CoologinVB
 

Hello people..

This hack allows people to log-in via your homepage, it displays a login box for people who are not already signed in, and a welcome message to your members.

Also it includes,
PM Notification,
Newest member
Who is online, with member names and link to profile,
Total Members
Redirection to Non VB page after a user has signed in.


But the good thing is thier are no templates to edit or create. :)

I will include some screen shots below.

Note: This version is for people who have their forum on the same server as thier homepage, it will not work otherwise.

Okay any comments, problems, bugs please post them here. :)

This is a picture of a non member visitng you page

This is when a user is logged in.

This is a picture of the information that can be displayed.

'Tis been done many many times, but still cool, unless you RIPPED IT!. But then again, why would you. I might instal later ;)

Oh, so this came out of BETA with a different name. That confused me. ;)

YAY! It finally came out! *clicks install* Thanks joecool:) I am defintely going to use this! Good work!!:)

Hey! Sorry to double post, but I gotta say that this hack is excellent. Its really good if your looking for something small and simple for your homepage that relates to your forums. Great job joecool

*waits patiently for the version for the dudes that have the forums and site on different servers*

this is great! thank you so much, joe. this is exactly what i want.

Nice Hack I'll be installing it soon.

Thanks Joe. I think i'll use this too. Looks superb.

Craig

Hey people, there is gonna be another release tomorrow, that fixes a few bugs. I will also release a some details of how to fix these bugs if you have already installed this hack.

ok.....

Got it to work on my phpnuke site...
www.rapsearch.com on the right

BUT.. the online thing is not working properly...
Sometimes i see the same member twice or more??

Plus it does not always remember me as user when i return from my board to my mainpage.. or when i log in later??

I have the next setup:

Made a php page load in an <iframe> in the block you see... this was the only way i could get it working...

I've attached the file i use below...

error =>

php file i use in my iframe:

In your mod you say to change this line of code in member.php:

if you change this line to:
it will simply take you back to the page that you loged in from; be it index.php or your own custom page.

Steve McCaa

So what do I do to install this hack? I don't see any instructions.

Download the .ZIP on the first post. There are instructions in that ZIP file.

any news on my problem joe??.. i got your email but never see you online on msn.. please help me out here...or someone else :)

I didn't see any instructions, which file has instructions.

Great looking hack. I'm just about to try it out!

Hey, joe, you ever figure out how to get this working across mutliple domains?

I have the same problem, some members are showing up many times, any solution to this yet?

Craig

i've installed this hack. i like it so far except i also get the dupe names in the online members part. that's a big deal for me cause i like clean code. i've tweaked the code a little bit elsewise, corrected some typos, etc and I'm making a separate, all inclusive file for the info i want to display.

anyway, i'll mess with the code a bit and see if i can find out why the dupe names occur but if anyone else has already done so and fixed it, a post here would be nice, might save people some time.

ok, i've messed with the code a bit and worked out some of the kinks. I have to say, while the concept is a very good one and the code is somewhat functional, it's very sloppy and the instructions are confusing and unclear in several places.

I put this code into it's own script and called it into my main page via 'include()' and kept getting header errors at random. While I'm not completely sure, I think removing the cd() and require() commands from the script itself and putting them at the top of the main page resolved this issue.

It hasn't resolved the dupe names issue though. I've commented out that section until a fix is found.

I also noted there were typos and inconsistencies in the code, particularly in the online users part of the code.

Also, in the PM part, instead of pasting an identical url in every else statement that the user has to change to configure the script correctly, the url should be inclosed in a variable at the start of the code like
and have that variable placed in the rest of the code where needed requiring the user to only have to update the information once.

in fact, this could be implemented for all variables the user needs to update to configure this script to work on thier website.

overall, I think this is a good concept but poorly implemented with sloppy code and should still be considered a beta hack, not a full release.

spittingangels....

can you share your (improved) version..i'm still using this but mwould like to fix the errors and get a better code for this.

Please can I have a copy of yours too?