How can I create a member panel on my homepage

I've seen a few people asking about this, but I can't work out how to do it.

On my homepage I want to create a panel in the right column, which says one of the following.

If member logged in:

Welcome, back..... excalty like on the main forums page.

If member not logged in:

Box with login options etc like on the main forums page.

I've been trying to create something using some custom templates in vBulletin and modifying a copy of the index.php file.

I can get it to work when my modified php file is in the forums diectory (see here ) but when I insert this PHP file into my homepage (which is a php file too) it doesn't work

I think it's to do with the paths to the templates, but I can't find where vBulletin stores its templates.

I've seen lots of websites using this feature (eg this one), but I think they are using somehing like vbPortal which I don't want to use (rather wait for vb3).

[Darren Lewis]

I followed your instructions. I created the templates, and put the PHP code into a file. I then inserted this into another PHP webpage using the include function.

It generated this error:-

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: gettemplate() in path to PHP file/homelogin.php on line 8

What am I doing wrong?

This is the full PHP file I created (called homelogin.php)

PHP Code:

<?

//User Center ****************
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']!=0) {
    eval("\$login = \"".gettemplate('home_logout')."\";");

} else {
  eval("\$login = \"".gettemplate('home_login')."\";");
}eval("\$userbits .= \"".gettemplate('home_user')."\";");

?>

[Darren Lewis]

E,

Am I supposed to be using your code together with the vBHome (Lite) hack?

[E]

where did u put it.. what is line 8?

[Andy Z]

You have to require vB's admin/functions.php in that file (I think) as that is where gettemplate() is defined.

[Darren Lewis]

I've nearly managed to solve the problem.

Have a look here for the result.

Thanks for all the help. I'm slowly starting to understand how powerful PHP (and vB) can be.

If I delete my cookie, I get this message

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at server path/test.php:11) in server path/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1545

Line 11 of test.php is the link to my website's style sheet (CSS). The problem still exists if I edit out the link to the style sheet.

It must be something to do with the cookie as when I log in the probelm disappears.

[Darren Lewis]

Managed to solve it and get the script working OK now.