Dynamic Announcements: Programmable Forum Home Announcement/Message with conditionals

[Logician]

This hack allows you to post powerful dynamic announcements (changing according to different conditions) on forum home page. It differs from vbulletin's default announcements in 2 ways:

The announcement is displayed in forum home page, not inside thread view. So visitors will read them on home page without clicking any links.
The Hack's announcements are not static: ie. they can be powerfully programmed to display themselves according to many conditions.


This hack is the VB3 version of my Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43194) and it is a bit more improved in that it is now able to display your announcement as it was before AND also in DHTML popup box as well which ever you prefer better or even both. (DHTML poupup announcement is not technically a popup so popup killers can not kill it either.)

Basic Usage : You can set a text in your Admin CP and it's displayed in forum home to all users.

Advanced Usage : With conditionals you can set different texts/notifications/messages/announcements and they will be displayed if your pre-configured condition applies. This allows you to create powerful announcements/private messages/texts which address their receipt only if a certain condition is met. Some examples:

You can set to show an announcement in forum home IF:

user is X
user's usergroup is Y
his profile field Z is X
user has X posts or has more than Y posts but less than Z posts
his last visit time was X days ago
today is X, hour is between Y and Z, day is wednesday, month is Y, week is month's 2nd week, today is user's birthday
User is invisible/visible
his timeset is set to A
etc.


It's tested in vb versions from v.3.0.0 to 3.0.9 and works fine with all of them. It will work for all future 3.0.x versions too. For vb2 version click here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43194).

Here is a Screenshot (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=18272) from a general table announcement.
Here is a Screenshot (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=18273) from a popup announcement.

Some Features:

It's Admin CP integrated (Screenshot (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=18274))
Smiley, BBCode, HTML, IMG tags are supported in announcements.
You can address your users with their usernames inside announcements (Use $bbuserinfo variable)
Announcements are displayed directly in Forum Home so users are forced to read them.
The Conditionals help you to design powerful and ever changing announcements/private messages/forum home notifications.
Poupup announcement can not be killed by popup killer software


If you install the hack, click INSTALL (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vborg_miscactions.php?do=installhack&threadid=64189), thank you..

[U]Hacks of the hack:
* Hack 1 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=531161&postcount=126): Puts the announcement into header instead of forum home page so that announcement appears in all forum pages.
* Hack 2 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=543187&postcount=141): Integrates announcement with vBA_CMPS portal hack.
* Hack 3 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=591844&postcount=270
): Popup announcement will popup once in every XX hours.


Logician \\=^))

[Logician]

How To Use - Conditionals Help

After you installed the hack:

Basic Usage:

If you want to display an announcement to ALL users, simply login to Admin CP/Choose VB Settings/Dynamic Forum Announcements and enter your announcement as a plain text into the box. You can use smilies and all other bbcode in your announcements. This text will be dragged to your forum home regardless of whoever the page visitor is. You can use the poup box if you want to display the annnoucement as popup and the other box if in a table in forum home.

Advanced Usage:
You can use "conditionals" to set announcements displayed if a certain condition applies. If you are using my WebTemplates Hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36419) , you should be already familiar with the term "conditional". In Webtemplates conditionals could be used to put different texts/HTML codes which will be parsed if certain condition appied in your non-vb pages. It's the same concept and their usage is same. Here is its format:

[[(your conditional)]] Your Announcement [[/(your conditional)]]

Conditional Rules:

Conditionals are covered inside [[ ]] tags
Conditional itself is in paranthesis ( )
Announcements are written in between the conditional tags
Opening and closing conditional are exactly same except closing conditional has a / right before (
If you are trying to check if a X equals to Y use DOUBLE equation mark not single. eg. Correct: X==Y Incorrect:X=Y
You can design as many conditional as you like. If more than 1 condition applies at the same time, the conditional which is above (=higher priority) is parsed.
If you write a plain text without a conditional together with other conditionals, this text is considered "default announcement" and displayed if no conditions applies.

Some examples will help you understand the rules better. Here are some conditionals and the announcement texts which explains what that conditional do:

* [[($bbuserinfo[userid]==32)]] Show this announcement if page visitor's user id is 32 [[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==32)]]

* [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5)]] Show this announcement if page visitor's usergroupid is 5 (=if he is a Super Mod) [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5)]]

* [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]] Show this announcement if page visitor is a guest [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]]

* [[($bbuserinfo[userid]>1)]] Show this announcement if page visitor is NOT a guest [[/($bbuserinfo[userid]>1)]]

* [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7)]] Show this announcement if page visitor's a Super Mod OR a Mod OR an Admin [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7)]]

* [[($bbuserinfo[posts]<10)]] Show this announcement if page visitor has less than 10 posts [[/($bbuserinfo[posts]<10)]]

* [[($bbuserinfo[lastvisit] and $bbuserinfo[lastvisit]<strtotime(-30 days))]]Show this announcement if page visitor has not visited your board for 30 days[[/($bbuserinfo[lastvisit] and $bbuserinfo[lastvisit]<strtotime(-30 days))]]

* [[($bbuserinfo[joindate]>strtotime("-2 weeks") AND $bbuserinfo[joindate]<strtotime("-4 weeks"))]]Show this announcement if page visitor registered in a date between 2 weeks to 4 weeks from now[[/($bbuserinfo[joindate]>strtotime("-2 weeks") AND $bbuserinfo[joindate]<strtotime("-4 weeks"))]]

You can use conditionals together too. Here is an example:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==32)]] Announcement 1 [[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==32)]]
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]] Announcement 2 [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]
Announcement 3
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
If you set this text as your announcement, the hack will:
Show Announcement 1, if user's userid = 32
Show Announcement 2, if user's usergroupid = 3 (=email confirmation waiting members)
show Announcement 3, For ALL other users

What if user 32 is also from user groupid 3? He will be displayed Announcement 1 because even if he matches both conditional 1 and conditional 2, conditional 1 (which is above) has a higher priority.

Hope this document helps you to understand the term conditional. Needless to say my hack's conditional syntax is different than vb3's default conditional syntax and this is because I use my syntax for a long time (before vb3 was up).

If you need more help to design a "conditional", before asking me please read this document carefully for a few times, try to form it by yourself and if they all fail, ask in the hack's thread giving details about exactly what conditional you tried to form and what text (format) have you tried (and failed). You are welcomed to ask them in thread but my apologies in advance if I'm too busy to answer all questions. Thank you.

[lasto]

sounds good logician - i used the one on vb2 so will be using this as well

* lasto clicks install :)

[Red Blaze]

This will totally help me out! Thank you! Will install tonight. :)

EDIT: I was reading over the txt file, and it says add 4 new templates... I only see 3 there. o.o;

announcement, announcement_headercode, and announcement_popup. Or did I miss something.

[Logician]

EDIT: I was reading over the txt file, and it says add 4 new templates... I only see 3 there. o.o;

announcement, announcement_headercode, and announcement_popup. Or did I miss something.
Yes they are 3, not 4. I corrected the .txt file, thx for the heads up.

[AlexanderT]

wow complex hack ;) Will definitely give it a closer look!

[Logician]

wow complex hack ;) Will definitely give it a closer look!
Actually not so complex. But I guess I fail to narrate it simply :)

To put it in a more simple way I can tell it this way:

If you put a text inside the box 1 in this admin cp settings (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=18274), this text appears in your forum home like this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=18272). If you enter a text in the second box, then it appears like this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=18273). ;)

[Zelda-King]

I tried out an ! conditional. Say for example I use "[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!==6)]]", the message tries to load (if you're usergroup 6) but cannot (works for everyone else of course). I get a perpetual browser alert saying about 'transferring data from domain.com'.

Also, I suppose we can use multi-conditionals for one announcement like [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5 || $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 || $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==7)]]?

Tests...

[SaN-DeeP]

mod screenshots seems quit impressive :)
i will TRY this for sure.

thnx for nice HACK..

[Zelda-King]

Tested it. Multi conditionals DO work... at least for two. Doesn't seem to want to work for three when I use the NOT condition.

Example of what I'm trying to do;

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!==8 || $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!==13 || $bbuserinfo[userid]!==1)]]For people not userid 1 or usergroups 8 or 13[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!==8 || $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!==13 || $bbuserinfo[userid]!==1)]]

[Logician]

Doesn't seem to want to work for three when I use the NOT condition.

Your syntax is wrong. Not is NOT !== it is !=
so correct syntax is
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=8 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=1 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=13)]]
your announcement here
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=8 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=1 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=13)]]

[Zelda-King]

Hmm, forgot that one. Let me try that on my first issue right now...

Update: Everything works fine, yes. So it was my fault. The hack's fine. I like everything except the DHTML function. The presentation needs touching up and I don't suppose there's a way of making it not pop up EVERY time one goes to Forum Home?

[Boofo]

Can we also use the built-in conditionals for vB3 with this?

[Logician]

Can we also use the built-in conditionals for vB3 with this?
nope

[Boofo]

Are you planning on releasing a version that does?

[Logician]

Are you planning on releasing a version that does?
Nope. I'm happy with my own conditional syntax, use it in many of my hacks and it is older than vb3's conditional syntax anyway. So I don't plan to create a new syntax in my hacks.

Besides my to-do (ie to-port) list is too long and I can barely find time to port my vb2 hacks into vb3. I believe I can not spend time for such add-on features.

[M.C.]

can`t wait to check it out ;) Sounds really cool to me ;)

[Pitman]

When I get to step 2 (After uploading the edited options.php) I get the following parse error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/*****/public_html/forums/admincp/options.php on line 116

The code that is on line 115-117 of my options.php is:

{
$xml .= "\t<setting varname=\"$set[varname]\" displayorder=\"$set[displayorder]\"" . iif($set['advanced'], '],' advanced="1"') . ">\r\n";
if ($set['optioncode'] != '')

[Boofo]

Nope. I'm happy with my own conditional syntax, use it in many of my hacks and it is older than vb3's conditional syntax anyway. So I don't plan to create a new syntax in my hacks.

Besides my to-do (ie to-port) list is too long and I can barely find time to port my vb2 hacks into vb3. I believe I can not spend time for such add-on features.

Ok, well, thanks. That answered my question.

[Red Blaze]

Installed and works Great! :)
* Red Blaze clicks install

[ixian]

This is the kind of hack that sneaks up on you. At first, you don't think you'd have much use for it, until you realize what it can really do.

Posting a message just for people waiting for email confirmation alone is worth the time to install this. I get tons of new users who don't know to do that, or put in fake email addresses, then email me when they can't post. I'm giving them a special popup that reminds them from now on until they confirm:)

I can also leave private messages for admins and such. I love this hack.

[Red Blaze]

lol Same reason I use it for ixian. And for admins since we're gonna run a SC Tournament soon. Thanks again Lugician, this came in handy big time, I believe I got use to the conditionals. :)

BTW: This adds a query, right? I've noticed that it went from 12 to 13. ^^;

[ixian]

I do love this hack so.

It works fine on my forum home page. Now I am trying to figure out how to get it to work with vbAdvanced's index.php. Because that would be, you know, boss.

Edit - Figured it out! See below for solution

[ixian]

BTW, here's my conditional to give a popup to users who haven't confirmed their email registration yet, in case any one else wants to use it. It provides a link to edit their profile/email (in case they didn't read and used a fake email address) and to have the activation email re-sent.


[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]IMPORTANT: READ THIS

Hello $bbuserinfo[username]! You are seeing this message because you have not yet confirmed your registration via the email we sent you. You will not be able to post or use other features of the site until you do. Please click the activation link in the email you were sent, or visit <a href="register.php?$session[sessionurl]do=requestemail">this page</a> to resend the activation email. If you did not receive the email then it's possible it was blocked by your email client. In this case you can either disable your blocker software or enter a new email address in <a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editpassword">your profile</a> Thanks for coming by! This message will dissappear once you confirm your registration.[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]


That's the standalone version of course, I'm using it with the conditionals to display different messages to different groups, as outlined in Logicians excellent tutorial. Have fun.

[ixian]

Aha!!! I have it working for vbadvanced! Now it shows up all throughout your site, assuming you are using it:)

Mini-mod for vba:

Install hack as normal, confirm it works.

Edit vbadvanced's index.php

Find:


'bbcode_quote'
);

Add under


// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_headercode';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_popup';
// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack



Find


######################### News #########################


Add ABOVE


// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'] OR $vboptions['dynamic_popup']) {require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'])
{
eval('$dynamic_fha = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_fha']) . '";');
$dynamic_fha=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_fha);
$dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_fha);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste)) {eval('$dfh_announcement = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement') . '";');}
}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_popup'])
{
eval('$dynamic_popup = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_popup']) . '";');
$dynamic_popup=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_popup);
$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_popup);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_popuptopaste))
{
eval('$dfh_announcement_headercode = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_headercode') . '";');
eval('$dfh_announcement_popup = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_popup') . '";');
}
}

// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack


Now, edit your vbAdvanced INDEX template.

Find:

</head>

Add ABOVE

$dfh_announcement_headercode

Find:

$header
$navbar

CHANGE TO:

$dfh_announcement_popup
$header
$navbar
$dfh_announcement


Or put the two announcement bits wherever you want them to appear. Don't forget to do this for all your styles.

I may add this to the add-on hack section, but it's such a little mod - no code changes, just figuring out where the code goes in vba's scheme of things - it may not be worth the bother.

Enjoy, and thanks again Logician for a great hack!

[Logician]

When I get to step 2 (After uploading the edited options.php) I get the following parse error:

Make sure you applied STEP 1 correctly.

[Logician]

BTW: This adds a query, right? I've noticed that it went from 12 to 13. ^^;
Actually no. It shouldnt add any queries because the announcement comes with vb settings so no additional database connection is made.

Aha!!! I have it working for vbadvanced! Now it shows up all throughout your site, assuming you are using it
Thx for sharing it ixian.

[MrNase]

Very nice :)

I'll use that to remind my users of activating their account :)

thank you logician.

* MrNase click install

[gmarik]

REally advanced

[Sketch]

The default vbAdv install as $index_header not $header -- I believe. But I got it. ;) Nice hacks all around.

[ixian]

The default vbAdv install as $index_header not $header -- I believe. But I got it. ;) Nice hacks all around.

Oops. Sorry bout that:)

Shouldn't matter anyway, since by that step you can stick the bits wherever you want them to appear, you don't need to follow the instructions to the letter:)

[Pitman]

Make sure you applied STEP 1 correctly.
Lol, I did, there is only 2 instances of what to search for and replace, I did it exactly as the instructions say

[ixian]

Lol, I did, there is only 2 instances of what to search for and replace, I did it exactly as the instructions say


"Lol", you obviously didn't, because this hack is working for the rest of us. You must have missed something. Go over it again, line by line.

[dsotmoon]

login Admin CP, choose VB settings, click Forum Home Page Options and find "Dynamic Forum Home Announcements" box.


The dynamic forum announcement box isnt showing up in my adminCP although the welcome box is showing fine on forum home, what did i do wrong? or what part of the hack do i need to redo?

[dsotmoon]

duh! nevermind, it works great, i was confused.

[Logician]

Lol, I did, there is only 2 instances of what to search for and replace, I did it exactly as the instructions say
If you are sure you did it correctly, then your problem is more likely related to your text editor. Always use notepad or a similiar text editor to apply hacks, not HTML software like Dreamweaver or Frontpage. They tend to change certain lines in PHP scripts without letting you know and this can cause parse errors.

[lasto]

weirdest thing mine dont appear under one another likes yours do.When i went to do the code for one of them (the green popup) it said it was a duplicate entry and would`nt allow it so in my options i have 2 seperate otions - one for the box and one for the popup.

Is this cause i had the old hack of yours on vb2 and just upgraded the board to vb3

[Logician]

weirdest thing mine dont appear under one another likes yours do.When i went to do the code for one of them (the green popup) it said it was a duplicate entry and would`nt allow it so in my options i have 2 seperate otions - one for the box and one for the popup.

Is this cause i had the old hack of yours on vb2 and just upgraded the board to vb3
yes. you need to delete the old record before installing this one. To do it add:

$debug=1;
to your config.php file right before ?> and upload the file. Now login to your admin cp, choose settings and then the settings of my hack. You'll see the link to remove it. After you removed it, you can also remove the debug line from your config.php, upload it back and then install the hack.

[lasto]

cheers for help once again - worked fine :)

[Highlander]

i cant wait for VB Templates :D ,, i did the change last week to vb3.0 .. and must leave the exisitng webtepmaplte section alone :(

.. my dreams come trough .. if you manage to port webtemplates :D

you are my hero :D

..EDIT:
uhh sorry..thought i was posting in your annhouncment Thread :) .. delete this post..

[Gio Takahashi]

Seems that I get a blank page on index.php (forum not admincp) everytime I make an announcement.

[ixian]

Seems that I get a blank page on index.php (forum not admincp) everytime I make an announcement.

I know you're going to get tired of hearing this, but I'm gonna say it anyway - you missed something important/messed up a step.

Go back to the original versions of the files and do it again line by line. You missed something - a quote, a comma, a ;, something, I guarentee it. Either that or you did the edits with a crappy editor like Notepad which inserted invisible line breaks for you.

[Logician]

I know you're going to get tired of hearing this, but I'm gonna say it anyway - you missed something important/messed up a step.

Go back to the original versions of the files and do it again line by line. You missed something - a quote, a comma, a ;, something, I guarentee it. Either that or you did the edits with a crappy editor like Notepad which inserted invisible line breaks for you.
yes either as ixian said or it is your vb version. As far as I can see you are using "RC" and I haven't tested this hack with vb versions prior to 3.0.0 as I mentioned in the instructions.

[ranger2kxlt]

Never mind.....

AWESOME HACK! Thanks!!

[ranger2kxlt]

How do we use the field id part? I've tried numeours codes and can't get this to work.....??

Thanks

[Gio Takahashi]

Actuall yI forgot to update my user option, I'm using 3.0.0, thanks for reminding me to update that.

As for the editor I used. I have Erwin's vBFTP installed, which comes with a built in editor for php and such. Obviously I used that editor. I'll give it a try again.

[Gio Takahashi]

Hmm, seems that I skipped function.php or something while I edited this, I was sure I edited it right. Oh well.

[WEForums]

Anyone know a simple way to make this work for all pages?

I've made the HTML for a quick registration and it's displayed through the DHTML announcement. It'd be nice to have it enabled on all pages. I don't currently have the time to look at the editing which is why I ask.

[mtha]

Cool hack

You can use conditionals together too. Here is an example:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==32)]] Announcement 1 [[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==32)]]
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]] Announcement 2 [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]
Announcement 3
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
If you set this text as your announcement, the hack will:
Show Announcement 1, if user's userid = 32
Show Announcement 2, if user's usergroupid = 3 (=email confirmation waiting members)
show Announcement 3, For ALL other users

What if user 32 is also from user groupid 3? He will be displayed Announcement 1 because even if he matches both conditional 1 and conditional 2, conditional 1 (which is above) has a higher priority.

Can you make it display both (all) announcements (1+2+3) if user32 is also from usergroupid3? or will you have any plan to make it posible



STEP 1 - Edit admincp/options.php,find:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
if ($debug)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Replace it as: (Important : there are 2 instances of this line in options.php. Make sure you replace BOTH!)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
// Logician Hack: Always debug on while adding a setting
$debug=1;
// Logician Hack: Always debug on while adding a setting
if ($debug)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Upload the file into the server NOW. (Important : before you proceed to step 2 make sure you upload hacked options.php in step 1!)

Should we remove these $debug=1 after installation? (upload the original file, maybe?)

[Logician]

Can you make it display both (all) announcements (1+2+3) if user32 is also from usergroupid3? or will you have any plan to make it posible

You can create a conditional for this and put all 3 announcements in it. ;)

eg.
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==32 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]] Announcement 1
Announcement 2
Announcement 3
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==32 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]



Should we remove these $debug=1 after installation? (upload the original file, maybe?)
It is upto you. It does not hurt if you don't and it does not hurt if you do. But if you want a technical suggestion, I say leave it "hacked", it is better this way if you later decide to add an option to vbsettings. Because the hacked version allows you to make the setting perminent.

[joeychgo]

How about having the text in colors?

[Logician]

How about having the text in colors?What about it? You can use bbcode or HTML so it is possible.

[Yahhoon23]

Great Hack Logician. Installed perfectly on the first try and using your 2nd post in this thread helps alot with people that don't have the greatest understanding of your conditionals.

Nonetheless it has worked flawlessly with me.

*Clicked Install.

[subu1]

very fine thxxxx, *click install*

[Fibe]

Is there any way to make the text scroll across the box ?

And how do i resize the popup box? it's a bit huge hehehe.

New at this, so sorry if they are dumb questions.

[the Sandman]

Is there any way to make the text scroll across the box ?HTML is allowed so try simply putting <marquee> </marquee> tags around your announcement text.

[Logician]

And how do i resize the popup box? it's a bit huge hehehe.

You can play with the css setting in the dfh_announcement_popup template to change the color/size/location etc. of popup box.

[Fibe]

Ok firefox messed the popup up thats why.

However i can't seem to find the values to change size for in that template :(

[NuclioN]

Great function Logician! I wonder if it is possible to show or popup calendar events. Now i know that it is rather boring to look at an event-popup the whole day so i hope there is a way to do this with a controled popup, but if this is impossible an event announcement would be very nice! :)

[mtha]

Logician, how many query it'd add to the process?

I'd love to play with this, but I dont wanna slow down my board :D

[Logician]

Logician, how many query it'd add to the process?

I'd love to play with this, but I dont wanna slow down my board :D
none! ;)

[Mobo]

This hack really rocks!! It's the best way to keep my staff up to speed that I have found so far. Thanks!!

[brandy]

Cool hack, I've downloaded it, but haven't installed it yet. When I do I'll click Install.

I was wondering if anyone new how to do the following with it:

I would like a pop up window that displays the 3 paid subscriptions that I offer (bascially the "Available Subscriptions" box.) I would like a person to be able to click to pay for a subscription in the pop up, and then have the pop up close and open the available payment page in the MAIN forum window (where the pop up originated).

Anyone?

[Kwak]

I should install this hack next weekend.

[poolking]

Great looking hack, I'll install it later. :D

[brandy]

This is a great hack!

How do the conditionals work regarding PRIMARY usergroups and SECONDARY usergroups?

For instance, I have a primary registered usergroup ID: 2
and a secondary contributing member usergroup ID: 10

I want usergroup "2" to get an announcement that asks them to donate.

When they donate, they are still in usergoup "2" but now also have a secondary usergroup "10" for contributing member.

I want usergroup "10" to have an announcement that thanks them, without having the announcement that asks them to donate.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Brandy

[zetetic]

Great hack!

One thing... it took me an obscenely long time to figure this out, but there's a semicolon missing from the pop-up template that causes some ugly formatting:

"padding: 10px; overflow:"

Thanks!

[Aurous]

Something doesnt look right. I need help:

I am trying to install this in one of my testboards before applying it to my main bb. The testvb folder is password protected by htaccess.

After following first step:
Replacing

if ($debug)

with:

// Logician Hack: Always debug on while adding a setting
$debug=1;
// Logician Hack: Always debug on while adding a setting
if ($debug)

YES, I know there are 2 instances of "if ($debug)", which I replaced with the above text and saved the changes in my server.

After that, when I go to:

http://YOUR_SITE_URL/FORUM_URL/admincp/options.php?do=addgroup

I see a blank white page!! I dont want to mess around with my live site and would like to make changes in my test forum first. I dont understand whats wrong here. Any help??

[Logician]

After that, when I go to:

http://YOUR_SITE_URL/FORUM_URL/admincp/options.php?do=addgroup

I see a blank white page!!
Obviously you edit the url in http://YOUR_SITE_URL/FORUM_URL/admincp/options.php?do=addgroup right?

[Aurous]

obviously, you think the users here are retarded!

And to ur question, ofcourse NOT! I used proper URL. Infact the strange thing is that, when I removed $debug=1; in both instances and saved it. I clicked on vBulletin Options in the admincp and I saw blank page as well!! Then I just copied the options.php from the live site to the testvb/admincp folder and it worked fine, when both the files had the same content! This is something very new to me. I even tried logging again and didnt see any difference.

[Logician]

obviously, you think the users here are retarded!

This has nothing to do about intelligence. We have users with every kind of experience here so I got used to ask the obvious questions first.

I'm not sure what is the problem in your case but I am safe to say it is related to your end. It sounds like a editor problem to me so you can try using the notepad to hack the file for starters.

[Aurous]

I am editing files via ssh (putty), this has nothing to do with it.

[Logician]

I am editing files via ssh (putty), this has nothing to do with it.
This sounds like your problem. Try to download it to your localcomputer first, edit it via notepad, then upload it back. Very likely problem will go.

[Aurous]

I am extremely sorry. It was a problem on my side. The hack is working great! Notepad saved the day after all :tired: Once again, I apologize.

Also, thanks a lot for this wonderful hack!

[Logician]

np glad you solved the problem. ^^

[Aurous]

a quick question:

How do I uninstall this hack? Not that there is anything wrong with it, but I need to make some changes on my site, uninstall a few hacks and then reinstall this hack.

Please let me know.

Thanks

[Aurous]

also whats $debug=1; for?

can I remove it after installing this hack?

[Logician]

a quick question:

How do I uninstall this hack? Not that there is anything wrong with it, but I need to make some changes on my site, uninstall a few hacks and then reinstall this hack.

Just revert the hack codes from the script. Then to remove the hack settings from options follow this instruction (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=504557&postcount=38).

[Logician]

also whats $debug=1; for?

can I remove it after installing this hack?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=508435&postcount=50

[Logician]

Great hack!

One thing... it took me an obscenely long time to figure this out, but there's a semicolon missing from the pop-up template that causes some ugly formatting:

"padding: 10px; overflow:"

Thanks!
This small bug is fixed and instructions are updated. Thanks to tmhall.

[Oblivion Knight]

Installed and working like a charm.. Thanks Logician :)

I even installed it incorrectly and it still worked.. :D
Originally, I only added $debug=1; once.. It was only after reading the file for a second time that I noticed I should have added it twice. I've corrected this now, but everything still worked doing it just the once.!

[Logician]

I even installed it incorrectly and it still worked.. :D
Originally, I only added $debug=1; once.. It was only after reading the file for a second time that I noticed I should have added it twice. I've corrected this now, but everything still worked doing it just the once.!
If your forget to apply step 1 correctly before installing step 2, the hack can stop running when you update your forum. If hack options disappear when you update your forum, now you know why. ;) In this scenario apply step 1 and 2 again when this happens.

[brandy]

Hi, what I'm trying to do is this:

Registered Users are group ID: 2
Paid Subscribers are group IDs: 10, 11, & 12

All Paid Subscribers' primary usergroup is 2.
Paid Subscriber's secondary usergroups are either 10,11, or 12.

I want the following announcement to show up for paid subscribers only, but paid subscribers do not see any announcement.

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==10 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==11 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==12)]]
Welcome $bbuserinfo[username]! Thank you for being a Contributing Member! :)
<br> If you do not see an icon before your name, <a href="profile.php?do=editusergroups">Click Here</a> to choose to be recognized as a contributing member.
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==10 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==11 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==12)]]

If I include group ID 2 in the above syntax, then registered users see the above message even if they haven't paid anything.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brandy

[idwf]

hey there. i follwoed the steps with now problems atall, however, when i got to the AdminCP, Options, and put in my message 'Tester : im testing to see if this appears' i could't see anything :S

what have i done wrong?!

[brandy]

Hi, what I'm trying to do is this:

Registered Users are group ID: 2
Paid Subscribers are group IDs: 10, 11, & 12

All Paid Subscribers' primary usergroup is 2.
Paid Subscriber's secondary usergroups are either 10,11, or 12.

I want the following announcement to show up for paid subscribers only, but paid subscribers do not see any announcement.

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==10 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==11 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==12)]]
Welcome $bbuserinfo[username]! Thank you for being a Contributing Member! :)
<br> If you do not see an icon before your name, <a href="profile.php?do=editusergroups">Click Here</a> to choose to be recognized as a contributing member.
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==10 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==11 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==12)]]

If I include group ID 2 in the above syntax, then registered users see the above message even if they haven't paid anything.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brandy

OK, I've tried a variety of different things and I think I've figured out the problem. The Dynamic Announcements only read the PRIMARY group ID. Am I right? Can you make it so that they also recognize the SECONDARY group ID as well?

I can't make the paid subscribers a primary group manually, because when their subscription runs out, they still need to be a registered user, so they need to have the "registered user" group as their primary group.

Is this clear as mud? :tired:
Any hope for it being able to work?
Brandy

[Logician]

OK, I've tried a variety of different things and I think I've figured out the problem. The Dynamic Announcements only read the PRIMARY group ID. Am I right? Can you make it so that they also recognize the SECONDARY group ID as well?

I can't make the paid subscribers a primary group manually, because when their subscription runs out, they still need to be a registered user, so they need to have the "registered user" group as their primary group.

$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] keeps only primary usergroup id. So if you use this variable in your conditional you can not make the announcement displayed to your paid users.

It is $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] that saves secondary userid. So theorically you need to use it to target your paid user like:

[[($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 10 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 11 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 12)]]
thanks for paying
[[/($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 10 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 11 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 12)]]

HOWEVER:

$bbuserinfo[membergroupids] is technically a different variable then $bbuserinfo[usergroupid] because unlike primary usergroup, secondary usergroup can have more than 1 values. For instance you can have a user put into 3 different secondary usergroups at the same time. Therefore such a conditional will fail for these users when they are a member of more than 1 secondary usergroup.

Bottom line what you are trying to achieve is not easily possible with this hack in certain conditions.

[Logician]

hey there. i follwoed the steps with now problems atall, however, when i got to the AdminCP, Options, and put in my message 'Tester : im testing to see if this appears' i could't see anything :S

what have i done wrong?!
check template modifications. You probably did not make them in all active templates sets available.

[SmasherMaster]

Looks nice, great hack Logican, i'll be installing later. :)

[WAR]

$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] keeps only primary usergroup id. So if you use this variable in your conditional you can not make the announcement displayed to your paid users.

It is $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] that saves secondary userid. So theorically you need to use it to target your paid user like:

[[($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 10 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 11 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 12)]]
thanks for paying
[[/($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 10 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 11 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 12)]]

HOWEVER:

$bbuserinfo[membergroupids] is technically a different variable then $bbuserinfo[usergroupid] because unlike primary usergroup, secondary usergroup can have more than 1 values. For instance you can have a user put into 3 different secondary usergroups at the same time. Therefore such a conditional will fail for these users when they are a member of more than 1 secondary usergroup.

Bottom line what you are trying to achieve is not easily possible with this hack in certain conditions.

I am also having trouble trying to get this to work properly...

I have tried using the is_member_of() function but it doesn't seem to be recognizing it either. Does anyone else have any idea how to post an announcement to display for peoples secondary usergroups?

[DrkFusion]

Is a similar hack available for vb2?

[Logician]

Is a similar hack available for vb2?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43194

[WAR]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43194
Logician, would it be difficult to gain access to the is_member_of() function in your hack?

[Logician]

Logician, would it be difficult to gain access to the is_member_of() function in your hack?
Sorry conditional structure of this hack is not designed to call functions. It just checks equations. If someone is willing to change it, it is welcomed but I have a long list of to-be ported hacks, so I don't plan to spend more time for this hack until I finish porting of my other hacks.

[ImportPassion]

well, i guess you answered my question above. I wanted to see if we could get the vb editors put in instead of the textarea.

[Flow Fusion]

Very cool...clicks install.

[Intex]

Great hack as always Logican. Installed no problems on 3.0.1.

One question: is it possible to include a cookie / condition setting or something that can determine whether the person has already seen the announcement, so that it doesn't keep showing up every time they visit the page?

* Intex clicks INSTALL.

[Logician]

One question: is it possible to include a cookie / condition setting or something that can determine whether the person has already seen the announcement, so that it doesn't keep showing up every time they visit the page?

I agree it would be handy but not easy to achieve, sorry!

[0zone]

Thank you for an excellent hack! :)

I've used it for my members who are awaiting email confirmation and approval by Admins.

This will save me alot of hassle replying to the numerous emails I received concerning those issues.

Once again, thanks for a great hack.

Installed, tested, working perfectly.

[clicks install]

[Oldfart]

Some of my users and I have discovered something odd. I am not sure if it was because of this hack or vbGarage but whenever someone tries to make a change to their profile in the options menu it won't save it. I tried to change the avatar from showing to not show and after I use the save button it doesn't make the change for some reason the box's are still ticked and show avatar is still enabled.

Anyone else find this?

[Logician]

Some of my users and I have discovered something odd. I am not sure if it was because of this hack or vbGarage but whenever someone tries to make a change to their profile in the options menu it won't save it. I tried to change the avatar from showing to not show and after I use the save button it doesn't make the change for some reason the box's are still ticked and show avatar is still enabled.

It can NOT be this hack, you can bet on it. It does not even touch that file.

[brandy]

[[($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 10 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 11 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 12)]]
thanks for paying
[[/($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 10 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 11 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 12)]]

Thank You! That worked like charm:banana:

[proxyMX]

Are you planning on releasing a version that does?
can i use HTMl in the DHTML pop up?

[Logician]

can i use HTMl in the DHTML pop up?
yes.

[proxyMX]

yes.
Question: How can i implement the popup on the vbadvanced homepage

[Logician]

Question: How can i implement the popup on the vbadvanced homepage
I don't know because I don't use it.

[egyptsons]

greatttttttttttttt one
I Install it :)

[sketch42]

when the popup appears its to the top left i want it centered how do i do this??

great hack btw thank you for putting this together

[the Sandman]

when the popup appears its to the top left i want it centered how do i do this??

great hack btw thank you for putting this togetherDid you try the bug fix in This Post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=513495&postcount=67)?

[sketch42]

Did you try the bug fix in This Post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=513495&postcount=67)?
no i didnt because the fix was implemented in the instructions way before i installed the hack..

[Logician]

when the popup appears its to the top left i want it centered how do i do this??

great hack btw thank you for putting this together
You can play with this line in "dfh_announcement_popup" template: " top: 50px; bottom: 50px; left: 50px; right: 50px;"

But technically there is no CSS command to make it appear in the center for all users. You can increase pixel numbers to make it go to the center but the term center will depend user's screen resolution so it may not be in the center for users who are using different screen resolutions. That is why the default location is set as top left.

[pigsy]

Logician, in the installation instructions you say to modify options.php to turn on debug (you say "Always debug on while adding a setting"), but you don't say to revert back afterwards, is this intended, or an oversight?

[Logician]

Logician, in the installation instructions you say to modify options.php to turn on debug (you say "Always debug on while adding a setting"), but you don't say to revert back afterwards, is this intended, or an oversight?
It is intended. It does not matter whether you revert it or not after hack is installed but I believe that "hacked" version is better while adding a new setting because it allows you to set the settings permenant.

[sketch42]

It is intended. It does not matter whether you revert it or not after hack is installed but I believe that "hacked" version is better while adding a new setting because it allows you to set the settings permenant.
for users awaiting email confirmation im tryin to put in the announcement the activation link i tried putting this in the announcement $activatelink but that didnt work.. any ideas??

[Logician]

for users awaiting email confirmation im tryin to put in the announcement the activation link i tried putting this in the announcement $activatelink but that didnt work.. any ideas??
yes I have 2 ideas: :)
1- you can not do that because "$activatelink" variable is dynamically compiled in email script so it does not have a value assigned in other parts of vbulletin.
2- You should NOT do that either because then everybody can click to it to activate their account. The point of it is to pass it via email so that you can make sure email address is correct. If people can activate their account by clicking a link in the board, it means they can register without using a valid email address so email confirmation become useless anymore. ;)

[sketch42]

yes I have 2 ideas: :)
1- you can not do that because "$activatelink" variable is dynamically compiled in email script so it does not have a value assigned in other parts of vbulletin.
2- You should NOT do that either because then everybody can click to it to activate their account. The point of it is to pass it via email so that you can make sure email address is correct. If people can activate their account by clicking a link in the board, it means they can register without using a valid email address so email confirmation become useless anymore. ;)
yes i understand... the thing is most of my users arent recieving emails.. and ive checked their email addy's and they are in fact real.. so as a temporary measure (untill i figure out whats wrong with the email) i wanted them to be able to activate their accnt

[MrLANlord]

Installed perfectly and I think I've got the conditional syntax down well now. Thanks it works great!

Anyone, a few questions:
1) Not being a big modder, how/what do I edit so that the non-popup will appear at all times (the pop-up in other places would be too annoying)? Of course forumhome is all set, but looking for it to stay on forum display, thread display, searches, etc.
2) I saw that someone got it working on vBadvanced and was wondering if the same person or any of you smart folks could tell me how to get this to work on the newer vBadvanced CMPS?

[Bobbo]

I would certainly love to see this mod enabled for VBA CMPS as well. I've been trying to adapt it, with no success. (probably spent 5 hours on this and only proven how much I have no clue about)

If anyone has had success, please let me know.

Thanks for another great mod Logician.

[kall]

I would certainly love to see this mod enabled for VBA CMPS as well. I've been trying to adapt it, with no success. (probably spent 5 hours on this and only proven how much I have no clue about)

If anyone has had success, please let me know.

Thanks for another great mod Logician.
I managed to sort that out..

Have a look over on vBa, or drop me a PM.

:)

@Logician: want the code to integrate this into vBaCMPS?

[sv1cec]

Excellent hack, works fine, thank you.

One question though: I would like to have pre-made conditionals in the announcements, which are not active. In other words, something like HTML code enclosed between <!-- and -->. When I want to put a new announcement, I go in, remove the comments tags and write the new announcement. In that way, I do not have to remember what conditionals to use for each category (for example, I have a pre-made announcement for my moderators, but it does not show anything until the comment tags are removed), I have entered them once and then use them accordingly.

I tried this and it didn't work, the announcement is still shown. Any ideas??

Many thanks.
-----
John

[Logician]

One question though: I would like to have pre-made conditionals in the announcements, which are not active. In other words, something like HTML code enclosed between <!-- and -->. When I want to put a new announcement, I go in, remove the comments tags and write the new announcement. In that way, I do not have to remember what conditionals to use for each category (for example, I have a pre-made announcement for my moderators, but it does not show anything until the comment tags are removed), I have entered them once and then use them accordingly.

If I understand your request correctly, the solution is to add a new "impossible" conditional to your conditional sytnax which would naturally make it disappear. For instance your moderator announcement should be like this:
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5)]]
my announcement
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5)]]

If you make it like this:
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5 AND $dontshow==1)]]
my announcement
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5 AND $dontshow==1)]]

This announcement will not be displayed to your moderators until you remove the "AND $dontshow==1" part. Because this variable check becomes the part of your conditional and it is never TRUE so conditional is always ignored. ;)

@Logician: want the code to integrate this into vBaCMPS?
@kall: Please feel free to release your code here. I don't use that script, nor I created their integration script so it is better if you release it yourself as you should take the credit for it. If you post it into this thread, I'll link it in the first post of the hack. thx!

[sv1cec]

If I understand your request correctly, the solution is to add a new "impossible" conditional to your conditional sytnax which would naturally make it disappear. For instance your moderator announcement should be like this:
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5)]]
my announcement
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5)]]

If you make it like this:
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5 AND $dontshow==1)]]
my announcement
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==5 AND $dontshow==1)]]

This announcement will not be displayed to your moderators until you remove the "AND $dontshow==1" part. Because this variable check becomes the part of your conditional and it is never TRUE so conditional is always ignored. ;)


Logician,

Thanks very much for answering my question, appreciated very much indeed. And yes, it covers my needs, at least 90%. The other 10% has to do with comments. Is there a comments tag or could you incorporate one? For example, I would love to have a comment, just above that conditional, saying "This is for moderators". In that way, I wouldn't have to go back and forth between the Usergroup management (to see which user group is No 5) and the announcements.

Me pressing install, very nice hack Sir.

Edit: Scrap that, I can always have the comment within an impossible conditional, within the conditional. Right?

[The Realist]

Where is this vbadvanced's index.php file? is it the main index file in root or am I blind :)

Aha!!! I have it working for vbadvanced! Now it shows up all throughout your site, assuming you are using it:)

Mini-mod for vba:

Install hack as normal, confirm it works.

Edit vbadvanced's index.php

Find:


'bbcode_quote'
);

Add under


// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_headercode';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_popup';
// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack



Find


######################### News #########################


Add ABOVE


// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'] OR $vboptions['dynamic_popup']) {require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'])
{
eval('$dynamic_fha = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_fha']) . '";');
$dynamic_fha=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_fha);
$dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_fha);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste)) {eval('$dfh_announcement = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement') . '";');}
}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_popup'])
{
eval('$dynamic_popup = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_popup']) . '";');
$dynamic_popup=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_popup);
$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_popup);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_popuptopaste))
{
eval('$dfh_announcement_headercode = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_headercode') . '";');
eval('$dfh_announcement_popup = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_popup') . '";');
}
}

// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack


Now, edit your vbAdvanced INDEX template.

Find:

</head>

Add ABOVE

$dfh_announcement_headercode

Find:

$header
$navbar

CHANGE TO:

$dfh_announcement_popup
$header
$navbar
$dfh_announcement


Or put the two announcement bits wherever you want them to appear. Don't forget to do this for all your styles.

I may add this to the add-on hack section, but it's such a little mod - no code changes, just figuring out where the code goes in vba's scheme of things - it may not be worth the bother.

Enjoy, and thanks again Logician for a great hack!

[SaN-DeeP]

can we have the hack installed in header template instead of forumshome ?

it makes it easier to be viewable on all pages :)

[sv1cec]

can we have the hack installed in header template instead of forumshome ?

it makes it easier to be viewable on all pages :)
I tried adding $dfh_announcement just after my navbar, but it does not show up.

I am no expert in php, so that's as far as I can go, but it would be definitely useful to have the option to show the announcement in every page or just FORUMHOME. I do not care for the pop-up announcement, that I don't want in every page.

If you actually put the $dfh_announcement in navbar, the announcement will be shown in every page, if you put it in FORUMHOME, it goes only in the first page. Ideally, that could be a user-selectable parameter, from the definition of the announcement, which could be checked at run time, something like (in human language code):

if where-to-show-parameter is 1 (=show everywhere) then
show-announcement
if where-to-show-parameter is 0 then
if this is forumhome
show-announcement
else
don't-show-announcement
endif
endif

Logician, can we please have that, either with the parameter in admin cp, or without it (just do it so whoever wants that message to appear in navbar, can enter $dfh_announcement in the navbar template instead of FORUMHOME)?

Thank you Sir

[Logician]

can we have the hack installed in header template instead of forumshome ?

it makes it easier to be viewable on all pages :)
Not tested, should work:
Apply STEP 5 like this: (btw dont forget to revert your old step 5 installation first! That is remove the hack in step 5 from index.php before applying this)

STEP 5- Edit global.php (in forum main directory), find


// parse headinclude, header & footer



REPLACE IT AS:


// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'] OR $vboptions['dynamic_popup']) {require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'])
{
eval('$dynamic_fha = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_fha']) . '";');
$dynamic_fha=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_fha);
$dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_fha);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste)) {eval('$dfh_announcement = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement') . '";');}
}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_popup'])
{
eval('$dynamic_popup = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_popup']) . '";');
$dynamic_popup=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_popup);
$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_popup);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_popuptopaste))
{
eval('$dfh_announcement_headercode = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_headercode') . '";');
eval('$dfh_announcement_popup = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_popup') . '";');
}
}

// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
// parse headinclude, header & footer


find:

// if we are in a message editing page then get the editor templates
Replace it AS:

// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_headercode';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_popup';
// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
// if we are in a message editing page then get the editor templates

Upload the file.

Now put
$dfh_announcement_headercode
$dfh_announcement_popup
$dfh_announcement
variable in any template you like.

[SaN-DeeP]

Hey Logician.

I appreciate your excellent work https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2004/10/2.gif

It works like a charm. I just imagine, how i missed this hack to install :) since i installed vb or since this was released.

Just a few more questions:
Does this hack adds an extra query to forums ?
When there are no annoucments: It dont add any query to the board
But with an annoucment: It adds one query to entire forums.

I am using it on header as i requested. :)

Thnx for your code to display it on header. Works like a charm.

Big Thnx again :) https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2004/10/2.gif

[SaN-DeeP]

a small request:

Can someone please tell me how to make a conditional to display a message for:
Users from Registered Usergroup only, with less then 1 posts

I used a conditional in my headers, b4 installing this addon:
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[posts]<1 && !$show['guest'] && !is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 3)">

Not sure, how to use it here.

Regards,

[sv1cec]

Not tested, should work:
Apply STEP 5 like this: (btw dont forget to revert your old step 5 installation first! That is remove the hack in step 5 from index.php before applying this)

STEP 5- Edit global.php (in forum main directory), find

Upload the file.

Now put
$dfh_announcement_headercode
$dfh_announcement_popup
$dfh_announcement
variable in any template you like.

Logician,

Tested and works like a champ.

Very useful hack, and my hat off to you Sir, for such a great service.

Rgds

[Logician]

Does this hack adds an extra query to forums ?
When there are no annoucments: It dont add any query to the board
But with an annoucment: It adds one query to entire forums.

The announcement itself is compiled with vb options so there is no DB connection in this point but to parse smilies the hack inevitably adds 1 query. So yes it is true that when you have (as a matter of fact the user has!) an announcement it is 1 more query to the forum. It would be for only main page if you are using the regular hack but if you applied it to global.php, then it is 1 query to the entire forum.

Registered Usergroup only, with less then 1 posts
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==2 AND $bbuserinfo[posts]==0)]]
announcement here
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==2 AND $bbuserinfo[posts]==0)]]

[SmasherMaster]

This hack, is INCREDIBLE!!! :D I really like it, conditionals and everything are way cool.

* SmasherMaster hits install

[turbidblue]

Awesome Hack!! Thanks So Much!!

Just wanted to tell everyone, that this DOES work on 3.0.3

:)

*clicks install


:)

[sv1cec]

Logician,

I hate to bother you for that, but I tried to do it alone, and failed miserably. I have no experience with php, so it's hard for me.

What would make this hack perfect (at least for me), would be to have an additional parameter in AdminCP, Dynamic Forum Announcements, right below the Forum Home Table Announcement and before Forum Home PopUp Announcement. Let's say we call it "display_homeonly". This should be a Yes/No parameter.

Then, inside the templates, one could add something like:

For FORUMHOME:

<if $vboptions[display_homeonly]="Yes">
$dfh_announcement
</if>

For other templates:

<if $vboptions[display_homeonly]="No">
$dfh_announcement
</if>

In that way, the table announcement could be either viewable in the forum home, or in every page of the site, depending on the AdminCP parameter.

My problems are:

- How do you add such a parameter in AdminCP? I can replicate the steps you describe in the installation file, for the dynamic_fha, but I do not know what Option Code to use for this one, obviously it's not a textarea.
- What shall I add in global.php to read it from the database? I assume something like $display_homeonly=$vboptions[display_homeonly] is needed. Am I correct? Or can I check $vboptions[display_homeonly] directly from the templates?

I am sure I'll be able to manage the templates <if> structure from there on.

Again, sorry if this is way beyong your role here, I just can't find any place to read about these issues. If you could guide me somewhere, I would appreciate it.

Kind regards and again, many thanks for THE most useful hack.
----------

John

[sv1cec]

Logician,

I am trying to add the following HTML code in the standard annnouncement:


<table cellspacing="0" border="0" width=98% align="center">
<tr>
<td width=20% align="center">
<IMG SRC="http://www.m1911.org/images/greece/gr-flag.gif">
</TD>
<TD width=60% align="center">
<FONT COLOR="blue"><H1>Greece wins the European<BR>Football Championship 2004<BR></H1></FONT>
</TD>
<TD width=20% align="center">
<IMG SRC="http://www.m1911.org/images/greece/gr-flag.gif">
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>


The announcement appears but with a large empty area above what I want to show. Any ideas why it does that? If I use the same code inside my navbar template, it is shown OK.

Rgds and tnx

[Logician]

I am trying to add the following HTML code in the standard annnouncement:

Enter your HTML code without using line breaks at the end of each line.

Eg.

<table cellspacing="0" border="0" width=98% align="center"><tr><td width=20% align="center">................................

[sv1cec]

Enter your HTML code without using line breaks at the end of each line.

Eg.

<table cellspacing="0" border="0" width=98% align="center"><tr><td width=20% align="center">................................
I do not understand why, but it works like a charm. I now have only to remember that.

Oh, I got it, I can change that phrase and add a note about this trick, below your name.

Thanks Logician.

Rgds

[Logician]

It is because you enter this HTML code to a "vbulletin option box" and vbulletin replaces new lines with <br>s in option boxes when submitted. ;)

[Mr. Brian]

AWESOME!

Hope I'm still not too late to click *Install*

Thumbs up!

[sv1cec]

Logician,

After using the hack for some days, I would like to ask for an additional feature.

I am using the dfh_announcement, in a ... hidden way, in other words, my members have to click on a link to see whatever I have in there. The link is shown only when there are announcements. However, if there is more than one announcements in there, people see the link and visit it. Then next day, they see it and visit it again, and they see nothing new, because I haven't added anything new.

I would like to add a field in the dynamic_fha group, which will be a date field. I can change that manually, when I enter a new announcement. Then, next to my "announcements" link on forumhome, I can add that date, so that members can check and see if this is something new or not. (I might even check if this date is newer than their "last_visit" date, dreaming!!!).

My problem is that I have no idea on how to add that "date" field in the admincp. I think I can handle it from there, but I have no idea on how to add the Code Option etc, so I would appreciate your help in adding the "dynamic_fha_date" in the admincp. The date does not have to be fancy to enter, with drop-down menus etc, a simple "28/07/2004" field is fine.

Many thanks and best regards

After some experimentation: Please have a look at http://forum.m1911.org.

Notice, right below the navbar, there is an announcement link. Also notice that there is a date there. Well, this is just a text, it's not a date. I managed to create a "dynamic_fha_date" item, in the admincp, but the Code Option I used, is text area. If I could make this a date, then I could compare it with the last date the member visited, and hide or show the link accordingly. However, I have no idea how to make that a valid "date" field. This is where I would need your help.

Many thanks and kind regards again.

[BunkTek]

Awesome hack. My brain thanks you greatly! I've been beating my head for a few days to get a dhtml popup for Guests only... should have known to check here first :)

Installed with no problems, now to design the popup I want for Guests.

Update:

I had a problem with a text box. The other admin got it going using iframe and a text file.

[kall]

@kall: Please feel free to release your code here. I don't use that script, nor I created their integration script so it is better if you release it yourself as you should take the credit for it. If you post it into this thread, I'll link it in the first post of the hack. thx!

Kall's DFH-vBA_CMPS Integration :

Doesn't it suck when you see that someone has solved a problem and they don't give you step-by-step instructions? :)

I'm re-doing it for my site, so here we go..

In /includes/vba_cmps_include_bottom.php:
Find

global $pages, $stylevar, $headinclude, $header, $footer, $vboptions, $vba_options, $navbar,

After, add:

$bbuserinfo,


Then, find:

if ($vba_options['portal_shownavbar'] AND empty($navbar))

Above, add:

// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'] OR $vboptions['dynamic_popup']) {require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'])
{
eval('$dynamic_fha = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_fha']) . '";');
$dynamic_fha=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_fha);
$dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_fha);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste)) {eval('$dfh_announcement = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement') . '";');}
}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_popup'])
{
eval('$dynamic_popup = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_popup']) . '";');
$dynamic_popup=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_popup);
$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_popup);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_popuptopaste))
{
eval('$dfh_announcement_headercode = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_headercode') . '";');
eval('$dfh_announcement_popup = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_popup') . '";');
}
}

// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack


Then do the template mod as per the original hack, to your adv_portal template.

Add dfh_announcement, dfh_announcement_popup and dfh_announcement_headercode as templates being called in one of your modules. (Don't know if this is the best way to go about this, but it works for me.)

[ranger2kxlt]

What files/templates do i have to edit, to make this announcement show up in every topic, post, etc....Right now its only on the home page and the forums home page :-/

thanks!

[sv1cec]

What files/templates do i have to edit, to make this announcement show up in every topic, post, etc....Right now its only on the home page and the forums home page :-/

thanks!
If you want it everywhere, you may add it in the navbar template. In that way, it will appear below (or above) your navbar, wherever the navbar appears.

Rgds

[ranger2kxlt]

sv1cec thanks for the reply, but seems even if i add it there, it will only show up on the index pages.... I added the $dfh_announcement right after </if> (last line of the nav template)

Anymore suggestions?

[ranger2kxlt]

no go on that as well...but we decided to go with another approach that doesn't use this hack for now. Thanks for looking...if you get time and can find the answer we will use it, but not a rush.

[sv1cec]

sv1cec thanks for the reply, but seems even if i add it there, it will only show up on the index pages.... I added the $dfh_announcement right after </if> (last line of the nav template)

Anymore suggestions?
There is no reason why it wouldn't show. I tried it and it works like a charm. The thing is I've done a lot of mods in this hack, to make it work as I wanted it, so I am not sure if it will work in other forums, as it works in mine.

But if you add it in forumhome and in forumdisplay and it works, there is no reason why it shouldn't work in navbar too. Are you sure you have done the mods suggested in the original hack, especially those involving the global.php file?

Rgds

[sv1cec]

There is no reason why it wouldn't show. I tried it and it works like a charm. The thing is I've done a lot of mods in this hack, to make it work as I wanted it, so I am not sure if it will work in other forums, as it works in mine.

But if you add it in forumhome and in forumdisplay and it works, there is no reason why it shouldn't work in navbar too. Are you sure you have done the mods suggested in the original hack, especially those involving the global.php file?

Rgds
In your global.php. is there something like :


// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_headercode';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_popup';
// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack


If not, then add that, right after the code below:


//'board_inactive_warning'
));


Let me know if it works. I'll check more tomorrow morning. Have to go watch the Olympics.

Rgds

[Zelda-King]

Are there any steps that need redoing following an upgrade OTHER than file edits? I had this running on 3.0.1 then I upgraded to 3.0.3, applied the edits and the announcements don't show. I haven't at this point reverted any templates and I still see the admincp options.

[MnBthunDER]

Hmm this is very interesting... I found out about this thread from this site www.wlgo.com/bbs cuz I wanted to try out this announcement hack. Is it possible to make the announcement in motion ? I would be great since it will not require a big msgbox when there is a lot to announce :)

[sv1cec]

no go on that as well...but we decided to go with another approach that doesn't use this hack for now. Thanks for looking...if you get time and can find the answer we will use it, but not a rush.
Check this post post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=531161&postcount=126) and apply it. It will allow you to show the $dfh_announcement from every template.

Let me know if it works.

Rgds

[sv1cec]

Hmm this is very interesting... I found out about this thread from this site www.wlgo.com/bbs cuz I wanted to try out this announcement hack. Is it possible to make the announcement in motion ? I would be great since it will not require a big msgbox when there is a lot to announce :)
Try using the HTML marquee tag.

Rgds

[Zelda-King]

Are there any steps that need redoing following an upgrade OTHER than file edits? I had this running on 3.0.1 then I upgraded to 3.0.3, applied the edits and the announcements don't show. I haven't at this point reverted any templates and I still see the admincp options.I fixed this. For some reason when I upgraded from 3.0.1 to 3.0.3, the Dynamic Announcement edit was missing from the FORUMHOME template even though the template wasn't reverted. It is working on 3.0.3 fine.

[KW802]

Try using the HTML marquee tag.

RgdsDoes Mozilla, etc. support the marquee tag? I had thought that was an IE thing.

[Zelda-King]

Firefox does. I've been informed Netscape doesn't.

[ranger2kxlt]

sv1cec, works perfect...thanks for the find!

Also what happens if you use the marquee and browser doesn't support it? Will the text still show, just in one spot or will it not show at all?

[Zelda-King]

You'd see the text, with no non-functional coding. Actually I just noticed Firefox also supports blinking. I didn't know that. :/

[sv1cec]

Does Mozilla, etc. support the marquee tag? I had thought that was an IE thing.
Yes it does!!

[sv1cec]

sv1cec, works perfect...thanks for the find!

Also what happens if you use the marquee and browser doesn't support it? Will the text still show, just in one spot or will it not show at all?
Glad if I could be of help.

I am not sure about the marquee tag, Netscape and IE I use for testing, both support it, so I am not very interesting in finding out about this.

Rgds

[ranger2kxlt]

off topic, Whats it like over there right now? with the olympics? traffic all over?

btw...thanks again :-D

[KW802]

I feel old... I just did some quick searches and the "marquee" tag goes back the days of IE version 2. :(

[sv1cec]

off topic, Whats it like over there right now? with the olympics? traffic all over?


btw...thanks again :-D
Actually, it is better than before, believe it or not. The thing is most Greeks are on vacation during August, and the rest of the people have taken the organizer's suggestion and use public transportation (which with the new tramway and the new metro stations is much better now than before).

Sorry for the off topic answer.

Contact me directly if you need more info.

Rgds

[Logician]

Kall's DFH-vBA_CMPS Integration :

Thx for sharing it. I've referred it in the first post.

[adieball]

Hi there.

First of all: great hack, thanks a lot for the work you've done.

During install I encountered some problems I can't resolve (tried for hours now without success)
I've got the default style of vb 3.0.3 installed and another style (ambience by extremepixels). Everything works fine with the default style, but the message bar nor the popup seem to work under the other style. I've created the templates in both styles and changed the FORUMHOME tamplete as well in both styles.

Does anyone has any idea why it doesn't work with the style of extremepixels?

any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks

Andre

[adieball]

Hi there.

First of all: great hack, thanks a lot for the work you've done.

During install I encountered some problems I can't resolve (tried for hours now without success)
I've got the default style of vb 3.0.3 installed and another style (ambience by extremepixels). Everything works fine with the default style, but the message bar nor the popup seem to work under the other style. I've created the templates in both styles and changed the FORUMHOME tamplete as well in both styles.




Stupid me .... forget this post, I solved it. I just forgot to change the adv_portal template as well ....

Andre

[BunkTek]

Dumb question coming.

We had a database crash Sunday and lost everything. When I was reinstalling DFA I messed up on the variable for the dynamic_announcement_popup. In the options I put "test" instead of "text". I need to remove the variable and redo it, but can't figure out how. Dumb mistake, dumb question, but I've been working on getting our board back up.

Thanks for any help.

[Logician]

if you add
$debug=1;
to your includes/config file (before ?>) you will be able to edit/delete any settings in your vbulletin but be careful while playing with them.

[proxyMX]

Are you planning on releasing a version that does?
btw this is the greatest hack ever

[duncan99]

Very useful hack, installed it. Thank you Logician .

One small request, since the announcement editor is so small, could you please show me how to add a larger editor on it?

I found the statment :

print_textarea_row($vbphrase['signature'], 'signature', $user['signature'], 8, 45);

This one gets the Larger edit box, but wonder where I can find the right place to replace the small input text.

Thanks.

[BunkTek]

Thanks Logician. I got the popup textarea fixed.

I got everything set up, seems to be working with everything but the index.php. I get the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting ']' in
... /index.php(429) : eval()'d code on line 2

I'm assuming that the message means there is something wrong with line 429, not sure if this is right or not. Looking at it in my editer I see the following (line 429 is bold):



// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'] OR $vboptions['dynamic_popup']) {require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'])
{
eval('$dynamic_fha = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_fha']) . '";');
$dynamic_fha=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_fha);
$dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_fha);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste)) {eval('$dfh_announcement = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement') . '";');}
}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_popup'])
{
eval('$dynamic_popup = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_popup']) . '";');
$dynamic_popup=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_popup);
$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_popup);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_popuptopaste))
{
eval('$dfh_announcement_headercode = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_headercode') . '";');
eval('$dfh_announcement_popup = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_popup') . '";');
}
}

// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack


I copied and pasted from the instructions, so it should be fine, it worked fine when I first installed it. I stared at it for an hour or so last night, but I can't see anything wrong with it.

Thanks for any help or ideas.

[Logician]

I copied and pasted from the instructions, so it should be fine, it worked fine when I first installed it. I stared at it for an hour or so last night, but I can't see anything wrong with it.

Very likely its your conditional set that is incorrect. Remove it (use a plain announcement without a conditional) and the error will go.

[BunkTek]

Yep, that worked. Thanks for the quick response.

I had a conditional to show a message to everyone and then a conditional to show a message to a certain user id, removed the 2nd and it works fine.

Is there a way to make the popup "move" when people scroll their browser down... so that it remains in the same relative spot in the bowser?

Would that be done by changing the "position: absolute;" to "position: relative;" in the template?

[Host Directory]

Does anyone know how to set up a conditional so that a message will display to users who have registered but not yet confirmed their registration with the confirmation email ?

The reason i would like to know if this is possible is because i have noticed that a lot of my users have not been posting - i have also realised that many confirmation emails are being bounced back to my email account due to over zealous spamming software.
There is a lot of users which would never recieve their confirmation email because of this and think the error is with my forum rather than their email client.

I want to put a message for these people to tell them that if they have not recieved their confirmation email to use another email address or email me so that i can confirm their registration manually.

[Logician]

Does anyone know how to set up a conditional so that a message will display to users who have registered but not yet confirmed their registration with the confirmation email ?

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]] Show this announcement if page visitor is from email confirmation waiting usergroup[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]

[Host Directory]

Thanks Logician, i will install this hack and test the conditional later today.

[Host Directory]

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]] Show this announcement if page visitor is from email confirmation waiting usergroup[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]

Works a treat Logician !
Try it yourself - www.hostcompanies.com/forums - register and then do not confirm by email - now login and your see the message explaining that the email may have been bounced. Obviously you can't post either. Now confirm the registration email and the message dissapears and everything works fine.

Brilliant !

I have recently had a lot of bounced emails from people trying to register because of their stupid spam software - thats one of the reasons why people sign up and never post. Atleast they now know its their email spam software which is the problem.

Your a star Logician... a star!

[ranger2kxlt]

What is the code to add for custom fields? I added a location field and would like all my members to fill it in, can you give me the code to do so?

Thanks

[Logician]

What is the code to add for custom fields? I added a location field and would like all my members to fill it in, can you give me the code to do so?

Thankscorrect thread?

[ranger2kxlt]

Sorry logician, let me explain a bit more....

I want my members to show their location on post bits, and since i added this after i had about 100 members and before i made it a req. field a few are missing the info. But Its a custom field, and I want a pop-up to show for those members that don't have this filled in yet. Any curdentials i can add that will show this info?

Thanks

[Logician]

Sorry logician, let me explain a bit more....

I want my members to show their location on post bits, and since i added this after i had about 100 members and before i made it a req. field a few are missing the info. But Its a custom field, and I want a pop-up to show for those members that don't have this filled in yet. Any curdentials i can add that will show this info?

Thanks
I see! This should help:

[[(!$bbuserinfo[fieldX])]] You haven't filled the location field yet! Please do so by following the link to your profile edit page. [[/(!$bbuserinfo[fieldX])]]

(X should be replaced by the profile field id of your location field.)

[kristian]

<font size="1">Thanks Logician (clicks install)</font> :devious:

[craig hughes]

I can honestly say this is one of the most beneficial, easy, (should have been in the final vb3 release) hack sever. Very well done.

I have a PAY only site and this is exactly what I needed to give the site the locked door with info treatment

WELL DONE!!!!!

[nelto]

I tried to install this hack but something came up.
After I uploaded the file functions.php I got this erros:

Parse error: parse error in /usr/home/kain/domains/bbs.tgpbuilders.com/includes/functions.php on line 1887

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: devdebug() in /usr/home/kain/domains/bbs.tgpbuilders.com/includes/functions.php on line 952

My line 1887: {

My line 952: DEVDEBUG("$optionname = $user[$optionname]");
Needless to say I revode the code from functions.php and the erroes still presists.
I have a comunity of 5K members so I need this resolved asap, if possible.

Im runing VB 3.0.3

P.S Every installation steps went ok untill I uploaded functions.php.

[nelto]

Never mind I dont knwo what happened.

I unziped the vb script to other folder made the changes on functions.php and uploaded everything working.

I'll let you know if everythign went fien and I'll click on the install of course :)

[Logician]

I tried to install this hack but something came up.
After I uploaded the file functions.php I got this erros:

Parse error: parse error in /usr/home/kain/domains/bbs.tgpbuilders.com/includes/functions.php on line 1887

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: devdebug() in /usr/home/kain/domains/bbs.tgpbuilders.com/includes/functions.php on line 952

My line 1887: {

My line 952: DEVDEBUG("$optionname = $user[$optionname]");
Needless to say I revode the code from functions.php and the erroes still presists.
I have a comunity of 5K members so I need this resolved asap, if possible.

Im runing VB 3.0.3

P.S Every installation steps went ok untill I uploaded functions.php.
Apply STEP 3 carefully. (For instance it is "REPLACE" it as, not add before or after).

If you are sure you applied it correctly, then the problem is the application you are editing the file. Do NOT use HTML editors like dreamweaver or frontpage to hack files. Always use notepad. This is very likely your problem. Hope it helps.

To make the board up, you can upload unhacked functions.php to the server.

[nelto]

Its working like a charm man. Great hakc you got here. Install clicked.

One question, I want to show this hack as well on the vba homepage, I was trying to follow a install instructions on other thread, but I cant find the template vba_cmp

Any help here, or is there any other way to get this working on vbahomepage?

[kall]

Its working like a charm man. Great hakc you got here. Install clicked.

One question, I want to show this hack as well on the vba homepage, I was trying to follow a install instructions on other thread, but I cant find the template vba_cmp

Any help here, or is there any other way to get this working on vbahomepage?
Im sorry, I gave the wrong name of the template.

Should be: adv_portal.

:oops: Fixed and re-uploaded.

[nelto]

working tks kall.

[tanhadil]

is there a way to show the announcement to paid subscribers only and not all the registered users??

[Logician]

is there a way to show the announcement to paid subscribers only and not all the registered users??
Sure.. isn't it the whole point anyway? ;) Please read second post of the thread.

(Hint: Paid subscribers would be in a different usergroup)

[tanhadil]

Hello $bbuserinfo[username]! Welcome to Desi-Dhaba forums
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.site/subscriptions.php"><img src="http://www.site/image.jpg" border="0"></a>

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==9)]] Thank you for buying the package.Link for stream will be posted soon[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==9)]]

i am typing this into the Forum Home Table Announcement in the ADMIN CP..

Usergroup 9 is for the paid subscribers...but they still cant see the message :ermm:

[nelto]

Hi again guys.
One simple question.
Isnt the pop-up supposed to be showed only to the admins and mods?
My reason is that everyone is geting it while not registered or even loged in. this includes me as well.
Im runing this hack on forums and the mod hack on the portal.

Any ideas?

Edited for a question/idea that just poped up.
Is it possible to have an announcement on the portal and a different one on the forums?

If possible can you tell me how to do it, since it will be 100% easier for me, to have 2 different messages sicne Im runing 2 different tasks.

And better yet, what about a different message for unregister users and other to register users?

Sorry if this was already questioned, but I have 45 hours nonstop and I simply dont have patience right now to scan all the thread. :(

[Logician]

Hello $bbuserinfo[username]! Welcome to Desi-Dhaba forums
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.site/subscriptions.php"><img src="http://www.site/image.jpg" border="0"></a>

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==9)]] Thank you for buying the package.Link for stream will be posted soon[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==9)]]

i am typing this into the Forum Home Table Announcement in the ADMIN CP..

Usergroup 9 is for the paid subscribers...but they still cant see the message :ermm:
Are you sure 9 is the MAIN usergroup of paid users? Apparently it is not.

[sv1cec]

Is there any reason why the pop-up announcements are shown in Netscape and not in Internet Explorer?

Also, I have two announcements, as shown in the code below. Shouldn't both of them be shown if a user belongs to usergroup 3?


[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]

Dear $bbuserinfo[username],

You have registered with our forums, but you have not responded to the registration e-mail we send you. If you do not do so in ten days, your account will be suspended.

If you have lost the registration e-mail we send you, or if you didn't receive it, please <A HREF="http://forum.m1911.org/sendmessage.php" target="_blank">contact us</a>, so that we re-send it to you.


Thank you for being here.

The M1911.ORG Forums Site Team

[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]


[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>=0)]]

<B>September 11th</B>

Some text here.

[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>=0)]]


From the two announcements above, only one of them is shown, the one which is first in the list.

Tnx and regards

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John

[Logician]

only first matched announcement is displayed by the hack. You can combine them into one if you like to display both. If netscape is displaying, IE should also display.

[sv1cec]

only first matched announcement is displayed by the hack. You can combine them into one if you like to display both. If netscape is displaying, IE should also display.

Well, I have the announcement shown in Netscape, but not in IE. Maybe it has something to do with my settings in IE, I do not use it much, so I do not remember all the settings I've changed. Can you please check my site and let me know? It is located at http://forum.m1911.org. I would certainly appreciate it.

As for my other question, I would think that it is more reasonable, if there is a no-conditional announcement, that announcement to be shown to everyone, even if they fall in one of the other conditionals. In that way, a general message could be shown to everyone, together with a specific message to a particular user group, for example.

Rgds and tnx for this hack.
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John

[Bobbo]

Thanks again for this hack Logician. I've made some minor tweaks to this and have it running in VBA CMPS, additionally, I am passing different custom variables via the URL to also get different content to display in different situations. It works great.

I've come across a specific application where I'd like to have a hyperlink that activates the $dfh_announcement_popup on the current page. I realize this is out of the scope of this hack, but if anyone has any ideas, I'd certainly appreciate it.

[Off Topic] The popup contains a flash search tool with predefined searches to help new users find relevant content [/Off Topic]

The trouble for me has been finding a way to activate it on the current page. I'd rather allow the popup to occur on any page the user happens to be on via a clickable 'toggle' rather than routing to a whole different page and then letting the page load the popup...

Thanks.

[AcidJazz]

Logician you rock! :)

[Symbian.info]

I did use this hack on vb v2.x. And I love it, What I didn't like was the very small editor box.. Way to small to get a overview of all the messages.
So is there a beter editor for the vb 3.x version?? If not, can somebody make a hack for it??

[lazytown]

Someone asked this before and it wasn't answered in any of the 14 pages, so I'll try it again.

Is there a way to make it so that the popup only displays once ever for a user, or is this already possible?

If they close the announcement and log back in next time, does the same popup still display for them? If so, is there a way to prevent that from happening?

Thanks!
-V

[sv1cec]

Someone asked this before and it wasn't answered in any of the 14 pages, so I'll try it again.

Is there a way to make it so that the popup only displays once ever for a user, or is this already possible?

If they close the announcement and log back in next time, does the same popup still display for them? If so, is there a way to prevent that from happening?

Thanks!
-V
Yes, the pop-up keeps coming up again and again, every time they log in. I wish someone could make a "check box" to remove it, but it's not easy. Some sort of indexing between that particular announcement and each user should exist. As far as I know the announcements are not indexed in any way, so I am not sure we will ever see such an improvement.

I have to assume, a different method has to be used to create and store the annoucements.

Rgds
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John

[fiber1]

Not going to happen with this script, It just was not designed for that.

Would be nice though!

Fiber

[Logician]

Not going to happen with this script, It just was not designed for that.

Would be nice though!

Exactly. It would be nice to have it but its structure is not appropriate for this feature.

[Mosh]

* jd clicks install *

I have been testing this for a while, it is great just installed it on my live forum.

Thank you.

JD. :)

[Symbian.info]

So is there a beter editor for the vb 3.x version?? If not, can somebody make a hack for it??
Nobody with the same problem? :ermm:

[poolking]

Nice hack, installed without a problem on 3.0.3 :)

[djohn]

installed and working, great hack. both announcement types work fine, exept for the fact that the popup one appears somewhere on the side of the forum table, not in the middle, like i want it to be. any chance of changing that?

[SaN-DeeP]

installed and working, great hack. both announcement types work fine, exept for the fact that the popup one appears somewhere on the side of the forum table, not in the middle, like i want it to be. any chance of changing that?
use the center tag :)

[sv1cec]

Logician,

If someone wants to have a link to the Dynamic Forum Announcements, from the menu on the left column of the AdminCP, what would that link point to? I would rather having it there, than being forced to go into vBulletin Options, etc.

I assume it is something in the options.php, but I am not sure of the parameters or the syntax.

Many thanks and kind regards

CANCEL THAT, found it : admincp/options.php?dogroup=dynamic_fha

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John

[djohn]

use the center tag
i've tried that, even the div allign=middle and such, but the actual box with the announcement still appears somewhere on the side of the forum table :(

[heynurse]

Is there a way to only show conditional message to members are not in X usergroup?

For example, it would be a nice way to encourage users to become premium members by showing them a message inviting them to become a premium member, but I don't want existing premium members to see this message.

Sorry if this was covered already, I read through most of the post and couldn't find my answer.

Thanks

[Mokster]

/me installs! very nice!

[vBTotal]

*Installs*

How do I change the color of the Green Popup window to something different?

[Logician]

Is there a way to only show conditional message to members are not in X usergroup?

For example, it would be a nice way to encourage users to become premium members by showing them a message inviting them to become a premium member, but I don't want existing premium members to see this message.

Sorry if this was covered already, I read through most of the post and couldn't find my answer.

Thanks
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=5)]] Show this announcement if page visitor's usergroupid is NOT 5 [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=5)]]

[Logician]

*Installs*

How do I change the color of the Green Popup window to something different?
change "background-color: lime;" part in template dfh_announcement_popup

[heynurse]

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=5)]] Show this announcement if page visitor's usergroupid is NOT 5 [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=5)]]
Thanks a ton!

[kristian]

How could i tell a user that their PM box is FULL or that it is nearly FULL?

[Alzeimer]

Installed and working, thanks!!!!
Can I add the google ads in the announcements?

[klaattu]

HELP ! I used to have this GREAT hack in my two sites Automania.com.mx and clioclub.com.mx so I upgraded both sites to vb 303 and when I tried to rehack to use th DFA in thi spart


http://YOUR_SITE_URL/FORUM_URL/admincp/options.php?do=addsetting&grouptitle=dynamic_fha
and give these values in that page: (be careful: case-sensitive!)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Varname : dynamic_fha

Setting Group : Dynamic Forum Announcements

Title : Forum Home Table Announcement

Description : Announcement here appears at the top of forum home page.<br><br> Use conditionals in this context:<br> <b>[[(your conditional)]]<i>The Announcement</i>[[/(your conditional)]]</b>. <br>For more info check <a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=64189" target="_blank">hack's thread</a>. <br>Hack by (<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=2355" target="_blank">Logician</a>)

Option Code : textarea

Default : Hello $bbuserinfo[username]! Welcome to our board! :)

Display Order : 10

vBulletin Default : NO

I said that I already have this part INSTALLED !!
I guess is th eold field in the database , the prolem is that I continued with the instalation till the end and IT DOESNT SHOW UP???

How do I get rid of the old filed in the database and reinstall this part?

any ahelp would be greatly appreciated

[Logician]

HELP ! I used to have this GREAT hack in my two sites Automania.com.mx and clioclub.com.mx so I upgraded both sites to vb 303 and when I tried to rehack to use th DFA in thi spart

Can you see the hack options in the vb settings page? If yes, you don't need to apply that step (1 & 2) of installation.

Apply other steps (3,4,5,6) and you should be fine.

How do I get rid of the old filed in the database and reinstall this part?

Please check thread, I've already given instructions to uninstall that section in this thread.

[nonet]

Hello everyone!

I am using the code below for registered users with 0 post. However, the message does not appear on the homepage when visited from a user with zero post. Do you see anything wrong with the code?
[[($bbuserinfo[posts]<0)]] Hello $bbuserinfo[username]! Don't you think its about time you made your first post? Please visit
the
<a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold" href="http://www.okctalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=46">
Introductions &amp; Welcome Forum</a> and tell us a little bit about yourself and
become an active member of Oklahoma's largest online community.[[/($bbuserinfo[posts]<0)]]

[Divokymuz]

i have a problem after doing step 1.

i alway get a parse error in the options.php at line 116.

wrot to Logician, and wating for an answer now :-)

[kristian]

Hello everyone!

I am using the code below for registered users with 0 post. However, the message does not appear on the homepage when visited from a user with zero post. Do you see anything wrong with the code?


This works...

[[($bbuserinfo[posts]==0)]] Hello $bbuserinfo[username]! Don't you think its about time you made your first post? Please visit
the
<a style="text-decoration: underline; color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold" href="http://www.okctalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=46">
Introductions &amp; Welcome Forum</a> and tell us a little bit about yourself and
become an active member of Oklahoma's largest online community.[[/($bbuserinfo[posts]==0)]]

[kristian]

This alerts users that their PM box is nearly full (in this case 70 is their limit)... I have also excluded Admin and Mods from seeing this...

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=6 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=5 AND $bbuserinfo[pmtotal]>65)]]
You have nearly reached your Private Messages limit of 70.

This counts for messages in your 'Inbox' and 'Sent Items' folder. Please delete unwanted messages, as once your limit is reached you will no longer be able to receive new Private Messages.
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=6 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=5 AND $bbuserinfo[pmtotal]>65)]]

[Logician]

@nonet : use the conditional kristian quoted above.

@kristian : Thx for sharing your conditional and IMO it will go well together with this hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=63531) :)

@Divokymuz : If you get Parse Error in step 1-2, please make sure:
a) You applied it correctly. (eg. it is "REPLACE", not "add")
b) You hack your files with a text editor (eg. notepad), not a html editor (like frontpage or dreamweaver)

[Mickie D]

fantastic hack pal !

any chance to have a condition to make the popup only popup once ?

would be very handy as i think its great but members could get annoyed with it after a while

[Divokymuz]

[QUOTE=Logician@Divokymuz : If you get Parse Error in step 1-2, please make sure:
b) You hack your files with a text editor (eg. notepad), not a html editor (like frontpage or dreamweaver)[/QUOTE]
yes, that was ist.

i did with dreamweaver, like i always edit php with dreamweaver.

now done with notepad and it works.

thanks for your support. by the way, great hack.

[Galadrium]

Just installed. Great hack!

However, I cannot get the popup feature to work. I have not used conditionals or anything. I just entered in some text. I can get the forumhome announcements to work, but not the popups. What should I do?

Thanks

[kixxer]

thanks for the great hack! THis was just the thing i was searching for, installation worked perfectly without any problems!

[SaN-DeeP]

Hey Logician, Any comments on getting the header messages changed if a user changes the forums browsing ?

Example:
When user is watching Forum id=1 - all users/usergroups can see XYZ Messge
When user is watching Forum id=2 - all users/usergroups can see ABC Messge

I think you can look for an upgrade to the script to support this now ? or maybe its already supported so you can help me know the how-to on using it :)

Regards,

[Viks]

Hi guys,
im running a vb 3.0.3 forum...and i know this hack is for vb3.0
I would REALLY appreciate if anyone here who has installed this hack on VB3.0.3 will let me know of i need to make any additional changes.

thanks guys,

vik

[SaN-DeeP]

Hi guys,
im running a vb 3.0.3 forum...and i know this hack is for vb3.0
I would REALLY appreciate if anyone here who has installed this hack on VB3.0.3 will let me know of i need to make any additional changes.

thanks guys,

vik
I am running on vb 3.0.3 and this hack works perfect without any additional changes :)

Regards,

[Mickie D]

any news on the popup only poping up once per visit ?

i know you are busy but like i said before my members are getting annoyed buy it but i would really like to use it ;) but if it could popup once per vist that would be great ;)

[Logician]

Hey Logician, Any comments on getting the header messages changed if a user changes the forums browsing ?

Example:
When user is watching Forum id=1 - all users/usergroups can see XYZ Messge
When user is watching Forum id=2 - all users/usergroups can see ABC Messge

I think you can look for an upgrade to the script to support this now ? or maybe its already supported so you can help me know the how-to on using it :)

Regards,
I have not tested it but it should be *partly* supported:

[[($f==1)]]
XYZ Messge
[[/($f==1)]]
[[($f==2)]]
ABC Messge
[[/($f==2)]]

This should work in forumdisplay pages but not in showthread pages.

[ndahiya]

Hi

Am trying to show a message to users who have not posted in the last 2 weeks, but nothing seems to work!!

The code below shows the message to everyone... $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-2 weeks") also does not work!!

TIA!!
nd.

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[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]+1209600<$now)]]<b>Hello $bbuserinfo[field1]</b>, we noticed that you have not posted a message in the last 2 weeks... Better get to work!! :)
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]+1209600<$now)]]

[Takamine334]

this hack should get hack of the year.

this is one of the best hacks I've ever implemented. Thanks Logician.

[Logician]

The code below shows the message to everyone... $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-2 weeks") also does not work!!

This works ok for me:


[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-14 days"))]]
we noticed that you have not posted a message in the last 2 weeks... Better get to work!!
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-14 days"))]]

[ndahiya]

Thanks Logician

It looks like its working now...

Just another small issue... If I log out, the [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]] tag does not appear to work properly... Is it a cookie issue ?

The work around I have used is (This works fine!):
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1)]] [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1)]]

<<<text for all (non-logged in) users...>>>

-

Thanks for a great hack!!
nd.

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This works ok for me:


[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-14 days"))]]
we noticed that you have not posted a message in the last 2 weeks... Better get to work!!
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-14 days"))]]

[Logician]

Thanks Logician

It looks like its working now...

Just another small issue... If I log out, the [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]] tag does not appear to work properly... Is it a cookie issue ?

The work around I have used is (This works fine!):
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1)]] [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1)]]

<<<text for all (non-logged in) users...>>>

-

Thanks for a great hack!!
nd.

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As a matter of fact if you logged out successfully, [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]] hey guest![[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]] should work ok.

[djjeffa]

is there a way of chosing where the pop up box shows up?

[Viks]

I've installed this hack.. works GREAT! however one question.
I have added the announcments tempelates in HEADER so that it shows up on all pages. But I want some announcements to show up ONLY in Forums homepage.
how can i do this? does the forums homepage have a forum ID??

[Divokymuz]

is there a way of chosing where the pop up box shows up?

you can position it via CSS.

just change the values after top, bottom, left, right.

but be careful. it is an absolut positioning, doesn?t change on useres monitor settings.

[Imperial Fritz]

Installed :) Thanks for the great hack.


edit: removed stupid question, found answer :)

[docvader]

Awesome hack. Installs easily on 3.3, and works great.
Thanks!

[docvader]

I see! This should help:

[[(!$bbuserinfo[fieldX])]] You haven't filled the location field yet! Please do so by following the link to your profile edit page. [[/(!$bbuserinfo[fieldX])]]

(X should be replaced by the profile field id of your location field.)
I'm having trouble getting this to work. Shouldn't there be another "conditional" that defines what group your inquiring about? And, is that the way the field conditional should be worded?

Thanks! Love this hack.

[Edric]

How do I change the colours of the announcement, I am not referring to the popup window.
Is it possible to have a white background and a red border (the announcement seems to have a frame, I am referring to that). My coding knowledge is close to nothing but with the right instructions I find no problems.

Any help is appreciated thanks.

[docvader]

Edric, I think you do it by going into your Admin CP, into the general settings for that particular style, (Styles and Templates/ Style Manager/ All Style Options) and altering the "panel" and "panel" surround areas (lots of options there). It might affect other parts of your board though. I have no doubt that you could rewrite and add html to the dfh_announcement template.

[Tbird66]

Installed :) I used Hack 1 and put the variables into the forum header, and it worked with vBadvanced CMPS without doing the integration to CMPS!

Thanks!

[Tbird66]

I have one question - in my announcement logic I need to check the email address that a user has stored in their profile; how do I do this?

Edit:
doh! - $bbuserinfo[email] :o

[trackpads]

Excellent work!

[trackpads]

This is a great hack!

I have one problem related to my site if you can help. I have javascript pulldowns on the nav of my site and the dhtml popup displays under these. Is there a way to make this show up below the message instead of above it?

Thanks again,

-Jason

[T3MEDIA]

Aha!!! I have it working for vbadvanced!
Im so excited I didnt read to see if anyone got this to work for vbindex!!!