Mod Name / Version: Integrated Index Page (IIP) 5.5
Description: Working Under: UBB.Threads 6.5
Mod Status: Finished
Any pre-requisites: UBB.Threads version 6.5
Author(s): JustDave
Date: 05/24/04
Credits: JoshPet & scroungr for updates and enhancements
Files Altered: ubbt_registerednav.tmpl and ubbt_unregisterednav.tmpl to add an "Entrance Page" link to your menu bar.
New Files: index.php and entire /pals directory of scripts
Database Altered: New Database table, w3t_IIPcache to store cached data
Info/Instructions: Q: What is it?
A: It's an addon for
UBB.threads 6.5 that will pull various information out of the forum for display as your main home page.
Q: What version of UBB.Threads does it work with?
A: This only works with UBB.Threads version 6.5. For a version of IIP to work with 6.4 or lower, use IIP 5.4.x (located in a
separate thread in this forum).
Q: What are the features?
A: The following information is displayed:
1. News Display - A configurable number of news/article posts and from different boards can be displayed down the center in the same fassion as the popular *nuke portals. Past news/articles can also be displayed along the right hand column (only).
2. Upcoming Events - This will display upcoming events from UBB.Threads's Calendar. (Pal Box by JoshPet)
3. Birthdays - This will display today's birthdays, and optionally the birthday's for the month. (Pal Box by JoshPet)
4. Top Rated Posts - This will display a list of X number of top rated posts in the past 24 hours.
5. Current Threads - This will display a list of new threads posted in the past 24 hours.
6. Top Posters - This will display a list of the top X number of posters.
7. Last Seen - This will display a list of members who have visited the forum most recently. This is not completely accurate because depending on what they are doing at the site their 'laston' information isn't always recorded. You can optionally add a code snippet that is included to your ubbt.inc.php file to make tracking updates instantaneous.
8. Short Stats - This will display various statistical information such as Total Users, Total Posts and New Users in the last 24hrs, 7days, 31 days.
Short Stats will also display "max online" information including how many and when.
9. Profile Spotlight - This will display a random profile listing username, location, hobbies and bio with a link to the full profile. You can specify required fields to be filled in before the user's profile is displayed.
Username has replaced Name (real name) in previous versions.
10. Quick Search - This will display a seach box that will allow for a quick search of the forums using the standard search default values. (Updated by JoshPet to work with UBB.Threads 6.5)
11. Login/Status - This will display a login box or your current status including the number of private messages stored and links to edit your profile and display properties and email subscripitons. Unregistered or users not logged in will see the login box. Logged in users will see their status box.
12. Online - This box displays the number of registered and unregistered users online in the last XX minutes (as defined in your UBB.Threads config file). It will also list the usernames of the registered users. Usernames in bold italic text are invisible. (only admins see them)
You can set a maximum number of names to display and once that limit is reached a link to the "Who's Online" page will be included so users can view the full list.
13. Hot Topic - When a post reaches X number of replies it is displayed in this box with a flaming .gif
14. Menu - This box has various links to other features of IIP.
15. View Polls - This generates a list of X number of poll posts per page with links to the post and board.
16. File Attachments - This generates a list of X number of file attachments per page. There are also sorting options to display only the files specified such as .txt or .zip files.
An attachment specific search feature has been added allowing the search for specific words or from specific boards.
17. New Member - This will display a message welcoming the most recent member. This will only be displayed for X number of days.
18. Recommend Us - This will display a short form for visitors to fill out and recommend the site to their friends.
Mail sent includes an updated header to ensure acceptance by your host. This header includes using the sender's name and email in the "from" section. When the email is recieved by the recipient the sender's name appears in the "from" area and not their email address. (hope that made sense)
19. Call Us Home - IE specific, will not (or should not) display for browsers other than IE. This will allow visitors to set the site as their home page.
20. Add to Favorites - IE specific, will not (and again should not) display for browsers other than IE. This will allow visitors to add the site to their favorites folder. Netscape users will see the "Press CNTRL-D to Bookmark" notice.
21. Shout Box - This displays "shouts" (quick, small postings) from guests or members in the order they were made. Admins can easily delete shouts that are offensive. The shout box does use the .threads nickname/language filters also to suppress such postings. You can optionally set this to refresh for members only or for everyone.
22. Profile Index - This displays members profiles in a sorted list. The profiles are searchable. Boolean (AND, OR, NOT) and wildcard * searches are allowed. This makes finding specific members easier than ever.
23. Cache Table - Information can be automaticly stored and updated in intervals to increase page generation times. Depending on setup, this can cut the number of queries used to generate a page by as much as 50% and large sites will see a considerable speed increase with generation times.
24. Configure Panel - IIP settings can be controlled via browser and allow for easy setup and managment of the features listed above.
25. Standards Compliant - IIP is XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant and should render well in standards compliant browsers. This basicly means that the display should look the same from one standards compliant browser to the next.
26. Custom pal boxes have been added. You can edit the boxes and include what ever content and code you want to display and then manage their placement and display from IIP's configure panel.
Notes: Information displayed is based on group access. If the viewer doesn't have access to your "staff" board IIP will not pull information from that board to generate the display. Larger sites can use the option "force public" to make IIP display only public viewable information which allows for more of IIP's features to use cache to speed page generation times up.
The more features you use the longer it takes to generate the page. If you don't need or want a specific feature, turn it off.
Instructions: Download the attached file and unzip to a location of your choice. Follow the instructions (SETUP.txt) located inside the "pals" folder that was contained in the zip file.
Please see the IIP FAQ (second post in this thread) if you have any questions BEFORE posting/asking for help. 
UPGRADE Instructions: Upload the index.php file. Adjust the path at the top of the script as needed. Upload the contents of the /pals directory. Note you don't need to overwrite any custom pal boxes you use, or your configpal.php settings file.
Edit the configuration file using the configuration link at the bottom, and complete any new options.
Note: IIP 5.5 now uses the table wrappers that came standard with .threads 6.2 and later.
[:"red"]What has been changed/updated? JustDave is a bit tied up right now, and I know many of you, like myself, will need an updated IIP to work with UBB.Threads version 6.4.
IIP and Integrated Index Page remains the brain child and copyright Dave Lozier (JustDave) www.chattersonline.com. 
Myself and scroungr have simply done a bit of tweaking to make it compatible and created a few new pal boxes which I have included.
In no way can I take credit for this.
Also, I updated this out of a need to do so for myself and/or my paying clients. I am posting it here as a courtesy to you. I can take no responsibility for it's use and can only provide support for it as I have time and for the parts that I understand (as I didn't write it all). I have fixed a few bugs. [/]
Here's what changed in version 5.5: - Fixed a bug in showdaypal.php which allows you to click on a topic event
- Updated all scripts to work with UBB.Threads version 6.5
[:"red"]
Again, I can only offer limited supoort for all of this, and most likely can't take feature requests. I'm posting what I've done on this as a courtesy for those who needs it. [/]
Disclaimer: Please backup every file that you intend to modify.
If the modification modifies the database, it's a good idea to backup your database before doing so.
Note: If you modify your UBB.Threads code, you may be giving up your right for "official" support from Infopop.If you need official support, you'll need to restore unmodified files.
