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

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GraphicW
Nice hack, but in order to use it, I will have to install zip since it is not recognized by default Linux compression utils.

[MomofThree]

Thank you so much for taking the time to go to my site. I truly appreciate your help. I corrected the links and then went over the instructions again and I noticed I had missed a part and now everything works nicely.

It's hard to concentrate when you have three kids running around you.

Thank you so much!

[Stretchr]

It does.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


I think you'll find most the hacks are in zip format, it's way more universal than tarballs - though I think winzip now supports tar files.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MomofThree
Thank you so much for taking the time to go to my site. I truly appreciate your help. I corrected the links and then went over the instructions again and I noticed I had missed a part and now everything works nicely.

It's hard to concentrate when you have three kids running around you.

Thank you so much!

[GraphicW]

I installed the hack and it is an EXCELLENT work. I had to install an unzip util as I rarely dealt with zip. I am in the tarball world. hehehe Tarball is growing though as Linux grows.

[Twig Deez]

well i finally caved and installed this on my forums,
with a few template modifications to suit myself, of course!

works very well and i'm very pleased, as are my members.

[trilOByte]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Twig Deez
well i finally caved and installed this on my forums,
with a few template modifications to suit myself, of course!

works very well and i'm very pleased, as are my members.

[GameCrash]

UBB??? This here is vBulletin

[kreftt]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trilOByte


I've no idea, I'm not familiar with the "avatars as files" hack though it may not be too hard to figure out - maybe just a question of re-defining some paths, I'll have a look see, but for now at least, prolly better to consider them incompatible.

edit: sorry, just noticed your edit - care to share how you solved it? Might be very usefull for others with the AAF hack installed. Cheers.

[Tungsten]

Works like a champ! Very easy to install thanks to the carefully written instructions. Kudos, trilObyte! :up: