On the frontpage (outside the forum) i want to check if the member is logged on. How can I do that? I don't want a form so the visitor can log in only check and write the members name if logged on.
If his is logged in the following should show: Welcome "name"
I guess the Active Users mod should be of help, though you'd probably need to read that info from the active users table yourself.
A easier alternative would be to set the forum cookies to Website and see if you could read them from that outer page. If you could, and verified the values of username and password against the database, then you could show the info you want.