[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!

Fixed the problem

[thuffner]

I have a little problem. I store my board's custom avatars in a directory instead of in the database now. They are stored in the folder ./customavatars

How should I change the code so the custom avatars to show up? Currently, I am getting the red 'x'.

Thanks!

EDIT: I'm having the same problem as Hamish. I am running beta 7, and have all my avatars in a driectory, not in the database.

When I right click and view the broken avatar's location, I get this:

http://www.bondmovies.com/board/imag...ine=1065505820

How do I make it show the URL to the avatar in the avatar directory and not to the database?

[imported_Tungsten]

Thuffner, it should have worked for either style of avatar storage. Unfortunately I have reverted a lot of my templates in order to upgrade to Beta 7 and am going to wait until RC1 and the new style comes out before I mess with updating my template mods.


If something has changed with the avatar code, I'll update my mod accordingly as soon as RC1 comes out.

[thuffner]

No problem. Looks like the avatars are working on the front page now. Thanks for responding.

[SirSteve]

Excellent addition with the PM icons. However, it makes more sense to me if the blinking PM icon only is displayed when there is a new image. Can I tweak mine to do this?

[calvinnguyen]

Thanks Tungste it is so great. see my website change after add your code http://vietmodel.net

[budlite74]

Can you also please post how to add the

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part please?!
Thanks

[Luciolle]

Thanks alot for this modification, I try too put on my new vbulletin 3 beta 7 !

Great job !

[SirSteve]

Still waiting for RC1 or will this be updated for Gamma?

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by SirSteve

Still waiting for RC1 or will this be updated for Gamma?

I hope so. Looks nice.