vBulletin 4

Good job on the upgrade. Having completed a few transitions to vB4, it's just the change that affects readers. Once vB fixes the remaining bugs (and there are still plenty), people will embrace the change. Most of my members enjoy the new look. Good thing you waited until 4.0.2. The previous version was filled with bugs.

Congrats and thanks for an awesome forum.

 

RSS feed and subscribe to this forum seems handy!

 

Other things I noticed that did not work.
My user/pass
Retrieving them via Safari is futile at best.
The Captcha entry does not work using Safari 4.04 under OSX 10.6.2
After a dozen attempts, and using the audio input sentence with failure, I resorted to Firefox which worked the first time.
I assume we have the option to change to the classic look in our CP? The new look of VB 4 is hideous to say the least!

 

Huge step forwards, kudos to Shawn for the huge amounts of time and effort put into upgrading.

Post content is a little hard to find when you have a thread full of posters with and without avatars, but generally it's no worse than how it was previously.

 

I never had any problems here when I tried it on my iPhone for the first time my User/pass worked, maybe your just having bad luck?

 

Doubtful. I've tried it on another Mac using Safari, and had the same issue.
Also, I've had the user/pass issue before. I think they reset after 'x' amount of time.

 

I kinda agree, actually.

 

why not integrate Google Search into DP instead of using the default search for Vbulletin? im sure it would help cut down on any CPU load,a friend of mine Mr Happy,owner of Linkzbot wrote some code on integrating it so search results will open on a new page of Vbulletin as oppposed to Google pages

here is code thanks go to Mr Happy @ Linkzbot.com

Step 1

This below bit is edited from vb and is for making new pages. Copy the below and name it find.php and upload it to your server where you installed vBulletin.
PHP Code:

<?php 

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ########################### 
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); 

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test'); // change this depending on your filename 

// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ###################### 
// get special phrase groups 
$phrasegroups = array( 

); 

// get special data templates from the datastore 
$specialtemplates = array( 
     
); 

// pre-cache templates used by all actions 
$globaltemplates = array( 
    'Search Site', 
); 

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions 
$actiontemplates = array( 

); 

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################ 
require_once('./global.php'); 

// ####################################################################### 
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################ 
// ####################################################################### 

$navbits = array(); 
$navbits[$parent] = 'Search Results'; 

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('Search Site') . '");'); 

?>

PHP:

Step 2

We have to create a custom search for the site you want. Go to http://www.google.com/cse/ and select Create A Custom Search. Enter the details; name, description, site(s) you want to search. Don't worry too much as this can be edited later. Paying the $100 will remove the Google Adds if you don't want them.

Click Finish and then click on the control panel for the Search engines I've created.

Edit any details you want and then click on look and feel on the left.

Select iFrame and then you can change the look and feel to match your sites template.

Then click Save and Get code.

For the url make it point to where you have find.php so it should be something like http://sitename.com/find.php or http://sitename.com/forum/find.php

It's the Search box code code part we want. Don't worry about the Search results code

You should have something like this which we'll return to in a minute.
PHP Code:

<form action="http://linkzbot.nagds" id="cse-search-box">
  <div>
    <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="009729591642794172819:aeozcdubiek" />
    <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" />
    <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
    <input type="text" name="q" size="31" />
    <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
  </div>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></script> 

PHP:

Step 3

Next we'll create the template in the ACP for the Search Results Page.
In Style Manager select Add new Template and for a name use Search Site
In the template box paste the below and click save. If you want you can change the with of the resutls by changing the 700 I've set it to.
PHP Code:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header

$navbar

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
    <td class="tcat">Search Site</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="alt1"><div id="cse-search-results" align="center"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var googleSearchIframeName = "cse-search-results";
  var googleSearchFormName = "cse-search-box";
  var googleSearchFrameWidth = 700;
  var googleSearchDomain = "www.google.com";
  var googleSearchPath = "/cse";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/afsonline/show_afs_search.js"></script>
      </div></td>
</tr>
</table>

$footer
</body>
</html> 

PHP:

You should now be able to go to http://sitename/find.php or http://sitename/forum/find.php and see an empty page.

Step 4

This next step will add the search Box to the navbar to the left of the Login Box/Members Details. If you know your shit and templates you can place it anywhere. This is for vb default template.

In Style Manager in the ACP Edit the Template Navigation/Breadcrumb Templates >> navbar
Find:
PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['member']">
    <td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">
    <div class="smallfont"> 

PHP:

The bit we add ABOVE is different for everyone. Remember the code we got off Google in Step 2, well we need the three lines starting with <input type="hidden" to be added and the location of the find.php in your site.
PHP Code:

<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap" style="padding:0px">
<div>Search <br />
<form action="http://sitename/find.php" id="cse-search-box" class="navbar_search">
    <input type="hidden"  YOUR CODE HERE  />
    <input type="hidden"  YOUR CODE HERE  />
    <input type="hidden"  YOUR CODE HERE  />
    <span class="textboxcontainer"><span><input type="text" name="q" value="" class="textbox" /></span></span>
    <input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[go]" tabindex="1004" />
</form>
</div>    
</td> 

PHP:

That should be all installed and working now. You'll be able to track what members are searching in the control panel in Google. Of course if your feeling techie and confident edit this as you please.

 

Sean, why in the world would you want to rebuild your search indes and have that huge POST (or POSTINDEX...I forget which one it was...) table? Does VB4 remove the option for the "Fulltext search engine" (under Vbulletin Options > Search Type) If not, switch to that and dump that table - I'm guessing it will shrink your database big time.

I have a forum with 2M+ posts and 13,000+ members, and dropping that table and switching that helped performance quite a bit. I'm guessing with 14M+ like you have that table must be HUGE - so try switching it over and dumping it (if that option is still available) and hopefully reducing your DB size speeds things up a bit.

 

Hi,

Not that my opinion matters, but I don't like the new forum. I love vB 3.x, but 4 is just too different for my taste. Really not fond of the 2.0 look, either. I really like the 'block' style from the original.

Again, this is just my opinion.

 

Got you, that's good to know. I haven't upgraded yet because I was waiting for the dust to settle with VB4 after reading about a lot of the earlier issues, but I've read recently it's finally much more stable. I hadn't read about the search function, but I've since switched to a two box configuration so hopefully when the time comes having that table won't be an issue any more.

 

I'm going through withdrawal! My favorite DP feature is no longer available. It was the ability to click on subscribed forums and have only the new threads from your subscribed forums listed. That wonderful option weeded out all kinds of irrelevant (to me) stuff that comes up when you click on "new posts" and thereby get new posts from all the forums, including those forums in which I have no interest.

 

A change is always good. I'm loving the new VB4 and the Web 2.0 style DP theme.

It's taking me sometime trying to get used to it though. By the way is iTrader points hidden in threads by default?

 

iTrader only appear on BST Section thread (exclude Freebies) and now the name is "Feedback Score" , on the top right of the postbit.

 

Yeah I just noticed that. It looks much better now (saves a click to the iTrader page) with percentage showing on the right.

Thanks.

 

The template is cool, more stylish and sleek compared to the previous template.

I am not sure about the features yet, since I just back online today.

But I found 1 thing that I don't like in vb4 : the textarea in "quick reply to PM" does not quote previous message.

 

Looks AMAZING shawn, great job as always!

 

Wow what a change to DP. I came back at the right time lol.