[NexDog]

Hi Logician,

I have had this hack working great on our VB2 board for two years but now we are finally upgrading to vb 3.5.0 and this hack is integral to our design. What we do is show a message on the left menu that either displays user info for members or a "Sign Up" messgae for visitors. See here - http://nexusportal.net.

I'm having trouble getting this to work in VB 3.5.0 though. We don't need the pop-up or separate table - we need to keep the current integration. Therefore your step 2 maybe shouldn't apply? In the forumhome template on vb2 I put:

<!-- Begin Conditional Hack-->
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]]
Stuff here
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]]
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
Other stuff here
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
<!-- /End Conditional Hack-->

I put $dfh_announcement in the forumhome template where I want the message to show and then put the code in the box in the vbulletin settings section which is:

<!-- Begin Conditional Hack-->
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]]

                                  <td align="center"><font color="#3A3D65" size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><strong>USER 
                                    INFORMATION </strong></font></td>
                                </tr>
                              </table></td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td width="185" height="100%" align="left" valign="top" background="nexica_01/main/sidebar_bg.jpg"><table width="162" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" valign="top">
                                <tr> 
                                  <td height="3" valign="top"></td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                  <td valign="top"><smallfont> 
                                    <p> 
                                      <center>
                                        $avatarimage</a> 
                                      </center>
                                      <br>
                                      $welcometext<strong><br>
                                      <br>
                                      Total Posts: <font color="#3A3D65">$bbuserinfo[posts]</font><br>
<b>Credits:</b> <font color="#3A3D65">$storepoints</font>
                                      <br>

                                      
<br>
                                      You Last Visited:</strong><br>
                                      $bbuserinfo[lastvisitdate].<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <strong>Time Now:</strong> $timenow.<br>
<br>
                                      <img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9"> 
                                      <a href="store.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=main">Your Store</a><br>                                      
<br>
                                      <img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9"> 
                                      $newposts<br><br>                          
</smallfont>
</p></td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr id="cat"> 
                                  <td height="19" align="center" background="nexica_01/main/side_title.gif"><font color="#3A3D65" size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><strong>PRIVATE 
                                    MESSAGES </strong></font></td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr> 
                                  <td valign="top"><p><smallfont> <b>$bbuserinfo[username]</b> 
                                      - You have <b>$newpm[messages]</b> new message(s) 
                                      since your last visit.<br>
                                      <b>Unread Messages:</b> $unreadpm[messages] 
                                      <br>
                                      <b>Total Messages:</b> $allpm[messages]<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1"><img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9"> 
                                      </font><a href="private.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">Open 
                                      Your PM Inbox</a><br>
                                      <br>
                                      </smallfont></p></td>
                                </tr>
                                [[/($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]] [[($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]] 
                                  <td align="center"><font color="#3A3D65" size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><strong>THE 
                                    NEXUSPORTAL! </strong></font></td>
                                </tr>
                              </table></td>
                          </tr>
                          <tr> 
                            <td width="185" height="100%" align="left" valign="top" background="nexica_01/main/sidebar_bg.jpg"><table width="162" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" valign="top">
                                <tr> 
                                  <td valign="top"><smallfont> <p> <strong>Welcome 
                                      to NexusPortal!</strong> This site is open 
                                      to all current and prospective Nexus members. 
                                      Take full advantage of this site! Register 
                                      now to gain:<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <b><img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6"> 
                                      Full Posting Privileges.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"><br>
                                      <img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6"> 
                                      Access to all areas.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"><br>
                                      <img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6"> 
                                      Community Support.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"><br>
                                      <img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6"> 
                                      Ability to Interact.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"></b></p>
                                    <p align="center"><img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">&nbsp;<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9"> 
                                      <a href="register.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=signup"><strong>REGISTER 
                                      NOW!</strong></a> <img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow02.gif" width="9" height="9">&nbsp;<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow02.gif" width="9" height="9"></p>
                                    <p>$newposts<br>
                                      <br>
                                    </p></td>
                                </tr>
                                [[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]] 
                                <!-- /End Conditional Hack-->

This is one of our testbeds:

http://test.nexusportal.net/index.php?styleid=4

You can see the USER INFORMATION on the top of the left menu but after that it's all a mess. Can you not put HTML in there?

The vb2 version was so simple.