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

[karreman]

i have the avatar as link 2 hack installed, then it never shows your personal avatar in the welcome screen, only the "no avatar" image. (yet i do have a offsite avatar)

Anyone know how to fix this?

[karreman]

anyone?? :'( :'(

[karreman]

Ok, i fixed it myself (dont know if already it was fixed by someone).

To let this hack work properly with Avatar as Link 2 Hack (show real avatar on welcome box):

Before:

PHP Code:

  if ($avatarurl=='') { 


of the added script

add:

PHP Code:

$avatarlink=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT avatar2 FROM avatarlink WHERE userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]");
$avatarurl=$avatarlink[avatar2]; 


Hope this helps some of u.

[kmistry]

I just got a problem, how do i add a link to the left bar of the thing, where it says "Log out" or "Mark forums read" etc. i would like to add another link there, where could i find that code, under which part of the template?

[karreman]

u mean right side :rambo:

anyway, check your modifyavatar_link template

that is the whole table with the vars.. edit it..

[kmistry]

could you please direct me to as where i would find that?

[Markjpx]

Just installed this hack.

Toot sweet Trilobyte and all the rest.

My forum is only a month old so it's a little rough.

But you can check it out here, running vbPortal and vB 2.2.5:

http://digitalfumes.com/tus/

[s o r o k a]

Man I need help correcting this...I am trying to running the 'Yet another RPG Stats' and the RPG Limit Breaks on my Welcome Panel but it does show and my user post count doesn't show either. www.fg-forums.com

<table border="0"cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth }" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor }" 

{tableouterextra } width="{contenttablewidth }" align="center" width="100%"> 
<tr> 
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#606096" colspan="3"><font face="Verdana"> 
<b>Welcome to Fusion Gods Forums</b></font></td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td width="33%" bgcolor="{secondaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000"><font face="Tahoma" 

size="2"><b>User 

Information</b></font><br> 
<smallfont>Your general User Information can be found 
here.</smallfont></td> 
<td width="33%" bgcolor="{secondaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000"><font size="2" 

face="Tahoma"><b>Forum 
Statistics<b></font><br> 
<span style="font-weight: 400"><smallfont>Current Standings for Our Forum's Records.</smallfont></td> 
<td width="34%" bgcolor="{secondaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000"><font size="2" 

face="Tahoma"><b>Your 

Statistics</b></font><br> 
<smallfont>Your Health and Wealth so far.</smallfont></td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td width="33%" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000"> 
<div align="left"> 
<table border="0" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="260"> 
<tr> 
<td width="90"><smallfont>$avatarimage</td> 
<td><b>User:</b> $username<br> 
<b>Posts:</b> $bbuserinfo[posts]<br> 
<b>ID:</b> $userid<br> 
<b>Gils:</b> $bbuserinfo[field5]</smallfont></td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
</div> 
</td> 
<td width="33%" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000"> 
<div align="left"> 
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="260"> 
<tr> 
<td><smallfont><b>Members:</b> $numbermembers (Since April 13, 2002)<br> 
<b>Newest Member:</b> <a 

href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&userid=$newuserid">$newusername</a><br> 
<b>Threads:</b> $totalthreads<br> 
<b>Posts:</b> $totalposts</smallfont></td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
</div> 
</td> 
<td width="34%" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #000000"> 
<div align="left"> 
<table border="0" bgcolor="{firstaltcolor }" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="260"> 
<tr> 
<td><smallfont><b>Limit:</b> $bbuserinfo[limit]<br> 
<b>Level:</b> $bbuserinfo[showlevel]<br> 
<b>HP:</b> $bbuserinfo[hp] / $bbuserinfo[maxhp] <br> 
<b>MP:</b> $bbuserinfo[mp] / $bbuserinfo[maxmp] </smallfont></td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
</div> 
</td> 
</tr> 
</table>

[high]* s o r o k a confused...
[/high]
Please help me?

[Intex]

Nice hack Trilobyte - installed with no problems

[FleaBag]

Installed on 2.2.5, working like a dream!