[request] Welcome Box

verdilak · **Posted:** August 16th, 2008, 9:07 pm

It's under Board Setting in the ACP, where you can edit your Welcome Box. This would be very nice to have.

Welcome Box

Welcome Message:
The message that displays to users who are not logged in. BBCode Allowed.

Ashley.S. · **Posted:** August 17th, 2008, 10:16 am

if you have seen this on freeforums.org I believe it is something that they developed themselves to try and be unique and different from the other PHPBB3 hosts out there...anyhow yes it would be a great feature

PanHandle · **Posted:** August 18th, 2008, 12:37 pm

You can do this quite simply already. Just create a forum that only guests have permission to view. Once they register and/or log in then they don't see it.

Ashley.S. · **Posted:** August 18th, 2008, 12:48 pm

I think verdilak means is one one that displays at the top across the whole board without creating all the individual forums

verdilak · **Posted:** August 18th, 2008, 1:03 pm

PanHandle wrote:

You can do this quite simply already. Just create a forum that only guests have permission to view. Once they register and/or log in then they don't see it.

That would work pretty well, unfortunately that would mean that nearly 99% of my board would be unviewable by guests, which is kinda against the recommended rule.

Ashley.S. · **Posted:** August 18th, 2008, 1:13 pm

I have got a little note on the first forum saying welcome guest and on a few saying please login to view this section...I have also allowed guests to post in some sections of my forum

Alex · **Posted:** August 19th, 2008, 3:42 pm

I wouldn't want guests to post in the forums, it allows easy access spamming.

Ashley.S. · **Posted:** August 19th, 2008, 3:52 pm

well bots have no way to spam as it has the image verification and if true humans were to spam, then it would be very easy to ban them via IP

Nexus · **Posted:** August 19th, 2008, 3:59 pm

Well, if you wouldnt mind having a message for everyone, you could put this in your footer code:

Code:

<script language="Javascript">
<!--
alert ("Welcome to the Forums!  We hope you enjoy your stay.")
//-->
</script>

-Rich

Alex · **Posted:** August 19th, 2008, 4:00 pm

Ashley.S. wrote:

well bots have no way to spam as it has the image verification and if true humans were to spam, then it would be very easy to ban them via IP

Mm, I wasn't talking about bots.

verdilak · **Posted:** August 19th, 2008, 4:29 pm

Nexus wrote:

Well, if you wouldnt mind having a message for everyone, you could put this in your footer code:

Code:

<script language="Javascript">
<!--
alert ("Welcome to the Forums!  We hope you enjoy your stay.")
//-->
</script>

-Rich

Hmm... that would show up every page... too annoying... maybe something that shows up once if you are a registered user (personalized as well) and every page if you are a guest, reminding them to register?

Nexus · **Posted:** August 19th, 2008, 4:37 pm

Make it into a BBCode and put that in a forum which is only viewable by Guests.

-Rich

verdilak · **Posted:** August 19th, 2008, 5:30 pm

Nexus wrote:

Make it into a BBCode and put that in a forum which is only viewable by Guests.

-Rich

Yeah... but dont I have to keep most of my boards see-able by guests?

Nexus · **Posted:** August 19th, 2008, 5:33 pm

Yeah , but have one forum which is only viewable by guests (delete the Administrator's Moderator's and Registered member's permissions for it).

-Rich

Ashley.S. · **Posted:** August 20th, 2008, 8:22 am

hmmm, might use that and adapt it a bit

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