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

[sauron2002]

top stuff, thanks for making it, i also really like the excellant readme which is one of the best ive read / followed,

great stuff

[Haddy]

Nice instructions but i screwed something cause i get this.....

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: adminlog() in /home/*****/public_html/forums/index.php on line 7
*username edited out*

Index Attached....

Any clues?

[razorback]

:cheeky:

Very good this kack

thank's

[Oblivion Knight]

I modified the code a little to make who's online show below the panel instead of the PM's, but everything's working perfectly for me..

Also, the thread's are counted wrong.. It's counting how many threads have had replies in them, not new threads that have been created. This may have already been pointed out, but I couldn't really be bothered going back through 26 pages when I'm having no problems with the hack.

[high]* Oblivion Knight clicks install.[/high]

[buro9]

BUG ALERT:

The hack is fantastic, but the post counts in the hack are incorrect... where it says "There have been blah posts in blah threads", those counts are not excluding any posts in forums that the user does not have permission to see.

I've now edited the queries in index.php to exclude my private forums totally... but that means the counts are incorrect for those who are allowed to see the private forums.

The queries now look like this:

PHP Code:

$getnewthread=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' AND forumid != 54");
$getnewpost=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post p, thread t WHERE p.dateline > '$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' AND p.threadid = t.threadid AND t.forumid != 54"); 


Which excludes forum 54 in the search... but there should be a better way than this.

Aside from this, the whole thing works a dream and you can see it running at http://www.buro9.com/forum/

Cheers

David K

[iceman11111]

Great Hack!

easy as pie!

[xcel]

Sweet No problems whatsoever.

Thanks for a Great Hack!!

Xcel

[msimplay]

Will this hack be released for vb3 ?
if need be i mean

[sola]

Yeah, kinda hoping so too. Looks great. Wish I could have it. :cry:

[Slappy Nutz]

Kick Ass hack! I moved a few things around to my liking!
www.live-enabled.com/forums !

*install*