Forum Home Enhancements - Welcome Panel Template Rewrite

Introduction:

When I first installed Zero Tolerence's Welcome Panel, I found that it had a lot of mistakes on my computer. I set out to make a new template for the hack - and I succeeded. This template is my rewrite of Zero Tolerence's hack.

This Hack Made Possible By Zero Tolerance

Please Remove Zero Tolerance's Plugins When Upgrading from a Previous Version!

Hack Requirements:
This hack has one requirement:

1. vBulletin v3.6.0 or higher. (Confirmed working with vB 3.7.0 RC1)

Installation

Installation is a breeze! Follow these simple steps:

1. Upload Files into folders.
2. Install Welcome Panel Product
3. Customize!

Yes, it's that simple.

Feature Lists:
Support for v1.x has been dropped.

v2.2.0

• Displays the number of new posts.
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• The welcome panel is fully phrased.
• Displays a link for new posts.
• There is a link to edit your profile.
• It shows the forum your most active in.
• It displays the percent of your posts compared to the total forum posts.
• It displays the users posts per day count.
• It displays the users number of posts.
• The welcome panel is collapsable if the user doesn't want it there.
• Completely customizable through a setting group with 13 settings.
• Displays users current time (in their time zone)!
• Image or Textual links for New Posts, Daily Posts, and Edit Your Profile.
• Displays the number of new Private Messages.
• Displays the number of new Threads.
• Customizable link for forum rules.
• Customizable to the latest forum announcement (thread only).
• Latest Announcment name is customizable through a setting.
• There is an admin editable section for "useful links", HTML required.
• Link to forum leaders. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to Mark Forums Read. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to the announcement forum.
• The colors now alternate correctly on your welcome panel.
• Show Version
• Welcome Panel Style (Second Style by Da Pro)
• FAQ Entries

v3.0.0

• Displays the number of new posts, threads, and unread private messages.
• Displays the current time (using the user?s time settings)
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• Top Poster Statistics
  • Username
  • Profile
  • Amount of Posts
• Fully Phrased
  • Re-Phrased from v2.2.0
• New Posts Link (Image or Text)
• Edit Profile Link (Image or Text)
• Daily Posts (Image or Text)
• The forum the user is most active in.
• How much percentage of the forums total posts does the user own.
• How many ?Posts Per Day? the user has.
• The Panel is Collapsible
• Customizable through 13 settings
  • Revamp Settings from v2.2.0
• Forum Rules link.
• Forums Latest Announcement
  • Pulled Dynamically from specified forum.
• Admin Set ?useful? links ? BBCode allowed!
• Links to Forum Leaders (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Mark Forums Read system (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Announcement Forum (optional)
• Alternating Colors
• Welcome Panel Version (optional)
• Welcome Panel Style Improved!
• BBCode Parsing
• Link to vBulletin.org in ACP?s Product Manager
• Version Checking enabled.
• Retrieve Latest Version from database, and display in template.
• Improved Code: With Zero Tolerance's Permission, code rerelease made this a possibility! Improved!
• Optional Plural Checking (New Posts, New Threads) New!
• No Avatar Image: Uses the Image Path setting New!
• Multiple Templates! New!

Conflicts:
Users have reported that there is a conflict with this modification:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122995

Change Log:
v3.0.5: May 16, 2007 - New Features & Improved Code
v3.0.4: March 23, 2007 - Bug Fix - new auto version update.
v3.0.3: Immediately released to replace 3.0.2 to add the correct template.
v3.0.2: Bug Fix, immediately removed from download
v3.0.1: Bug Fix
v3.0.0: Initial Release of 3.0.0

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Blue91

When I go to install this... I put images in my images folder... When I go to load the xml file, I get an error... "Invalid File Specified" Any ideas? Running 3.8.0.

Thanks.

Um, not at all. Try uploading it to the server (under, includes/xml) and using the server file method. That might work for you.

[Blue91]

Still no luck. I uploaded it to that folder and tried to install from this path "./includes/xml/product-welcomepanel-v305.xml"

Still get the error... I'll try deleting/reinstalling the entire thing, from the zip download forward.

[Blue91]

Do I have to upload the .DS_Store files? If so, where? To the same directory as the img files and the xml file respectively?

I feel like an idiot b/c this won't work. I just tried it a second time with the same results.

I uploaded the img files (and .DS_Store file just in case) to the images folder. I then tried to run the xml file from my computer. No go. I uploaded it to includes/xml folder (again, with the .DS_Store file just in case) and it did the same thing.

Oh well. This sucks b/c all of my users want the welcome panel back (had smasher master's hack on my previous 3.03 board version).

[Blue91]

Got it. I was trying to install the xml into the wrong area. I'm new to the "xml" game since I just came from 3.03.

Now to see how to go about moving it above the nav bar. Thanks.

[Medina]

Hello K_K

I would like to ask you if its possible to integrate this mod. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=88474 into the welcomepanel.

So when receiving a pm, or a vistor message it should blink.

I hope that you can take a look at it.

Thank you very much.

[King Kovifor]

Since they have template edits, just apply them to this template and it should work fine.

[Medina]

Thank you for your reply.

Uhm, im a bit of a noob. Can you please give me instructions.

[Medina]

May i ask someone for support please. (if possible)

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Medina

May i ask someone for support please. (if possible)

You need to edit the template set for your style:

forumhome_welcomepanel_

Then you need to follow the instructions for that mod.

[perfphysio]

Hi guys

I have updated my navbar successfully to add the ending to the search.php query as shown below so that threads from those categories don't appear in my list. i.e. adding &exclude=212,220 at the end where 212 and 220 are the forum ID's I don't want included in the results

I have done the same in your forumhome_welcomepanel (see below) but it does not seem to work in there. Any ideas?

<!-- Start Image Links -->
<if condition="$vbulletin->options['images'] == 'imgs'">
<a href="search.php?{$session[sessionurl]}do=getnew&exclude=212,220"> <img src="$vboptions[wp_forumimagelink]newposts.png" alt="New Posts"></a> <a href="search.php?{$session[sessionurl]}do=getdaily&exclude=212,220"><img src="$vboptions[wp_forumimagelink]24hours.png" alt="Get Daily Posts"></a>