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

[Tony DiMera]

Thank anyway

[trilOByte]

Take a look at the hack vB Index v2.0.

It's a non vB index page for your site and has the welcome panel built into it. If you dont want to use the whole hack, you may be able to strip out what you need with some trial and error and a little php knowledge.

That's the best I can do.

It's a nice hack too.

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

hey.. i luv this hack, it's awesome.. however, ever since I done the hack.. I get this whacky error


[QUOTE]vel$depth$tempext")."\";"); if ($depth<$forumhomedepth) { $forumbits.=makeforumbit($forum['forumid'],$depth+1,$forumperms); } } // END if can view } // END while ( list($key2,$forum)=each($val1) ) { } // END while ( list($key1,$val1)=each($iforumcache["$forumid"]) ) { unset($iforumcache["$forumid"]); return $forumbits; } if (!isset($forumid) or $forumid==0 or $forumid=='') { $forumid=-1; } else { // need to get permissions for this specific forum $permissions=getpermissions(intval($forumid)); } $forumbits=makeforumbit(intval($forumid), 1, $permissions); $unregwelcomemessage=''; if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) { eval("\$unregwelcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_unregmessage')."\";" ); } eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('forumhome')."\");" ); ?>

[trilOByte]

Reapply the hack! Be very careful to cover every step in the instructions precisely.

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

*sigh* i have done it several times.. do you think I could just send you my index.php file? maybe you can over look it, and tell me if its okay? cuz i'm really lost @ this point!! :bored:

[trilOByte]

what version of vBulletin are you running?

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

the latest one.. 2.2.7

[trilOByte]

That worries me. I havent heard off anyone who has installed this successfully on 2.2.7 yet. The last confirmed problem free version was 2.2.6!

[JCFN TeK gEEk]

hehe.. well this is the thing, it happen before I even upgraded.. on 2.2.6

[N9ne]

It should work with 2.2.7, ill install it on my test board now to check if u like