[Re-Release] Tungsten's Welcome Panel

Author:

Tungsten


Credits:

Credits go to Ogden2K for inspiring the layout of the welcome panel and to Brad.loo for his help on coding issues.


Description:

I have changed a few minor problems in the original coding that were prohibiting avatars from being shown on some boards. I also redid the instructions file so that Microsoft Notepad opens it with proper line formatting.

Basically this is just a simple welcome panel that conditionally displays the user's avatar if they are (a.) logged in and (b.) have an avatar selected. If they are not logged in or do not have an avatar selected, they see variations of the welcome panel text that intuitively guide them toward registering or logging in and selecting an avatar.

No PHP files are hacked with this modification. It is completely template driven.

I have successfully tested the modifications on my own vBulletin 3.0.0 Beta 4 installation with both avatars stored within the MySQL database and with avatars stored in a file-system folder outside of the database. It works both ways now.

Anyone who downloaded the previous releases of this modification needs to upgrade to this one. I apologize for the confusion that arose from having so many different ideas being publicly thrown about in the other thread.


Reporting Bugs:

Feel free to report bugs in this thread but please do not post any code modifications here. Send them to me via a private PM so that I can evaluate their effectiveness. All support will be handled via this thread. Please do not PM me for support.


New Screenshots:

Finally... new screenshots are attached to this post as well as included inside the ZIP file. Enjoy!

[Dan]

make the table the same width as your forum tables

[SmartGnome]

Originally Posted by Oricon

make the table the same width as your forum tables

Yes thanks but which $stylevar must I take for that ? (width="$stylevar[tablewidth]")

I searched a lot but didn't find a clou. And I know .... I'm the CheeseHead

[imported_Tungsten]

These three appear at the start of the forumhome template's welcome panel code. The third line defines the width of the welcome panel:

<!-- welcome panel -->
<br />
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td>

[SmartGnome]

Originally Posted by Tungsten

These three appear at the start of the forumhome template's welcome panel code. The third line defines the width of the welcome panel:

<!-- welcome panel -->
<br />
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td>

Thanks I found the problem
While I want to have the welcome panel always shows up, I have put in the header template. There those stylevars give other values.

[imported_HexOnxOnx]

Anyone know how to get a noavatar.gif to show up on the welcome panel if one isn't selected?

I had this working for a few days and them I messed something up.

Thanks!

[Zachery]

when changing the forumhome after i add your welcome panel, it wont seem to upload

[imported_Tungsten]

Originally Posted by Faranth

when changing the forumhome after i add your welcome panel, it wont seem to upload

You must have done something wrong.

[trilOByte]

Tungsten, this is excellent well done. Works perfectly.

I stripped out your avatar code and dropped it into a side menu for my site - a sort of side-welcome-panel

http://www.britishblades.com/forums/

From what I can see this is the first functional vB3 welcome panel that totally replicates the different states as in the original vB2 welcomepanel. Nice one.

Martyn
(aka tril0Byte)

[Zachery]

ive been doing template mods for a while now, i changed exctly what you told me and hit save, and i wanted for about 10 min and nothing happened :\

[SmartGnome]

Originally Posted by Faranth

ive been doing template mods for a while now, i changed exctly what you told me and hit save, and i wanted for about 10 min and nothing happened :\

Have a look at your code if there is not a missing < , > or ". If so then the template will not be loaded into the database.

I had this problem with my flags mod also, just forgot a " in the script.