Welcome Panel [Final]

[RCK]

Use this code in your second SQL request:
$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post,thread WHERE post.dateline > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' and thread.threadid=post.threadid and thread.forumid <> '21' and thread.forumid <> '19'");

[Ian Emu-UK]

Thanks, that fixed it:D

[king sting]

this hack kicks ass man! thanx alot!

[EA Junkie]

[QUOTE]In the template forumhome_welcometext find:

[trilOByte]

It's in the "Forum Home Page Templates"

Forum Home Page Templates [expand]>>forumhome_welcometext [edit]

[veedee]

Hiya

I'm running 2.2.6 I want to install this but I have about 5 themes/styles.

When I come to upgrade to say 2.2.7 will I have a lot of work to do?

Regards,

veedee

[carpman]

Hello, is it possible to put the welcome panel in the P_themeheader template of VBportal?

I would like to have the welcome panel display in P_themeheader template as will allow users to see information when the visit VBP front page and the forums.

great hack by the way :cool:

[Reverend]

In the top bar of the panel where it says "Welcome" what code do i need to add so that when a member logs in it says
"Welcome Back,(username)".

And for a guest visitor it says "Welcome,Guest"

Hope that makes sense. :ermm:

[trilOByte]

Welcome $username

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by carpman
Hello, is it possible to put the welcome panel in the P_themeheader template of VBportal?

I would like to have the welcome panel display in P_themeheader template as will allow users to see information when the visit VBP front page and the forums.

great hack by the way :cool:

[carpman]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


You can put whatever you like in the p_themeheader, but much of the code will need to be changed. The avatar part wont work, but there are alternative which work a little differently.

To answer your question, if you just place the welcomepanel code into p_themeheader without any changes, no it wont work.

[Reverend]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte
Welcome $username

[trilOByte]

So you want to add the word "back" into the welcome statement, if the user is a member?

So instead of ...

Welcome user1234
Welcome

You want...

Welcome back user1234
Welcome guest

Yes, it's possible, I think you need to create a new $var though, some code hacking and a couple of new template options, one for each option. Seems like a lot of trouble for a simple syntax preference. It would need to be something along the lines of a new $welcometext and new $unregwelcomemessage, so two new templates at least.

Though there might be an easier option, I honestly dont know.

[Reverend]

Yeah i think i'll just add

"Welcome Back username" (for logged in members)

And just leave it as

"Welcome" (for guests.)

Seems a lot simpler.

Thanks trilOByte. ;)

[trilOByte]

OK, I think this works.....

Open forum/index.php (make a backup copy) and find....

forumhome_pmloggedin,forumhome_welcometext,

Replace that with....

forumhome_pmloggedin,forumhome_welcometext,forumho me_newwelcometext,forumhome_newunregmessage,


Find...


// if user is know, then welcome
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']!=0) {
$username=$bbuserinfo['username'];

Immediately above that add....


// New Welcometext Addition.
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']!=0) {
$username=$bbuserinfo['username'];
eval("\$newwelcometext = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_newwelcometext')."\";");
} else {
$welcometext = "";
}


Find...

$unregwelcomemessage='';
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
eval("\$unregwelcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_unregmessage')."\";");
}


Below that add...


// New Unregelcometext Addition.
$newunregwelcomemessage='';
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
eval("\$newunregwelcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_newunregmessage')."\";");
}


Clse and save index.php

Open your templates and add a new template called...

forumhome_newunregmessage

Inside that put....

<b>Guest</b>

Add another template caqlled...

forumhome_newwelcometext

Inside that put....

back, <b>$username</b>

Then go to the forumhome template, locate the "WelcomePanel"

Find where it says Welcome and replace it with...

Welcome $newwelcometext $newunregwelcomemessage

That should do it.

I must say, it's a lot of trouble for a simple syntax modification.

[Reverend]

Yep that works perfect.Thanks.

I know it seems like a lot of trouble for a simple modification,but i think it gives members or guests a more welcoming and personal greeting.
I actually saw it on a welcome panel hack for another bulletin board software.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend

I actually saw it on a welcome panel hack for another bulletin board software.

[michealo]

great hack, works like a charm!

[Tony DiMera]

Great hack. BTW is thereanywayto have this appear on my homepage and link it to my vb as well

[carpman]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tony DiMera
Great hack. BTW is thereanywayto have this appear on my homepage and link it to my vb as well

[Tony DiMera]

Hopefully trilOByte can tell us how.

[NTLDR]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by carpman
i would love to have it work in vbportal :)

[Tony DiMera]

How could I put it on my Non vB homepage

[NTLDR]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tony DiMera
How could I put it on my Non vB homepage

[Tony DiMera]

php is what I use

[carpman]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by NTLDR


All you need to do is add the PHP code to the PHP file for your home page and add the HTML to the hompage's template.

[grace819]

I tried following the instructions here but I still can't find a way to install the hack since I don't know how to access/open the index.php file. :( Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks again for your time.

[Tony DiMera]

*bump*

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by grace819
I tried following the instructions here but I still can't find a way to install the hack since I don't know how to access/open the index.php file. :( Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks again for your time.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tony DiMera
How could I put it on my Non vB homepage

[Tony DiMera]

Thank anyway

[trilOByte]

Take a look at the hack vB Index v2.0 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41916&perpage=15&display=&pagenumber=1).

It's a non vB index page for your site and has the welcome panel built into it. If you dont want to use the whole hack, you may be able to strip out what you need with some trial and error and a little php knowledge.

That's the best I can do.

It's a nice hack too.

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

hey.. i luv this hack, it's awesome.. however, ever since I done the hack.. I get this whacky error


[QUOTE]vel$depth$tempext")."\";"); if ($depth<$forumhomedepth) { $forumbits.=makeforumbit($forum['forumid'],$depth+1,$forumperms); } } // END if can view } // END while ( list($key2,$forum)=each($val1) ) { } // END while ( list($key1,$val1)=each($iforumcache["$forumid"]) ) { unset($iforumcache["$forumid"]); return $forumbits; } if (!isset($forumid) or $forumid==0 or $forumid=='') { $forumid=-1; } else { // need to get permissions for this specific forum $permissions=getpermissions(intval($forumid)); } $forumbits=makeforumbit(intval($forumid), 1, $permissions); $unregwelcomemessage=''; if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) { eval("\$unregwelcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_unregmessage')."\";"); } eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('forumhome')."\");"); ?>

[trilOByte]

Reapply the hack! Be very careful to cover every step in the instructions precisely.

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

*sigh* i have done it several times.. do you think I could just send you my index.php file? maybe you can over look it, and tell me if its okay? cuz i'm really lost @ this point!! :bored:

[trilOByte]

what version of vBulletin are you running?

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

the latest one.. 2.2.7

[trilOByte]

That worries me. I havent heard off anyone who has installed this successfully on 2.2.7 yet. The last confirmed problem free version was 2.2.6!

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

hehe.. well this is the thing, it happen before I even upgraded.. on 2.2.6 :(

[N9ne]

It should work with 2.2.7, ill install it on my test board now to check if u like

[N9ne]

ill only install on my 2.2.7 if you want me to tril0byte

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

tril0bye thats why im saying, maybe you can take a look @ my index.php file?

[trilOByte]

Thanks Rock, hold fire on that install. This should work with 2.2.7 unless there have been some *major* changes. As I understand it, it's a fairly minor release, just security plugs and bug fixes. I'm thinking JCFN has either made an error or has some conflict with something else.

JCFN, before that, re-check your template modifications. I cant look at your file tonight, it'll be at least 24hrs before I can get near it.

[asweetdeal]

love the hack and it works with vb 2.2.7 :D

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

tril0bye, just letmme know when I can send ya over my modified php file. thanx in advanced!

[Feanor]

Thanks a lot, first hack I installed! :)

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

tril0bye, anyword, when i can shoot the file over to you?

[FleaBag]

Working on 2.2.7, thanks. :)

[Floris]

Yeah, upgraded yesterday. Works perfectly.

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

yah. i got mine to work finally.. it works great :)

[Baptizer]

Hello, I have two questions in regards to this WONDERFUL HACK! I got it to work properly, but:
1. how do i remove the login box from the bottom of the screen(no need for it there, considering there is one in the welcome panel).
2. my welcome panel is not the same length as my forum section(take a peak here: www.2darkpark.com/vbulletin ). I would like to get the length to equal that of the forum below it.


and last and very least(ignore this question if it is too difficult):
3. How exactly would i go about cojorning the 'whos online' to the bottom of the welcome panel(and also adding a 'whos online' gradient bar to make it look flush).

[FleaBag]

With regard to moving the bottom login code box, remove the line " <td align="right">$logincode</td> " from your forumhome template.

[TvNut]

great hack...I have 3 questions...

1. How can I remove the PM box from this hack...there is already one on the bottom of page....

2. How can I move Members: 80, Threads: 37, Posts: 174
Welcome to our newest member, whoever into the right box of this hack...

3. How can I remove All times are GMT -6 hours. The time now is 08:32 AM. Log Out | Mark All Forums Read | Forum Leaders
from the bottom of the page...

Thanks..I am new and trying to suck all this info in at once....

[Baptizer]

THanks gamer! 1 answer is better than none! thanks again!

[Baptizer]

Great hack..i got everything perfect me thinks!

[RCK]

testing email poster function

----- Original Message -----
From: "vBulletin.org Forum Mailer" <post@vbhacks.com>
To: <webmaster@abime.net>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:07 PM
Subject: Welcome Panel [Final]


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>
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[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TvNut
great hack...I have 3 questions...

1. How can I remove the PM box from this hack...there is already one on the bottom of page....

2. How can I move Members: 80, Threads: 37, Posts: 174
Welcome to our newest member, whoever into the right box of this hack...

3. How can I remove All times are GMT -6 hours. The time now is 08:32 AM. Log Out | Mark All Forums Read | Forum Leaders
from the bottom of the page...



Thanks..I am new and trying to suck all this info in at once....

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RCK
testing email poster function


> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> tril0bye, anyword, when i can shoot the file over to you?
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[inutero]

I got it working on 2.2.7, but the private message box is not showing up. I redid it twice, but still no PM box. Any ideas?

[Smoothie]

I need help... :(

[PennylessZ28]

How can I get the PM section to not appear in my welcome panel when a user is not logged in?

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by HR3rdGen
How can I get the PM section to not appear in my welcome panel when a user is not logged in?

[badham]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TvNut


2. How can I move Members: 80, Threads: 37, Posts: 174
Welcome to our newest member, whoever into the right box of this hack...


Thanks..I am new and trying to suck all this info in at once....

[trilOByte]

It's just html. Copy the welcomepanel template code - everything between...

<!-- welcomepanel -->
....and
<!-- /welcomepanel -->

...into an html editor and you will see how it is laid out. Make the changes you want then copy the welcomepanel template code back into the forumhome template in the same position. You can do this with a WYSIWYG editor like dreamweaver, or whatever.

You will see elsewhere in the forumhome template, that there are a number of variables (vars) which start with a $ sign, such as $pminfo and $logincode. These are defined in other templates, and can be moved around pretty much anywhere you like.

The vars you are interested in are $numbermembers, $totalthreads and $totalposts. What they do should be self explanatory. Wherever you put

$totalposts

in the forumhome template, then the number of total posts will be displayed in that location on your forum. Be sure not to duplicate the vars - unless you want them to appear twice. Remember to prefix them with some plainh text which gives them meaning, for example

Number of Forum Members: $numbermembers

will be displayed as

Number of Forum Members: 251 (or whatever that number may be...)

HTH.

[badham]

Thanks, I appreciate the help. Did as you recommended and works like a charm.

[TheSaint-AeD]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by inutero
I got it working on 2.2.7, but the private message box is not showing up. I redid it twice, but still no PM box. Any ideas?

[NTLDR]

Should work fine. This hack only moves the location of the PM box. Try adding $pminfo elsewhere in the forumhome template and see if it apears there, if not you have made a mistake with something else.

[TheSaint-AeD]

sorry, it seems as if this is no bug, but a feature :D .

I can get to my PN's over the UCP --> Private Messages

I thought there'd be a quick Link in the Welcome-Panel, like 'You got 10 new messages' and if you klick on '10' you're taken to your Inbox.

Any Idea how to implement this?

[trilOByte]

You're welcome.

The great thing about these forums, is that you learn so much using them. Rather than just posting a solution, it's far better to show people how to find the solution for themselves.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TheSaint-AeD
sorry, it seems as if this is no bug, but a feature :D .

I can get to my PN's over the UCP --> Private Messages

I thought there'd be a quick Link in the Welcome-Panel, like 'You got 10 new messages' and if you klick on '10' you're taken to your Inbox.

Any Idea how to implement this?

[bouncer18]

I have a question...

I edited your hack a lil...

the problem i have is:

wehre you have it say Welcome only in the forumhome template i tried mine to say: welcome $username

but it wouldnt show my username, rather someone else's...

got any idea? it works fine right under it like you have it but i wanted to move that 1 line up and remove it below.

i got it to remove below but it did lke i stated above..

wierd ehh.. any ideas

[bouncer18]

nevermind, i got it to work using:

$bbuserinfo[username]

[Floris]

doh :D

[TheSaint-AeD]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


Put this somewhere in the welcomepanel....


<font face="Verdana" size="1">You have<b> $newpm[messages] </b>new <a href="private.php">PM</a>'s.</font>

It'll look something like...

You have 3 new PM's.

Clicking on the number will take you to yhe new PM, while clicking on "PM" will take you to your PM inbox.

[trilOByte]

Yes, if that's where you want it to appear. Just put it wherever you want it. The welcomepanel code appears withing the forumhome template, but other things have their own template and are *called* by variables - $logoutcode, $pminfo etc - to change how these display, you need to go to their own specific templates.

[havefun]

thanks 4 your hack!

works great. :laugh:

lg, havefun

[Je$ter]

Just installed this to our boards, many thanks tis a great hack :D

[\ \ - Speedy - / /]

Will this work on 2.2.8?

~Speedy~

[darkmaninc]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Speedy Spike
Will this work on 2.2.8?


~Speedy~

[Reverend]

Yep working for me as well on 2.2.8
Just had to re-apply the root/index.php hacks.
Job done.

[JFry]

Working for me on 2.2.8. Thank you very much :) My only question is this: my forum home page now displays a user's private message status at both the top and the bottom of the page. Any way to remove the status at the bottom of the page?

[scotty]

just remove the second "$ pminfo" (without space) in your "forumhome"-template.

[\ \ - Speedy - / /]

I have 2 log outs (on in the top one in the bottom, how to i get ride of the one on the bottom of the vB?)



~Speedy~


EDITE - N/M Found it ;)

GREAT HACK!


~Speedy~

[N9ne]

Does this add two queries to forumhome?

[\ \ - Speedy - / /]

Great Hack, but how do you remove the Log-in/out thingy from the footer now that it is in the header you don't realy need it do you?


I lost it again :( (EDIT) lol

[\ \ - Speedy - / /]

how/where would i do this?

[\ \ - Speedy - / /]

how do you do this?

[jpawluk]

Great Hack, it's the second one I've installed. The first was Logicians Birthday Greeting. Both work great... However, I've done something wrong, obviously while installing this one. When you scroll down my forum home page and get to the end of the forums list, they repeat. :ermm:

You can see here (http://ganesha.pawluk.info)

Being a real noob, any suggestions would be welcome.

John

[Tigga]

John - You've probably got $forumbits in your forumhome template twice. Check that and if so delete one. :)

[jpawluk]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by PlurPlanet
John - You've probably got $forumbits in your forumhome template twice. Check that and if so delete one. :)

[Tigga]

Glad to be of service. :)

[sklwer]

hey Guys,
I got it working in version 2.28 and I was hoping to put the info in my home site ( Thats shtml) any idea?????
appriciate

[MartynJ]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by \ \ - Speedy - / /
how do you do this?

[refertech]

Any of you guys know why the color above my posts would be diffrent now? Probably something to do with the last active hack I installed. Could someone help me out with how to go about correcting this.

Thanks,

Mark

[Tigga]

Try looking in your member list template for colspan="6". Change the colspan to 7 and it should fix it. :)

[refertech]

Yeap that done the trick. Thanks for helping a newbie out. :)

Mark

[digitalJE5U5]

Love the hack. One small problem though, Im trying to add the variables

$recordusers
and
$numberregistered
and
$numberguest

to the control panel, but instead of
"currently online: <insert #>"

I get "currently online:"

That make sense?

Any help is VERY appreciated.

THanks,
/DJ

[NTLDR]

You need to make sure that the welcome panel templates are evaluated after the users online code is, otherwise the varaibles contain no data.

Instead of adding the code for the templates where it says to in the instructions for the second change add it after:

$recordusers = $maxusers[0];
$recorddate = vbdate($dateformat,$maxusers[1]);
$recordtime = vbdate($timeformat,$maxusers[1]);
eval("\$loggedinusers = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinusers')."\";");
}

It should then show up correctly.

[digitalJE5U5]

Instead of adding the code for the templates where it says to in the instructions for the second change add it after:


Thanks for the help. I've found my fix! I just not sure exactly what you mean. You refer to the "second change". The second change has to do with index.php? And you refer to "template". Could you please tell me exactly what code, and where I need to put it? I just dont wanna screw anything up.

THanks alot!

/DJ

[NTLDR]

Place this code:

if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0) {
$avatarurl=getavatarurl($bbuserinfo[userid]);
if ($avatarurl=='') {
$avatarurl='images/avatars/noavatar.gif';
}
$avatarimage='<a href="member.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=editavatar"><img src="'.$avatarurl.'" border="0">';
} else {
$avatarimage='<a href="register.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=signup"><img src="images/avatars/guestavatar.gif" border="0"></a>';
}

Directly after the code I posted in 348 and not where it says to put it in the instructions.

[Rand M]

Installed on v2.2.8. All working really well.

Thanks for the 'hack'.

[ae86]

***Edit*** fixed nevermind :)

GREAT hack, well done :)

[Harken]

nice hack...the only problem i see ..well on my forum..is i still have the private message bar at the bottom as well as the top now...how do i remove the bottom pm bar.

[FleaBag]

Works with my 2.2.8. Thank you. :)

[Tigga]

Harken - Remove the 2nd instance of $pminfo from your forumhome template. :)

[mindbuster]

Installed fine on 2.2.8.

Thanks, great hack.

[CarlosC]

Excellent hack!!

Thanks!!

[marocnl]

Hi there,

I put some time-measuring-code into my php-file and it seems like the following 2 queries from ur hack r causing the execution time of the index.php to be like 10 times higher than with it.
It's about these 2 queries:
$getnewthread=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]'");
$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]'");

Could you tell why this is???

[theroyal]

Will this work on the new 2.28?

[Floris]

Yes and on 2.2.9

[Dark_Wizard]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by xiphoid
Yes and on 2.2.9

[Floris]

I see no reason why it will not work on the upcomming vb229

[Brew]

This hack is Great!

I would like to have this in my category as well though. It would be the forum directly below the main page of vB.

Can someone tell me how to make this available inside category display? I tried it but I think there's some files to hack to make it work.

Thanks!

Brew

[Ali-g]

When i upload index.php i allways receive the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/virtual/site10/fst/var/www/html/forumi/index.php on line 329
What can i do?

[NTLDR]

You haven't followed the instructions correctly. Uninstall and then re-install the hack again.

[MotownLF]

*edit*

[ryancooper]

Is there a way to exclude certain forum id's from being counted in the new posts and new threads?

I have a usenet hack installed and have excluded the usenet forums from the view new posts search but hte welcome panel is still counting the new posts and threads. . .

Thanks!

[Prince]

I have it installed on 2.2.9

[NetAccess]

I have no Forumhome.php I do have a forumdisplay.php can anyone tell me what is wrong lol. Ok Nevermind I am stupid and slow found it gg's

[lost myself]

What a great hack, thanks

[search@thing]

Hi,

i hope you may help me, i have a Problem with the border at the Welcome Panel => the border is not there.

This is the URL: Talkarea.com (http://www.talkarea.com). I?m sorry, but this is an german site.

Thank you for your help and your quick reply!!!

[time4akshun]

Killer hack!

[suffeks]

ok, when i visit the boards after a while, it says xx new posts, so ok, but when i go and view them, sometimes, not always, it just says cant find any matches. whats wrong? using ver 2.2.9, also did this in 2.2.8. help!?

[ethics]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by suffeks
ok, when i visit the boards after a while, it says xx new posts, so ok, but when i go and view them, sometimes, not always, it just says cant find any matches. whats wrong? using ver 2.2.9, also did this in 2.2.8. help!?

[Roody]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ethics


Private forums?

I thought I saw a few people ask how it would be cool to exclude a certain forum from the search. Didn't see any answers though.

[Strider Xero]

<font face="Verdana" size="1">You have<b> $newpm[messages] </b>new <a href="private.php">PM</a>'s.</font>

Nice little peice of code, but if the person has no PMs, it will say 'You have new PMs'. Is there any way I could make it say 'You have 0 new PMs' instead??

[94supratt]

It worked for me but I ended up with 2 avatars. Looks like this. How do I fix it?

[suffeks]

so excluding private forums, how to? actually wait, i have access to private forums on my forum, and sometimes i still get no matches found, i think its another problem. unless, by default, private forum posts arent supposed to show up even for people who have access, but it still counts them.

[flup]

I have got a problem.
I have got 1 forum for my own, and im getting paid to work on 2 other forums.

On mine forum tha avatar wont show up!
On 1 of my customers it does, and at the other is wont shot up.

The Avatar string is the same at templates.
What may be the problem?

[Strider Xero]

Give us the address to the forums that you're having problems with so we can take a look at it.

[sauron2002]

top stuff, thanks for making it, i also really like the excellant readme which is one of the best ive read / followed, :)

great stuff :)

[Haddy]

Nice instructions but i screwed something cause i get this.....

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: adminlog() in /home/*****/public_html/forums/index.php on line 7
*username edited out*

Index Attached....

Any clues?

[razorback]

:cheeky:

Very good this kack

thank's

;)

[Oblivion Knight]

I modified the code a little to make who's online show below the panel instead of the PM's, but everything's working perfectly for me.. :)

Also, the thread's are counted wrong.. It's counting how many threads have had replies in them, not new threads that have been created. This may have already been pointed out, but I couldn't really be bothered going back through 26 pages when I'm having no problems with the hack.

* Oblivion Knight clicks install.

[buro9]

BUG ALERT:

The hack is fantastic, but the post counts in the hack are incorrect... where it says "There have been blah posts in blah threads", those counts are not excluding any posts in forums that the user does not have permission to see.

I've now edited the queries in index.php to exclude my private forums totally... but that means the counts are incorrect for those who are allowed to see the private forums.

The queries now look like this:


$getnewthread=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' AND forumid != 54");
$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post p, thread t WHERE p.dateline > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' AND p.threadid = t.threadid AND t.forumid != 54");


Which excludes forum 54 in the search... but there should be a better way than this.

Aside from this, the whole thing works a dream and you can see it running at http://www.buro9.com/forum/

Cheers

David K

[iceman11111]

Great Hack!

easy as pie!

[xcel]

Sweet No problems whatsoever.

Thanks for a Great Hack!!

Xcel

[msimplay]

Will this hack be released for vb3 ?
if need be i mean

[sola]

Yeah, kinda hoping so too. Looks great. Wish I could have it. :cry:

[Slappy Nutz]

Kick Ass hack! I moved a few things around to my liking! :)
www.live-enabled.com/forums !

*install*

[Geminy]

This is the Italian translate of the hack

Questa ? la traduzione in Italiano dell'Hack.

[Mathiau]

anyone got this on 2.3.0? and no probs?

[Oblivion Knight]

[QUOTE]Today at 04:57 AM Mathiau said this in Post #392 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=380005#post380005)
anyone got this on 2.3.0? and no probs?

[msimplay]

Me too working on 2.3 rc3

[Mathiau]

dido - i put it in and done deal!

[kdog316]

in the forum home does the

<----text----->
thing go before
<-----main----> or somewhere else in there

[dotagious]

[QUOTE]04-19-03 at 03:48 PM kdog316 said this in Post #397 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=384318#post384318)
in the forum home does the

<----text----->
thing go before
<-----main----> or somewhere else in there

[Sanjiyan]

Greetings,

Installed fine on 2.3.0 bar one little snag..
I have it displaying in this order:

Welcome Message
Currently Active Users
Private Messages

Now the problem is, is that I cant alter the cell width of the PM New Icon, as shown in the attachment below.

The cell width is the same as the avatar width, which makes the New PM Icon graphic look well out of place.

Is there away I can fix this? I tried altering the welcomepanel html code, only for it not work eitherway.

Anyway, to understand what I mean please click on the attachment below.

Thanks

[nanni]

[QUOTE]04-05-03 at 04:14 PM Geminy said this in Post #391 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=377868#post377868)
This is the Italian translate of the hack

Questa ? la traduzione in Italiano dell'Hack.

[Sanjiyan]

bump

[eoc_Jason]

Sanjiyan - if you want those to be different widths, easiest way would be to make each section its own table...

[eoc_Jason]

Oh yeah, btw.... I was experienceing forum slowdown's, especially during peak time, and it was the worst on the forumhome... well I ran the sql explain stuff and found out that the line:

$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]'");

was causing a major slowdown because there was no index on post.dateline, if you add an index on it (and thread.lastpost for good measure since it has a similar query) you should see a nice speed improvement, especially if you have a good number of posts (my forum is approaching 400,000).

[Cicada]

my avatars dont display, any help?

[KimG]

[QUOTE]05-01-03 at 07:18 PM eoc_Jason said this in Post #402 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=390060#post390060)
Oh yeah, btw.... I was experienceing forum slowdown's, especially during peak time, and it was the worst on the forumhome... well I ran the sql explain stuff and found out that the line:

$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]'");

was causing a major slowdown because there was no index on post.dateline, if you add an index on it (and thread.lastpost for good measure since it has a similar query) you should see a nice speed improvement, especially if you have a good number of posts (my forum is approaching 400,000).

[eoc_Jason]

easiest way would be to use phpmyadmin, you can just click the index button on the dateline column in the post table. Or, if you know how to use MySQL from the command line, let me know and I can tell you how to do the Alter Table command.

[Bulleh]

i see

[Mike11212]

I need help I must of done something wrong.

The hack works great when your loged in but when your a guest its all out of wack.

http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/board see what I mean

anyone know how to help I tried editing templates but it just made me angry I couldn't figure it out

[eoc_Jason]

It looks like you are missing (or have an extra) table column somewhere....

I would go through the templates and count them up to make sure they all match...

[atomic fireball]

Ah.....this hack is simply the gift that keeps on giving. I love it, thanks!

We just installed it over on our brand new forum, it looks great:
http://www.thedigitalreview.com/forum/

Jason, thanks for the heads up about adding an index to post.dateline and thread.lastpost as well. We did that too.

Awesome hack, I really like it.

[saj]

will this work on vb2.3.0????

[eoc_Jason]

I'm running 2.3.0 and it works great for me.... (Note my post above about additional indexes, otherwise if you have a large forum it will slow it to a crawl)

[jclay]

Fantastic hack, truly brilliant.

Thanks!!! :)

[spick]

nice. but no avatar shows up for new users.

[atomic fireball]

[QUOTE]Today at 11:48 AM spick said this in Post #413 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=409971#post409971)
nice. but no avatar shows up for new users.

[spick]

yea. i did that. still nothing.

[Buczilla]

AWESOME HACK!!!

[ogden2k]

Will this be re-done for vB 3?

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]06-25-03 at 11:24 PM ogden2k said this in Post #417 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=412765#post412765)
Will this be re-done for vB 3?

[atomic fireball]

[QUOTE]Today at 10:51 AM trilOByte said this in Post #418 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=415509#post415509)
I'm thinking about it. ;) :D

[SirSteve]

Newest posts/threads part works but the avatar part doesn't (for vb3).

[trilOByte]

Yeah, I'll update it. There are a lot of excellent suggestions for updates from loads of people that can be used. Just waiting for vB3 final to be realeased so we know what templates we are dealing with. I'll see if I can figure out why the avatar code isn't working in the meantime. Though it doesnt surprise me that it doesnt work for vB3 as so much has changed.

[SirSteve]

Oh, I just realized that the "since your last visit" part works on the forum home page but none of the other pages since vb3 has that part on all the other pages now.

[trilOByte]

Yeah, ther's a lot that's changed. Not just the way vB3 handles the call for avatars.

It'll need some thought. Might be an idea to make the navbar with the breadcrumbs and a wel;come panel into one. Not sure if it would be good to see your avatar and all that info on ever page though.

Also... all those "temprary" buttons will likely turn into something or be removed. Another reason for waiting for the final release.

[SirSteve]

Yeah, avatar and the new posts/threads on every page wouldn't be right... I moved the "View New Posts" over next to new posts/threads and made it a text link.

[G.I.JOE?MFA?]

i use vBPortal 3.0b and vB 2.3.0 and wanted the welcome (it worked fine in 2.28 b4 vBPortal was isntalled) it works fine but the avatar isnt being displayed

any fix for that?

VBPortal 3.0b and vB 2.3.0 with welcome panel

heres the site http://dfmafia.net/forums

[G.I.JOE?MFA?]

nm i found it and fixed it

[Oblivion Knight]

[QUOTE]05-01-03 at 07:18 PM eoc_Jason said this in Post #402 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=390060#post390060)
Oh yeah, btw.... I was experienceing forum slowdown's, especially during peak time, and it was the worst on the forumhome... well I ran the sql explain stuff and found out that the line:

$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]'");

was causing a major slowdown because there was no index on post.dateline, if you add an index on it (and thread.lastpost for good measure since it has a similar query) you should see a nice speed improvement, especially if you have a good number of posts (my forum is approaching 400,000).

[Courage]

Greate hack.

I modified a lot my Forum Home.

Something useful for you all:

Simple search

On Forumhome template add this whre you want:



<form action="http://www.softnews.ro/forum/search.php" method="post" target="_blank">

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]">
<input type="hidden" name="searchdate" value="-1">
<input type="hidden" name="beforeafter" value="after">
<input type="hidden" value="0" name="showposts">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="simplesearch">
<input type="text" class="bginput" name="query" onfocus="this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='username'"> $gobutton<br>
<a href='search.php' target='_blank'>Advanced search</a>
</form>



Here is the demo:
http://www.softnews.ro/forum/

Also see the attached file

[Cal Poly Forum]

edited. :banana:

[Hostc]

Hello,


I have a little problem with this welcome panel..




The online users stuff is messed up


This is my forumhome code


{htmldoctype}
<html>
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<!-- end no cache headers -->
<meta name="keywords" content="vbulletin,forum,bbs,discussion,jelsoft">
<meta name="description" content="$bbtitle is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To visit the forum, go to $bburl/ . To find out about vBulletin, go to http://www.vbulletin.com/ .">
<title>$bbtitle - powered by vBulletin</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header

<!-- text -->
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<tr valign="top">
<td><a href="javascript:window.location=window.location"><img src="{imagesfolder}/vb_bullet.gif" border="0" align="middle" alt="$bbtitle : Powered by vBulletin version $templateversion"></a>
<normalfont><b>$bbtitle</b></normalfont></td>
</tr>
</table>

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td><smallfont>
Members: $numbermembers, Threads: $totalthreads, Posts: $totalposts<br>
Welcome to our newest member, <a href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&userid=$newuserid">$newusername</a>
</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /text -->
<!-- welcomepanel -->
<table cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth}" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableouterextra} width="{contenttablewidth}" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="{tableinnerborderwidth}" border="0" {tableinnerextra} width="100%">
<tr id="cat">
<td bgcolor="{categorybackcolor}" colspan="6"><normalfont color="{categoryfontcolor}"><b>Welcome</b></normalfont></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" align="center" valign="top" width="100">$avatarimage</td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}">
<smallfont>
$unregwelcomemessage
$welcometext<br>
The time now is $timenow.<br>
You last visited: $bbuserinfo[lastvisitdate].<br>
<b>$newposts</b>
</smallfont>
</td>
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" align="center" valign="middle" width="300">
$logincode
</td>
</tr>
$pminfo
</table>
</td></tr></table>
<!-- /welcomepanel -->
<br>
<!-- begin custom front page tables -->
<table background="{imagesfolder}/cat_back.gif" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" height="27" align="center">
<tr id="cat">
<td width="170" height="27" align="left" valign="top">
<img border="0" src="{imagesfolder}/firmament_front_table_top_ls.gif" width="170" height="27"></td>
<td width="100%" height="27" valign="middle">
<p align="center"><a class="title" href="online.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">
<smallfont><b>Users Online</b></smallfont></a></td>
<td width="170" height="27" align="right" valign="top">
<img border="0" src="{imagesfolder}/firmament_front_table_top_rs.gif" width="170" height="27"></td>
</tr>
</table>


<!-- main -->
<table cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth}" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableouterextra} width="{contenttablewidth}" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="{tableinnerborderwidth}" border="0" {tableinnerextra} width="100%">

$forumbits
$loggedinusers
</table>
</td></tr></table>




<!-- bottom table setup -->
<table height="14" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="60" height="14" align="left" valign="top">
<img src="{imagesfolder}/ls_main_table_bottom.gif" width="60" height="14"></td>
<td height="14" width="100%" background="{imagesfolder}/extended_main_table_bottom.gif"><img src="{imagesfolder}/clear.gif" width="100%" height="14"></td>
<td width="44" height="14" align="right" valign="top">
<img border="0" src="{imagesfolder}/rs_main_table_bottom.gif" width="60" height="14"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- End bottom table setup -->

<!-- /main -->

$pminfo
<br>

<!-- timezone/login-->
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<tr valign="top">
<td><smallfont>$timezone</smallfont></td>
<td align="right">$logincode</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /timezone/login -->

<br>

<!-- icons -->
<table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center" style="border: 1px solid #0A0E1D; background-color: #161E38;">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<img src="{imagesfolder}/on.gif" border="0" alt="On" align="absmiddle">
<b><smallfont>New posts</smallfont></b>
&nbsp;&nbsp;
<img src="{imagesfolder}/off.gif" border="0" alt="Off" align="absmiddle">
<b><smallfont>No new posts</smallfont></b>
&nbsp;&nbsp;
<img src="{imagesfolder}/lock.gif" border="0" alt="Closed Forum" align="absmiddle">
<b><smallfont>A closed forum</smallfont></b>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /icons -->

$footer
</body>
</html>

[SirSteve]

Anyone get anywhere with this for 3.0?

[trilOByte]

One has already been released for 3 that is as good (better actually) than anything I could make. It's also a template mod, with no hacking of php files, sports all the features of the original etc.

Find it here:
http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showthread.php?t=4066

[[BA]Techie]

Does this work with 2.3.0?

[GoTTi]

n/m problem fixed

[StrykerContact]

Works great, very simple to install. Thanks a lot man :)

[Cal Poly Forum]

How can we put a gap between Welcome to the newest member and the Welcome Panel?

[shishkabob]

oy, nvm.

[Buczilla]

[QUOTE]08-24-03 at 09:15 PM Cal Poly Forum said this in Post #436 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=428451#post428451)
How can we put a gap between Welcome to the newest member and the Welcome Panel?

[m_k]

Great Hack!

Lots of user requests for login at top of page, and this is the perfect solution... thanks for the good work :-)

http://www.expat.ru/forum/

[cerebro]

There is some update for the version 2.3.0 ?

Becauso my index.php is too slow, and the MySQL process is overload when someone access to the Home Forum...maybe is something wrong whith Welcome Panel and vb 2.3.0

http://foro.alkon.com.ar/

[shadow187]

Nice Hack m8 !!!

Works great on 2.3.2, installed it without any problems !!!

GreetZ

[zsmom]

Nice hack! I also just installed it on 2.3.2 without any problems.

[hollabizzack]

this what it said to do in the index.php to add welcome header at top,in new to this i did the first step but i can't locate >>"the template forumhome_welcometext" can you tell where it i

In the template forumhome_welcometext find:

############################
Welcome back, <b>$username</b>
############################

Directly under it add this...

############################
<br>There have been <b>$getnewthread[threads]</b> threads and <b>$getnewpost[posts]</b> posts since your last visit!
############################

that is the "since your last visit" hack done!

[hollabizzack]

im stuck right here, where would this be at?
it says

.......In the template forumhome_welcometext find:

############################
Welcome back, <b>$username</b>
############################

Directly under it add this...

############################
<br>There have been <b>$getnewthread[threads]</b> threads and <b>$getnewpost[posts]</b> posts since your last visit!
############################

would this be in the same index file im looking and don't see but i'll keep trying !

[hollabizzack]

this is what i see

if ($bbuserinfo['userid']!=0) {
$username=$bbuserinfo['username'];
eval("\$welcometext = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_welcometext')."\";");
eval("\$logincode = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_logoutcode')."\";");
eval("\$newposts = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_newposts')."\";");

} else {
$welcometext = "";
eval("\$newposts = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_todayposts')."\";");
eval("\$logincode = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_logincode')."\";");
}

$birthdaybits="";
if ($showbirthdays) {

$birthdays = gettemplate('birthdays',0,0);
$btoday = explode('|||',$birthdays);
$today = vbdate("Y-m-d",time());

[QATARAT]

great hack

[PsyBlast]

does this version work correctly on 2.3.3? I see zsmom said it works on 2.3.2 without problems

[Nebby]

Great work, it works a treat ^_^

[Mike Bucy]

I have a 1 year old welcome panel hack. I wanted to all another line to forumhome. I currently have:

"View New Posts"
"View Post in last 3 days"

Under this I would like to put a link to showarchiv.php saying "View Archive Posts From 2000-2002"

They are both bold and underline. I would like the Archive to look the same.

Can anyone show me the code to do this. "I'm kind of a rookie"

Mike

[LilPimp]

How do u get the PM Box in there...And all the things like new posts, newest member and stuff... Can i get those in..?

[jaliam]

Lovely hack! It works like a charm.

[tHe Rk]

[QUOTE=]

[joeychgo]

Will this work with 3.0 cand 4?

Will this work with vbadvanced?

[blakkboy]

please please please!!!!!

can someone please go through the steps to make this welcome panel possible on my forums

[tony adams]

hi

will this work with 3.0.3

thanks

[TLCanna]

Will this hack work on 3.0.6?

[Otikeu]

[QUOTE=TLCanna]Will this hack work on 3.0.6?

[QATARAT]

there is another one wark with the new vb 3

tray to Search

[RoryF]

How can you make it so it shows the title of new threads in certain forums such as in the announcements section.

So it says, Announcements - thread title with link. etc.

It's been done in other forums with this welcome back. Can anyone help me?