FA Latest Announcements

[Farjad]

What is this for?
This hack is mainly made for showing announcements on forumhome.

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Main purpose of this was just to show announcements to my users as they barely go in Announcements sections.. so I made this hack and now deciding to release this here.

If you use this hack do click install



Updates:
v1.0.1
- Added Sticky option

v1.0.0
- Updated Template Problem
- Updated Table Prefix Problem

[coolnikin]

Nice addon :) Installed !

[Veer]

Installed...

But getting database error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM icon WHERE iconid = '0' LIMIT 1;

MySQL Error : Table 'site_community.icon' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Saturday, November 25th 2006 @ 02:52:11 PM
Script : http://www.site.com/index.php
Referrer : http://www.site.com/admincp/index.php?do=head
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vb_database

[Farjad]

Installed...

But getting database error:
Updated... Missed the table prefix in the query.

[Veer]

Updated... Missed the table prefix in the query.
Thanks for update, its working now :)

[Veer]

Please Look at screen shot bellow:

56581

The Silver image is "cat_head_bg.gif"
and The Blue image is "cat_title_bg2.gif"

I want to put the silver image where the arrow... how to do?
My Skin is working fine, but only here is i fond problem.

Thanks :)

[Farjad]

Please Look at screen shot bellow:

56581

The Silver image is "cat_head_bg.gif"
and The Blue image is "cat_title_bg2.gif"

I want to put the silver image where the arrow... how to do?
My Skin is working fine, but only here is i fond problem.

Thanks :)
Can you PM me your site url.. ill tell you what to change in the template then onwards.

[Veer]

Can you PM me your site url.. ill tell you what to change in the template then onwards.
PM sent to you :)

[Farjad]

PM sent to you :)
PM sent :)

[Veer]

PM sent :)
Thanks Bro,

Now the announcement is looking very nice :)

Thanks a lot.

[Farjad]

Thanks Bro,

Now the announcement is looking very nice :)

Thanks a lot.
No Problem :)

[sunnycher]

I've installed this, running 3.6.4 and I don't see it on my forumhome.
Any ideas?

[sunnycher]

you IMPORT The product? Or UPLOAD the product?

[Farjad]

you IMPORT The product? Or UPLOAD the product?
You would IMPORT the product just like any other...and then do the TEMPLATE edits and then go in VBOPTIONS and fix those settings there.

[o0Hubba0o]

Can you PM me your site url.. ill tell you what to change in the template then onwards.

PM sent to you :)

PM sent :)

Thanks Bro,

Now the announcement is looking very nice :)

Thanks a lot.

Lol, you don't post saying pm sent, it defeats the purpose of pm's and is usually considered spam by most sites. Also why not post the problem and the fix in case other members are having similiar issues, it might help them solve it without going the whole pm process.

[Farjad]

Lol, you don't post saying pm sent, it defeats the purpose of pm's and is usually considered spam by most sites. Also why not post the problem and the fix in case other members are having similiar issues, it might help them solve it without going the whole pm process.
Yep, the product was updated..

[Kadi]

I imported the xml and editted the template and activited it but it hasn't appeared.

There is only one template edit, isnt there?

[Farjad]

^^Yes...:confused: ..Should appear......you checked the vboptions?

[Kadi]

yes I did. nothing appeared.

I've uninstalled and will try again later. Great hack though. I really could use it.

[yui333]

I've noticed if your forum ID had 3 digits (i.e. above 99) then this would not work.. :(

My announcements forum ID was above 100 and it did not work..

It worked with other forums though which their IDs digits less than 3..

Can this be fixed?

[Farjad]

I've noticed if your forum ID had 3 digits (i.e. above 99) then this would not work.. :(

My announcements forum ID was above 100 and it did not work..

It worked with other forums though which their IDs digits less than 3..

Can this be fixed?
Hmm..are you sure?? You get any sql error etc?

[yui333]

Ops! Sorry, I forgot to say THANK YOU in the begining.. So here it is, although it is late.. THANK YOU.

Ok, now to our topic..

No, none of SQL errors occurred.. everything was fine.

I tried with all my forums, and it worked so well..

But, when I added a 3-digits number as a forum ID, it would not work at all.

I thought maybe my announcement forum was impaired (stupid idea), but I deleted it :D and opened a new one.. and the same problem occurred, nothing is shown, as my forum ID is above 99.

I added new posts as an attempt, so might it work.. but nothing :(

I tried IDs such as 14, 46, and 49, and they worked great.

Any idea about what's going on with this hack?

[ninjamaster]

thanks for this :) i will install it later:)

[Farjad]

Ops! Sorry, I forgot to say THANK YOU in the begining.. So here it is, although it is late.. THANK YOU.

Ok, now to our topic..

No, none of SQL errors occurred.. everything was fine.

I tried with all my forums, and it worked so well..

But, when I added a 3-digits number as a forum ID, it would not work at all.

I thought maybe my announcement forum was impaired (stupid idea), but I deleted it :D and opened a new one.. and the same problem occurred, nothing is shown, as my forum ID is above 99.

I added new posts as an attempt, so might it work.. but nothing :(

I tried IDs such as 14, 46, and 49, and they worked great.

Any idea about what's going on with this hack?
Ahh.. i think i know why, is there any sticky in the announcement forum?

[yui333]

lol :D guess what!! It works so well now..

I have no sticky threads in the announcement forum, and when I've imported your updated version it has not worked.. I've almost despaired of it.

Yet, my other forums have stickies, but the hack has worked with them!

I just tried my last attempt and chose NO from "Sticky only?" options, and guess what!! It has worked so well :)

Now everything is fine.. and I have clicked INSTALL

Thanks

And I have a question..

How can I colour the annoucement threads titles in this hack?.. I think if they are red, they will look nicer..

And the word "Announcement", can it be on the middle instead of being on the left?

[Farjad]

lol :D guess what!! It works so well now..

I have no sticky threads in the announcement forum, and when I've imported your updated version it has not worked.. I've almost despaired of it.

Yet, my other forums have stickies, but the hack has worked with them!

I just tried my last attempt and chose NO from "Sticky only?" options, and guess what!! It has worked so well :)

Now everything is fine.. and I have clicked INSTALL

Thanks

And I have a question..

How can I colour the annoucement threads titles in this hack?.. I think if they are red, they will look nicer..

And the word "Announcement", can it be on the middle instead of being on the left?
You can edit the forumhome_la template :)

[asj]

Thanks

[MustangLisa]

Nice, thanks!!

[yui333]

You can edit the forumhome_la template :)
Thanks.. done!

[MimeSong Erk]

I really like this plug, and have skinned it to be a lot more concise - I'd be willing to share if anyone is interested, it is not complex. You can see at www.rmxp.org

I have a question about how the topics in the FA block are ordered. On my forum as I post this, the 3 latest announcements are:
No October backup.
Dragon Kid Image Dump
RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story
in that order. However, the chronological order of which has the most recent posts is:
Dragon Kid Image Dump
No October backup.
RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story
Why is the FA bit not updating as fast as the forum listing itself?

[yui333]

I really like this plug, and have skinned it to be a lot more concise - I'd be willing to share if anyone is interested, it is not complex. You can see at www.rmxp.org

I have a question about how the topics in the FA block are ordered. On my forum as I post this, the 3 latest announcements are:
No October backup.
Dragon Kid Image Dump
RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story
in that order. However, the chronological order of which has the most recent posts is:
Dragon Kid Image Dump
No October backup.
RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story
Why is the FA bit not updating as fast as the forum listing itself?
Nice modification! Can you let us try it?.. Thanks

[MrPHD]

Nice Hack, Great job. Thanks

[Kadi]

Hi,

I reinstalled and its working fine now. Thanks. :)

Qs:

I need the thread/thread starter column to be aligned to the right. (Arabic forum). How do I do that?

How do i center the title?

I looked up the words in the phrase manager to translate them but couldn't find them. Thats how I always translate hacks. Am I missing something?

Sorry about the many questions.

Thank you.

[MimeSong Erk]

Nice modification! Can you let us try it?.. Thanks

Hi Yui. The mod is pretty simple. You will have to interpret this a little: I hard-coded some of the templates since I know my announcement forum is not going to change; this saves a query or two, for what it's worth.
forumhome_la
</table>
<DIV class="announcementbox">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="3">
<a href='forumdisplay.php?f=2' class="forumtitle" style="font-size: 130%; font-stretch:wider"><span class="smallfont" style="float:right;margin-top:3px">Click here to see all announcements</span>Latest Announcements!</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
$latest_announce_thread_bit
</tbody>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="3">
<a href='faq.php#faq_subscriptions' class="smallfont" style="float:right;margin-top:3px">Subscriptions and Sponsorships</a>
<a href='http://rw.rmxp.org/index.php?title=rules' class="forumtitle" style="font-size: 130%; font-stretch:wider">Rules and Guidelines</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><br />
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">Links will have to be tweaked to suit.


forumhome_la_threads
<tr>
<td class="tcat" style="font-size:90%" align="left" width="70%">

<span class="smallfont" style="float:right"><span style="cursor:pointer" onclick="window.open('member.php?u=$latest_announce_thread[postuserid]')">posted by $latest_announce_thread[postusername]</span></span>

<a href="showthread.php?t=$latest_announce_thread[threadid]" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">$latest_announce_thread[title]</a>
</td>
<td class="alt1Active" align="left">
<center class="smallfont">Last post by <a href="member.php?find=lastposter&t=$latest_announce_thread[threadid]">$latest_announce_thread[lastposter]</a></center>
</td>
<td class="alt1Active" align="left">
<center class="smallfont">$latest_announce_thread[replycount] replies</center>
</td>
</tr>

And in Main CSS add this to the Additional CSS Definitions: (for the main skin you see on my forum default)
/* ***** style of box that contains latest announcements ***** */
.announcementbox{
padding:5px;
margin:0px;
border:solid #90e;
border-width:1px;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-image: url("[whatever the background image of your forum is]");
background-repeat: repeat;
}

You will have to play with this to make it look right on your forum, I imagine, but it should get you started.

[yui333]

Thank you MimeSong Erk for sharing this with us.

It did not work so well with my style, so I think I have to modify your code to suit my style!

But honestly, your idea is nice.. I hope I will fix it soon.

[Farjad]

I really like this plug, and have skinned it to be a lot more concise - I'd be willing to share if anyone is interested, it is not complex. You can see at www.rmxp.org

I have a question about how the topics in the FA block are ordered. On my forum as I post this, the 3 latest announcements are:
No October backup.
Dragon Kid Image Dump
RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story
in that order. However, the chronological order of which has the most recent posts is:
Dragon Kid Image Dump
No October backup.
RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story
Why is the FA bit not updating as fast as the forum listing itself?
Actually this is done in the order its posted, meaning the newest one at the top, oldest one at the bottom ( as you can see by the threadid ).
Hi,

I reinstalled and its working fine now. Thanks. :)

Qs:

I need the thread/thread starter column to be aligned to the right. (Arabic forum). How do I do that?

How do i center the title?

I looked up the words in the phrase manager to translate them but couldn't find them. Thats how I always translate hacks. Am I missing something?

Sorry about the many questions.

Thank you.

Can you please edit forumhome_la template, and change the align="center" or whatever it is currently to align="right" and you can translate it there also :) Sorry I have not use any vbphrases, but I will look forward to use it in the future :)

[Kadi]

Thanks.

I got the thread/thread starter title aligned to the right but not the posts in that column. How do I change that?

When I added vbphrases I got an error.

I'm sorry to take up your time but could you show me what to change in the template?

[Farjad]

Thanks.

I got the thread/thread starter title aligned to the right but not the posts in that column. How do I change that?

When I added vbphrases I got an error.

I'm sorry to take up your time but could you show me what to change in the template?
</table>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="5">
<a href='forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]' class="forumtitle">$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forumname]</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead"></td>
<td class="thead" align="left"><a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=title" rel="nofollow">Thread</a> / <a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=postusername" rel="nofollow">Thread Starter</a> </td> <td class="thead" width="150" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=lastpost" rel="nofollow">Last Post</a> <a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=lastpost&amp;pp=20&amp;page=1"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/sortasc.gif" alt="Reverse Sort Order" border="0" /></a></span></td> <td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=replycount" rel="nofollow">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Replies&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</a> </span></td> <td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=views" rel="nofollow">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Views&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</a> </span></td>
</tr>
<tbody>
$latest_announce_thread_bit
</tbody>
</table><br />
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

These are the words you need to change. (In Bold)

[MimeSong Erk]

Thanks Farjad, I can't believe I didn't see that in the first post. :p

Working on some updates to mine that will make it clearer when there have been posts in an announcement topic. I may post the changes when I am done or link to them, again if there is interest.

[puertoblack2003]

i have the forum icon hack i want to add a image where do i make the changes?

thanks

[puertoblack2003]

never mined should have checked it before posting i changed it here in template>forumhome_la_threads >

before:
<td class="alt1Active" align="center"><if condition="$latest_announce_thread['icon']"><img src="$latest_announce_thread[icon]" border="0" /></if></td>

After:

<td class="alt1Active" align="center"><if condition="$latest_announce_thread['icon']"><img src="/images/catimage/announce_new.gif" border="0" /></if></td>

thanks:)

[SimplyBen]

I have been pondering for hours if there is a way I can use this to have Latest # of threads for multiple forums. Like say I wanted to have 3 Lists.. one from forumid 1, next from forumid2, and lastly from forumid 3. And to have them all on seperate lists. Like example... I have a movies forum, music forum and sport forum.. I want to differentiate where the threads are coming from. I am 99% sure, the methods used in your mod could be used to do something like this. I just don't know exactly how to replicate your product to make this possible. If you're willing to help, i'd pay and release it on vb org with credit to you.

[SimplyBen]

Oh shoot. nvm I think I just did it.. Wow.. just gonna take couple hours of HTML to integrate it all into one product.

EDIT :: I still haven't found a way to put them all in the same table. Help me out here?

[badboyz]

its not showing on the forumhome :(

[Ahsin1]

can u tell me how to install it ... instraction was not on the folder ???

[jGas]

thanks very much this is exactly what i'm lookin' for! ;) installed

[Ahsin1]

i add this in FORUMHOME Template

Find:
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
</if>

Add below:
$fa_latest_announce

but it didnt work wat is problem ?

[yoyoyoyo]

i add this in FORUMHOME Template

Find:
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
</if>

Add below:
$fa_latest_announce

but it didnt work wat is problem ?go to your ACP and then go to vbulletin options, then go to settings, then go to "Latest Announcement - FA"setting and enable the hack ;)

[Ahsin1]

go to your ACP and then go to vbulletin options, then go to settings, then go to "Latest Announcement - FA"setting and enable the hack ;)


i did the same u told me but again same problem its not showing in home

Latest announcement is active?
Here you can turn latest announcement hack on/off. i did yes it didnt work , i did no again it didnt work
what is the problem ???????

[Ahsin1]

I Installed Fa Latest Announcements But When i Enable It ,,, it com up of shoutbox i want it down of shoutbox how i can add it down of shoutbox

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2007/09/9.jpg

[CHSajid]

it works but one problem my right side colume dont appear, it appears on the footer. so i removed it, please help me.