Welcome Panel v1.0

Yup, a welcome panel, very generic

Just look at the preview if you want to see a working example, do note that nothing is displayed for guests.

For those concerned about queries, it does add 5, however the run time on these queries are on the average server below 0.01 seconds, for me they all execute at 0.001xx seconds - so it shouldn't effect performance too a degree you'd notice.

Alternate Version Download: here
Information for alternate version: here
Thanks to: hellsatan

Enjoy,

- Zero Tolerance

[Chris M]

Why do we really need a Welcome Panel though

Now that we have a navbar in > vB3 it kind of defeats the idea

Still - In the spirit of installation madness, I've installed it

Satan

[Chris M]

Oh...

Btw:

Ensure to upload "noavatar.gif" to your forums doot directory, you're free to use any picture of your own liking.

Whats my forums doot directory?

Satan

[fraghappy]

Looks good, ZT. You always do a good job.

I'm nit-picky about this kind of stuff, but shouldn't "Your most active in" read "You're most active in"?

EDIT - Also:
"Welcome Back {username}" -> "Welcome Back, {username}"
"there has been {x} posts...} -> "there have been {x} posts "

Sorry. I'm a grammar nerd.

[Zero Tolerance]

Bare with me, havn't slept for .. a long time - i'll get those grammer issue's sorted.

Edit: Updated, sorry for that.

And hellsatan - I don't know to be honest, but they do look funky =P

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[Chris M]

Would you mind if I posted another .zip file for those of us already using the "Get new threads and posts" plugin?

It would contain a slightly altered .xml file and template

And it would save people two queries...

I've also attached the traditional "No Avatar" image from the vB2 Welcome Panel hack

Satan

[Chris M]

Ok - Let me clean up my template and code a bit

Satan

[Zero Tolerance]

Originally Posted by hellsatan

Would you mind if I posted another .zip file for those of us already using the "Get new threads and posts" plugin?

It would contain a slightly altered .xml file and template

And it would save people two queries...

I've also attached the traditional "No Avatar" image from the vB2 Welcome Panel hack

Satan

Feel free hellsatan, i'll include it in the main post once you do

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[Chris M]

Ok - In this .zip there are three enhancements I have made, but you need not do them if you want...

[high]NOTE:[/high] The following enhancements have [high]already[/high] been made to the plugin and template attached in the .zip file in this post...

The first, is for those of us already using the "Get new threads and posts" plugin - I couldn't be bothered to edit the templates and remove it, so I saved myself two queries with this mod

The second is to alter the "Last visit" text:

Find in your template:

since your last visit at {$bbuserinfo['lastvisit']}<br />

Replace with:

since your last visit $pmbox[lastvisitdate] at $pmbox[lastvisittime]<br />

This, if you use detailed or yesterday/today time formats, will put "since your last visit Yesterday at 09:11 PM", for example, as opposed to "since your last visit 14-06-2005 at 09:11 PM"

Then you need to remove the following line from your plugin code:

PHP Code:

    $vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit'] = vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit']) . ', ' . vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit']); 


The third enhancement is merely a template one - Just adding a bit of text and a variable for "Active members"

I think you can probably figure that one out for yourselves though

So here you go

Satan

[Zero Tolerance]

First post updated - thanks

- Zero Tolerance