Welcome Panel [Final]

[trilOByte]

Well, with over 200 downloads and 32 problem free install's, I though it time to take this out of the beta hacks forum (note, there are no changes to the file in the beta forum, so no need to re-download if you already have the hack installed).

I put this together originally as a walkthrough for an admin friend, and thought someone might find it useful. Althouth technically, my contribution is a couple of simple template edits, it does contain hacks posted previously.

Like I said, it's a combination of 2 previously relesed hacks (both credited fully). One by Firefly (avatar hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32560)) and one by MrLister (since your last visit (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31957)). It combines both of these hacks into a welcome panel at the top of the BB, just like the one here and on a few other sites. I'm pretty much a newbie to vB hacking, and struggled to put this together myself (couldn't find any instructions/hacks etc), but I think I've done an OK job. Maybe this will save a few headaches to others like myself ;)

Anyway, here's a pic to illustrate the hack/edit (or whatever it is :D)


http://www.britishblades.com/pics/welcomepanel1.gif


You can see a working verion of this hack here:

The Genome Collective (http://www.thegenomecollective.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=8)

Thanks to Firefly and MrLister for providing the PHP hacks in this err, whatever :)

(BTW, if this is in the wrong forum, please (mods) feel free to move it)

Happy Christmas everyone.

here it is:

edit: updated version number to 2.2.6 because it works :) There are no changes to the files - it's not a new release. Thanks. /edit

[trilOByte]

Hmm, for some reason I wasn't able to attach the zip, anyway, here it is...

[Graphic-Forums]

In reply to your post in the last thread, I uploaded the images. Can you check and see what the url is it is trying to call the avatars from?

And thanks for this hack, it adds a feeling of (this site just kicked my ass) to my boards, and I like that.

After I got a good php editor, It installed easily.

(For those of you without one, try www.download.com, search for edit plus 2)

[trilOByte]

It's looking for the avatars at..


.....ww.graphic-forums.com/images/avatars/guestavatar.gif


You can modify the url in the first part of the hack, find....


src="images/avatars/guestavatar.gif"


and...


$avatarurl='images/avatars/noavatar.gif';


...and change them to reflect the path of guestavatar and noavatar respectively.

[Graphic-Forums]

I noticed it pointed to a avatars directory, mine has it setup as avatar, so I didnt feel like editing php so I just made a avatars directory and uploaded.

[trilOByte]

Man, whatever you're happy with, but that's gotta be the hard way - I would have just clipped the "s" off the end - really simple, it's only a path ;)

Anyway, it's working fine now, though you might want to change those avatars to a colour scheme that matches your site better. Should be a breeze to knock out a couple of gif's in Photoshop for you guys ;)

[S0uL]

this is a great hack!

[DelusionalMind]

Will be installing this after I format my comp

Looks like a wicked hack :) :)

Thanks for the fine work man :D

[snyx]

be original, make your own... :rolleyes:

[cyrus]

Fab hack ! Easy to install because of clean instructions ... very effective and a clever idea !

I instaleld it, but I have a small problem. Where it says :-

The time now is 01:35 PM.
You last visited: 12-25-2001 01:34 PM.
View New Posts

That text comes larger than the text above it ! I do not know why and even when I make it smaller in forumhome template, it stays the same ... looks REALYL ugly.

heres the link to my forums so you can see what I mean !

http://www.digital-mafia.co.uk/forums/

Can anyone help ??

Thank youuuuuuuuuuu

[TheComputerGuy]

I like this hack, and it is very wicked LOL

[Lesane]

Great hack. It's running on my test board :)

[xug]

I have installed this hack without any problem, looks great, many thanks to TrilOByte.

To Cyrus:

The problem you have I don't have, so maybe the problem is not within this hack, just my $0.02, I'm a dunno with php.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by cyrus
Fab hack ! Easy to install because of clean instructions ... very effective and a clever idea !

I instaleld it, but I have a small problem. Where it says :-

The time now is 01:35 PM.
You last visited: 12-25-2001 01:34 PM.
View New Posts

That text comes larger than the text above it ! I do not know why and even when I make it smaller in forumhome template, it stays the same ... looks REALYL ugly.

heres the link to my forums so you can see what I mean !

http://www.digital-mafia.co.uk/forums/

Can anyone help ??

Thank youuuuuuuuuuu

[cyrus]

Thanks all for helping

TrilO : Seems I hade a fontsize=2 tag in between the smallfont tags ... I removed that and it works fine now :D

Thanks

and once again ... EXCELLENT HACK !!!!!!!! :D :D :p

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by cyrus
Thanks all for helping

TrilO : Seems I hade a fontsize=2 tag in between the smallfont tags ... I removed that and it works fine now :D

Thanks

and once again ... EXCELLENT HACK !!!!!!!! :D :D :p

[f5hosting]

GREAT hack, Tril...thanks!

[cyrus]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


Glad to hear you got it sorted, though I don't know where your fontsize=2 came from!

BTW, it still display's incorrectly on your site: http://www.digital-mafia.co.uk/forums/

[rx7forums.com]

I don't see the hide left column option in there, how can i add it

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by f5hosting
GREAT hack, Tril...thanks!

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by rx7forums.com
I don't see the hide left column option in there, how can i add it

[rx7forums.com]

I've got VBP

[Sadie Frost]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you.

Did I mention thank you?

Great hack! :) Looks so cool

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by cyrus


Hi Trilo

Yeh, For some reason the time and date are still too big when the user isnt logged in but FINE when loggin in ... I thought the time template link was only one which is in the forumhome template ! Can you please let me know if the unreguser time is somewhere else

thanks you ! :)

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by rx7forums.com
I've got VBP

[rx7forums.com]

your the man thanks

Check it out.

www.rx7forums.com

let me know what you think of the look

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sadie Frost
Thank you thank you thank you thank you.

Did I mention thank you?

Great hack! :) Looks so cool

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by rx7forums.com
your the man thanks

Check it out.

www.rx7forums.com

let me know what you think of the look

[Sadie Frost]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


...and you're very welcome .. always delighted to please a lady ;)

I should point out here, that the lions share of the credit for this hack should go to FireFly and MrLister - they are the ones responsible for the PHP code hacks. All I've done is bring them together and slap on a fancy template edit and some instructions. I feel a little guilty it being in this forum at all.

[Pady]

installed, no problems, looks sweet as m8, thanx

[Mr. X]

First hack I've installed in a while, excellent stuff. No probs at all :)

http://forums.mx3d.org

[mjames]

Great hack. I just installed it and made a few modifications. :cool:

http://sports-central.org/community/boards

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mjames
Great hack. I just installed it and made a few modifications. :cool:

http://sports-central.org/community/boards

[mikeB]

perfecto!!!

got it going here: http://www.highradiation.com/learn

you all have been so helpful!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Bop2Bop]

lookin sw33t :D :stupid:

[paulsmith]

Thanks for that addon it looks great on my site, with the other hacks.
Working link here.


http://www.internetmag.co.uk/

[NYI Fan]

Added this fantastic "tweak" today and couldnt be happier!!
Just last week someone asked me about putting the login thing up top, and with this package it was not only easy, it looks great too!

Thanks to all involved in making it happen!

Im attaching my avatars in case they match anyone elses boards - its the least I can do ;) (They arent the sharpest, but I think they're pretty OK)

[NYI Fan]

grrrr
1 attachment per post
heres the no avatar one

[mjames]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


Looks good, one problem though, your guestavatar (and possibly noavatar) are not showing. The links point to...

h***://www.sports-central.org/community/boards/images/avatars/guestavatar.gif

Either you havent uploaded them, or they are in a different location.

[slideboxer]

I've got it set up and runnig great on my forum page. Now for the tricky part - how can I put the welcome panle on a non-vb page? :stupid:

[talon3dhq]

Ok, I have a really silly question that I just have to ask..I know this hack is really just a combo of two other hacks, but do I need to have those hacks installed for this to work, or is this like an "all in one" type thing..Thanks in advance..

[talon3dhq]

ok, found out myself...

A most excellent hack, I like it alot! You can see mine here:

www.3dhq.net/forums/index.php

[Floris]

Installed it on www.creations.nl and it just looks so sweet :)

[swimclub]

Thanks for this. Looks nice on my forums.

Chris

[drumsy]

Is there any way to add a users post count somewhere in the general vicinity of the avatar as well?

[trilOByte]

Is there any way to add a users post count somewhere in the general vicinity of the avatar as well?


Probably ;) :D

[kreftt]

this hack is really cool, the problem is, that i installed the "custom avatars as files"-hack, and now the query to take the avatar from the db goes to data hell as the avatars arent in the db anymore...

im a bloody newbie in php, so u see any chance to tell me what the correct code would be to locate the avatars in the images/customavatars directory?

thanks in advance

kreftt

edit:
solved

[Bald Bouncer]

Very nice hack, thanks for the hard work :D

[JTMON]

Nice hack, I had done this to a degree but then I installed vbportal so I have to rehack, yours looked somewhat nicer so I used it. Thanks!

[mSoul01]

great hack.. very simple and easy to get working with vBP and vB..

much appreciated..

[Wayne2k1.com]

Great work, man...

I installed it @ http://forum.wayne2k1.com

[Wolf42]

Very nice hack.

Just installed a little moded version, cause I have a board in german language. :D

Does anyone have the guestavatar.gif and noavatar.gif in german?

[RoadDog]

My first mod to the board and it looks great.
thanks man,

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by kreftt
this hack is really cool, the problem is, that i installed the "custom avatars as files"-hack, and now the query to take the avatar from the db goes to data hell as the avatars arent in the db anymore...

im a bloody newbie in php, so u see any chance to tell me what the correct code would be to locate the avatars in the images/customavatars directory?

thanks in advance

kreftt

edit:
solved

[StarBuG]

Installed it and it works perfekt!

Thank you!

StarBuG

[Duke Of Lion]

Well I installed it by the book, but it doesn't show anything....
I am running vbulletin 2.2.1 It's here (http://www.somesite.com/community)

Help anyone?

[trilOByte]

You're the first one with a problem. You can't have done the template edits - otherwise at the very least you would have a new welcomepanel box at the top of your forum.

Make sure you edit your forumhome template, as instructed - redo it that is almost certainly where the problem is.

[Stretchr]

Works perfectly here. Great documentation- no problems at all on install. Thank you!

[eddiec]

someone tell me where the temples are located??

thanks

[eddiec]

never mind

thanks

[rishel]

Question if I may, on many of these sites I saw the examples of this hack on, I saw many features on the front pages like:

birthday, top posters, etc, etc.

Where do you all get that stuff from? What I mean is, almost 10 sites had the same exact calendar, top posters, birthday, and private message boxes on the site.

Where is that downloadable from?

[trilOByte]

<a href="http://www.phpportals.com" target="_blank">http://www.phpportals.com</a>

[Jawelin]

[QUOTE]edit:
solved

[Xelation]

I am having a problem.... when I login as a member the welcome screen is fine... but when I login as a guest its all messed up. Can you tell me whats going on please? I have added an image to show you what happens when Im a guest.... I know my board is bad right now, i installed it yesterday, and am editing it right now.

[Shenlong]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Xelation
I am having a problem.... when I login as a member the welcome screen is fine... but when I login as a guest its all messed up. Can you tell me whats going on please? I have added an image to show you what happens when Im a guest.... I know my board is bad right now, i installed it yesterday, and am editing it right now.

[Xelation]

Found out my problem... I accidently put the text that needed to go "forumhome_unregmessage" right under that template. My bad. lol.... I love this Hack by the way!

[trilOByte]

LOL, I guessed the problem was you screwed up the forumhome_unregmessage template just from your description - glad you have it sorted :)

[GraphicW]

Nice hack, but in order to use it, I will have to install zip since it is not recognized by default Linux compression utils.

[MomofThree]

Great hack...thank you. :)

I installed it on my boards and noticed only one little problem. It's not showing the number of new posts and threads. Would you know why?

Thanks for your help!

Iliana
www.theparentclub.com

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MomofThree
Great hack...thank you. :)

I installed it on my boards and noticed only one little problem. It's not showing the number of new posts and threads. Would you know why?

Thanks for your help!

Iliana
www.theparentclub.com

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GraphicW
Nice hack, but in order to use it, I will have to install zip since it is not recognized by default Linux compression utils.

[MomofThree]

Thank you so much for taking the time to go to my site. I truly appreciate your help. I corrected the links and then went over the instructions again and I noticed I had missed a part and now everything works nicely.

It's hard to concentrate when you have three kids running around you. ;)

Thank you so much!

[Stretchr]

It does.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


I think you'll find most the hacks are in zip format, it's way more universal than tarballs - though I think winzip now supports tar files.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MomofThree
Thank you so much for taking the time to go to my site. I truly appreciate your help. I corrected the links and then went over the instructions again and I noticed I had missed a part and now everything works nicely.

It's hard to concentrate when you have three kids running around you. ;)

Thank you so much!

[GraphicW]

I installed the hack and it is an EXCELLENT work. I had to install an unzip util as I rarely dealt with zip. I am in the tarball world. hehehe Tarball is growing though as Linux grows.

[Twig Deez]

well i finally caved and installed this on my forums,
with a few template modifications to suit myself, of course!

works very well and i'm very pleased, as are my members.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Twig Deez
well i finally caved and installed this on my forums,
with a few template modifications to suit myself, of course!

works very well and i'm very pleased, as are my members.

[GameCrash]

UBB??? This here is vBulletin ;)

[kreftt]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


:eek: I've no idea, I'm not familiar with the "avatars as files" hack though it may not be too hard to figure out - maybe just a question of re-defining some paths, I'll have a look see, but for now at least, prolly better to consider them incompatible.

edit: sorry, just noticed your edit - care to share how you solved it? Might be very usefull for others with the AAF hack installed. Cheers.

[Tungsten]

Works like a champ! Very easy to install thanks to the carefully written instructions. Kudos, trilObyte! :up:

[Kaffeerappel]

I noticed that the post/thread count goes up for regular members too, if there are new posts in the hidden Admin/Mod Forums. Any fix for that?

[Jawelin]

Very nice. I was seriously planning to use together the 'Store Avatars as Files' one.
I red something about here, but would undestand what's the actual state of the art, and what of the hacks should be better to install before the other one.

Besides, there are actually two AAF hacks and would know which one has the best compatibility with the Welcome Panel Hack.

Thanks a lot.
Bye

[Floris]

When can we expect an upgrade to 2.2.2 of this wonderful hack?

Currently I have this installed on creations.nl (http://www.creations.nl/) but the avatars aren't showing up no more!

Maybe this can be fixed with just a simple template alternation?
Hope someone can help!

[trilOByte]

Have you re-applied the hacks to index.php, and the template edits *after* you upgraded to 2.2.2?

I'm not upgrading till v 3.0 comes out, but i can't see why this shouldn't work in 2.2.2. Anyone else having problems?

[Floris]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte
Have you re-applied the hacks to index.php, and the template edits *after* you upgraded to 2.2.2?

I'm not upgrading till v 3.0 comes out, but i can't see why this shouldn't work in 2.2.2. Anyone else having problems?

[trilOByte]

I'm pretty sure that if you're upgrading, the upgrade *doesn't* overwrite your templates.....

from vb.com...

Note: Upgrading will not overwrite any of your custom templates. If you have customized any template that is listed as 'modified' below, we seriously recommend using the 'revert' option to return them to the default template, then re-applying your customizations.

None of the template changes for 2.2.2 concern this hack, so you don't need to worry about the templates. But I havent seen a list of modified files. Looks like index.php has had some treatment and will need that part of the hack re-applying.

I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who can't get the hack to work using the existing instructions.

Cheers.

[Jawelin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jawelin
Very nice. I was seriously planning to use together the 'Store Avatars as Files' one.
I red something about here, but would undestand what's the actual state of the art, and what of the hacks should be better to install before the other one.

Besides, there are actually two AAF hacks and would know which one has the best compatibility with the Welcome Panel Hack.

Thanks a lot.
Bye

[Floris]

Yeah!

I upgraded from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 and forgot to alter index.php afterwards.. done that and everything is just working perfectly!

:)

[trilOByte]

cool, at least we have one confirmation it still works in 2.2.2 without any changes, that's a lot better than none ;)

About compatibility with the AAF hack. I'm not familiar with either of them, and don't know enough php to code a workaround. If anyone else can - or manages to get both of em working somehow, a comprehensive post saying how, would be apreciated. Otherwise, it might just be a case of "pick the one you want most".

[mondaynightmike]

This is the first hack i installed on my forums and it works perfectly. Thanks for such a great hack.

[christina]

I upgraded to 2.2.2 and the hack still works fine as far as I can tell. However, I did go and do the manual 2.2.2 upgrade for the most part, just to be safe.

[Airwaves]

no problems in 222 but can someone please tell me how to put the current online users section under the welcome panel, but above the forum list, with a gap in between them?

I have this hack installed and assume it would be only a template hack, but i dont like messing with them unless its a tried and tested procedure.

[Duke Of Lion]

I still haven't been able to get it to work? Anybody any advice? Here's my site: http://www.procedure.com
The Avatars don't work and my login box don't show up at the top....

[Floris]

It really looks like everything is fine, you just dont have the templates altered i think .. or the index.php .. Please follow the installation instructions step by step ..

[Birdie501]

hi,

can somebody explain why I should use this hack? I just edited the templates forumhome_logincode and forumhome_logout code to do this! What is the advantage of this hack?

Thanks a lot!

[trilOByte]

no problems in 222 but can someone please tell me how to put the current online users section under the welcome panel, but above the forum list, with a gap in between them?

I have this hack installed and assume it would be only a template hack, but i dont like messing with them unless its a tried and tested procedure.

Yep, actually very easy.

In the forumhome template, fine the welcompanel edit that you added as part of the hack, scroll through untill you see..


$pminfo


and replace it with


$pminfo
$loggedinusers


Basically, you're just moving the "online users" section, up under the PM section in the welcome panel.

Dont forget to remove the "$loggedinusers" line, from further down the forumhome template, otherwise it will show twice.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Birdie501
hi,

can somebody explain why I should use this hack? I just edited the templates forumhome_logincode and forumhome_logout code to do this! What is the advantage of this hack?

Thanks a lot!

[pdatoon]

Hi,

I upgraded to 2.2.2 and the avatar shown in the CP disapeared.
look at : http://www.pdafrance.com/pdaforum/index.php?s=

any ideas? :frus:

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by pdatoon
Hi,

I upgraded to 2.2.2 and the avatar shown in the CP disapeared.
look at : http://www.pdafrance.com/pdaforum/index.php?s=

any ideas? :frus:

[freehtml]

Great ahck, installed in less than 10 minutes :)

[JTMON]

anyone having problems using cutom avatars after using this hack? I have that problem but am not sure which hack is causing it as it used to work fine. Now they only way I can use or assign one is to add it to the public avatar list

[trilOByte]

Wierd, using custom avatars here with no problems. I can't think why it would be this hack, as it doesn't screw with the default avatar stuff at all - it just creates a new var called $avatarimage, but lets all the original stuff well alone, so that should work the same as normal.

Wierd.

[JTMON]

just checking, I'm not sure how long this has been a problem and am trying to track it down. Any idea what files would mess with that? It's even weirder because once I have gone through all that and assigned the user the avatar, it still doesn't show in the admin panel for that user, only in the postbit like normal.

[trilOByte]

Hmm, have you any hacks that alter the user profile - or maybe avatar.php?

You could expand all groups and check the templates, see if any related to avatars have been edited, then try and identify the edit/hack from there.

No more clues than that - sorry.

[khnglh]

:D

What can i say....WORKS GREAT !!!!


Thanks for all the work on this great hack Trilobyte

[Lucky]

Got vbp3.0pr7 and vb2.2.2 and all is working great!

Thanks. :p

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JTMON
just checking, I'm not sure how long this has been a problem and am trying to track it down. Any idea what files would mess with that? It's even weirder because once I have gone through all that and assigned the user the avatar, it still doesn't show in the admin panel for that user, only in the postbit like normal.

[trilOByte]

If you want to add a referer id link into the welcome panel, so all your members have to do is right click and choose copy shortcut, to get their unique refere id, here's how.....

In the forumhome template, find the welcomepanel addition, look for...

$unregwelcomemessage
$welcometext


and immediately above that add this.....


Your personal referral code is: <a href="$bburl/index.php?referrerid=$bbuserinfo[userid]">this link</a>


Will look like this:

http://www.synobyte.com/pics/referrer.gif

[Floris]

Your personal Referral code is: (link)

[trilOByte]

Thanks, missed the "rr" fixed now ;) :D

[Floris]

np

[psico]

For those who have Custom Avatars as Files HACK installed, here is the solution to make it works with the Welcome Panel HACK:

Replace this code from Welcome Panel HACK in INDEX.PHP:

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>';
}


With this code:


############################
if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0) {
$avatarurl=getavatarurl($bbuserinfo[userid]);
if ($avatarurl=='') {
$avatarurl='images/avatars/noavatar.gif';
} else {
if ($post[hascustomavatar] and $avatarenabled) {
if ($usefileavatar) $avatarurl="custom_avatars/avatar$bbuserinfo[userid]_$bbuserinfo[avatarrevision].gif";
else $avatarurl="avatar.php?userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]";
}
}
$avatarimage='<a href="member.php?s='.$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>';
}
############################


I've tested and is working great...

Welcome Panel ROCKS!

[JTMON]

I don't have the custom avatars as file hack installed but I tried your code and it didn't work. I tried to upload and got this message:

[QUOTE]Warning: Unable to create '/admin/tmp/yeller.gif': No such file or directory in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/whatthefrag.com/httpdocs/forums/admin/user.php on line 632

Warning: Unable to move '/tmp/phpHt9sRD' to '/admin/tmp/yeller.gif' in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/whatthefrag.com/httpdocs/forums/admin/user.php on line 632

[trilOByte]

JTMON, did you try changing the name of the var from $avatarimage to something else?

EDIT: I don't think Pisco's hack will work unless you have the AAF hack installed.

[JTMON]

Not yet, about to tho.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by psico
For those who have Custom Avatars as Files HACK installed, here is the solution to make it works with the Welcome Panel HACK:


$avatarurl="custom_avatars/avatar$bbuserinfo[userid]_$bbuserinfo[avatarrevision].gif"


I've tested and is working great...

Welcome Panel ROCKS!

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JTMON
Not yet, about to tho.

[JTMON]

me too, I know it worked before vbPortal tho but that was almost 2 months ago. :D

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JTMON
me too, I know it worked before vbPortal tho but that was almost 2 months ago. :D

[JTMON]

I got that script from vbPortal.com as someone released it. That's probably the last change I did before I noticed the problem, so I am going to revert it to see if it fixes it. The thing is, I tried using $myavatarvariable in the login block with only the welcome panel hack installed and it wouldn't show.

[JTMON]

I took it out but the problem remained.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JTMON
I took it out but the problem remained.

[JTMON]

jeesum, I fixed it, the path in upload options used to be /admin/tmp and it worked fine but now I had to chang it to:

/usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/forums/admin/tmp

it works!

[trilOByte]

WOOT!

whew, glad that's fixed ;)

[Stoned Gecko]

Just installed it. Good job!!

[Warlord]

Just installed it, works great, thanks!

[Hamsh]

Have installed the hack on v2.2.2, and works fine, but I have noticed that when I click on the link to the name of the newest member just above the welcome panel it comes up with a 404 error. I didn't notice if this happened before the hack, but this is the first hack I applied to my install.

Has anyone else noticed this? If not, any suggestions?

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hamsh
Have installed the hack on v2.2.2, and works fine, but I have noticed that when I click on the link to the name of the newest member just above the welcome panel it comes up with a 404 error. I didn't notice if this happened before the hack, but this is the first hack I applied to my install.

Has anyone else noticed this? If not, any suggestions?

[Jawelin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by psico
For those who have Custom Avatars as Files HACK installed, here is the solution to make it works with the Welcome Panel HACK: [...]

if ($post[hascustomavatar] and $avatarenabled) {
I've tested and is working great...
Welcome Panel ROCKS!

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hamsh
Have installed the hack on v2.2.2, and works fine, but I have noticed that when I click on the link to the name of the newest member just above the welcome panel it comes up with a 404 error. I didn't notice if this happened before the hack, but this is the first hack I applied to my install.

Has anyone else noticed this? If not, any suggestions?

[Jawelin]

I have still some problems with the Kier's AaF hack installed, but only when I use a standard - NOT custom - avatar.
Actually it's within a category (another hack.... :D ) but it isn't the problem. I can't see the image in the welcome panel.

I guess of course it depends on the function the Welcome Panel calls : getavatarurl() (you can see more here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=222508#post222508), about), but same I would put here my experience about this hard join.

Thanks a lot.
Bye

[kestrel]

i want to implement this hack, but a fair share of our users have a specific forum bookmarked and don't always come in through the welcome page. so, ideally, i'd like it to pop at the user's point of entry rather than embedding it in a page.

before i spend a lot of time spinning my wheels for nothing, i thought i'd ask you more experienced types if you knew of anything that might cause a problem or prevent me from doing it that way. whaddaya think?

appreciate the help,

- kestrel

[slideboxer]

I would like to place much of the welcome panel in my header so it appears on all pages. What codes do I need to change or add in order to do this?

[trilOByte]

Hack the index.php file just the same, in fact do everything just the same except -

When it comes to editing the forumhome template, instead of inserting the .....

<-- welcomepanel -->
*****
****
****
some code
***
****
*****
</--welcomepanel -->

Put that in you header instead. Of course, you will need to make sure the layout works, it's not something I would want to do myself, but it should work. It might look a bit wierd though. You'll have to play around with the tables to get it to look OK.

[mav]

Wow this hack is awesome! Thanks.

[slideboxer]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte
Hack the index.php file just the same, in fact do everything just the same except -

When it comes to editing the forumhome template, instead of inserting the .....

<-- welcomepanel -->
*****
****
****
some code
***
****
*****
</--welcomepanel -->

Put that in you header instead. Of course, you will need to make sure the layout works, it's not something I would want to do myself, but it should work. It might look a bit wierd though. You'll have to play around with the tables to get it to look OK.

[trilOByte]

Never thought of that - very cool ;)

[slideboxer]

Ha... it was Sinecure who pointed the way :D I also did the same thing to my homeindex.php (for your news hack!) which can be seen at http://abudokan.com/forums/homeindex.php . I use an htaccess redirect and actually have that as my homepage.

[LaNder]

there is still a problem with the "count threads & posts" - function: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=209332#post209332

[trilOByte]

Yeah, I know it counts *ALL* the posts, including those in private forums. I'm not sure what to do about it. Making it so that admins can easily add forum ID's to an exclude function, would add a ton of code to an otherwise simple hack. Not sure if it's worth it.

[LaNder]

hmm, this makes this part of your great hack useless for me :(

[Neo]

I still like me origonal stats hack, that most people forgot about.... maybe I will re edit it and add a few things..... then of course eat it.

[trilOByte]

which hack was that neo?

EDIT: OK, just found it, looks very cool. You could certainly produce something awesome with a combination of that hack, but include the avatar hack as well. Go for it neo.

[Raven]

This one are a real Cool hack and i real like it a lot
:)

[trilOByte]

Yay, WP wins hack of the month for Feb. Thanks to those folks who voted.

Apparently we get this graphic...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/saintdog.gif

Not sure what to do with it tho. But sure does look nice ;)

[nafae]

put it on your site so you can get hundreds of pms saying "YOU HACKED VBULLETIN.ORG!? DDOS YAY YAY" lol

[Itworx4me]

I like this hack. I don't know if someone has brought this up. But is it possible to put a link in the pm so you can check your messages? I have pm blink but know way to check messages unless you goto the user cp. It would be nice if I could have a link there to go directly to the message. Any Ideas?

[trilOByte]

Eh? Doesnt clicking on "Private Messages" take you to the PM section - at least it does on our forum.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nafae
put it on your site so you can get hundreds of pms saying "YOU HACKED VBULLETIN.ORG!? DDOS YAY YAY" lol

[Saiyan XL]

this hack is Ok..

[latinO]

Great hack and easy install!

Thanks

latinO

[indiamike]

Ok I installed the hack on vb version 2.2.3, everything went fine and worked great and I really like this hack.

However I have a problem and am unsure if the upgrade to this hack did it or the upgrade to 2.2.3 did it, but somehow my "today's Birthdays" has vanished from the page.

I did both the hack and the upgrade within a couple of hours and didn't notice it before.

Has anyone else installed the Welcome Panel and had their birthdays vanish?

Mike

[HiroshiNanami]

I had installed the today/yesterday timestamp hack, and the date where it says "you last visited" still shows the date instead of "today" or "yesterday".

I think I need to hack the index.php file. Has anyone able to fix it? If so how?

[HiroshiNanami]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by indiamike
Ok I installed the hack on vb version 2.2.3, everything went fine and worked great and I really like this hack.

However I have a problem and am unsure if the upgrade to this hack did it or the upgrade to 2.2.3 did it, but somehow my "today's Birthdays" has vanished from the page.

I did both the hack and the upgrade within a couple of hours and didn't notice it before.

Has anyone else installed the Welcome Panel and had their birthdays vanish?

Mike

[Sue]

Kick ass! I just did it on mine, awesome hack!

[Sue]

<a href="http://www.libragrrl.com/forums" target="_blank">http://www.libragrrl.com/forums</a>

everything looks great and all the links work, but . . . the new threads and posts aren't showing :ermm:

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sue
http://www.libragrrl.com/forums

everything looks great and all the links work, but . . . the new threads and posts aren't showing :ermm:

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by HiroshiNanami


I think in the instruction he forgot to include $birthdaybits in the forumhome template. Just add it to whereever you want.

[Sue]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


Sue, it looks like you've done the template edits properly, but you have missed out part of the hack to the index.php file. Read over the instructions again, comparing it to your hacked file and pay particular attention to that part of the hack which details the new posts.

[indiamike]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


Todays birthdays is not part of this hack. $birthdaybits is part of the forumhome_loggedinusers template, not the forumhome template and is called by $loggedinusers. It isn't changed or affected by this hack, so it stays in the default place (at least the default place for vB2.2).

Check to see if you have $loggedinusers in your forumhome template and $birthdaybits in your forumhome_loggedinusers template. This should still be intact as it isn't touched by this hack at all.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by indiamike


If you see something missing from the code please let me know, I will continue to hunt and peck around and try to figure it out.

[Floris]

I am not sure if it has been mentioned, but here goes:

This hack works very good with vBulletin 2.2.4 !

[indiamike]

Sweet Mojo Nixon,

That did the trick!!!! I don't know how it vanished, maybe someone hacked into my forums when they were grumpy about their Birthday being displayed. I Dunno either.

Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it (and the welcome panel hack also).

Mike :classic:

[trilOByte]

welcome, dude ;)

[Massiel]

Does this hack include the birthday panel too? So when members have birthdays they are displayed ? Please help me out!

[Massiel]

I should have read the posts LOL! My forum too, has the bdays missing hmmmm...will try those tips....

[Floris]

The birthdaybit is still on the bottom of your web page.
You can goto the same place where you had to move priv msg bit up, .. jus move birthday bit up there too.

[Ghostsuit]

Well just did the upgrade in 2.2.4 seems to have went fine but don't have my avatar appearing in the side panel sure I've just forgot something so will be re checking. However I did notice that...

Forum home now has

$forumbits
$loggedinusers
$birthdaybits
$pminfo

So maybe people are replacing $birthdaybits by mistake.

[Ghostsuit]

Oh and I found my problem I uploaded the wrong index.php it's always the simplest things :laugh:

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ghostsuit
Well just did the upgrade in 2.2.4 seems to have went fine but don't have my avatar appearing in the side panel sure I've just forgot something so will be re checking. However I did notice that...

Forum home now has

$forumbits
$loggedinusers
$birthdaybits
$pminfo

So maybe people are replacing $birthdaybits by mistake.

[Visionray]

Excellent Hack!!! I love it I love it!!!!
Here is mine
www.fusionarena.com/community

Thank you trilObyte!!!!

[Ignite]

Go to my page, it doesnt show the avatar there. I uploaded the avatar correctly and I can see them when I preview them under the Admin CP, but they arent there.

[99SIVTEC]

Hmmmm does 2.24 call the avatars differently? I've always had this installed at my site with no problem, but after installing 2.24 and reinstalling this hack my avatar isn't showing up. Also the "there have been xx threads and xx posts since your last visit" isn't working anymore......

[Tech_Koss]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 99SIVTEC
Hmmmm does 2.24 call the avatars differently? I've always had this installed at my site with no problem, but after installing 2.24 and reinstalling this hack my avatar isn't showing up. Also the "there have been xx threads and xx posts since your last visit" isn't working anymore......

[f5hosting]

Im having the same problem...was gonna ask thyis same question!

Allen Smith
www.f5hosting.com
Affordable, Dependable Webhosting!

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Im having the same problem...was gonna ask thyis same question!

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Affordable, Dependable Webhosting!

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[Floris]

Hey there :)

I just upgraded my forum to the final version of 2.2.5 and re-applied the Welcome panel hack :) No problems what so ever! Works like charm again.
Guess this has been confirmed to work on all 2.2.x versions :)

[Thomas P]

Hi,
just to state that this is a very nice and long awaited (at least by me) hack to vB, just installed a "lite-version" of it on our forums.
Thanks trilOByte! :)
cu,
-Tom

[Tech_Koss]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by xiphoid
Hey there :)

I just upgraded my forum to the final version of 2.2.5 and re-applied the Welcome panel hack :) No problems what so ever! Works like charm again.
Guess this has been confirmed to work on all 2.2.x versions :)

[Floris]

Wow,
your avatar r0xx0rz very cool cow!! Can I please use it on my forum?

[Tech_Koss]

go for it :)

[Floris]

Done!~
If someone from bbaddons has a prob with it, lemme know and I will remove it again. Currently I let users with 50+ posts use it :)

[99SIVTEC]

Any idea why my avatars are not showing up using 2.2.4 now? They have always worked in the past. http://www.sportcompactracing.com/vbulletin/index.php

[f5hosting]

did you rehack it after your upgrade? I just rehacked my pugzoners.com board and it worked. Some of the templates get overwritten with the upgrade.

[99SIVTEC]

Do you know where I can find a list of the template changes between 2.2.x and 2.2.4? I have vbportals installed and would hate to have to recreate my whole theme from scratch...

Thanks though Allen .....ohh and by the way I got my e-mail working over at f5 ;)

[f5hosting]

As for the list of template changes, I dont know...unless they have them at vbulletin.org in the announcements section....coolio with the email thihng also!

[pHAZE_1]

what did i do wrong? i installed this hack and in the avatar box, there is no avatar, also there is 2 PM panels. One where it is supposed to be, and one at the bottom... um help.

http://www.hiphoptechnicz.com/forums/index.php?

[pHAZE_1]

this is my forumhome template

[QUOTE]{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>

<!-- 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%">
<tr align="center">
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont>&nbsp;</smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" width="80%" align="left"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Forum</b></smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Posts</b></smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Threads</b></smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" nowrap><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Last Post</b></smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" width="20%"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Moderator</b></smallfont></td>
</tr>
$forumbits</table>
</td></tr></table><br>
<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%">
$loggedinusers
$birthdaybits
$pminfo
</table>
</td></tr></table>
<!-- /main -->

<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="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<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>

[pHAZE_1]

got it fixed, but the avatar thing still wont work???

[voogru]

having the same problem..http://forums.voogru.com

help plz

[Sadie Frost]

I tried using your forumhome template, and the avatar shows up just fine on mine. I would check your code in index.php :)

[LilleMartin]

Oh my god, I nearly broke my balls trying to get this to work.
Now installed, I love it.

Thanks for a good hack...

-M

[Floris]

rofl

[pHAZE_1]

for some reason it didnt work for bout 2 days, but all of a sudden boom theres my avatar. lol

[Rcooper]

Great hack Thanks!

[99SIVTEC]

Oh man i'm an idiot. My web host moved the servers. I had been connecting to my ftp server via my ip address instead of host name. It turns out I was connecting to the old server. I was editing the templates for my site, but when I would change anything in the actual files it was being changed on the old server instead of the new one. I pulled my head out of my ass and now everything works at it should.

[Rick]

Great hack thanks. One question. I don't allow my users to change their own avatars. How can I disable the link to the edit avatar page when they click on the avatar in the "Welcome" hack?

Thanks,
Rick

[Floris]

Open root/index.php in your fav. editor and search for:
$avatarimage='<a href="member.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=editavatar"><img src="'.$avatarurl.'" border="0">';
And remove the <a> tag from it. BUT! I did not test it, and I do not see the </a> at the end of the line. SO not sure if this will end up in a broken link. But that is the line you need to alter.

[Frenck]

Like some people have noticed,

If you have a big forum (like euhm.. about.. lets say 100.000 posts, like mine)
Than the welcome panel hack really slows down the page!!!

My page generation time with this hack is 2.5 seconds!!!
That's all because of these 2:

Query: SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.2525429725647
Time after: 0.34668505191803

Query: SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.3487149477005
Time after: 1.9500440120697

You can speed this up by adding 2 indexes to your tables.

Just run these 2 query's once on your database:

ALTER TABLE `thread` ADD INDEX(`'lastpost`);
ALTER TABLE `post` ADD INDEX(`dateline`);


After running these 2 I was verry glad with the result:

Query: SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.40777695178986
Time after: 0.40917897224426

Query: SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.41155600547791
Time after: 0.41288495063782

My page generation time is 0.5 seconds after this simpel modification.

Anyways, THX FOR THIS GREAT HACK!!!

[nemesis01]

Hey, I installed this hack a while ago and it worked perfectly.I recently upgraded to 2.2.4, had a few problems but got it working in the end.Now I have another problem with it, it used to say something like 'There have been XX of new posts since your last visit' but now that part does not show up.I have checked the index.php file and the templates and they are all fine, can anybody help?

:disappointed:

[nemesis01]

Never mind, fixed it.

Think I am going mental, need more sleep. :confused:

[Airwaves]

@Frenck

One of the queries you said to run isnt valid - you had a ' where there shouldnt be one...

here they are correct


ALTER TABLE `thread` ADD INDEX(`lastpost`);
ALTER TABLE `post` ADD INDEX(`dateline`);

[Frenck]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Airwaves
@Frenck

One of the queries you said to run isnt valid - you had a ' where there shouldnt be one...

here they are correct


ALTER TABLE `thread` ADD INDEX(`lastpost`);
ALTER TABLE `post` ADD INDEX(`dateline`);

[Jawelin]

Which kind of index table size increment should generate adding those two or three index upon dates ?
And how a search on could be measured faster ?

Thnx

[Frenck]

My "post" table size before creating the index:

Data 30,022 KB
Index 3,482 KB +
=============
Total 33,504 KB


After creating the index on dateline:

Data 30,022 KB
Index 4,276 KB +
=============
Total 34,298 KB


In my case the table has grown about 2.3698663% :)

[Jawelin]

Thank you very much for these numbers. What about speed increase performances ? Are they appreciable ?
(for example on lastpost searches or today's posts)
:)

[Frenck]

If you took time to take a look @ a post of me... a little higer...

Ow well lets cut & paste...

before:

Query: SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.3487149477005
Time after: 1.9500440120697

as you can see, the query needs about 1.6 seconds to complete.
(about 100.000 posts in the forum)

after:

Query: SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.41155600547791
Time after: 0.41288495063782

Wel.. I really like the result... Just 0.001328 seconds for the query to complete.

I think this result is really worth the 2.3698663% growing :classic:

[Jawelin]

Very cool!
I added index on dateline fields in post, thread and user (join & lastvisit) ...
Now, with a small space occupied more, I have the fastest forumhome ever... :) :) :)

[Floris]

What is the URL to your forum? I want to have a looksy!

[karreman]

i have the avatar as link 2 hack installed, then it never shows your personal avatar in the welcome screen, only the "no avatar" image. (yet i do have a offsite avatar)

Anyone know how to fix this?

[karreman]

anyone?? :'( :'(

[karreman]

Ok, i fixed it myself (dont know if already it was fixed by someone).

To let this hack work properly with Avatar as Link 2 Hack (show real avatar on welcome box):

Before:
if ($avatarurl=='') {
of the added script

add:

$avatarlink=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT avatar2 FROM avatarlink WHERE userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]");
$avatarurl=$avatarlink[avatar2];

Hope this helps some of u.

[kmistry]

I just got a problem, how do i add a link to the left bar of the thing, where it says "Log out" or "Mark forums read" etc. i would like to add another link there, where could i find that code, under which part of the template?

[karreman]

u mean right side :rambo:

anyway, check your modifyavatar_link template

that is the whole table with the vars.. edit it..

[kmistry]

could you please direct me to as where i would find that?

[Markjpx]

Just installed this hack.

Toot sweet Trilobyte and all the rest.

My forum is only a month old so it's a little rough.

But you can check it out here, running vbPortal and vB 2.2.5:

http://digitalfumes.com/tus/

[s o r o k a]

Man I need help correcting this...I am trying to running the 'Yet another RPG Stats' and the RPG Limit Breaks on my Welcome Panel but it does show and my user post count doesn't show either. www.fg-forums.com

<table border="0"cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth }" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor }"

{tableouterextra } width="{contenttablewidth }" align="center" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#606096" colspan="3"><font face="Verdana">
<b>Welcome to Fusion Gods Forums</b></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="33%" bgcolor="{secondaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000"><font face="Tahoma"

size="2"><b>User

Information</b></font><br>
<smallfont>Your general User Information can be found
here.</smallfont></td>
<td width="33%" bgcolor="{secondaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000"><font size="2"

face="Tahoma"><b>Forum
Statistics<b></font><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400"><smallfont>Current Standings for Our Forum's Records.</smallfont></td>
<td width="34%" bgcolor="{secondaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000"><font size="2"

face="Tahoma"><b>Your

Statistics</b></font><br>
<smallfont>Your Health and Wealth so far.</smallfont></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="33%" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000">
<div align="left">
<table border="0" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="260">
<tr>
<td width="90"><smallfont>$avatarimage</td>
<td><b>User:</b> $username<br>
<b>Posts:</b> $bbuserinfo[posts]<br>
<b>ID:</b> $userid<br>
<b>Gils:</b> $bbuserinfo[field5]</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
<td width="33%" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000">
<div align="left">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="260">
<tr>
<td><smallfont><b>Members:</b> $numbermembers (Since April 13, 2002)<br>
<b>Newest Member:</b> <a

href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&userid=$newuserid">$newusername</a><br>
<b>Threads:</b> $totalthreads<br>
<b>Posts:</b> $totalposts</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
<td width="34%" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000">
<div align="left">
<table border="0" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="260">
<tr>
<td><smallfont><b>Limit:</b> $bbuserinfo[limit]<br>
<b>Level:</b> $bbuserinfo[showlevel]<br>
<b>HP:</b> $bbuserinfo[hp] / $bbuserinfo[maxhp] <br>
<b>MP:</b> $bbuserinfo[mp] / $bbuserinfo[maxmp] </smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

* s o r o k a confused...
Please help me?

[Intex]

Nice hack Trilobyte - installed with no problems :)

[FleaBag]

Installed on 2.2.5, working like a dream! :D

[Bimma Boy]

Can someone pls clarify that this amazing hack is 2.2.6 compatible and works 100% with it?

It still says 2.2.2 on the hack title! :s

Thanks

[mickmel]

I just installed 2.2.6, and it no longer shows the avatar in the welcome window. Any ideas?

[mickmel]

Never mind - I'm just dumb. I forgot to make one of the changes to index.php. I fixed that, and now it works fine!

Mickey

[The Piper]

I'm using it with 2.2.6 and it works just fine.

[Mr H]

I'm a newbie and I just installed it on 2.2.6.

Very easy to install.

It works great and looks great :)

Thanks!

[FleaBag]

Working great on 2.2.6, thanks!

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bimma Boy
Can someone pls clarify that this amazing hack is 2.2.6 compatible and works 100% with it?

It still says 2.2.2 on the hack title! :s

Thanks

[Daderin]

Is there anyway to include this hack directly on a page prior to loading forums ? (i.e : including it on a index.html page, for example).
To be more clear... How can I put this hack on my main page like on this site (www.vbulletin.org) please ?


Thanks in advance.

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

Great Hack !!

No Problemo !!

[mrdave]

Does not work on 226 for me

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mrdave
Does not work on 226 for me

[mrdave]

It was the first hack installed, I am having the same thing happen in posts also with any custom avatar, just the missing image icon. This is on php 4.2.1 btw. It all works with avatar.php from 2.2.5

[trilOByte]

I'm utterly puzzled. You are saying that if you upoad avatar.php from 2.2.5 to your 2.2.6 install it works fine, but not otherwise?

Given that many people have it working fine with the default avatar.php from 2.2.6, then you may have a corrupt file. Extract the original avatar.php from your 2.2.6 zip file and re-upload it.

[globalwin]

hi i wanted some help with this problem...

---

Ive installed the hack to split up the forum catagories and it has messed up the hack (welcome panel one) it hasnt any borders anymore... how can i fix this?


here is a screenshot...

http://www.lcdmod.co.uk/board.jpg

---

Could you please email me the solution and what i have to do to crocket2k@hotmail.com please im a php newbie and dont know much...

thank you

[mrdave]

Anyway it works now.

[Schorsch]

great hack, thanks!! works fine on v2.2.6 !!

but has somebody the two pics in german ??? that would be great!!

regards,
Schorsch

[Reverend]

Working fine on 2.2.6 apart from one small annoying problem.Although this might not be related to the hack.

On my board,in the welcome panel where it says "there have been # threads and # posts since your last visit" the threads count always goes up even if a new thread hasn't been created.

e.g If someone posts one reply in a thread,the welcome panel
says "there have been 1 thread and 1 post since your last visit."

Should it not say "there have been 0 threads and 1 post since your last visit."

And yes i do click "mark all forums read",before revisiting.

Any ideas.

[The Ghost]

hi,

in root/index.php find "lastpost" in the follow text:

$getnewthread=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]'");

Replace "lastpost" with "dateline".

Now it should work.......

thx @ Pogo (vB Germany Support)

[Reverend]

Thanks ghost.That fixed it.

Has the welcome panel hack been edited since it was first released,to replace "lastpost" with "dateline".

Just wondering.

[The Ghost]

no prob. I wondering too, has nobody found this problem since releasing this hack? I found this problem 5 Minutes after Installation......

[WoodiE]

clicks on install....works great for me on 2.2.6

[Keyser S?ze]

can anyone make a addon for this like, on holidays it automatically says "Merry Christmas..." that kind of thing, and so admins can set the date for whtever holidays or whatever

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend
Thanks ghost.That fixed it.

Has the welcome panel hack been edited since it was first released,to replace "lastpost" with "dateline".

Just wondering.

[Robert9]

Hey I have a question. When I install the welcome panel it leaves off the Private message box that should be under the welcome panel. What is the problem here? I followed all the steps completely.

[Schorsch]

anybody has these two pics in german ? or could make them in german ?

thanks,
Schorsch

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert9
Hey I have a question. When I install the welcome panel it leaves off the Private message box that should be under the welcome panel. What is the problem here? I followed all the steps completely.

[XTR3ME]

Question how can i remove the forum leaders link ?

[djr]

Trilobyte,

Do you have the two .gif's in .psd format, so I can translate the text and the colors more easily?

- djr

[Ian Emu-UK]

Great hack :D

I have a couple of private forums, and I have fudged around with the PHP to stop it from counting them in the total with some help from a friend (Thanks RCK;)):-

$getnewthread=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' and forumid <> '21' and forumid <> '19'");
$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post, thread WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' and thread.threadid=post.threadid and thread.forumid <> '21' and thread.forumid <> '19'");

It works a treat apart from the fact it counts all the posts in a thread instead of just counting the new post.

I would be most grateful if one of you PHP/mySQL gods could help me with this one:)

[Hwulex]

Have installed, thanks for nice hack. Altered the templates pretty heavily, inspired by your own Genome Collective forum design (great work there btw dude).

Fourm should be at http://www.xaprief.com/forum/ soon :)