Welcome Panel v1.0

This will add a welcome box, but this time as a seperate "panel"
2 previews below gives examples of this, and if that isnt good enough, just view my profile and click on my site for an online demo

Features:
- Logged In
---- Shows Avatar (If not it shows "noavatar.gif" [Included Inside Download])
---- Avatar Links To Edit Avatar In User CP
---- Welcome Back Message (Includes: New Posts/Threads Since Your Last Vists + Get New Posts Link)
---- Shows: Number Of User's/Guests Online And Total Online
---- Shows: Max Number Of People Online Ever In 1 Day
---- Link To Your Profile
---- Shows: Total Posts/Threads
---- Shows: Total Members/Newest Member
- Logged Out
---- No Avatar Displayed
---- Shows: Total Posts/Threads
---- Shows: Total Members/Newest Member
---- Register Link
---- Guest Message

Also supports Expand/Collapse

Its good if like me you dont like the "layout" of the other welcome box here on vb.org
Enjoy

[Rambo]

Nice One

Installed without any errors ^_^

[Bounce]

Installed and workin a treat

I have a "Who's In Chat" hack installed too, is it possible to get the user info etc showing within the panel??

[blakkboy]

The Hack works fine but where do i upload the .gifs to?

[Vega]

No need to upload these.

[NietzscheKid]

Thank you for this great hack.

I just have a tiny problem. For some reason, as a guest the guestavatar does not display at all. This is strange.

You can view it here:

http://www.currentswillshift.net/havenbbs/index.php?

The guest avatar table is empty. All code etc. for FORUMHOME and navbit are correct though. I think this must be a permissions problem maybe?

I'd be very grateful for any hints/tipps

[Vega]

Did you upload the guestavatar.gif into that folder? http://www.currentswillshift.net/hav...mages/avatars/

[NietzscheKid]

Geez, Vega. Thanks. Not sure how anyone can be this stupid. lol. I had tested the hack on my testforum and uploaded the avatars as well. But I forgot to do it on my main forum and sat there for two hours pondering why that damn avatar won't show up.

Many thanks for your quick response and help, Vega.

[sv1cec]

By looking at this hack, it looks as if there are five queries which are run every time the user sees index.php.

Since the information presented is not (that much) time critical, couldn't those queries stay in index.php (or be moved somewhere else), and then use just the variables defined, to show the welcome panel in all other pages?

I am not a php expert, but I guess one could define the variables in global.php (or even put the queries there) and then use the variables everywhere.

Am I that wrong?

[Marky]

very cool mod ZT
Thnx loads

- Marky

[sv1cec]

I also installed it, but I didn't like the way the various elements of the hack were spread around (no pan intended, I just prefer things in a different way), so I took the time to modify things a bit.

First, I added a profile field, where users can select if they want the welcome panel shown or not. Then I created a template called welcome_panel, where I moved all the presentation things, from the index.php. I left the queries there only. Finally, I modified my FORUMHOME to present the template, if the user has selected it in its Profile.

Click here to see how my welcome panel looks:

If someone is interested, I could post the code here.

Rgds