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

[Floris]

np

[psico]

For those who have Custom Avatars as Files HACK installed, here is the solution to make it works with the Welcome Panel HACK:

Replace this code from Welcome Panel HACK in INDEX.PHP:

if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0) {
  $avatarurl=getavatarurl($bbuserinfo[userid]);
  if ($avatarurl=='') {
    $avatarurl='images/avatars/noavatar.gif';
  }
  $avatarimage='<a href="member.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=editavatar"><img src="'.$avatarurl.'" border="0">';
} else {
  $avatarimage='<a href="register.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=signup"><img src="images/avatars/guestavatar.gif" border="0"></a>';
}

With this code:

############################
if ($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0) {
$avatarurl=getavatarurl($bbuserinfo[userid]);
  if ($avatarurl=='') {
    $avatarurl='images/avatars/noavatar.gif';
  } else {
	if ($post[hascustomavatar] and $avatarenabled) {
		if ($usefileavatar) $avatarurl="custom_avatars/avatar$bbuserinfo[userid]_$bbuserinfo[avatarrevision].gif";
		else $avatarurl="avatar.php?userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]";
  	 	}
	}
  $avatarimage='<a href="member.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=editavatar"><img src="'.$avatarurl.'" border="0">';
} else {
  $avatarimage='<a href="register.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=signup"><img src="images/avatars/guestavatar.gif" border="0"></a>';
}
############################

I've tested and is working great...

Welcome Panel ROCKS!

[JTMON]

I don't have the custom avatars as file hack installed but I tried your code and it didn't work. I tried to upload and got this message:

[QUOTE]Warning: Unable to create '/admin/tmp/yeller.gif': No such file or directory in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/whatthefrag.com/httpdocs/forums/admin/user.php on line 632

Warning: Unable to move '/tmp/phpHt9sRD' to '/admin/tmp/yeller.gif' in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/whatthefrag.com/httpdocs/forums/admin/user.php on line 632

[trilOByte]

JTMON, did you try changing the name of the var from $avatarimage to something else?

EDIT: I don't think Pisco's hack will work unless you have the AAF hack installed.

[JTMON]

Not yet, about to tho.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by psico
For those who have Custom Avatars as Files HACK installed, here is the solution to make it works with the Welcome Panel HACK:

PHP Code:

$avatarurl="custom_avatars/avatar$bbuserinfo[userid]_$bbuserinfo[avatarrevision].gif" 


I've tested and is working great...

Welcome Panel ROCKS!

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JTMON
Not yet, about to tho.

[JTMON]

me too, I know it worked before vbPortal tho but that was almost 2 months ago.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JTMON
me too, I know it worked before vbPortal tho but that was almost 2 months ago.

[JTMON]

I got that script from vbPortal.com as someone released it. That's probably the last change I did before I noticed the problem, so I am going to revert it to see if it fixes it. The thing is, I tried using $myavatarvariable in the login block with only the welcome panel hack installed and it wouldn't show.