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.

[trilOByte]

OK, I've updated the download

[Horizon]

What Template is this in?

Ok ANswered my question FORUMHOME template.

[Horizon]

Hey Trilobyte, I have an idea....right above the welcome panel we have

Members: 20, Threads: 105, Posts: 430
Welcome to our newest member .....

Can you incorporate this into the panel also?

[trilOByte]

Sure, it's all in the forumhome template. The code you refer to, is located in the.....

<!-- text -->
xxx[bunch of code]xxx
<!-- /text -->

part of the template, just move it into whichever part of the

<!-- welcomepanel -->
xxx[bunch of code]xxx
<!-- /welcomepanel -->

you want it to be in.

In answer to your other question about having the welcomepanel at the bottom, yes just move all the....

<!-- welcomepanel -->
xxx[bunch of code]xxx
<!-- /welcomepanel -->

code so it is underneath the..

<!-- /main -->

part of the template. It's dead easy

[Horizon]

Yea thanks a million, I dont know if I want the welcome panel at the bottom the more I Think about it.....

Have any ideas where to put the lines of


Members: 20, Threads: 105, Posts: 430
Welcome to our newest member

I am at a lost to put it somewhere, I Think though that it looks too plain though at the top......

[trilOByte]

well it's up to you. I didn't include it in the welcomepanel, because it isn't directly pertinent to the viewers personal info, like all the other stuff in the welcomepanel.

I suppose you could put it under the login/logoff links, but it would look wierd to a guest user. I'm happy with it where it is.

[Lesane]

Very nice, loox good. Thanks

[Lesane]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by DarkReaper
One problem though: The # of posts and threads always seems to be the same....

[DarkReaper]

That works, thanks

[Dark Blaze]

Great hack, congrats trilOByte