have developed their sites around webtemplates CMS. So regardless of new vb CMS owners might or might not need it, Webtemplates 4.x is still realased and supported as a courtesy to its old users and fans. I personally prefer and use Webtemplates over vb CMS and this hack lives for people who agrees with me.

Version Updates:
12.October.2013 - > Version 4.0.2
* Minor fixes for PHP 5.4.x (Fixes "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated" errors in new PHP versions.
14.July.2012 - > Version 4.0.1
* Vbulletin changed WYSIWYG editor parsing in vb4.2.x so hack's editor.php is updated accordingly.
9.September.2010 - > Version 4.0.00
* Hack 4.00.00 is released.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by fxbattleground

I am trying to use WebTemplates to create a visitor landing page where they can take a tour of what is available inside the site - I see where to disallow, but how can i make an exception on this one page only?

By default your webtemplate will be visible to all (including guests) unless you specifically ban them from that webtemplate in webtemplate options.

However the problem with your situation is that, webtemplates inherit your general vbulletin permissions so if you disallowed guests in there, vbulletin will stop them before webtemplate hack has a say about the issue.

So the solution would be your changing vb permissions for guests and allow them to access "forum in general" but not threads or forums in particular. In other words, in edit usergroup options for guests permission "Can View Forum" should be set to yes but then you can set all other permissions as no according to your needs (eg. Can "View Thread Content" permission in usergroup options or ANY permissions in any particular forum under forum permissions page)

[Logician]

Originally Posted by neverstop

Its seems that the {vb:raw headinclude_bottom} variable does not work in the themes. Any idea why?

Edit "view.php", find this line:

$templater->register('WTlogging_list_name', $WTlogging_list_name);

And replace it AS:

$templater->register('WTlogging_list_name', $WTlogging_list_name);
$templater->register('headinclude_bottom', $headinclude_bottom);

There are 3 instances of this so please make sure you changed all.

This should fix it.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by GaryT

Does this mod in any way diminish the suites cms?

Nope. It does not interfere with vb cms at all.

[Storyteller69]

Hello,

after upgrading to vB 4.1.0 the style for the options like "Count Page Visitors" and "Display Page Browsers" also for the variables "adminpanel" and "nowbrowsing" is broken. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks in advance
Storyteller

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Storyteller69

Hello,

after upgrading to vB 4.1.0 the style for the options like "Count Page Visitors" and "Display Page Browsers" also for the variables "adminpanel" and "nowbrowsing" is broken. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks in advance
Storyteller

Uninstall the product and then install it back by ONLY APPLYING installation STEP 2. (Your custom webtemplates will be preserved)

[Storyteller69]

I just uninstalled and than installed it new but no changes.
Maybe I should be more specific. The Data and also the collapse-buttons are displayed fine. But there are no heads and borders of the boxes/containers(?).

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Storyteller69

I just uninstalled and than installed it new but no changes.
Maybe I should be more specific. The Data and also the collapse-buttons are displayed fine. But there are no heads and borders of the boxes/containers(?).

Can I see an example?

[Storyteller69]

Send you a Link.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Storyteller69

Hello,

after upgrading to vB 4.1.0 the style for the options like "Count Page Visitors" and "Display Page Browsers" also for the variables "adminpanel" and "nowbrowsing" is broken. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks in advance
Storyteller

seems 4.1.0 has some style changes. Please replace these 2 templates like this:

WebTemplates_NowBrowsing

<div class="collapse">
<a class="collapse" id="collapse_wt_wol" href="{vb:raw relpath}#top"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/collapse{vb:raw vbcollapse.collapseimg_info_options}_40b.png" alt="" /></a>
<h4 class="blockhead">
{vb:rawphrase page_information}

</h4>
</div>
<div id="wt_wol" class="forum_info_block blockbody formcontrols">
<h5>{vb:rawphrase users_browsing_this_thread}</h5>
<div>
<p>{vb:rawphrase CurrentlyActiveUsers} : {vb:raw totalonline} (<span class="normal"><strong>{vb:rawphrase x_members_and_y_guests, {vb:raw numberregistered}, {vb:raw numberguest}})</strong></span></p>
<ol class="commalist">
{vb:raw activeusers}
</ol>
</div>
</div>

WebTemplates_AdminPanel

<div class="collapse">
<a class="collapse" id="collapse_wt_admin" href="{vb:raw relpath}#top"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/collapse{vb:raw vbcollapse.collapseimg_info_options}_40b.png" alt="" /></a>
<h4 class="blockhead">{vb:rawphrase WT_WebTemplateQuick}
- [CMS by <a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=2355" target='_blank'>Logician</a>]</h4>
</div>
<div id="wt_admin" class="forum_info_block blockbody formcontrols">
<div>
<p>
{vb:raw WT.draftWarning} {vb:rawphrase WebTemplate} : <b>{vb:raw WT.title}</b>

| {vb:rawphrase WT_Created} : {vb:raw WT.creationdate}

| {vb:rawphrase WT_LastEdited} : {vb:raw WT.lasteditinfo}<br>

{vb:rawphrase WT_Visitors} : <b>{vb:raw WT.pagecount}</b>,

{vb:rawphrase WT_LastVisitedby}<br>

{vb:rawphrase WT_Parsing} : {vb:raw WT.doactionON} | {vb:rawphrase WT_Theme} : {vb:raw WT.themeON}<br>

{vb:rawphrase WT_WebQuery} : {vb:raw WT.webqueriesON}<br>
{vb:rawphrase WT_Draft} : {vb:raw WT.draftON}, {vb:rawphrase WT_CountVisitors} : {vb:raw WT.countvisitorsON}, {vb:rawphrase WT_ShowBrowsers} : {vb:raw WT.showbrowsersON}
</p>
<p>{vb:raw WTpermission_list_name} {vb:raw banned_permitted_usergroupnames} {vb:raw banned_permitted_userids}<br />

{vb:raw WTlogging_list_name} {vb:raw WT_loggedusers}</p>

<vb:if condition="!$bagis">
<p>[<a href='{vb:raw vboptions.bburl}/editors.php?do=donate' target='_Blank'>Donate for WebTemplates Project</a>] </p>
</vb:if>
</div>
</div>

[Storyteller69]

Many Thanks

Storyteller