Gold Adding a Dynamic Welcome Message

Cyan · 12-23-2013, 09:28 PM

Ok today I will be showing you how to Make a dynamic welcome message

Open Your Templates and go to your header templates then Member Template after you want to add this code to the top

Code:
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var d = new Date();
var n = d.getHours();

if (n < 4)
  {
  document.write("<b>Still awake? </b>");
  }
else if (n < 10)
  {
  document.write("<b>Good Morning!</b>");
  }
else if (n < 16)
  {
  document.write("<b>Good Day!</b>");
  }
else if (n < 20)
  {
  document.write("<b>Good Evening!</b>");
  }
else
  {
  document.write("<b>Night time!</b>");
  }
//-->
</script>

Then you want to remove the code

Code:
{$lang->welcome_back}

and replace with

Code:
<a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/member.php?action=profile" id="edit_post_{$post['pid']}" >
<strong>
{$mybb->user['username']}
</strong >

Source & Credit: Burned Designs

Expels · 12-24-2013, 01:24 AM

nice

I have no clue what any of this means but It looks cool xD

0xDEAD10CC · 02-23-2014, 10:58 AM

This would be a bad way of doing it IMO... MyBB variables do exist, and thus this implementation should be on the PHP side. A better way would be to look at the $mybb->user['timezone'] and $mybb->user['dst'] variables and edit the PHP directly...

(original) global.lang.php:

Code:
$l['welcome_back'] = "<strong>Welcome back, {1}</strong>. You last visited: {2}";

(original) global.php:

Code:
$lang->welcome_back = $lang->sprintf($lang->welcome_back, build_profile_link($mybb->user['username'], $mybb->user['uid']), $lastvisit);

(modified) global.lang.php:

Code:
$l['welcome_back'] = "<strong>{1}, {2}</strong>. You last visited: {3}";

(modified) global.php:

Code:
$dyn_welcome_msg = '';
// use $mybb->user['timezone'] and $mybb->user['dst'] here
// check time
// decide what to display for $dyn_welcome_msg
$lang->welcome_back = $lang->sprintf($lang->welcome_back, $dyn_welcome_msg, build_profile_link($mybb->user['username'], $mybb->user['uid']), $lastvisit);

This way it would be based on the local time set by the user in the UserCP, and you wouldn't lose MyBB functionality, but rather be adding onto it.

-- With Javascript like this there's no way you can guarantee to match the timezone set via the logged on user's UserCP...

EDIT: Also, why are these in there?

Code:
//-->

Code:
<!--