Welcome Panel Hack [3.5.X]

Version 1.3

Hack Author:
[size=2][b][color=yellow]Name: SmasherMaster
E-Mail: Xenaero@gmail.com

Description:
This hack replaces the box on top of the postbit in the index page with a snazzy panel with stats, new posts and PMs. When you go to view a different page, the box on top of the navbar changes into the default navigation/breadcrumb box.

Changelog:
V1.3 - Added 2 new texts, one under Forum Stats and one under Your Info:
Your Posts, which displays your total # of posts and the %
of the total forum's posts it is.
Active Members, this basically is the same stat as the one
in the bottom of the What's Going On? Panel.

V1.2 - Updated it for vB 3.5.x! Enjoy! Note also that since I do not have
the vBA portal anymore, I cannot be certain how to update that
coding as well, sorry! =(
I also fixed a few minor security bugs and avatar paths,
And made it work with the plugin system! Have fun!

V1.1 - Changed file edit to global.php for tidier code.
Added file and new template edits for VbAdvanced CMPS
So the welcome panel will work on CMPS.

V1.0 - Welcome Panel Hack RELEASED!

Installation Time:
5 min.

Zip Contents:
WelcomePanelHack_V1.3[3.5.x].zip
|-instructions.txt -- Instructions on how to install this hack.
|-WelcomePanel-Plugin.xml -- The plugin XML
|-noavatar.gif -- Image for members who don't have an avatar yet.
|-guestavatar.gif -- Image for guests.
|-Welcome_Panel_Guest.jpg -- What the panel will look like to a guest
|-Welcome_Panel_loggedin.jpg -- What the panel will look like to a member with an avatar
|-Welcome_Panel_loggedin_noav.jpg -- What the panel will look like to a member without an avatar


Testing:
Tested on vBulletin 3.5.3

Plugins to upload:
WelcomePanel-Plugin.xml

Templates to Modify:
forumhome (Optional)
navbar

Images to Upload:
noavatar.gif
guestavatar.gif

Notes:
If you use this hack, please click on the INSTALL button.
You will be notifited via email about any updates or changes.

[chimaira]

Awsome and works fine... Just one thing... What part do i need to edit to have the avatar display on the right hand side.. rather than the left

[SmasherMaster]

Originally Posted by chimaira

Awsome and works fine... Just one thing... What part do i need to edit to have the avatar display on the right hand side.. rather than the left

Replace the navbar template coding that I had you insert with this:

<!-- Welcome Panel Hack V1.2 [] Created By SmasherMaster -->
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" 

align="center"> 
<tr>
<!-- Main Welcome Panel Block [] Begin -->
	<td class="alt1" nowrap="nowrap" style="padding:3px">
	<if condition="$vbulletin->userinfo[userid]!=0">
	<!-- Your Stats [] Begin -->
	<div class="smallfont"><b>Your Info:</b><br />User: <a 

href="member.php?{$session['sessionurl']}u={$vbulletin->userinfo['userid']}" 

title="Go To Your Profile">{$vbulletin->userinfo['username']}</a><br />
	<a href="search.php?{$session['sessionurl']}do=getnew">New Posts</a>: 


{$vbulletin->userinfo['newposts']}<br />New Threads: 

{$vbulletin->userinfo['newthreads']}<br />
	<if condition="$show[pmstats]"><phrase 

1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 

3="$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></if></div>
	<!-- Your Stats [] End -->
	<else />
		<!-- login form --> 
		<form action="login.php" method="post" 

onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password,vb_login_md5password)"> 
		<script type="text/javascript" 

src="clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js"></script> 
		<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" border="0"> 
		<tr> 
		<td class="smallfont">User Name</td> 
		<td><input type="text" class="button" name="vb_login_username" 

id="navbar_username" size="10" accesskey="u" tabindex="1" value="User Name" 

onfocus="if (this.value == 'User Name') this.value = '';" /></td>

		</tr> 
		<tr> 
		<td class="smallfont">Password</td> 
		<td><input type="password" class="button" 

name="vb_login_password" size="10" accesskey="p" tabindex="2" /></td> 
		</tr> 
		<tr> 
		<td class="smallfont" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap"> 
		<label for="cb_cookieuser_navbar"><input type="checkbox" 

name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="3" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" 

checked="checked" />Remember Me?</label> 
		<input type="submit" class="button" value="Log in" tabindex="4" 

title="Enter your username and password in the boxes provided to login, or click 

the 'register' button to create a profile for yourself." accesskey="s" /> 
		</td>
		</tr> 
		</table> 
		<input type="hidden" name="ID" value="" /> 
		<input type="hidden" name="s" value="" /> 
		<input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" /> 
		<input type="hidden" name="forceredirect" value="1" /> 
		<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" /> 
		</form> 
		<!-- / login form --> 
		</td>
	<!-- Guest [] End --></if>
	</td>
	<td class="alt2" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">
	<!-- Forum Stats [] Begin -->
<div class='smallfont'><b>Forum Stats:</b><br />Threads: $welcome_topics<br 

/>Posts: $welcome_posts<br />Members: $welcome_members<br /><phrase 

1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$newuserid" 

2="$newusername">$vbphrase[welcome_to_our_newest_member_x]</phrase></div>
	<!-- Forum Stats [] End -->
	</td>
	<td class="alt1" valign="middle" align="center">
	<if condition="$vbulletin->userinfo[userid]!=0">
	<!-- Avatar Cell [] Begin -->
	{$welcome_avatar}
	<!-- Avatar Cell [] End -->
	<else />
	<!-- Guest [] Begin -->
			<!-- Avatar --> 
		<a href="register.php?ID=&amp;"><img 

src="images/avatars/guestavatar.gif" border="0"></a> 
		</td> 
		<!-- / Avatar --> 
</if>
<!-- Main Welcome Panel Block [] End -->
</tr>
</table>
<else />
<!-- / Welcome Panel Hack V1.2 [] Created By SmasherMaster -->

[chimaira]

Superb. Thanks

[SmasherMaster]

Hey uh, could a mod/admin move this to the Extensions forum? I realised I put it in the wrong place. :/

[ggiersdorf]

Can you make this so that new posts, and new replies are both clickable taking you to a display of new messages and also to a display of the current threads with new posts in it? Also have it so once I click a thread and view the new messages that it updates them immediately right now it will still show 100 new posts even if I read 98 of them untill the next time I log on..

Great Hack though!

[leedzinh]

Warning: Division by zero in /index.php(63) : eval()'d code on line 98

[SmasherMaster]

Originally Posted by ggiersdorf

Can you make this so that new posts, and new replies are both clickable taking you to a display of new messages and also to a display of the current threads with new posts in it? Also have it so once I click a thread and view the new messages that it updates them immediately right now it will still show 100 new posts even if I read 98 of them untill the next time I log on..

Great Hack though!

My hack uses the coding from the new posts feature in vB, unless I misunderstood you. =o

leedzinh: Did you try disabling the plugin? You might have done something wrong. =(

[Megareus Rex]

Hey smash, I think I figured out that problem w/ the "% of total posts" feature that EF has been having (I'm posting this here in case you see it before I get to talk to you again, and because other people may have had the same problem).

Some things I noticed:
-It only gives the % to 2 decimal places. Since EF has 224000+ posts, even at 100 posts, the % of a member's total posts to 2 decimal places is still 0.00%, without rounding. The % should round the %, so that even if a person only has 1 post on a board with millions of posts total, it'll read "0.01%". Or if its 0.00% w/out rounding, have it say "negligable % of total posts"

-It ignores any manual edits to postcounts admins make. So if a person has only posted 10 times, and the admin changes their postcount to 10000, it'll still read the % as though they only have 10.

-Every post a user makes in a forum with the postcount turned off, it SUBTRACTS 1 post from the % of total posts. So if a person posts enough in a forum like Spammyland on EF (which pretty much any EF member has), their post % will read 0.00% easily.

Those are just 3 observations I made while testing it ay EFv's test forum, so I figure I'd relay them to you here before I forgot, since you arent on now >.>

[SmasherMaster]

Making it round will be tough, since I haven't really dont anything like that yet, but I bet I can do it. As for the 2nd one, It reads from the user's postcount data, so I don't get how that wouldn't count though...Now the third one REALLY confuses me. I have absolutely no idea on what to do about that, but i'll look into it.

[Megareus Rex]

Idea! Why not add in parenthesis next to the total member count, the # of members that registered today. I've seen other hacks for that, so adding it may make your panel even more appealing.