Hi, everyone

Hi, all. I’m an Australian, but living in Germany, and a long-time fan of vBulletin software, interested in coding but no good at it. Thanks for this site!

As someone else said, the smilies are definitely different! Unique, even!

Backup Style

this is something missing from the original vBulletin. when we have a ton of products on our forum, it’s very complicated to export our styles because only one product at a time is permitted to export its templates.

with this product, we can export all the templates related to a backup style, without checking the products. it will create a new style with all the templates related to their proper product.

what it does for the eye:

1- a new admincp link, called « Backup a Style » in the >> AdminCP >> Styles & Templates

2- You have the choice to generate a new backup for a style OR upload an existing backup from another style.

Here are the screenshots:

nex_backup_style-backup-import.jpg

In the image above, you see the two forms that are similar to the original « Download / Upload Styles » page. The difference is that you do not have all the settings, and the file sent is different in structure.

and here is the result when you finish the import process, the new style is independant, and have a  » – IMPORT » at the end of the name if you did not edit the name as in the form above…

nex_backup_style-result.jpg

The end result is a complete independant style, with all the templates in it, no matter what products you have on your site. All the customized templates are stored in the backup file, so you have exactly the same style as the one you had first, but as a Parent style, even if you had it as a child first… because each backup is completely independant from the source, so there is no error if you forget to backup the parent style.

What is does also: you can not use the backup files on a vBulletin forum that have not this product installed… the backup will be rejected by vBulletin because the main product related to the file is missing. Also, do not try to import the backup inside the original « Download / Upload Styles » page, or it will break the stored templates… all these backups have to be used inside this engine… because it was impossible to merge both techniques inside the original vBulletin.

there is not much things to update in the future, as vB 4.0 will have a complete different engine, so the only thing that can occur by then may be bug fixes… i’m sure there will be some bugs as soon as this version 1.0.0 is released, as it’s a major code and was tested only for 2 days… so if you face bugs, instead of putting the product to the trash, please report the problem here with a screenshot or something of the bug/error… thanks!

export all templates from style X, include all templates from all products

this is something missing from the original vBulletin. when we have a ton of products on our forum, it’s very complicated to export our styles because only one product at a time is permitted to export its templates.

with this, we can export all the templates related to a style, without checking the products.

… we have to put the $_REQUEST == ‘download’ in global.php , hook: admin_global so it work before loading the template.php file, where no hook is called….stupid!

notes:

1- with this, all templates become part of the product « vBulletin », as they can not be regrouped per product… OR we could? # i tested it, impossible.

2- we can not export multiple xml files at a time, that would have given a substancial benefit as the engine would export each template of each product in unique files, so we avoid the note #1…

actually i coded it late last night, around 3:00 am… so it’s not working perfect, i’ll be testing it in the evening …

A section for people learning to code

Hi,

Ive only just started to learn to code and must admit it is quite daunting! The actual php dosent look too bad, however its then intergrating it with vbulletin.

I was wondering if you fancied creating a section for people in the same boat as myself. Somewhere we can come to get a little bit of help and advice when stuck.

Nexia, maybe you could even take a couple of your simple mods and give a step by step approach of how you created them!

Regards

Dave

For our safety to all, and for our own business, Paypal policy…

Ok, some guys pmed me about their subscription that is refused by paypal, for some reasons… Because of some experiences in the close past, it was decided that only instant payment would be accepted on this site.

So you can use your Credit Card on the Paypal page, or with your Verified account.

Here are the restrictions:

For U.S. residents, Block payments from U.S. users who do not provide a Confirmed Address.
Block payments with eCheck (process thru your bank account) or German bank transfer for all website payments except eBay.

Why we do this?… because we have experience with scammers who pay with a german bank account that is not verified, and usually, nullifiers who pay with their unverified account that is funding from an non-existing bank account.

So what are the solutions?… Add Funds to your paypal account from your bank before doing any transaction here… it is safer for you, and for us.

If you use your credit card, remember that some countries refuse transactions with Paypal, so it’s not our fault if your card is refused, do not come here to report the situation or complaint… we don’t care, it’s not our business — go complaint to http://paypal.com!

And we are not accepting anyother kind of transaction… no wire-transfer, no other payment processor. Paypal is safe for us, so it is safe for you too.

A new roundup of products releases begins

As in the past, my « reputation » of being a prolific coder have to be rehearsed as i stopped producing new addons lately…

So just to be sure everybody is aware that there is life here, i have to announce a new roundup of products that start this week-end, with a rythme of 3 to 5 new products per week. Not all of these products are master pieces, but at least one master tool will be released per week.

We will also release at least one product/hack related to members requests each week. So if you need something to be coded, just post them in the forum named  » I need something for my vB « , so we can evaluate the concept with you and see if this can be done on a free or paid version.

It is to be noted that most of our products are still in the backstore, waiting to be updated to vBulletin 3.8.x… you can see a bunch of taken-over works in the  » Nexia’s Homeworks « , and they also have to be updated or simply abandonned…

Our goal is to release better engines than the existing ones, so it MAY occur that you see something released here that exists on vb.org or another site… we assure you that all our releases are genuine to vbEnhancer.com, and they are never copied or duplicate from existing stuff… we code them our way, they are working our way, and they are usually better or at least answer our clients need in a better way.

ok, let’s get back to the drawing board!