[release] Hackless/imageless PM bar on forumhome
 

Author: filburt1
Description: Displays the classic "private message bar" on forumhome. Credit for a bit of the code (mostly the query and the round() code) goes to princeton and his enhanced PM bar hack at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=34761 .
Demo: None unless you register, naturally
Screenshot: http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mo...=&postid=14563

This adds one query to forumhome only when a registered user is logged in and has private messaging enabled.

Screenshot:

Nice mod, but it looks ugly on forumhome so I'm not going to use it.

nice another winner

Anyway to do this like a STAR SYSTEM.

Ugly as in colors ugly or ugly as in should be in private.php instead?

With a little bit of work you can change the colors :)

ya you can change the colors very easy.

I'm real new at doing any modifications, so you may need to spoon feed me. I think I did it like your instructions said and the bar will not show up.

It's not the colors, just having a nice fat bar on forumhome isn't appealing to me.

Great! Thanks!

I modified mine a bit so that it's more compact... I removed the <smallfont> tags and replaced it with <font face=terminal size=1>&nbsp;</font> (There's 3 of them, one in each bar table.

I also removed one of the <br>'s in forumhome_pmloggedin

If the number of saved pm's were over the limit, would that effect the box not showing up?

I was checking it w/ my log in and all admins can go over the max that is set.

Nope, that didn't work either.

I pasted the info in my phpincluded template exactly like it is above in the txt file.

You can use if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 6) to have it work for only non-admins.

Just follow the instructions, they're pretty specific.

Did you enter stuff in phpinclude and forumhome_pmloggedin?

Yes and I just got this from one of my posters wondering what it meant.

Parse error: parse error in /home/.sites/28/site1/web/vbulletin/global.php(302) : eval()'d code on line 13

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.sites/28/site1/web/vbulletin/global.php(302) : eval()'d code:13) in /home/.sites/28/site1/web/vbulletin/showthread.php on line 116

What's in your phpinclude template right now?

// This code is PHP4 only:
// ob_start();
// require("yourheader.html");
// $header = ob_get_contents();
// ob_end_clean();

Well you have to add the stuff to phpinclude as per the instructions ...

I did have it there, but I deleted it back out when people told me they were getting that error message.

I had it in there like this....

deleted

How would i make the bar slimmer like???

Thanx for the work grerat mod

Check my post on the first page for a screenshot and instructions on how I made it a bit slimmer.

Done that and stil it will not shrink the bar,the text has gone nice and small .

Yes i removed the <brs> and yes i replaced the <smallfont>

In 3 places as you said

You can get rid of all the text inside the table cells, then specify your own height.

yah fil, i get that weird *** error in my header now too, i did exactlly wut u said, but now at the top of my forum is tells me that i have this...

<php>Warning: Division by zero in c:\program files\easyphp\www\private\global.php(309) : eval()'d code on line 23

Warning: Division by zero in c:\program files\easyphp\www\private\global.php(309) : eval()'d code on line 57</php>

can u tell me wuts wrong?

that's a nice one!

Maybe you don't have a PM quota in which case the bar would be kinda pointless...

im having a problem also. installed it on both templates and it has no bar. Just shows "You have 0 new message(s) since your last visit.
(You have 0 unread messages and 0 total messages in all your folders.) You are using % of your allowed storage space of 70 messages"

what did i do wrong?

THANK YOU

Something in the phpinclude template is wrong.

can I also do this without the bar?

ah never mind I found it owt.