[release] Welcome Panel Extreme

[assassingod]

Hey! Look at this, its a wonderful welcome panel, which, to be honest, is wonderful.:D
(Thanks to Tony for telling me to release more Template Mods)

Author:ffdcsite
Descrition:This Modification will add a nice look to your forum home page. It is set out neatly, easy to understand. And generally wondeful.
Features: This Mod comes with some cool features such as Private Message info, Forum info and the members general info (Username, title, posts, last visit)
Notes: This mod can display your avatar. But ONLY avatars that the members have uploaded themselves. Any avatars chosen from root/images/avatars will simply not show up. Another note is that YOU will have to modify the table colors. Im sorry for that little let down. Im very tired
BugsSo far, I have encountered no bugs at all:)
Preview:Next post down


Meh, enjoy

[assassingod]

Here is your preview:

[Tony G]

Nice work, although I don't think the PM's should be in there.

[turdboy]

This hack looks really nice if you sit down and work with it. I felt that having the user av info and all that good stuff was alittle much and made it look huge however large the info and av was so I changed some stuff moved it around and also removed it. Call it a tweak if you will. Here's what I did. Great hack again and sorry if you dont want me to release a tweak so soon or whatever.

Screenie in next post.

Note: All I did was edit ffdcsite hack and instructions. I do not claim to have made it

[turdboy]

Screen shot

[Tony G]

You have PM's underneath so whats the point of it being in the Welcome Panel turdboy?

[assassingod]

Nah! Thats great:) Good job turdboy:)

And thanks, both of you:)

[turdboy]

Originally posted by Tony
You have PM's underneath so whats the point of it being in the Welcome Panel turdboy?

That's under there because I'm not sure if I want to keep this welcome home panel. To get rid of the pm just go to forumhome and delete $pminfo.

[Tony G]

Well thats simple. Misses alot of User Info stuff though. But that doesn't matter.

[assassingod]

Yes, I should of put that in there. Thanks for reminding me Turdboy

[turdboy]

Originally posted by ffdcsite
Yes, I should of put that in there. Thanks for reminding me Turdboy

I shoul add that to my instructions also I guess.

[PennylessZ28]

I borowed this awesome hack and applied it to my welcome panel with a few modifcations.

screenshot (http://www.hr3rdgen.org/images/welcome_panel_ss.gif)

:D Thanx!

[Tony G]

Now I like that version.

Too much space though.

[assassingod]

Hey, thats pretty good pennylessz28:) I might just have to steal that for other versions of my welcome panel:D

[PennylessZ28]

Feel free to were is a copy of the changes I made:

I have a question though, the avatar image and any text I stick under it always link to edit avatar. How can I prevent this? Any ideas?

[assassingod]

Thanks pennylessz28:)
No idea:confused: Though, I didnt put $avatarimage

[PennylessZ28]

I made a few more changes today: screenshot of welcome panel (http://www.hr3rdgen.org/images/welcome_panel_ss.gif)

However I tried using your <img src="{FORUMURLHERE}avatar.php?userid=$bbuserinfo[userid]&dateline=$bbuserinfo[dateline]">

And my avatar won't show up, poop! however it works with $avatarimage, now go figure :(

Hurm......:rolleyes:

[assassingod]

Well first off, you need to change {FORUMURLHERE} to your forum URL :p :rolleyes: Lol:P

And that code I gave only shows avatars that are self uploaded

[PennylessZ28]

Now I feel stupid...


[UPDATE]
It worked, cool fava beans! :D :cool:

[assassingod]

LOL!!! Its ok, it happens to the best of us

*remembers the days where he forgot to end HTML tags :o*

[Tony G]

Your not the only one. :p

Hehe.

[assassingod]

LOL! Its annoying when that happens:p

But less spam, more praise on my welcome panel

[sonic3d]

everytime i log out all the other stuff is still their. how do i make it not come up. i think that requires hacking. doesn't it?

l8er
sonic

[assassingod]

Hmm..It should work, I tested in on my board...Hmm, whats the URL of your board?

[sonic3d]

well here is the link (http://66.162.73.99/gsu/) but i don't need help nemore. i just made one by my self. something very simple.

l8er
sonic

[assassingod]

Oh well. Thanks anyway:)

[Tony G]

Simple but nice sonic. :)

[assassingod]

*Just checked link* Yep! That is nice:)

[Tony G]

Maybe it should be like that and not so big. :p

[assassingod]

:(My welcome panel isnt big, its brilliant:)

[Tony G]

Not as compact as that though. :p

[sonic3d]

i just wanted something very simple. thanx for the comments.

l8er
sonic

[assassingod]

Glad you got an idea from one of my mods:)

[TvNut]

Hye Penny where do you install urs at? Do you have any instructions?

[assassingod]

Blah:p Methinks he posted some instructions, check the first or second page

[TvNut]

Nope...there is some text but not where and how to insert it....blah

[assassingod]

What I suggest, is take that code penny has given, and add it to my instructions, replaced my welcome panel. Try that:)

[girard747]

hey i was kinda thinking, is there a way to make it so if they arent registered, it says To enable private messaging, Register and it takes the "log out" off? ill try to do that... if i get it to work ill post it :D

[Tony G]

It takes out Logg Off because your not logged in if your not registered. No point of having it there then.

[assassingod]

Why dont you just move the $logincode out of the Welcome panel?

[girard747]

This is what it looks like, i took out the forum name ;)

[girard747]

and i changed it a bit in frontpage, just to show what i want it to look like, i never actually put THIS one on my forum......

[assassingod]

Looks good:) Got the code for it though?

[girard747]

what do you mean? i WANT it to do that lol i cant find how to make it so if you're not logged in, it just shows the Please Register one lol :(

[assassingod]

Oh yeah, sorry :rolleyes:

I misread your post. Im not sure if it can be done by HTML, methinks PHP would need to be involved, which needs to be asked at vb.org

But then again, I could be wrong. I cant think today:rolleyes:

[girard747]

nah, it doesnt bother me that much, i dont really care its just a little forum hosted on my computer :) http://68.43.48.51/Forum :D



dont think that just cause its small that its keeping you from signing up :) j/p i dont care

[assassingod]

Try it anyway, I could be wrong

[chad777]

Avatar not working even after I added my forum URL. take a look for yourself http://www.snarfproductions.com/forums

Oh yeah my header is messed up currently redesigning site :)

Nevermind :( Anyway of makingit show "any" avatar instead of just self uploaded ?

[assassingod]

No, sorry. I cant think of a way without editing PHP script. Which classes as a hack. Sorry

[girard747]

I DID IT!!!! I FIGURED HOW TO DO IT!!!! AHAHAHAHAH I WIN! ill post it in my next 2-3 posts :)

[assassingod]

:-/ Really? Cool, tell tell tell:D

[girard747]

:D ok i was making the instrustions.... ill post it now :D

[assassingod]

Great! If it works Ill add it to mine and you will be credited for it:)

[girard747]

Logged out:

[girard747]

Logged in:

[girard747]

i still have to work a bit with the code... the login doesnt work right now.. LOL but ill try to have it out today or tomorrow :D

[assassingod]

Yep! Thats great work there!

[N9ne]

Ok there's too many pages to this thread to read through, so i'll just reply here even if it's been said already:

ffdcsite: you should use replacement variables in your template modifications, instead of using hard coded colours. Using replacement variables means it's automatically incorporated into other peoples' styles/colours :)

[assassingod]

Yeah, I know.:oIts just that I usually release a mod after I have put it on my own forum and I rarely ever use replacement variables:p Sorry >.<

[N9ne]

For the sake of your own forums you should use variables, what if you add a new style set and you want to copy the template over :-O

[assassingod]

Very true:) Advice taken:p

[japrile]

the original welcome template to this thread is great, is there a way for it to use non-uploaded avatars??? so that it will display avartar that are obtained from the forum it self??

[assassingod]

Thanks:)

Sadly, I have found no-way of using all kind of avatars. Only self-uploaded.

The only way would be through PHP editing

[Yury]

The Welcome Panel was nice when logged in, but it wasn't complete while logged out. I dont know if anyone else had this problem so I simply fixed it and changed the WP and unregmessage around a bit. This was made more for a newbie, like myself. I need tutorials or i'll just throw the monitor out from the window. ;)

Yury

[pixeldude]

screen shot?

[Yury]

Sure. I'm pretty sure you guys are way far ahead though. I feel so small. :o

[assassingod]

Thats pretty good. Probably add it to my instructions and give you & pennylessz28 lots of credit:)

[Mark]

Nice.. although Iv'e hacked my welcome panel up way more than that. Thanks though. I could work with this.

[assassingod]

No problem

[Jakelshark]

my avatar dont work and i dont know why . . . .

i put in the forumurl correct, and when i right click the image it puts up the correct path to the avatar.php but i get no image

could you tell me my problem

[cjune]

GREAT I LIKE IT
THAX~

[armageddon]

thanks for the mod. wish the colours would auto-adjust so i wouldn't have to redo them for every style i upload. :P

thanks though. looks great.

[Tony G]

It's possible, just use {firstaltcolor} and {secondaltcolor} to call the colors of the style that is in place.

[assassingod]

I would like to announce that a new version of the WPE will be released shortly. It will have more features than the current one, as well as {firstaltcolor} & {secondaltcolor} varibles in this time.

E.T.A mid december

[Orfejs]

A good idea, silly design. I'll post my design soon, so you can compare it.

[assassingod]

Cool - Cant wait to see it
My estimate of the WPE2 was a little off;) Stopped for a bit

[Red Blaze]

Well, I had to do loads of modifications on that welcome panel. But it was fun though. I enjoyed it. And I'm still not done messing with it. But well.

http://www.thesonicjoint.com
If ya want a live demo. ;)

Or just the friggin attachment. But I added some stuff that you can't see on the attachment. Like a "guest avatar" and such. ^^;

[blakkboy]

what would i have to do to this hack in order to achive this effect