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

[rishel]

Question if I may, on many of these sites I saw the examples of this hack on, I saw many features on the front pages like:

birthday, top posters, etc, etc.

Where do you all get that stuff from? What I mean is, almost 10 sites had the same exact calendar, top posters, birthday, and private message boxes on the site.

Where is that downloadable from?

[trilOByte]

<a href="http://www.phpportals.com" target="_blank">http://www.phpportals.com</a>

[Jawelin]

[QUOTE]edit:
solved

[Xelation]

I am having a problem.... when I login as a member the welcome screen is fine... but when I login as a guest its all messed up. Can you tell me whats going on please? I have added an image to show you what happens when Im a guest.... I know my board is bad right now, i installed it yesterday, and am editing it right now.

[Shenlong]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Xelation
I am having a problem.... when I login as a member the welcome screen is fine... but when I login as a guest its all messed up. Can you tell me whats going on please? I have added an image to show you what happens when Im a guest.... I know my board is bad right now, i installed it yesterday, and am editing it right now.

[Xelation]

Found out my problem... I accidently put the text that needed to go "forumhome_unregmessage" right under that template. My bad. lol.... I love this Hack by the way!

[trilOByte]

LOL, I guessed the problem was you screwed up the forumhome_unregmessage template just from your description - glad you have it sorted

[GraphicW]

Nice hack, but in order to use it, I will have to install zip since it is not recognized by default Linux compression utils.

[MomofThree]

Great hack...thank you.

I installed it on my boards and noticed only one little problem. It's not showing the number of new posts and threads. Would you know why?

Thanks for your help!

Iliana
www.theparentclub.com

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MomofThree
Great hack...thank you.

I installed it on my boards and noticed only one little problem. It's not showing the number of new posts and threads. Would you know why?

Thanks for your help!

Iliana
www.theparentclub.com