Forum Home Enhancements - [DBTech] InfoPanels v2 (vB4) [AJAX]

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present InfoPanels Lite v2: The most feature-packed Welcome Panel system for vBulletin.


Why InfoPanels?

Info Panels is another product from DragonByte Technologies, creators of vBActivity and vBShout. Info Panels allows you to display useful and interesting information in a much more user friendly way, allowing your members to access important areas of the forum, and important information, without having to go through different menu screens.

The Top X Stats portion of the software allows your users to keep track of whats going on in the forum almost in real time - perfect for boards with many forums which are hard to keep track of!

The Welcome Panel displays all the information your users may want to see instantly when they log on, without having to go searching for it.

In addition, there are many improvements and upgrades to the What's happening and Forum statistics blocks.

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If you like this mod please hit the button to the right ---->

Please remember to click the, button to the right if you installed the mod ---->

What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!

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Priority support is handled at the Developers Website.

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Professional Only benefits:

User Selectable Blocks: Let your users select their favourite Top X Stats and have it remembered for their next visit.

Additional Blocks: A plethora of new blocks for your members to choose from.

Extended What's Going On Stats: Show even more detailed statistics about your forum.

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Complete Feature List
Lite

• Welcome Panel
  • Avatar
  • New Posts since last visit
  • # unread PMs (# total PMs)
  • Forum Stats: Members / Threads / Posts
  • Top Poster
  • Own Posts / Threads
  • # Posts Per Day (# Posts Today)
  • % of forum's total posts
  • Display # Achievements / Medals / Trophies
  • Show 1 line of Latest News (settable in vBulletin Options)
• Top X Stats
  • Choose "X"
  • Disable each individual block
  • Set various options per block
  • Create new blocks with different options based on each Block Type
  • User Stats
    • Newest Members
    • Top Posters
    • Top Thread Starters
  • Forum Statistics
    • Newest Replies
    • Most Viewed Threads
• What's Going On:
  • Separating staff and normal members
    • Ability to turn this off
  • Staff Legend
    • Ability to turn this off
  • Average users registering:
  • Average posts
  • Average threads
  • Average Shouts
• General:
  • vBOptimise caching
    • Settable Time To Live on the cached statistics

Pro

• Welcome Panel
  • New Posts / Threads / Blogs since last visit
  • Most active in forum x
  • # shouts
  • Activity Level (% To Next Level, # activity Points)
  • Reached #% of Daily / Weekly / Monthly Activity Target
  • Show 1 line of Latest News (settable in vBulletin Options, movable via {vb:raw show.infopanels_newsticker} (vB4) or $show[infopanels_newsticker] (vB3) within FORUMHOME template)
• Top X Stats
  • Detached Top X Stats
    • Separate "X" limit from main forum
  • User selectable blocks
    • Remembers which blocks the user chose
  • User Stats
    • Top Referrers
    • Top Reputation
    • Top Infraction Points
    • Top Profile Visits
    • Newest Social Groups
    • Highest vBActivity Level
    • Top Shouters
  • Forum Statistics
    • Hottest Threads
    • Hottest Forums
    • Latest Social Group Posts
    • Latest Blog Entries
    • Latest Replies (Subscribed Threads)
• What's Going On
  • Average vBA Level
  • Average vBA Points
  • Average vBA Daily points
  • Average vBA Weekly points
  • Average vBA Monthly points

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This mod displays a copyright notification on Forum Home which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Jubei]

Thanks. That fixed it.

Another thing: Shouldn't there be an dropdown menu for members to change the top-stats, as there was in previous vers? Currently, only Newest Members, Top Posters & Newest Replies are available - even though the others "active" in Block Management. ???

[DragonByte Tech]

If you don't see a drop-down menu, please try creating a new (unmodified) skin.

Fillip

[Jubei]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

If you don't see a drop-down menu, please try creating a new (unmodified) skin.


Fillip

I really can't afford to do that. The problem extends to the default vBulletin skin, as well.

[DragonByte Tech]

I'm confused - are you saying you can't create a new skin? If so, how can you have checked it? O.o

Fillip

[Jubei]

But it happens in the default skin, as well, and that's unmodified.

[tanzeelniazi]

why i cant added More info in Blocks
and why i cant make New Blog rec error:
Invalid Block: 0

and Not showing properly

[Nelson58]

In the "What's Going On" box at the bottom of the site, the mod is placing avatars next to each user online, and that is too much with 500 people online, so I want to remove that. How do I do it please?

Thanks,

Nelson

[Mr_Running]

I believe to turn off the avatars is currently not an option and is not supported.

Removed the following entire code from

 /dbtech/infopanels/hooks/forumhome_loggedinuser.php

Remove this block

if ($vbulletin->options['avatarenabled'])
{
	if (!function_exists('fetch_avatar_url'))
	{
		// Get the avatar function
		require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');
	}
	
	if ($userid == $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
	{
		if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['avatarurl'])
		{
			// Get avatar URL
			$avatarurl = fetch_userinfo($userid, 2, 0, 1);
			
			// Add avatar info to loggedin array (VB Y U FORCE ME TO DO THIS)
			$loggedin['avatarpath'] 		= $avatarurl['avatarpath'];
			$loggedin['hascustomavatar'] 	= $avatarurl['hascustomavatar'];
			$loggedin['avatardateline'] 	= $avatarurl['avatardateline'];
			$loggedin['avwidth'] 			= $avatarurl['avwidth'];
			$loggedin['avheight'] 			= $avatarurl['avheight'];
			$loggedin['avheight_thumb'] 	= $avatarurl['avheight_thumb'];
			$loggedin['avwidth_thumb'] 		= $avatarurl['avwidth_thumb'];
			$loggedin['filedata_thumb'] 	= $avatarurl['filedata_thumb'];
			$loggedin['avatarid'] 			= $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarid'];
			$loggedin['avatarrevision'] 	= $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarrevision'];
			
			// Yay it's available in vB3 after all :D
			fetch_avatar_from_userinfo($loggedin);
		}
		else
		{
			// Just in case...
			$loggedin['avatarurl'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarurl'];
		}
	}
	else
	{
		// Yay it's available in vB3 after all :D
		fetch_avatar_from_userinfo($loggedin);
	}
	
	// Set musername
	$loggedin['musername'] = '<img border="0" src="' . $loggedin['avatarurl'] . '" alt="" width="20" height="20" /> ' . $loggedin['musername'];
}

[DragonByte Tech]

A future version will introduce an option to turn this off


Fillip

[Nelson58]

Originally Posted by Mr_Running

I believe to turn off the avatars is currently not an option and is not supported.

Removed the following entire code from

 /dbtech/infopanels/hooks/forumhome_loggedinuser.php

Remove this block

if ($vbulletin->options['avatarenabled'])
{
	if (!function_exists('fetch_avatar_url'))
	{
		// Get the avatar function
		require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');
	}
	
	if ($userid == $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
	{
		if (!$vbulletin->userinfo['avatarurl'])
		{
			// Get avatar URL
			$avatarurl = fetch_userinfo($userid, 2, 0, 1);
			
			// Add avatar info to loggedin array (VB Y U FORCE ME TO DO THIS)
			$loggedin['avatarpath'] 		= $avatarurl['avatarpath'];
			$loggedin['hascustomavatar'] 	= $avatarurl['hascustomavatar'];
			$loggedin['avatardateline'] 	= $avatarurl['avatardateline'];
			$loggedin['avwidth'] 			= $avatarurl['avwidth'];
			$loggedin['avheight'] 			= $avatarurl['avheight'];
			$loggedin['avheight_thumb'] 	= $avatarurl['avheight_thumb'];
			$loggedin['avwidth_thumb'] 		= $avatarurl['avwidth_thumb'];
			$loggedin['filedata_thumb'] 	= $avatarurl['filedata_thumb'];
			$loggedin['avatarid'] 			= $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarid'];
			$loggedin['avatarrevision'] 	= $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarrevision'];
			
			// Yay it's available in vB3 after all :D
			fetch_avatar_from_userinfo($loggedin);
		}
		else
		{
			// Just in case...
			$loggedin['avatarurl'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['avatarurl'];
		}
	}
	else
	{
		// Yay it's available in vB3 after all :D
		fetch_avatar_from_userinfo($loggedin);
	}
	
	// Set musername
	$loggedin['musername'] = '<img border="0" src="' . $loggedin['avatarurl'] . '" alt="" width="20" height="20" /> ' . $loggedin['musername'];
}

Thank you Mr. Running! This works beautifully!!


Nelson
www.Hobby-Machinist.com