Your Schools Intranet Homepage

[vikpaw]

Ours

 

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(On first load, only the top box in each column is expanded)

 

That's awesome Mr Rodway - the best bit: "Active Support Tickets: NONE" - I wish.

[rad]

I'll upload ours on Monday. We asked a Yr 10 student to create it for us, it is simple but works for us. The original was 4 years old and out of date, so why not utilise the students, especially the G+T ICT students.

 

Edit - G+T= Gifted and Talented

[webman]

That's awesome Mr Rodway - the best bit: "Active Support Tickets: NONE" - I wish.

 

Thanks Vikpaw. That's just the count of tickets created by the current user (and hyperlinked to their contents page on Liberum)

[glennda]

@webman

 

How do you get the current logged in user?

[vikpaw]

use windows authentication in iis, then can see logged in user...

we do this on our php site.

[glennda]

use windows authentication in iis, then can see logged in user...

we do this on our php site.

yeah i'm using apache on ubuntu - just had a thought as can use remote server address query and then query that against the login tracker to display the username of the person logged in which will do for me as can also display things like computer name etc but that was after i had posted!

[2097]

been playing around with mine for the past day , using a pre exisiting template which i have hacked around a bit

 

GraysConvent Internal Intranet

 

As you can see apart from some of the layout nothing is working as such lol ! but thanks for all the ideas guys from showing off your pics as i have used them as inspiration for creating mine.

 

The web 2.0 buttons on the front , im planning on having the main used websites as links , everything else will be department based

 

Having not done nothing last night i decided to finish this off as it was bugging me

 

99% finished now

 

Server status working in realtime

Login Tracker working as well .

 

Just need to now add the resources per subject .

 

The only subjects that have given me resources are ART and ICT lol

[vikpaw]

@2097 - like it except those fonts at top, they are horrific to look at, really blurry, but maybe it's just me.

[webman]

glennda: As vikpaw says, it's using IIS integrated Windows authentication to identify the user.

[glennda]

glennda: As vikpaw says, it's using IIS integrated Windows authentication to identify the user.

 

yeah i've got it working within login tracker now

 

if anybody else wants the code for that it is

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
$query_username = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE user_id IN (SELECT user_id FROM logins WHERE ipaddr ='$ip' AND active = '1')");
while($result_username = mysql_fetch_array($query_username))
{
echo "Welcome:  ".$result_username['username']."";
}

 

although it doesn't work on Terminal Services as there is 4 people logged in!

[john]

glennda: As vikpaw says, it's using IIS integrated Windows authentication to identify the user.

 

Webman thats using Windows things! Were you pinned to the floor to use them!?

 

Does look snazzy though, too many buttons for many teachers to use though

[2097]

@2097 - like it except those fonts at top, they are horrific to look at, really blurry, but maybe it's just me.

 

what bits r we talking about

[webman]

Webman thats using Windows things! Were you pinned to the floor to use them!?

 

Does look snazzy though, too many buttons for many teachers to use though

 

No, just using the best and most convenient tool for the job.

 

It looks a lot less busy and easier to use with only the top 3 boxes expanded (the default when the page loads). Almost everything is an icon, so they don't even have to read (as we know most of them don't!)

[chris_uk]

yeah i've got it working within login tracker now

 

if anybody else wants the code for that it is

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
$query_username = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE user_id IN (SELECT user_id FROM logins WHERE ipaddr ='$ip' AND active = '1')");
while($result_username = mysql_fetch_array($query_username))
{
echo "Welcome:  ".$result_username['username']."";
}

 

although it doesn't work on Terminal Services as there is 4 people logged in!

 

Use this code if you are using IIS,

  $initial = $_SERVER["AUTH_USER"];
	$_SESSION['un'] = preg_replace("/.*\\\\/", "", $initial);

Then you can just use

$_SESSION['un']

as the username.

[2097]

yeah i've got it working within login tracker now

 

if anybody else wants the code for that it is

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
$query_username = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE user_id IN (SELECT user_id FROM logins WHERE ipaddr ='$ip' AND active = '1')");
while($result_username = mysql_fetch_array($query_username))
{
echo "Welcome:  ".$result_username['username']."";
}

 

although it doesn't work on Terminal Services as there is 4 people logged in!

 

Even though mine does not show the current logged in user . It shows how many staff and Pupils are logged in etc

 

Which i think for my needs is better .

 

I used craigs login tracker

 

Craig A Rodway

 

And modified the Code a bit to only display what i need

[bondbill2k2]

I think this may of sparked rivalry! Techs trying to upstage eachothers page

[webman]

I think this may of sparked rivalry! Techs trying to upstage eachothers page

 

I like to think of it as sharing good practice and helping each other out That's what this community is all about, isn't it?

[glennda]

I like to think of it as sharing good practice and helping each other out That's what this community is all about, isn't it?

 

then trying to beat each other!

[webman]

 

*sigh*

[dgsmith]

Well mine gets username AND computer name, which in turn works out what department the computer is associated with and changes the text and logo picture to something more appropriate for that department; does that mean I am ahead now?

 

On a more serious note, I agree with webman that it's about sharing ideas and approaches (although I am going to steal webman's idea of having a live search box for internal phone numbers)!

[2097]

Tbh i got quite a lot of ideas from everyones pictures they posted .

 

There all great .

 

Keep it simple . Thats what i say

 

thanks everyone for the help

[MK-2]

what i wanted to do with ours is have it display a different page depending on user group (so staff see icon x and students see icons y and z)

how would i do that (i've not done webpage stuff much!)

[Edu-IT]

On a more serious note, I agree with webman that it's about sharing ideas and approaches (although I am going to steal webman's idea of having a live search box for internal phone numbers)!

And then share it with the wonderful community that is EduGeek? ;-)

[vikpaw]

@??? - the main heading fonts (fat curly), i'm sure i've seen it in wordart before, not a biggie, maybe just my resolution.

 

@???2 - splitting page by user? short of an if type statement based on username that redirects, just create two different homepages, and allocate them by GP. We have different for staff and students. Well the students don't actually get the intranet, as we're retiring it, adn they don't need it, so they just go to the email OWA page now.

 

sorry forgot who i was responding too and need to dash out.

[localzuk]

@??? - the main heading fonts (fat curly), i'm sure i've seen it in wordart before, not a biggie, maybe just my resolution.

 

@???2 - splitting page by user? short of an if type statement based on username that redirects, just create two different homepages, and allocate them by GP. We have different for staff and students. Well the students don't actually get the intranet, as we're retiring it, adn they don't need it, so they just go to the email OWA page now.

 

sorry forgot who i was responding too and need to dash out.

 

Problem with the latter option is that if you use a browser other than IE, you may have issues providing rules for different homepages. For example, Chrome seems to only allow setting homepage by computer in GP.