Forum Home Enhancements - Welcome Panel Template Rewrite

Introduction:

When I first installed Zero Tolerence's Welcome Panel, I found that it had a lot of mistakes on my computer. I set out to make a new template for the hack - and I succeeded. This template is my rewrite of Zero Tolerence's hack.

This Hack Made Possible By Zero Tolerance

Please Remove Zero Tolerance's Plugins When Upgrading from a Previous Version!

Hack Requirements:
This hack has one requirement:

1. vBulletin v3.6.0 or higher. (Confirmed working with vB 3.7.0 RC1)

Installation

Installation is a breeze! Follow these simple steps:

1. Upload Files into folders.
2. Install Welcome Panel Product
3. Customize!

Yes, it's that simple.

Feature Lists:
Support for v1.x has been dropped.

v2.2.0

• Displays the number of new posts.
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• The welcome panel is fully phrased.
• Displays a link for new posts.
• There is a link to edit your profile.
• It shows the forum your most active in.
• It displays the percent of your posts compared to the total forum posts.
• It displays the users posts per day count.
• It displays the users number of posts.
• The welcome panel is collapsable if the user doesn't want it there.
• Completely customizable through a setting group with 13 settings.
• Displays users current time (in their time zone)!
• Image or Textual links for New Posts, Daily Posts, and Edit Your Profile.
• Displays the number of new Private Messages.
• Displays the number of new Threads.
• Customizable link for forum rules.
• Customizable to the latest forum announcement (thread only).
• Latest Announcment name is customizable through a setting.
• There is an admin editable section for "useful links", HTML required.
• Link to forum leaders. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to Mark Forums Read. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to the announcement forum.
• The colors now alternate correctly on your welcome panel.
• Show Version
• Welcome Panel Style (Second Style by Da Pro)
• FAQ Entries

v3.0.0

• Displays the number of new posts, threads, and unread private messages.
• Displays the current time (using the user?s time settings)
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• Top Poster Statistics
  • Username
  • Profile
  • Amount of Posts
• Fully Phrased
  • Re-Phrased from v2.2.0
• New Posts Link (Image or Text)
• Edit Profile Link (Image or Text)
• Daily Posts (Image or Text)
• The forum the user is most active in.
• How much percentage of the forums total posts does the user own.
• How many ?Posts Per Day? the user has.
• The Panel is Collapsible
• Customizable through 13 settings
  • Revamp Settings from v2.2.0
• Forum Rules link.
• Forums Latest Announcement
  • Pulled Dynamically from specified forum.
• Admin Set ?useful? links ? BBCode allowed!
• Links to Forum Leaders (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Mark Forums Read system (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Announcement Forum (optional)
• Alternating Colors
• Welcome Panel Version (optional)
• Welcome Panel Style Improved!
• BBCode Parsing
• Link to vBulletin.org in ACP?s Product Manager
• Version Checking enabled.
• Retrieve Latest Version from database, and display in template.
• Improved Code: With Zero Tolerance's Permission, code rerelease made this a possibility! Improved!
• Optional Plural Checking (New Posts, New Threads) New!
• No Avatar Image: Uses the Image Path setting New!
• Multiple Templates! New!

Conflicts:
Users have reported that there is a conflict with this modification:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122995

Change Log:
v3.0.5: May 16, 2007 - New Features & Improved Code
v3.0.4: March 23, 2007 - Bug Fix - new auto version update.
v3.0.3: Immediately released to replace 3.0.2 to add the correct template.
v3.0.2: Bug Fix, immediately removed from download
v3.0.1: Bug Fix
v3.0.0: Initial Release of 3.0.0

[King Kovifor]

I don't have access to my test cases, but it should be within one of the wptr_ phrases (I believe). Do a phrase search for Posts per day.

[newbe_haselina]

Hi King,

thanks for your fast reply ... I found that phrase "wp_infotext_post" ... sorry for my stupid question ... what do I have to do now?

I'm sure I have to delete "something"... the variable $vbphrase[wp_infotext_post] maybe? But where do I find it?

Thanks in advance for your support. :-)

[Areku]

My top poster's welcome panel say "0.01 posts per day", which seems not logic.

And a low poster welcome panel states he has 42% of the posts of the whole board which is also false.

Running 3.0.5 on 3.6.8.PL2

Ideas?

Thanks!

[xxshatteredsoul]

Keep getting this error when I try to upload the .xml product

vBulletin Message

No file uploaded and no local file found.

???

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Areku

My top poster's welcome panel say "0.01 posts per day", which seems not logic.

And a low poster welcome panel states he has 42% of the posts of the whole board which is also false.


Running 3.0.5 on 3.6.8.PL2

Ideas?

Thanks!

It depends on how often you post and how long you have been a member.

Originally Posted by xxshatteredsoul

Keep getting this error when I try to upload the .xml product

vBulletin Message

No file uploaded and no local file found.


???

Have you tried redownloading? Because I would pin vBulletin for that.

[Areku]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

It depends on how often you post and how long you have been a member.

Well I can guarantee you he is also the DAILY TOP POSTER on my forum, so again it makes no sense...

Also it makes no sense to claim a user has 42% of the posts in the whole forum when he has barely 10 posts against 5000 of the top poster...

Is this normal then?

[xxshatteredsoul]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

It depends on how often you post and how long you have been a member.



Have you tried redownloading? Because I would pin vBulletin for that.

Found out it was a problem with my host for some reason my TMP folder was not CHMOD for everyone to use works fine now .

[Areku]

I guess I must give up and uninstall this one

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Areku

I guess I must give up and uninstall this one

If you are talking about that one little thing, it is the right functionality. Say you have been a member for 200 days. If you only post 2 times during that time, your equation would like like this:

posts/days = posts per day or 2/200 = .01 posts per day. It is a mathematical equation.

[Areku]

Its not only about the posts per day, but the fact he owns very little posts on the whole forum, and one of the lowest posters' welcome panel say he has 44% of the whole forum posts...