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) and one by MrLister (since your last visit). 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

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

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

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)

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....

and...

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

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.

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 ;)

this is a great hack!

Will be installing this after I format my comp

Looks like a wicked hack :) :)

Thanks for the fine work man :D

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

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.
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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