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

[search@thing]

Hi,

i hope you may help me, i have a Problem with the border at the Welcome Panel => the border is not there.

This is the URL: Talkarea.com. I?m sorry, but this is an german site.

Thank you for your help and your quick reply!!!

[time4akshun]

Killer hack!

[suffeks]

ok, when i visit the boards after a while, it says xx new posts, so ok, but when i go and view them, sometimes, not always, it just says cant find any matches. whats wrong? using ver 2.2.9, also did this in 2.2.8. help!?

[ethics]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by suffeks
ok, when i visit the boards after a while, it says xx new posts, so ok, but when i go and view them, sometimes, not always, it just says cant find any matches. whats wrong? using ver 2.2.9, also did this in 2.2.8. help!?

[Roody]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ethics


Private forums?

I thought I saw a few people ask how it would be cool to exclude a certain forum from the search. Didn't see any answers though.

[Strider Xero]

<font face="Verdana" size="1">You have<b> $newpm[messages] </b>new <a href="private.php">PM</a>'s.</font>

Nice little peice of code, but if the person has no PMs, it will say 'You have new PMs'. Is there any way I could make it say 'You have 0 new PMs' instead??

[94supratt]

It worked for me but I ended up with 2 avatars. Looks like this. How do I fix it?

[suffeks]

so excluding private forums, how to? actually wait, i have access to private forums on my forum, and sometimes i still get no matches found, i think its another problem. unless, by default, private forum posts arent supposed to show up even for people who have access, but it still counts them.

[flup]

I have got a problem.
I have got 1 forum for my own, and im getting paid to work on 2 other forums.

On mine forum tha avatar wont show up!
On 1 of my customers it does, and at the other is wont shot up.

The Avatar string is the same at templates.
What may be the problem?

[Strider Xero]

Give us the address to the forums that you're having problems with so we can take a look at it.