vBindex v3.0.0 RC5

[high]vBindex v3.0.0 RC5[/high]

I happy to announce the fith release of vBindex for vBulletin 3 here at vBulletin.org and also the first Offical vB3 Hack here . This is the 9th release of vBindex for vB3 and there are few known problems currently. This release works with vB 3.0.0 Gamma, vB 3.0.0 RC1, vB 3.0.0 RC2, vB 3.0.0 RC3, vB 3.0.0 RC4 and vB 3.0.0.

[high]Features[/high]

The following are the features that are presently avalible in vBindex, those marked [high]*NEW*[/high] have been updated since vBindex 2.1 and those marked [high]*NEW*[/high] have been updated since Pre-RC2 was released and those marked [high]*NEW*[/high] have been added since RC2 and those marked [high]*NEW*[/high] have been added since RC3.

• News:
  • News (taken from a specified news forum), with vBcode, Smilies and optional news posters avatar;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Improved avatar system for news posts;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Option to have sticky threads in the news forum sticky on vBindex;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Option to limit the number of characters in news posts;
• Side Blocks:
  • Easy Administration:
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] All side blocks can be moved from within the ACP, no template edits needed!;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Custom blocks, add unlimited custom side blocks and control them all from the ACP;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Support for right, left and dual side blocks;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Each side block can be expanded/contracted just like the forums, QRB, post rules etc on the forum;
      [high]*NEW*[/high] Dynamic side blocks via a special PHP Include type system (vbindex_customblock_php);
  • Latest Threads:
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] More functional and faster new threads and posts;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Link to first unread post if the user has not read the thread yet;
      [high]*NEW*[/high] Ability to have the latest threads under the news with more details;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Online user list, with buddies and invisible users marked:
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Option to show users online in the past 24 hours;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Online users block can be switched off;
  • Integrated Welcome Panel:
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Option for detault avatar in the Welcome Box for members without an avatar and Guests;
  • Fully integrated Shoutbox:
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Scrolling shoutbox option;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Allow users to delete own shouts if option is turned on;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Select which usergroups can delete any users shouts;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] View all shouts, a full page shoutbox built it;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Option to show disabled postshout area to unregistred users;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Order shouts in either direction;
      [high]*NEW*[/high] Limit the length of shouts;
  • Poll, with the option to select a random poll from a given set of forums;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Calendar:
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Links to events;
    • [high]*NEW*[/high] Option to show weekends and dynmically adjust the side bars to the correct size;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Todays birthdays;
• Templates & Phrases:
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Fully phrased, both the vBindex Options and the front end are 100% phrased;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] 100% Valid XHTML 1.0 Templates.
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Templates/Phrases installed during install/upgrade;
• General:
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Thread subscription icons for news and latest threads;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Global and user specific ignore list throughout all items;
  • Will work 100% outside of your forums directory;
  • Fully integrated into the Admin CP, change all options there!
  • Very easy to customize, just edit/add templates;
  • Capable of operating a multi-paged site; (Extra Page Tutorial)
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Dynamic PHP Driven Extra Pages via Templates; (Extra Dynamic Page Tutorial)
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Optimised code;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Use date/time option (Today/Yesterday and Detailed) specified in vB Options;
  • Only 5 queries with everything switched off, and still only 13 with all options turned on, thats 5 queries less than our nearest competitor!
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Improved install, easy onscreen instructions that even new hackers should be able to follow and have vBindex working quicky;
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Compatible with vBwar for vB3 when its released.
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Admin Help system, gives help with all the vBindex options in the ACP.
  • [high]*NEW*[/high] Uninstall/Re-Install System.

[high]Installation/Upgrade[/high]

See the README_1ST.htm file included in the zip for more detailed install instructions and details of where to upload the files. Then point your browser to http://www.mydomain.com/forums/admin/vbiupgrade.php.

Changes Since vBindex 3.0.0 RC4

vBindex 3.0.0 RC4 was released about a week ago, RC5 has just a few changes and is expected to be the last release before vBindex 3.0.0. Changes include fixing of an XHTML issue in the custom block templates; admin help system added; ability to restrict the length of shouts.

[high]Support[/high]

Support will be given here in this thread ONLY. [high]Support *WILL NOT* be given via PM/Email/IM.[/high]

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vBindex is Copyright MMII - MMIV Winter Systems, you may not distribute in part or whole any portion of the source code (apart from in this thread) or any file included in the zip (Unless you are posting a language translation of vbindex_phrases.xml in this thread). Portions Copyright MM - MMIV Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. Both the Jelsoft vBulletin and the Winter Systems vBindex Copyright notice in the footer must stay in place for any page powered by vBindex.

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[high]vBindex is *FREE*, please have the courtesy click install if you use this hack, thank you[/high]

RC3 Build 7: 719
RC3 Build 8: 377
RC3 Build 10: 486
RC4 Build 5: 107
RC5 Build 5: 87

[Pseudomizer]

Addition to my last request:

Performance is also a big thing here. For every http:// link in your source code the client browser opens a complete new session over http. This is a big performance overhead for our amount of smilies. Please help to find a better solution.

Thanks.

Cheers,

[NTLDR]

A script has already been released in this thread by Natch to automatically change all the smilie URLs.

[AlexanderT]

NTLDR, instead of having the user alter his smilies, have you thought of applying a regex on the text containing smilies (add the full url dynamically to them) before "you eval" the templates with it?

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

NTLDR, instead of having the user alter his smilies, have you thought of applying a regex on the text containing smilies (add the full url dynamically to them) before "you eval" the templates with it?

Thanks. You got it.

NTLDR ? The main reason for not willing to alter all the smilies to the full URL is the performance issue. Again ... if you alter all smilies to http://blablabla/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif from the original /forum/images/smilies/smile.gif you increase the connections to the server dramatically.

I hope this has made my problem clearer. Do you know what i am talking about now ?

Cheers,

[bobII]

Great hack! But I am having one problem... I upgraded from vb 2.3.4 to vb 3.0 today and everything works fine except vbindex will not display the text from my 'news' posts... I checked the length and it's set to display 150 characters. What could be wrong?

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by bobII

Great hack! But I am having one problem... I upgraded from vb 2.3.4 to vb 3.0 today and everything works fine except vbindex will not display the text from my 'news' posts... I checked the length and it's set to display 150 characters. What could be wrong?

I had the same issue. Create a new info in the news forum and this text will be shown on the vbindex. Don't know why but any new thread is fully shown.

Cheers,

[NTLDR]

Originally Posted by bobII

Great hack! But I am having one problem... I upgraded from vb 2.3.4 to vb 3.0 today and everything works fine except vbindex will not display the text from my 'news' posts... I checked the length and it's set to display 150 characters. What could be wrong?

Admin CP -> Update Counters -> Run all those reffering to threads.

[NTLDR]

Originally Posted by Pseudomizer

Thanks. You got it.

NTLDR ? The main reason for not willing to alter all the smilies to the full URL is the performance issue. Again ... if you alter all smilies to http://blablabla/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif from the original /forum/images/smilies/smile.gif you increase the connections to the server dramatically.

I hope this has made my problem clearer. Do you know what i am talking about now ?

Cheers,

Then alter them all to /forum/images.... instead of http://.. I don't really see the issue.

[NTLDR]

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

NTLDR, instead of having the user alter his smilies, have you thought of applying a regex on the text containing smilies (add the full url dynamically to them) before "you eval" the templates with it?

Its impossible for me to know the URL to the smilies hence the user needs to adjust them either manually or via the script Natch provided. Plus I feel that having to edit the smilies once at install time greatly out ways the extra processing to search/replace every single page load.

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by NTLDR

Then alter them all to /forum/images.... instead of http://.. I don't really see the issue.

Then the forum smilies don't work any more. But brought up a good point.

Question: How about replacing the current smilies location from let's say ./images/smilies/smilie.gif to {smiliefolder}/smilie.gif.

Now the only thing we need is somehow to determine if a user is in the root / or if he is the /forum directory. If we can do this then it would be very easy.

One way could be in a javascript to define SMILIEFOLDER as a variable and to set for the vbindex a different javascript source file then to the forum. But this would not be best way but the easiest.

Please tell me your thoughts.

Cheers,

[NTLDR]

I recommend using either Natch's script to update all the image paths or manually do it. You of course are free to use whichever method you see fit.

[Wildthinks]

Hello and happy easterday's ...

how can i add this on vbindex?
Members:5,886|Threads:15,767|Posts:105,399|Posts today:01
Newest User: thesom

Thank you for your help..

By Wildthinks

[Ghostspy]

i cant get it to install.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
## GET POLL ##
SELECT thread.pollid, thread.forumid, open, threadid, replycount, question, poll.dateline,
options, votes, active, numberoptions, timeout, multiple, voters,
pollvote.voteoption, pollvote.userid AS voteuserid
FROM thread AS thread
LEFT JOIN poll AS poll ON (thread.pollid = poll.pollid)
LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread')
LEFT JOIN pollvote AS pollvote ON(thread.pollid = pollvote.pollid AND pollvote.userid = 1)
WHERE forumid NOT IN (0)
AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL
AND thread.pollid <> 0
AND thread.open <> 10
AND thread.visible = '1'
AND thread.forumid IN ()


ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC
LIMIT 1
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')


ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC
LIMIT 1' at line

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 08th of April 2004 06:07:34 PM
Script: http://forum.sxsecurity.org/vbindex.php
Referer:
Username: Criticalmass
IP Address: 206.214.92.57

[NTLDR]

Originally Posted by Ghostspy

i cant get it to install.

You need to setup the vBindex options as per the install instructions.

[Chris|vB]

ok i got a prob.

Warning: main(.//functions_vbiupgrade.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sportsn/public_html/admincp/vbiupgrade.php on line 57

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './/functions_vbiupgrade.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/sportsn/public_html/admincp/vbiupgrade.php on line 57

i run RC4