login box ---> welcome user ???

[z1haze]

hi i was wondering if its possible to make my login, and password info on my main paid, to say a welcome message when a user is logged in, and not to display the login and password boxes... this is the code i am using to log into my vbulletin from and outside page.. please try to be as easy to explain as you can this is tough for me.. lol Thank you so much

 <form action="./FORUM/login.php?do=login" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password, vb_login_md5password, vb_login_md5password_utf, $show[nopasswordempty])">
  	  <input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />
  	  <input type="hidden" name="url" value="/test" />
  	  <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
  	  <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
  	  <input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
        <strong>User Login</strong> <input type="text" name="vb_login_username" id="login" tabindex="1" class="form" accesskey="u" value="username" onfocus="this.value=''"/> &nbsp; <input type="password" name="vb_login_password" id="password" tabindex="1" class="form" value="password" onfocus="this.value=''"/> &nbsp; <input type="submit" name="login" id="submit" tabindex="1" value="" accesskey="s" class="login_button" /> &nbsp; <input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" id="cb_cookieuser" tabindex="1" /> Remember me?  &nbsp; <a href="index.php?page=register">Register</a> | <a href="index.php?page=forgot">Lost Password</a>
        </form>

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does anyone read these forums? geez

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You will need at least a tiny bit of PHP experience. You will need to include global.php, and vBulletin will fetch the session for you. You can then use conditionals to hide/show things based on session status.

[Commander-X]

Anyone sccessfully did this kind of stuff

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Originally Posted by Commander-X

Anyone sccessfully did this kind of stuff

Plenty of people have done this... Just search the forums, and you'll see this question pop up many, many times.