WebTemplates 2.x: VB Integrated Content Management System

After a long wait, here is the new 2.x version of Webtemplates. First a short introduction for users who are not familiar with the old version:

This hack is a vbulletin integrated content management system. Term "Webtemplates" stands for dynamic webpages that reside in your MYSQL database and administered inside your vbulletin admin control panel. But they are more than regular site pages because they can automatically inherit visual design of your forum, can apply permissions according to your vb usergroup settings, can keep track of page counts, last visitorname/visit time, display page browsers in the page itself and in your whoisonline page etc. So basically webtemplates are dynamic web pages of your site which are powered by vbulletin.


WEBTEMPLATES 2.x FEATURES:
([New] indicates feature that is recently introduced in this 2.x version)

• Easy Installation : Webtemplates can be installed to your board without hacking even a single vbulletin file! It is coded as an add-on, not a hack.
• Conditionals : Webtemplates has built-in support for Logician's advanced templates conditionals so you can design webtemplates which change their display under different conditions. (Even if you don't have that hack installed)
• Private Webtemplates (NEW): With 1 click you can make a webtemplate "private" and it will be displayed to only certain usergroups.
• Apply VB Permissions: You can ban any webtemplate to any user or usergroup according to their userids or usergroupids. 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.
• Draft Webtemplates (NEW): You can put webtemplates in "draft" mode which makes them invisible to all but admins.
• Visitor Logging&Tracking (NEW): You can track certain users (by usergroup or userid) to monitor who visited a webtemplate and when. This is configurable per webtemplate basis.
• Site Contributers (Editor) Support (NEW): 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.
• Categories (NEW): Webtemplates 2.x supports multi-categories for better webtemplate organizations.
• Multi Parsing (NEW): Webtemplates can now parse PHP or HTML or TEXT (=smilie/img tags/bbcode parsing like vb posts)
• 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.
• Outside Variables (NEW): Advanced users can now use outside variables in webtemplates, then webtemplates will accept/use/process user sent variables via HTTP_GET and HTTP_POST methods (eg. a HTML form can post to a webtemplate with this feature)
• Page Counter : Webtemplate has built-in counter and you can display page count to your visitors and you can edit it or turn it OFF or ON per webtemplate basis.
• Page Browsers Display (NEW): Webtemplates can display who is browsing that webtemplate while people is reading them (like default forum browse display of vbulletin)
• Who is Online Display (NEW): Webtemplates can display page visitors in who is online (This is Optional and require a simple hacking in file online.php). You can create private webtemplates which are hidden in who is online too.
• Theme Support (NEW): 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 theme for them, then just insert their content into this theme. If you change theme later, all 20 pages' visual will change automatically.
• Header/Footer Inclusion : Webtemplates can use headers/footers (your default vb header/footer or custom ones)
• PHPINCLUDE per webtemplate (NEW) : Every webtemplate has its own "phpinclude" field which you can run PHP codes before loading the Webtemplate
• Help Documents : The script comes with built-in & detailed help documents (they are webtemplates too).
• Webquery Feature : With advanced "webquery" feature you can now add create dynamic webtemplates which include database query results. For instance you can easily add member count/post count/thread count/last 10 threads forum X etc. to your webtemplates with default webqueries that comes with installation or you can create your custom webqueries with basic SQL knowledge.
• Archieve to Text File (NEW): Webtemplates/Webqueries can be downloaded to a text file with one click for archiving purposes. You can also easily share these text files with other hack users.
• Login/Logout box (NEW): You can insert login/register box to your webtemplate if visitor is a guest and log off box if she is a member.
• Admin Panel in Webtemplates (NEW): 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.
• Better Performance (NEW): Webtemplates 2.x structured so that it performs well even under heavy load conditions and high traffic servers. (See Performance issues below)
• Easy Back up: Simply back up your database (inside vbulletin or externally) and all your webtemplate structure is also backed up automatically.

For screenshots, FAQ, performance issues, migration from old version to new version, see below.

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..


Version Updates:
30.July.2003 - > Version 2.03

* Adds feature to include regular vbtemplates into webtemplates

2.02 users: apply this fix to update.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.

12.July.2003 - > Version 2.02

* Fixes a bug with outside variables.

2.01 users: apply this fix to update.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.

2.July.2003 - > Version 2.01

* Fixes bug that bothers webqueries if "Show Template Name" option enabled in vb admin cp
* Fixes bug in webquery $WQ_mostactivemembers
* Fixes visual look of webtemplate test
* Fixes visual look of admin panel and makes sure it looks ok in dark backgrounded boards too.

2.00 users: update here.
New users: Get the hack from the first post of this thread (which is the latest version), you don't need to apply this update.


Webtemplates 3.x (for vb.3.x) is released here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=76422

[soccerclue]

Hmm..I'm not really sure how to use theme and child webtemplate yet..I will read the user manual first and will ask you again if I have question...thanks a lot for the reply..if the hack even can support this...this is the best hack ever I installed...hope it can be integrated in vb3 also.

[soccerclue]

Hi Logician,

I have read the the manual..and I still don't have any clue how to create it using bbcode. Can you give me some examples how to create bbcode chart instead of HTML table? And yes, it really matters since almost all the mods dont know anything about HTML. If they just can modify by TEXT, it would be great.

[Logician]

Today at 05:13 AM soccerclue said this in Post #72
Hi Logician,

I have read the the manual..and I still don't have any clue how to create it using bbcode. Can you give me some examples how to create bbcode chart instead of HTML table? And yes, it really matters since almost all the mods dont know anything about HTML. If they just can modify by TEXT, it would be great.

I didn't say you can create a HTML table with BBcode. I meant you can have a good looking chart/listing with vb code with BOLD, colors/list command/smilies/custom bbcodes etc.

[gmarik]

Logician - genius!

[soccerclue]

Yeah that's what I meant too...so I can directly just put the vbcode/bbcode inside the input box of the webtemplates as long as the bbcode is declared? and what's the code for making a chart/table like?

[robbyt]

Logician,

Thanks man. Everything works great now. Hey...I really like this! I can do lots of stuff with this...

[Highlander]

hi logician.. i used your Webtempltes Version 1 akready .. and could not use it cause all m PHP sites werent integrated..

..so my question is again:
Can i use this sites (self coded)
http://spielplanet2.de/download.php?db=2

if yes i would be happy to use this

EDIT:
i read it can parse PHP code.. but does it can parse merged PHP/SQL/HTML code together?.. i did not code this site speratly..its all in one site (and one database table .. hrhr .. huh)

[corsacrazy]

can u use the pages outside of the vb directory ?

[Intex]

corsacrazy - I guess that depends on what you mean. I believe Logician's design surrounds vB and allows you to control everything 'within' vB so you can admin it anywhere.

You can certainly include HTML, PHP, TXT etc. within the templates, so if you have something external to the forum, you would create a template and place that code within the custom template you've made. You then get all the headers and page hits and other superb admin capabilities.

Superb hack - install it NOW !!! .

[K33nny]

Today at 12:47 PM corsacrazy said this in Post #78
can u use the pages outside of the vb directory ?

Do you mean something like this?

http://www.ewplanet.org/view.php?pg=adverts