Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: Thankyou for visting /goodbye page.
This little hack will direct your members to a thank you / goodbye page when they click on the logout button. It will also auto log them out and return them back to the standard view that guests see.
Ok here is HOWTODOIT
Please remember to use the Editor account before making any template changes, If you have not made an editor account yet please read HERE
Second you must have all ready a template you can edit.
First of all you must make your Thank you page, the best way to do this is to use the webpage feature on here, i will give only the basic guide now, you can always adapt it later.
To Make Welcome Page.
If you have not used the webpage feature before or have never installed a webpage template then please follow from number 1. If you have already make a webpage template and have one installed please go straight to number 4.
Now find the template you wish to use and click on Install
2. Now look to the left and click on 6. Web Pages -- Edit Web Pages
3. Now look at top left of that page and click on the icon called Web Page
4. You should now see this screen
Page Name = Thankyou.html (you can change this but make sure it ends in .html)
Page Title = GoodBye ( you can change this)
Short Page Title = Leave Blank
Template that will be applied to the page = Web Template (change if you want, Forum (froum switch) would display your message using your current forum template.) See screen shots at the bottom.
Web Template = the name of the webpage template you have just installed.
Visible = Leave Blank
Enable BBCode in this page This is your choice
Enable Smilies in this page This is your choice
5. Now you must click on the source button that you see in the picture above, and enter enter this code.
This code is the redirect code and is set for 5 seconds you may change this by changing the number 5 to the number of your choice.
Below that code you could add something like this (please remember this is an example only)
Code:
<p> </p>
<h3>Thank you For visiting</h3>
<p><img width="468" height="60" border="0" alt="" src="http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/165763/goodbye.gif" /></p>
<p>We hope you enjoyed you stay and would be happy to see you return.</p>
Once you have done all that click on Save Page.
Ok now how to redirect the log out.
1. Goto admin panel --- 3. Styles --- Edit Templates/Logos -- the template you wish to edit (EG myff_howtodoit1)--- Submit
Now look at the top in the area marked Choose Forum template/javascript/css File to Edit use the drop down bar and find
overall_header.tpl
Find a block of code that may look like this.
Please note that you may have two blocks like this you must use the one in-between the
Code:
<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
and
Code:
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->
If your template does not have the code in-between the log in and log out switches, for example subsilver does not , then please follow the tips below the code.
Tips If your template does not use the log in log out switches around the code then you must add a second line of code and surround them with the switches, and only change if user is logged in code. Sounds tricky but is simple the normal code looks like this
<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_out -->
<a href="{U_LOGIN_LOGOUT}" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myfs_testhtml1/images/icon_mini_login.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}" hspace="3" />{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}</a> </span></td>
<!-- END switch_user_logged_out -->
<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in-->
<a href="http://farnboroughinvincibles.co.uk/goodbye.html" class="mainmenu"><img src="templates/myfs_testhtml1/images/icon_mini_login.gif" width="12" height="13" border="0" alt="{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}" hspace="3" />{L_LOGIN_LOGOUT}</a> </span></td>
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in-->
Login/Logout Portal
If you are using a login/logout portal then after you have followed the guide above and made your webpage, then you need to make a small edit to your cms_login.tpl
1. 1. Goto admin panel --- 3. Styles --- Edit Templates/Logos -- the template you wish to edit (EG myff_howtodoit1)--- Submit
2. Look at the bottom in the area markedChoose Portal template File to Edit and find and open cms.login.tpl.
You now need to find the block of code like this.
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called Web Page
