Welcome Panel [Final]

Well, with over 200 downloads and 32 problem free install's, I though it time to take this out of the beta hacks forum (note, there are no changes to the file in the beta forum, so no need to re-download if you already have the hack installed).

I put this together originally as a walkthrough for an admin friend, and thought someone might find it useful. Althouth technically, my contribution is a couple of simple template edits, it does contain hacks posted previously.

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





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)

Happy Christmas everyone.

here it is:

edit: updated version number to 2.2.6 because it works There are no changes to the files - it's not a new release. Thanks. /edit

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mrdave
Does not work on 226 for me

[mrdave]

It was the first hack installed, I am having the same thing happen in posts also with any custom avatar, just the missing image icon. This is on php 4.2.1 btw. It all works with avatar.php from 2.2.5

[trilOByte]

I'm utterly puzzled. You are saying that if you upoad avatar.php from 2.2.5 to your 2.2.6 install it works fine, but not otherwise?

Given that many people have it working fine with the default avatar.php from 2.2.6, then you may have a corrupt file. Extract the original avatar.php from your 2.2.6 zip file and re-upload it.

[globalwin]

hi i wanted some help with this problem...

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Ive installed the hack to split up the forum catagories and it has messed up the hack (welcome panel one) it hasnt any borders anymore... how can i fix this?


here is a screenshot...



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Could you please email me the solution and what i have to do to crocket2k@hotmail.com please im a php newbie and dont know much...

thank you

[mrdave]

Anyway it works now.

[Schorsch]

great hack, thanks!! works fine on v2.2.6 !!

but has somebody the two pics in german ??? that would be great!!

regards,
Schorsch

[Reverend]

Working fine on 2.2.6 apart from one small annoying problem.Although this might not be related to the hack.

On my board,in the welcome panel where it says "there have been # threads and # posts since your last visit" the threads count always goes up even if a new thread hasn't been created.

e.g If someone posts one reply in a thread,the welcome panel
says "there have been 1 thread and 1 post since your last visit."

Should it not say "there have been 0 threads and 1 post since your last visit."

And yes i do click "mark all forums read",before revisiting.

Any ideas.

[The Ghost]

hi,

in root/index.php find "lastpost" in the follow text:

$getnewthread=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]'");

Replace "lastpost" with "dateline".

Now it should work.......

thx @ Pogo (vB Germany Support)

[Reverend]

Thanks ghost.That fixed it.

Has the welcome panel hack been edited since it was first released,to replace "lastpost" with "dateline".

Just wondering.

[The Ghost]

no prob. I wondering too, has nobody found this problem since releasing this hack? I found this problem 5 Minutes after Installation......