Welcome Panel

Well, I'm not sure where to put this, it's really a template edit, but includes a couple of hacks already posted on the "full releses" section. I put this together as a walkthrough for an admin friend, and thought someone might find it useful.

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 few images to illustrate the hack/edit (or whatever it is )

A guests view of your forum homepage...



...and what they see when they have registered....



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)

here it is:

[EDIT] Updated 28-11-01 to correct a display issue, table border on the right now displays properly.

[nafae]

da darling da...

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nafae
im installing it, but it seems i have encountered something i dont get. It sayes it can be placed anywhere in forumhome_xxx template. Well i am in the "forumhome" tree, and I dont see forumhome_xxx there or anywhere else. If he means xxx as in "any of them" it doesnt matter in WHAT forumhome i put it in? sorry just wanted to clear that up

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by snyx
I didnt like it when the users avatar was in that table man, cuz then the ON/OFF image of the PM's gets all messed up, and doesnt aling with the forums ON/OFF.

Myles.

[trilOByte]

Oh yeah, if there are no glitches with this (anyone), maybe a mod could move it into a none "beta" area.

[nafae]

i hvnt found glitch, i love it... i have gotten like 6 comments "i like that thing at the top of the forums" hehehe

[Horizon]

I put a screen shot up, I dont know too much PHP, but I am missing a line on the right side...ideas?

I put a half circle around it....

Also how do I move all the stuff under my forums instead of at the top.

[DarkReaper]

Working great for me, but I heavily modified it:

http://www.unrealtournament.org/forums/index.php

One problem though: The # of posts and threads always seems to be the same....

[Bitmap]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Horizon
I put a screen shot up, I dont know too much PHP, but I am missing a line on the right side...ideas?

I put a half circle around it....

[Horizon]

Well I dont want to change it up at all...just want that line there

[trilOByte]

Ooops, I never noticed that, but bitmap is right, it's an html error, all you need to do is remove the colspan=4 from after the $avatarimage... so

<td bgcolor="#1C5780" align="center" valign="top" width="100">$avatarimage</td> 
<td bgcolor="#13486D" colspan="4">

becomes..

<td bgcolor="#1C5780" align="center" valign="top" width="100">$avatarimage</td> 
<td bgcolor="#13486D">

If you just remove that, nothing else will change but the line will appear properly.

I'll update the download