[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 will be updating this for Gamma very soon. I am slowly making the changes to my own forum and then will release it to you all once I have confirmed that it works.

[idwf]

thanks mate pld

[zenmasteril]

tnx man.. waiting for it...........

[gmarik]

Gamma ok? Interesting ...

[trackpads]

Originally Posted by gmarik

Gamma ok? Interesting ...

Definately let us know, nice one!

[PGU]

man, i was hoping this would work for gamma

[imported_Tungsten]

Originally Posted by PGU5802

man, i was hoping this would work for gamma

At present, I am debating on several ways to integrate this into the forumhome template with Gamma. The new style that Kier has graced us with presents a slight challenge in that the navigation bar has greatly improved in asthetics and is not something that I prefer to "mutilate" for the sake of displaying the avatar.

I will likely replace the navigation bar on the forumhome template entirely and incorporate the welcome panel as it's replacement. Then the navbar will take over on all other pages as the default.

Anyway, I have begun testing a few different layouts on my development server and will try to finalize something in the next week or two. Apologies for the delay but the holidays and a last-minute rush on some projects at the office have been sucking away my free time for things like this.

[idwf]

fair do's man. Take care.

Have a good x-mas

[trackpads]

I added it on my side bar. I agree about not mutilating the top of the page if possible. I would love to put in some other items like Rank etc but havent figured that out yet

[M1th]

Originally Posted by Tungsten

I will likely replace the navigation bar on the forumhome template entirely and incorporate the welcome panel as it's replacement. Then the navbar will take over on all other pages as the default.

Anyway, I have begun testing a few different layouts on my development server and will try to finalize something in the next week or two. Apologies for the delay but the holidays and a last-minute rush on some projects at the office have been sucking away my free time for things like this.

Yep, I've done that to my new style (test board). Removed navbar altogether and added the welcome panel.

Also, here is a useful tip.. to have the avatar support query executed on forumhome ONLY, do this:

in the phpinclude template:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{

//avatar support codes here

}