Welcome Panel [Final]

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 )





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

[JTMON]

anyone having problems using cutom avatars after using this hack? I have that problem but am not sure which hack is causing it as it used to work fine. Now they only way I can use or assign one is to add it to the public avatar list

[trilOByte]

Wierd, using custom avatars here with no problems. I can't think why it would be this hack, as it doesn't screw with the default avatar stuff at all - it just creates a new var called $avatarimage, but lets all the original stuff well alone, so that should work the same as normal.

Wierd.

[JTMON]

just checking, I'm not sure how long this has been a problem and am trying to track it down. Any idea what files would mess with that? It's even weirder because once I have gone through all that and assigned the user the avatar, it still doesn't show in the admin panel for that user, only in the postbit like normal.

[trilOByte]

Hmm, have you any hacks that alter the user profile - or maybe avatar.php?

You could expand all groups and check the templates, see if any related to avatars have been edited, then try and identify the edit/hack from there.

No more clues than that - sorry.

[khnglh]

What can i say....WORKS GREAT !!!!


Thanks for all the work on this great hack Trilobyte

[Lucky]

Got vbp3.0pr7 and vb2.2.2 and all is working great!

Thanks.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JTMON
just checking, I'm not sure how long this has been a problem and am trying to track it down. Any idea what files would mess with that? It's even weirder because once I have gone through all that and assigned the user the avatar, it still doesn't show in the admin panel for that user, only in the postbit like normal.

[trilOByte]

If you want to add a referer id link into the welcome panel, so all your members have to do is right click and choose copy shortcut, to get their unique refere id, here's how.....

In the forumhome template, find the welcomepanel addition, look for...

PHP Code:

      $unregwelcomemessage 
      $welcometext 


and immediately above that add this.....

PHP Code:

Your personal referral code is: <a href="$bburl/index.php?referrerid=$bbuserinfo[userid]">this link</a> 


Will look like this:

[Floris]

Your personal Referral code is: (link)

[trilOByte]

Thanks, missed the "rr" fixed now