welcome/login panel on non-vB page

I've seen a lot of requests for this around here, but no solutions.

Latest version is 1.30
Works with V2.2.9 Should work with earlier version of 2.2.x too.


OVERVIEW
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This hack/modification is designed to create a welcome panel on your non-vB homepage, so that users are either welcomed back if they are registered, or invited to login/register if they are not.

There are config options to show avatar and/or PM information and/or who's online (with or without usernames) in your welcome panel.

If you want to see a working example, then go to http://www.thebookforum.com The hack installed there does not show all of its features, but gives a general idea. The templates allow complete control over the look of the login/welcome panel.

There is one PHP file (webwelcome.php) to upload, and ten custom VB templates to create.

The templates can be modified to suit the design of your site. The ones that I have included in the zip file are those that I created for my site.

There are options to include the following additional info
- Avatar for guests or user's own avatar if logged in. If no avatar selected, a default one will be shown. Example guest and default avatars included in this release package.
- PM info to logged in users (will not show if user cannot use PMs or has chosen not to)
- Who's online (number of members of guests). Additional option to choose whether to show usernames.


CREDITS
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This hack also uses some code originally written by several members of vbulletin.org in particular Firefly and MrLister.

Full credit is given in the php file for the relevent bits of code used. I have modified their code slightly to work with this hack.

I have not formally asked their permission due to the open source nature of the hacks at vbulletin.org
If they object I will remove their code from this hack release.


HISTORY
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V1.30 13 September 2002
Hack creation now very simple. No more copy & paste. I've changed a lot of the original vb code so copy & paste would be nearly impossible.
Added option to include PM info and who's online (with or without usernames) in the welcome panel.
Default templates included in the hack release altered to include these new options.
New templates for the additional info to be shown.

V1.20 11 September 2002
Added option to include user's avatar in the welcome panel.
Default templates included in the hack release altered to include these new options.
Default templates altered to be more generic.

V1.10 13 May 2002
Fixes the bug where the "most users online...." on the forum page keeps reseting to zero.
Removes a lot of the unecessary bloat from the script.
Creation of script simplified. Now just cut and paste.
NB template name change in this version - webwelcome_home is now called webwelcome.

V1.00 07 April 2002
Original release.

[tomjinx1]

Ok... don't know if this is right. but I have installed this and on a seperate php file named home2.php, I have put in the required code. When I bring it up in IE, the page is blank. If I look at the source it to is blank.

So, what am I doing wrong here? I've made sure the template files are created and coding for them work. The page however is blank.

http://www.nurv-clan.com/home2.html

Tommy

[tomjinx1]

ok... got it workin... sorta... if you go to the link above you will notice that it's showing an X for where the avatar should be. That's it. If you put your mouse cursor over it and look at the link it's trying to go to http://server945.gisol.com/forums/me...?s=yadayada...

It needs to go to http://server945.gisol.com/~nurv/for...?s=yadayada...

How can I fix this.

where at do I need to change it to pull it from http://www.nurv-clan.com/forums/members.php yada yada...?

[geniuscrew]

How can I add the who's online bits on a different part of the page?

Thanks

[Marulatree]

I'm sure this will help someone along the line with Darren's hack.

All credit goes to Boofo (thanks dude)
A huge Thanks goes to Darren and everyone whom got involved in this hack:

(Keyword search: referrer - refferer - nonvb - non-vb)

Question:
[code]
Marulatree wrote:

I'm using Darrin Lewis's Webwelcome login - nonvb script.

You know when you log out of a non vb page and it automatically goes to this page:

All cookies cleared! Please click here to etc...etc..

What code can I replace the following with in order to send the logged out visitor to the last non vb page he was on before logging out or even to my home page?

here's the original from template - error_cookieclear:

All cookies cleared! Click <a href="index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">here</a> to return to the forums index.

Boofa's Answer:

Try this:

1) Open members.php and find
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eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate("error_cookieclear")."\");");

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and replace it with
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$url = $HTTP_REFERER;
  eval("standardredirect(\"".gettemplate("redirect_logout")."\",\"$url\");");

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2) Add a template called redirect_logout and put
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<center>All cookies cleared. Please wait ...</center>

[Super Ted]

I have had this hack installed for several months now. But I have noticed that the new threads part brings up the number of new posts in private forums. How can I stop it from doing this?

[Darren Lewis]

Yesterday at 11:45 PM Super Ted said this in Post #165
I have had this hack installed for several months now. But I have noticed that the new threads part brings up the number of new posts in private forums. How can I stop it from doing this?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...198#post235198

Darren.

[Super Ted]

Thanks Darren.

[Dave Rosteck]

Can someone help me out here? The welcome panel comes up just fine but I can't get rid of the following error message:

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/davesmk/public_html/v3.php on line 2

Any ideas? Also, the welcome panel won't display my online status even though I have my forums at /forums. Help is much appreciated. The page is located at http://www.davesmk.com/v3.php

[Dave Rosteck]

Can anyone help?

[gmarik]

Has anybody it got it working on 2.3.0 final now?
If so, I'll install it too.