[Release vB2.0b2] vBShell

[wajones]

Preliminary release of vBShell. Using wlukes enhanced BFC Weblog and PHPNuke, PHPWebsite bits and pieces I put together this thing you may or may not find useful, it's basically an alternative to my Nuke2vB hack, I think this will be more useful to myself and have decided to release it to see if anyone else can use it.

You can see it in action and get it here http://www.911pc.com Note the forum is for demo only, not for posting. Please post all bites, digs, what ever here...

I've been trying to find a way to integrate my news into vB for comments. The only thing is I noticed you use the announcements for news. This limits you to only people with vBCP access to add news. That won't work for a lot of people I imagine. I have about 10 newsies that post news on our site, but I don't want them to have full control of the forum.

Great idea though!
I was going to try and design something like this from scratch.

Actually, you'll find the second news entry is based on this thread: http://www.911pc.com/vbshell/showthread.php?threadid=7

Hmm. yes you're right. I didn't notice that, excuse my assumption.

What kind of templateing system does it use?

Awsome work.

This will be something I will watch the developement of and hopefully down the line install once things get semi complete with it and vB2.

Do you have a mailing list setup?

Well seems I screwed it up!! the download install.txt had some errors in the mod index.php portion and won't work. I did a fix and put it on line but I have no way of testing it quickly. So if anyone is trying it please down load the new one and try again.
I also forgot the style.css file, sorry for being so forgetful.

Ok. This is very sweet!!! /me is going to direct the Tribalwar Admin to this post.

I also like an more in-depth explaination on how this "hack" or feature works. Thanks in advance if you comply.

I don't know how in depth I can get, it's basically a hack that I put together based on the idea of a weblog such as PHPNuke/PHPWebsite but using the vBulletin hack BFC Weblog that I believe was made originally by Paul Young and enhanced by wluke. Anyway I just put together various bits of these and some of my own ideas into creating "vBshell". The admin section allows you to enter html code into the side boxs with your browser, and you can add or delete the blocks in the same way. Such as the affiliate ads I put up on the vBShell demo, all I did was cut and paste into the block admin. It utilizes separate header scripts that will allow you to integrate the look and feel of your site into about any php script, and the nice part is that this allows you to call vB's user routines so you only have one user account site wide.
If you look at the admin and block scripts they will serve as a basic template as to how you can integrate any script into the site. VB utilizes the vBShell header thru the phpinclude template and in return provides the various templates for the Weblog/home page. I tried to keep it very basic for as easy as possible install, but with your imagination and a little work you can really customize it very easily.
It's rough around the edges right now, I'm not really a programmer and consider this a learning expierience. I hope that's enough in-depth rambling...

BTW, several people including Dark_Wizard are already putting together integrated addons for vBShell, such as a links script, a photo album, download script and others are planned. The addons will be modular and design controlled by the style.css script which incidently was concieved by the students that are writing PHPWebsite another PHPNuke knockoff.