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

[WoodiE]

clicks on install....works great for me on 2.2.6

[Keyser S?ze]

can anyone make a addon for this like, on holidays it automatically says "Merry Christmas..." that kind of thing, and so admins can set the date for whtever holidays or whatever

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend
Thanks ghost.That fixed it.

Has the welcome panel hack been edited since it was first released,to replace "lastpost" with "dateline".

Just wondering.

[Robert9]

Hey I have a question. When I install the welcome panel it leaves off the Private message box that should be under the welcome panel. What is the problem here? I followed all the steps completely.

[Schorsch]

anybody has these two pics in german ? or could make them in german ?

thanks,
Schorsch

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert9
Hey I have a question. When I install the welcome panel it leaves off the Private message box that should be under the welcome panel. What is the problem here? I followed all the steps completely.

Question how can i remove the forum leaders link ?

[djr]

Trilobyte,

Do you have the two .gif's in .psd format, so I can translate the text and the colors more easily?

- djr

[Ian Emu-UK]

Great hack

I have a couple of private forums, and I have fudged around with the PHP to stop it from counting them in the total with some help from a friend (Thanks RCK):-

PHP Code:

$getnewthread=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' and forumid <> '21' and forumid <> '19'");
$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post, thread WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' and thread.threadid=post.threadid and thread.forumid <> '21' and thread.forumid <> '19'"); 


It works a treat apart from the fact it counts all the posts in a thread instead of just counting the new post.

I would be most grateful if one of you PHP/mySQL gods could help me with this one

[Hwulex]

Have installed, thanks for nice hack. Altered the templates pretty heavily, inspired by your own Genome Collective forum design (great work there btw dude).

Fourm should be at http://www.xaprief.com/forum/ soon