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

[trilOByte]

Hmm, for some reason I wasn't able to attach the zip, anyway, here it is...

[Graphic-Forums]

In reply to your post in the last thread, I uploaded the images. Can you check and see what the url is it is trying to call the avatars from?

And thanks for this hack, it adds a feeling of (this site just kicked my ass) to my boards, and I like that.

After I got a good php editor, It installed easily.

(For those of you without one, try www.download.com, search for edit plus 2)

[trilOByte]

It's looking for the avatars at..


.....ww.graphic-forums.com/images/avatars/guestavatar.gif


You can modify the url in the first part of the hack, find....

PHP Code:

src="images/avatars/guestavatar.gif" 


and...

PHP Code:

 $avatarurl='images/avatars/noavatar.gif'; 


...and change them to reflect the path of guestavatar and noavatar respectively.

[Graphic-Forums]

I noticed it pointed to a avatars directory, mine has it setup as avatar, so I didnt feel like editing php so I just made a avatars directory and uploaded.

[trilOByte]

Man, whatever you're happy with, but that's gotta be the hard way - I would have just clipped the "s" off the end - really simple, it's only a path

Anyway, it's working fine now, though you might want to change those avatars to a colour scheme that matches your site better. Should be a breeze to knock out a couple of gif's in Photoshop for you guys

[S0uL]

this is a great hack!

[DelusionalMind]

Will be installing this after I format my comp

Looks like a wicked hack

Thanks for the fine work man

[snyx]

be original, make your own...

[cyrus]

Fab hack ! Easy to install because of clean instructions ... very effective and a clever idea !

I instaleld it, but I have a small problem. Where it says :-

The time now is 01:35 PM.
You last visited: 12-25-2001 01:34 PM.
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That text comes larger than the text above it ! I do not know why and even when I make it smaller in forumhome template, it stays the same ... looks REALYL ugly.

heres the link to my forums so you can see what I mean !

http://www.digital-mafia.co.uk/forums/

Can anyone help ??

Thank youuuuuuuuuuu