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

[voogru]

having the same problem..http://forums.voogru.com

help plz

[Sadie Frost]

I tried using your forumhome template, and the avatar shows up just fine on mine. I would check your code in index.php

[LilleMartin]

Oh my god, I nearly broke my balls trying to get this to work.
Now installed, I love it.

Thanks for a good hack...

-M

[Floris]

rofl

[pHAZE_1]

for some reason it didnt work for bout 2 days, but all of a sudden boom theres my avatar. lol

[Rcooper]

Great hack Thanks!

[99SIVTEC]

Oh man i'm an idiot. My web host moved the servers. I had been connecting to my ftp server via my ip address instead of host name. It turns out I was connecting to the old server. I was editing the templates for my site, but when I would change anything in the actual files it was being changed on the old server instead of the new one. I pulled my head out of my ass and now everything works at it should.

[Rick]

Great hack thanks. One question. I don't allow my users to change their own avatars. How can I disable the link to the edit avatar page when they click on the avatar in the "Welcome" hack?

Thanks,
Rick

[Floris]

Open root/index.php in your fav. editor and search for:

$avatarimage='<a href="member.php?s='.$session[sessionhash].'&action=editavatar"><img src="'.$avatarurl.'" border="0">';

And remove the <a> tag from it. BUT! I did not test it, and I do not see the </a> at the end of the line. SO not sure if this will end up in a broken link. But that is the line you need to alter.

[Frenck]

Like some people have noticed,

If you have a big forum (like euhm.. about.. lets say 100.000 posts, like mine)
Than the welcome panel hack really slows down the page!!!

My page generation time with this hack is 2.5 seconds!!!
That's all because of these 2:

Query: SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.2525429725647
Time after: 0.34668505191803

Query: SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.3487149477005
Time after: 1.9500440120697

You can speed this up by adding 2 indexes to your tables.

Just run these 2 query's once on your database:

ALTER TABLE `thread` ADD INDEX(`'lastpost`);
ALTER TABLE `post` ADD INDEX(`dateline`);


After running these 2 I was verry glad with the result:

Query: SELECT COUNT(*) AS threads FROM thread WHERE lastpost > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.40777695178986
Time after: 0.40917897224426

Query: SELECT count(*) AS posts FROM post WHERE dateline > '1018738585'
Time before: 0.41155600547791
Time after: 0.41288495063782

My page generation time is 0.5 seconds after this simpel modification.

Anyways, THX FOR THIS GREAT HACK!!!