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[Re-Release] Tungsten's Welcome Panel · **Released**: 07-10-2003

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!

phill2003 · #42 08-17-2003, 05:58 PM

well your by the looks of things running the old vbportal, and for 10 bucks you get the latest version which has a few less querys but not many...

and you get access to all the hacks that are on there.....

sorry man i was talking to dstruct2k as he as kind enough to rubbish your style

dcevoclub · #43 08-17-2003, 06:04 PM

no i thank you, i'm just learning this stuff, i've even updated/hacked it a little more now

albibak · #44 08-17-2003, 09:12 PM

Thanks Tungsten.
Good work, I will test it soon

JJE · #45 08-21-2003, 06:23 AM

I guess I'm still confused about the NAVBAR part, I added everything and everything is *working*, but, to get rid of the other navbar I just deleted everything in the template "navbar".

Thanks for the great hack BTW, it's very seski

http://www.brainphreeze.com/dev

M1th · #46 08-26-2003, 06:08 PM

really nice, Well done!

Majere · #47 09-02-2003, 04:05 PM

Slight Issue:

I'm using the category spacer template mod and it appears as though

Posts, Threads, Moderator, etc. is duplicating itself just beneath the welcome panel as seen here:

http://www.black-crown.net/forums

Fixed it.

Had to remove some of that code right before $forumbits.

SirSteve · #48 09-10-2003, 09:32 PM

How can I remove the Login box that is above the Welcome Panel (it's redundant to be there)?

see attachement.

Werty · #49 09-13-2003, 09:11 PM

I had this hack on my vB2 boards, now that i changed to vB3 the members would like it back, but, in the vB2 version i had it also stated how many post there had been since last visit, "There have been XXXX post since your last visit".

Anyone know how to add that ?

minder · #50 09-14-2003, 12:28 AM

installed on beta 6 with no probs thanks a lot

rob

Werty · #51 09-14-2003, 01:53 AM

Installed it, but, umm, it shows up at the bottom of the page :/

How do i get it up top ? Did i do something wrong ?

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