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

[Tigga]

Glad to be of service.

[sklwer]

hey Guys,
I got it working in version 2.28 and I was hoping to put the info in my home site ( Thats shtml) any idea?????
appriciate

[MartynJ]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by \ \ - Speedy - / /
how do you do this?

[refertech]

Any of you guys know why the color above my posts would be diffrent now? Probably something to do with the last active hack I installed. Could someone help me out with how to go about correcting this.

Thanks,

Mark

[Tigga]

Try looking in your member list template for colspan="6". Change the colspan to 7 and it should fix it.

[refertech]

Yeap that done the trick. Thanks for helping a newbie out.

Mark

[digitalJE5U5]

Love the hack. One small problem though, Im trying to add the variables

$recordusers
and
$numberregistered
and
$numberguest

to the control panel, but instead of
"currently online: <insert #>"

I get "currently online:"

That make sense?

Any help is VERY appreciated.

THanks,
/DJ

[NTLDR]

You need to make sure that the welcome panel templates are evaluated after the users online code is, otherwise the varaibles contain no data.

Instead of adding the code for the templates where it says to in the instructions for the second change add it after:

PHP Code:

  $recordusers = $maxusers[0];
  $recorddate = vbdate($dateformat,$maxusers[1]);
  $recordtime = vbdate($timeformat,$maxusers[1]);
  eval("\$loggedinusers = "".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinusers')."";");
} 


It should then show up correctly.

[digitalJE5U5]

Instead of adding the code for the templates where it says to in the instructions for the second change add it after:

Thanks for the help. I've found my fix! I just not sure exactly what you mean. You refer to the "second change". The second change has to do with index.php? And you refer to "template". Could you please tell me exactly what code, and where I need to put it? I just dont wanna screw anything up.

THanks alot!

/DJ

[NTLDR]

Place this code:

PHP Code:

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>';
} 


Directly after the code I posted in 348 and not where it says to put it in the instructions.