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

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:

PHP Code:


		
			
$getnewpost=$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).

my avatars dont display, any help?

[QUOTE]05-01-03 at 07:18 PM eoc_Jason said this in Post #402
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:

PHP Code:

$getnewpost=$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).

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.

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

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...

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.

will this work on vb2.3.0????

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)

Fantastic hack, truly brilliant.

Thanks!!! :)

nice. but no avatar shows up for new users.

[QUOTE]Today at 11:48 AM spick said this in Post #413
nice. but no avatar shows up for new users.

yea. i did that. still nothing.

Will this be re-done for vB 3?

[QUOTE]06-25-03 at 11:24 PM ogden2k said this in Post #417
Will this be re-done for vB 3?

[QUOTE]Today at 10:51 AM trilOByte said this in Post #418
I'm thinking about it. ;) :D

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

nm i found it and fixed it

Greate hack.

I modified a lot my Forum Home.

Something useful for you all:

Simple search

On Forumhome template add this whre you want:

Code:



        <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

Hello,

I have a little problem with this welcome panel..

The online users stuff is messed up

This is my forumhome code

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>

Anyone get anywhere with this for 3.0?

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/mo...ead.php?t=4066

Does this work with 2.3.0?

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

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

[QUOTE]08-24-03 at 09:15 PM Cal Poly Forum said this in Post #436
How can we put a gap between Welcome to the newest member and the Welcome Panel?

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/

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/

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