A new bee

@geoychgo

I really appreciate you efforts, I am a new user of Vbulletin, I really like your site. I am developing a new forum http://www.pakboard.com . I want to change its look and functions, here are my questions, please reply me in detail,

1) How can I create left side column for placing ads and other stuff on all pages.
2 )In my site threads area user info is at top side, I want to make it like your site, means to say how I can move user info at left side.

Regards

Sorry. Not the detailed explanation, but to get you started.

Search for the leftsidecolumn hack at vbulletin.org for the left hand column mod for those adverts.

In the Admin CP > vBulletin options change to the legacy postbit to get user detail on the left hand side of posts. I think it is in the thread display options.

Here is a new problem, I tried to place google adsense on my forum site pakboard.com

see this http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=107965

After updating FORUMDISPLAY in tamplets and search_results in tamplets, there is a database error.

I successfully apply all the code changes in tamplets. now when i click search new post or search any thing in search area there is a database error,
how to fix this i upgraded my site from orignal files and aslo removed all the changes made in forumsdisplay and search_results tamplet. here is link to my site

http://www.pakboard.com

If it doesn't get fix then how can i save forum list and details, i haven't any post yet, i am working on site, so that i can make a fresh install and import forums name to my new installation.

Regards

I've just had a look at your board. It seems you've done the revert because everything is working at the moment.

There are a number of ways to add Adsense to your board, but I'd suggest a step before you get into that.

You are using the default vBulletin skin - are you going to customise your colour scheme? I ask for two reasons -

Some skins come with Adsense elements built-in already - you just need to change the client code, and
If you make too many mods before you tackle the skin issue, you might have issues when you install a skin.


Looking at this, I think there is scope for an article on what to do with a new board, and roughly in what order. Maybe take a quick read of Joey's thread What I do to SEO a forum (http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7187). The first few paragraphs are a real clue in this regard.

Also on the homepage here (http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/), in the left hand column, there are a series of articles which probably should be read and implemented pretty well in that order.

Thanks for your reply, problem is not fixed yet.
If there isn't no post then search and today's post didn't show error.
If you will post any post and click todays post or do search, there will be database error.
Now i installed another forum at this link
http://pakboard.com/forum .
if errot on actual site didn't get fix how i can transfer forum names and there discreption to new location forum pakboard.com/forum.
Now i think i should install vb on localhost, so that i could check and test new thing before applying on online site.
Thanks for your corporation.

Please check the following topic, maybe the error you got was like that:

http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/showthread.php?p=46981#post46981

I run this query from myphpadmin , I think this query is for 3.6.4 while i am running 3.6.5 . here is error after running query

Error
SQL query:

ALTER TABLE vbsearch ADD COLUMN `completed` smallint( 5 ) unsigned NOT NULL default '1';



MySQL said:

#1146 - Table 'mj4L785KH5YTG452h.vbsearch' doesn't exist

Thanks buddy, I have fix the error, Actual query was this ,

ALTER TABLE search ADD COLUMN `completed` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '1';

actual table was search not adsearch .:)

Actually i have did too many wrong things with my forum, Now i am thinking that i should install a fresh copy , How can i export forums names and its discreption. i don't want to import complete DB, just forum names.
How should i take DB backups in furture.

Just backup "forum" table. :)

I have download the forum table from database backup option, how to upload it in new forum installed on other site?

You can drop the table named 'forum' and import the one that you back-up.

I download the forum table from myphpadmin again, then i opned the new from db from my hosting control panal, and dropned the forum table from DB, and import forum table download from old DB. it says forum imported successfully, but stilll no forum at main page.
What is wrong ?

Go to your AdminCP -> Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Rebuild Forum Information

And also update Rebuild Statistics.

Thanks for your kindness, i have did this, but now it is only showing main forums, it is not showing sub fourms, how to import subforums

One thing more, should i backup DB from myphpadmin or Vb backup options ?

Thanks for your kindness, i have did this, but now it is only showing main forums, it is not showing sub fourms, how to import subforums

Are you sure that you set Depth of Subforums to 1 from your AdminCP?

You can change it from your AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Forum Listings Display Options

One thing more, should i backup DB from myphpadmin or Vb backup options ?

To tell the truth, I am not much experienced in vB backup options due to character sets, so I am not able to suggest you to use which. I used phpMyAdmin when I needed it.

By the way, I have merged your four posts in two.

Are you sure that you set Depth of Subforums to 1 from your AdminCP?

You can change it from your AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Forum Listings Display Options



To tell the truth, I am not much experienced in vB backup options due to character sets, so I am not able to suggest you to use which. I used phpMyAdmin when I needed it.

By the way, I have merged your four posts in two.
By the way, I have merged your four posts in two? means what

No i have set my forum depth to 2 , I want to display subforums at front page also, thats why i do it,

By the way, I have merged your four posts in two? means what

This is not much important. :) You have posted twice in our forum and I merged them.