Can vBadvanced help me?
 

Hi. Sorry, but I can't post in the vBadvanced section so I am posting this here. I was wondering if vBadvanced can achieve this:

I want to create a forum with more than 10 main forums and 300 sub-forums.
Each of these forums and sub-forums will have their own homepage which will display their own categories information including 4 top rated posts, 4 polls and 4 top rated articles(from an article hack) and some custom content.

I was hoping that the vBadvanced hack will do this but it sems that it is only a fancy homepage. Navigation is also another concern, and i was hoping something like a DHTML/Tree navigation would be possible.

Is there a CMS that can work with vBulletin to achieve this? Can I make vBadvanced do this? Is there a combination of hacks that I can use to do this?

I am researching how difficult it will be to create my project using different forums like phpBB and IBP.
So far I like vBulletin a lot more but the seperate forum homepages are very important and so far it seems that phpBB has been integrated into more CMSs that may allow this.

I could even just use dreamweaver templates and sydicate the content. That might be a simpler option.

Thanks.

Re: Can vBadvanced help me?
 

Yes. The CMPS file can be copied and used as many times as you would like to create new pages and every default option can be changed on a per-page basis. You would just need to make copies of the file, name them whatever you would like (or place each in a sub-folder to give the appearance of a different URL), add a line of code at the top of each to specify which page that file should use, and then create a new page through the Admin CP and specify your options on that page.
As for the navigation menu, I believe there is a hack in the hacks forum that will do this.

Re: Can vBadvanced help me?
 

Thanks, I didnt know this was possible. Hmm, but say if I need to update the CMPS later? Will I just have to overwrite all the files and their settings will be kept?
It seems pretty cool but I wonder how the vBulletin admin controls will look like if there are hundreds of CMPSs :D . I'm just worried that it will be difficult to maintain.

I also figured i could use an XML CMS called Sapid http://sapid.sourceforge.net/ and use the external RSS to show latest posts etc.. It also allows me to convert all the pages to HTML or PHP or vice-versa. Maybe also in the future I could pay someone to create an module to show the polls on the homepages.

But I would still rather use the vBavanced CMPS if it would would be efficient.

Thanks again.

Re: Can vBadvanced help me?
 

There shouldn't be any reason why upgrades for the CMPS would be a problem. I've intentionally kept most of the code out of the cmps_index.php file for exactly that reason. And it won't affect anything with your vB admin.