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

[christina]

I upgraded to 2.2.2 and the hack still works fine as far as I can tell. However, I did go and do the manual 2.2.2 upgrade for the most part, just to be safe.

[Airwaves]

no problems in 222 but can someone please tell me how to put the current online users section under the welcome panel, but above the forum list, with a gap in between them?

I have this hack installed and assume it would be only a template hack, but i dont like messing with them unless its a tried and tested procedure.

[Duke Of Lion]

I still haven't been able to get it to work? Anybody any advice? Here's my site: http://www.procedure.com
The Avatars don't work and my login box don't show up at the top....

[Floris]

It really looks like everything is fine, you just dont have the templates altered i think .. or the index.php .. Please follow the installation instructions step by step ..

[Birdie501]

hi,

can somebody explain why I should use this hack? I just edited the templates forumhome_logincode and forumhome_logout code to do this! What is the advantage of this hack?

Thanks a lot!

[trilOByte]

no problems in 222 but can someone please tell me how to put the current online users section under the welcome panel, but above the forum list, with a gap in between them?

I have this hack installed and assume it would be only a template hack, but i dont like messing with them unless its a tried and tested procedure.

Yep, actually very easy.

In the forumhome template, fine the welcompanel edit that you added as part of the hack, scroll through untill you see..

PHP Code:

$pminfo 


and replace it with

PHP Code:

$pminfo
$loggedinusers 


Basically, you're just moving the "online users" section, up under the PM section in the welcome panel.

Dont forget to remove the "$loggedinusers" line, from further down the forumhome template, otherwise it will show twice.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Birdie501
hi,

can somebody explain why I should use this hack? I just edited the templates forumhome_logincode and forumhome_logout code to do this! What is the advantage of this hack?

Thanks a lot!

[pdatoon]

Hi,

I upgraded to 2.2.2 and the avatar shown in the CP disapeared.
look at : http://www.pdafrance.com/pdaforum/index.php?s=

any ideas? :frus:

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by pdatoon
Hi,

I upgraded to 2.2.2 and the avatar shown in the CP disapeared.
look at : http://www.pdafrance.com/pdaforum/index.php?s=

any ideas? :frus:

[freehtml]

Great ahck, installed in less than 10 minutes