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

[Rand M]

Installed on v2.2.8. All working really well.

Thanks for the 'hack'.

[ae86]

***Edit*** fixed nevermind

GREAT hack, well done

[Harken]

nice hack...the only problem i see ..well on my forum..is i still have the private message bar at the bottom as well as the top now...how do i remove the bottom pm bar.

[FleaBag]

Works with my 2.2.8. Thank you.

[Tigga]

Harken - Remove the 2nd instance of $pminfo from your forumhome template.

[mindbuster]

Installed fine on 2.2.8.

Thanks, great hack.

[CarlosC]

Excellent hack!!

Thanks!!

[marocnl]

Hi there,

I put some time-measuring-code into my php-file and it seems like the following 2 queries from ur hack r causing the execution time of the index.php to be like 10 times higher than with it.
It's about these 2 queries:

PHP Code:

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


Could you tell why this is???

[theroyal]

Will this work on the new 2.28?

[Floris]

Yes and on 2.2.9