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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.

[hockyfan]

Is there any way to remove the old version of the hack without installing vBadvanced?

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[Preds]

Installed... still tinkering with it but overall its a nice enhancement portal to my forums.

Thanks!

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Youve imporperly hacked your functions_calendar file, start with a fresh copy

Nope every thing is installed correctly as the instructions stated. I was also wondering if this was correct?

chdir('/flowfusion.biz/forum/');

That is the file directory. Please help.

[attroll]

In the "index" template there is a line that says:

<script src="$vboptions[bburl]/clientscript/md5.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

It should say:

<script src="$vboptions[bburl]/clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

[Gervie]

installed on vb3 gold, and no problem :nervous:
thanks

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

Nope every thing is installed correctly as the instructions stated. I was also wondering if this was correct?

chdir('/flowfusion.biz/forum/');

That is the file directory. Please help.

replace chdir('/flowfusion.biz/forum/'); with: chdir('/home/flowfusion/public_html/forum/');

hope it works. good luck 4 u!
:devious:

[d3nnis]

yes! I finish setting up my vbadvanced integrated with photopost!

www.keeptouch.net


however i find that the loading of the homepage is a bit slow... hope Tigga can improve on it

[Flow Fusion]

<br />
<b>Warning</b>: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in <b>/hsphere/local/home/mojoblac/flowfusion.biz/forum/adv_index.php</b> on line <b>15</b><br />
<html><head><title>LXP Database Error</title><style type="text/css"><!--.error { font: 11px tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; }--></style></head>
<body></table></td></tr></table></form>
<blockquote><p class="error">&nbsp;</p><p class="error"><b>There seems to have been a slight problem with the LXP database.</b><br />
Please try again by pressing the <a href="javascript:window.location=window.location;" >refresh</a> button in your browser.</p><p class="error">An E-Mail has been dispatched to our <a href="mailto:flow@flowfusion.biz">Technical Staff</a>, who you can also contact if the problem persists.</p><p class="error">We apologise for any inconvenience.</p><form><textarea class="error" rows="15" cols="100" wrap="off">Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0:

Invalid SQL: SELECT thread.threadid, thread.title, thread.replycount, postusername, postuserid, thread.dateline AS postdateline, IF(views &lt;= thread.replycount, thread.replycount+1, views) AS views, thread.lastposter, thread.lastpost, pollid
, thread.iconid AS threadiconid
,thread.forumid, forum.title AS forumtitle
, post.pagetext AS preview
, NOT ISNULL(subscribethread.subscribethreadid) AS subscribed
FROM thread as thread
LEFT JOIN forum AS forum ON (thread.forumid = forum.forumid)
LEFT JOIN post AS post ON(post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON (thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread')
LEFT JOIN subscribethread AS subscribethread ON(subscribethread.threadid = thread.threadid AND subscribethread.userid = 1)
WHERE open &lt;&gt; '10' AND thread.forumid NOT IN(http://flowfusion.biz/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33) AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL
ORDER BY lastpost DESC
LIMIT 10
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 '://flowfusion.biz/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33) AND deletionlog.

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 26th of March 2004 09:58:52 AM
Script: http://flowfusion.biz/forum/adv_index.php
Referer:
Username:
IP Address:
</textarea></form></blockquote>

</body></html>


ARGGGGGG!!!!!!!

[.:.NetStartz.:.]

Hi, Is there a way to change the header to the normal index file which had the forums. The portal is index.php but index1.php has the forums. People keep have to go to portal then forums. Thanks

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by .:.NetStartz.:.

Hi, Is there a way to change the header to the normal index file which had the forums. The portal is index.php but index1.php has the forums. People keep have to go to portal then forums. Thanks

Copy the header template into the index_header template

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

<br />
<b>Warning</b>: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in <b>/hsphere/local/home/mojoblac/flowfusion.biz/forum/adv_index.php</b> on line <b>15</b><br />
<html><head><title>LXP Database Error</title><style type="text/css"><!--.error { font: 11px tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; }--></style></head>
<body></table></td></tr></table></form>
<blockquote><p class="error">&nbsp;</p><p class="error"><b>There seems to have been a slight problem with the LXP database.</b><br />
Please try again by pressing the <a href="java_script_:window.location=window.location ;">refresh</a> button in your browser.</p><p class="error">An E-Mail has been dispatched to our <a href="mailto:flow@flowfusion.biz">Technical Staff</a>, who you can also contact if the problem persists.</p><p class="error">We apologise for any inconvenience.</p><form><textarea class="error" rows="15" cols="100" wrap="off">Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0:

Invalid SQL: SELECT thread.threadid, thread.title, thread.replycount, postusername, postuserid, thread.dateline AS postdateline, IF(views &lt;= thread.replycount, thread.replycount+1, views) AS views, thread.lastposter, thread.lastpost, pollid
, thread.iconid AS threadiconid
,thread.forumid, forum.title AS forumtitle
, post.pagetext AS preview
, NOT ISNULL(subscribethread.subscribethreadid) AS subscribed
FROM thread as thread
LEFT JOIN forum AS forum ON (thread.forumid = forum.forumid)
LEFT JOIN post AS post ON(post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON (thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread')
LEFT JOIN subscribethread AS subscribethread ON(subscribethread.threadid = thread.threadid AND subscribethread.userid = 1)
WHERE open &lt;&gt; '10' AND thread.forumid NOT IN(http://flowfusion.biz/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33) AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL
ORDER BY lastpost DESC
LIMIT 10
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 '://flowfusion.biz/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33) AND deletionlog.

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 26th of March 2004 09:58:52 AM
Script: http://flowfusion.biz/forum/adv_index.php
Referer:
Username:
IP Address:
</textarea></form></blockquote>

</body></html>


ARGGGGGG!!!!!!!

first your chdir is not correct

/hsphere/local/home/mojoblac/flowfusion.biz/forum/

That is your full chdir

Second the forumid should be 33 not site.com/forumdisplay.php?=33

[.:.NetStartz.:.]

Zachery thanks mate. Just found out theres an option where you can choose where the link for home page and stuff need index you can change it to forum.php etc Thanks anyway