[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_VirtualMind]

Well done! It Worked!

[imported_Tungsten]

Thanks. I'm glad to get this monkey off my back finally!

[Dan]

Thanks I may use it again

[imported_HexOnxOnx]

Originally Posted by Tungsten

Thanks. I'm glad to get this monkey off my back finally!

Sorry to report back to you, it don't work on my board. Avatars don't show up.

http://forum.xelation.org/index.php?

[imported_HexOnxOnx]

It works for the guest avatat but not logged in users avatars.

[imported_Tungsten]

Tell me a little more about your forum setup. What server OS are you running? Are your avatars stored inside the database or in a /customavatars type directory beneath your forum installation?

Finally, are you getting a red 'X' type thing where the avatars should be or just nothing at all?

[squawell]

if user do not select avatar..i want it show the noavatar.gif not text..

how should i change the code?

thankz....

[imported_HexOnxOnx]

Originally Posted by Tungsten

Tell me a little more about your forum setup. What server OS are you running? Are your avatars stored inside the database or in a /customavatars type directory beneath your forum installation?

Finally, are you getting a red 'X' type thing where the avatars should be or just nothing at all?

HI

It's a Linux server. The avatars are stored in the default ./customavatars directory. I have no idea how to store them another way. I do get a red x where my avatar should be.

[imported_Tungsten]

Can you right-click on the red-X and view the properties of what the graphic should have been? It should give you a complete FQDN path to the image file.

Copy and paste that into a reply for me. I want to see if it is parsing the graphic at all.