JoomlaWorks has developed a modification of Frontpage Slideshow to work on vBulletin.
You just need to have publish posts with attached images (allowing guest downloading access for attachments via the admincp guest permissions), so that they can be used as "slides". The first attached image is used for the slideshow, while the slide text is auto retrieved by the specific post/thread (as well as any related links).
See Frontpage Slideshow in action on our vBulletin demo site at:
www.frontpageslideshow.net/vbulletinFrontpage Slideshow "vBulletin/vBadvanced" version - Installation Steps
These steps affect v1.6 rev.1 and later of the Frontpage Slideshow. That means, if you purchased FPSS before November 26th, you need to e-mail JoomlaWorks support and request the new version of FPSS for vBulletin (don't forget to mention your Paypal email address ).
NOTE: The steps below were documented on the latest vBulletin version, vBulletin® v3.6.8 Patch Level 2, but should work on all 3.x versions of vBulletin.
1. After you purchase and download the main .zip file with all Frontpage Slideshow versions, extract it and upload the folder "fpss" found inside vBulletin - vBadvanced Version/mod_fpslideshow_1.6rev1_vbulletin/ to the root of your vBulletin site.
2. Login to Admin Control Panel (/admincp/index.php) of vBulletin.
3. Navigate to "Plugins & Products" (click to expand) >> Plugin Manager.
4. If you haven't already enabled the plugin system, do so by clicking on the related notice at the top. Click the "enable plugin system..." link and you'll be redirected to a new page where you'll need to select "yes" and save. Now the plugin system is enabled.
5. (Back to to "Plugins & Products" (click to expand) >> Plugin Manager) Click "[Add New Plugin]" and now let's add Frontpage Slideshow as a vBulletin plugin with the following info:
- Hook Location: init_startup
- Title: Frontpage SlideShow
- Execution Order: 5 (default, if you got other plugins as well, you might wanna choose another value depending on when you want FPSS to be initiated)
- Plugin PHP Code:
Code:
ob_start();
include('fpss/mod_fpslideshow.php');
$jwfpss = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
- Plugin is Active: Choose "Yes".
6. Click "SAVE" and now navigate to "Styles & Templates" >> "Style Manager". We're gonna add FPSS on our vBulletin template. Next to the style we've chosen (e.g. "Default style"), we click on "Go" (to edit all styles).
7. Say we want to add our Frontpage Slideshow in the header area of our vBulletin template. We look for the "header" block and there we simply add:
Code:
$jwfpss...in the place where we want Frontpage Slideshow to appear. In the "default" template used in our demo site, the code edited in the "header" block looks like this:
Code:
<!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>
<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td align="$stylevar
"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" /></a></td>
<td align="$stylevar
">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /logo -->
<!-- content table -->
$spacer_open
<br />
$jwfpss
<br />
$_phpinclude_output
The slideshow will appear where the "$jwfpss" is put.
8. Now we need to tell vBulletin to permit attachments to guests. Therefore we navigate to "Usergroups">>"Usergroup manager" and we're gonna edit the "Unregistered / Not Logged In" user group. Look for the option "Can Download Attachments" and set it to "Yes".
9. vBulletin is set to display Frontpage Slideshow properly and we only need to do one last thing: Tell Frontpage Slideshow which forum IDs to "scan" for and create our slideshow. In the vBulletin/FPSS demo site at
http://www.frontpageslideshow.net/vbulletin/ you can see that we created a new subforum called "Slideshow", where we added our posts which will be used to build the slides. This subforum has an ID of "7", so we opened up the file /fpss/mod_fpslideshow.php and we changed line 19 to:
Code:
$forumid = array(7); // Set forum IDs here.
Overall our settings were the following:
Code:
// vBulletin Settings
$forumid = array(7); // Set forum IDs here.
$limit = '6'; // Limit the displayed slides
$fpssfolder = 'fpss'; // Path to FPSS folder.
10. So, we've told Frontpage Slideshow to scan our vBulletin forum with id "7" and use text and the first attached image to construct our slideshow!
Enjoy!
