[Re-Release] Tungsten's Welcome Panel

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!

[imported_Tungsten]

I have updated the welcome panel code to be compatible with the javascript changes made in Beta #6 of vB 3.0.0

If you are running Beta 6 and using this add-on, please download the main zip file again and re-apply the changes dealing with the welcome panel login section.

[imported_Tungsten]

Argh... Jelsoft also changed the way that new PMs are indicated. So I updated the welcome panel with that as well.

Download version 3.4 from the first post in this thread.

[imported_rynthar]

Tungsten, what part of the code would I need to put an if condition statement near so that when a New PM comes, it changes the color of the table behind "Welcome Panel" from my styles variable set color to a defined color (like red)? Which variable/part of code represents the category header in your code?

[Werty]

Originally Posted by netsewer

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 ?

Plz...? Anyone....?
My members are LTAO because its on the bottom, and now you will LYAO when i tell you i didnt backup the templates for this mod :/

Its been and the bottom for 3 days now :/

/edit: fixed it

[imported_Tungsten]

Originally Posted by rynthar

Tungsten, what part of the code would I need to put an if condition statement near so that when a New PM comes, it changes the color of the table behind "Welcome Panel" from my styles variable set color to a defined color (like red)? Which variable/part of code represents the category header in your code?

I tell you what... let me release version 3.5 of this template modification right now so that you can see how I did this instead. I just included a PMON.GIF and PMOFF.GIF in the welcome panel and change which one is shown if the user has new PMs or not.

Check back in a second; I'll update the first post in this thread with the 3.5 release.

[zenmasteril]

I installed the new version for the new PM envelop pic..
But the "view new posts" link disapeared..
U can see it in my forum: http://www.gamestalks.com
What should i do ?

[imported_Tungsten]

Originally Posted by zenmaster

I installed the new version for the new PM envelop pic..
But the "view new posts" link disapeared..
U can see it in my forum: http://www.gamestalks.com
What should i do ?

Look for this line in the welcome panel v3.5 mod...

<span class="smallfont">You last visited $pmbox[lastvisitdate] at <span class="time">$pmbox[lastvisittime].</span><br />

And add this line immediately after it...

<span class="smallfont"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew">View New Posts Since Last Visit</a></span>

[zenmasteril]

Originally Posted by Tungsten

Look for this line in the welcome panel v3.5 mod...

<span class="smallfont">You last visited $pmbox[lastvisitdate] at <span class="time">$pmbox[lastvisittime].</span><br />

And add this line immediately after it...

<span class="smallfont"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew">View New Posts Since Last Visit</a></span>

GREAT working now... Thank you very much..

[Werty]

Originally Posted by netsewer

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 ?

Ok, got that part too, thanks to Faranth and Belinea in this thread at vb.com <--- click there (why are links the same color as the actual text ? ) [/edit]

[kendo]

I'm running Beta 7, and have installed the latest version of the hack. I'm getting a red X instead of my avatar when I log in, although everything else works OK.

Properties show up as:

http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/ima...ine=1027127040

If I clear cookies, noavatar.gif shows up fine.

Any ideas, please?

Hamish

http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/