Dynamic Announcements: Programmable Forum Home Announcement/Message with conditionals

[Logician]

(This hacks works with both 3.5.x and 3.6.x)

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 different texts according to different conditions.For instance you can tell "why they should register" if visitor is a guest, but if he is a member with 0 posts, you can tell him why he should start posting etc.! :) All in one announcement! Everybody will see the relevant text according to his status. (This is the hack everybody keeps asking (http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=94313#post94313) in the TheAdminZone.com (http://www.theadminzone.com) whose using the hack for members with 0 and 1 posts.)


This version of the hack is for vbulletin 3.5.x and 3.6.x (vb 3.0.x version is here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64189) and vb 2.x version is here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43194). 3.5 version is coded as a plugin so you can install it WITHOUT modifying vb PHP files. It is easily installed in 2 steps through your admin cp.

Basic Usage of This Hack: You can set a text in your Admin CP and it's displayed in forum home to all users. Alternatively if you want, you can set another text as a popup announcement and it is displayed to all as a pop up announcement (it can't be killed with popup killers software!)

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
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
etc.Here is a Screenshot (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=34888) from a general table announcement.
Here is a Screenshot (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=34889) from a popup announcement.

Some Features:
Coded as a vbulletin pluggin. Can be installed easily without hacking PHP files.
It's Admin CP (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=34890) integrated
Smiley, BBCode, HTML, IMG tags are supported in announcements.
You can address your users with their usernames inside announcements (Use $bbuserinfo[username] 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 softwareHacks of Hack:
* For CMPS Integration see here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=791036&postcount=63)
* French Translation by Allan : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=820408&postcount=143
* Nested Conditionals by dc3dreamer : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=827831&postcount=175
* Hack Annoucement appears in all vb pages:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=911498#post911498



IMPORTANT FOR 3.x USERS:
If you were already using this hack in 3.0.x, remember to do 2 things:
BEFORE YOU INSTALL THIS HACK : Follow this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=782487&postcount=37) instructions to remove the remnants of 3.0.x hack.
AFTER YOU INSTALL THIS HACK : Go to your admin cp / styles, find these 3 styles:
dfh_announcement
dfh_announcement_headercode
dfh_announcement_popup
and REVERT THEM so that your new templates that comes with 3.5 version will apply.

About vb4.x version:

I didn't consider porting this hack to vb4 because vbulletin has now a VERY SIMILAR feature in vb4 called "NOTICES". You can find it under your admin cp/Notices submenu/Notice Manager. It is not as powerful as this hack as this hack allows you to use any kind of conditional to produce your announcement but it is more user friendly because you don't need to deal with conditional syntax, you simply build your announcement (notice) with menus
If you install the hack, click INSTALL (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vborg_miscactions.php?do=installhack&threadid=97073), thank you..

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)]]

* [[($bbuserinfo[posts]==1)]] Show this announcement if page visitor has just 1 posts [[/($bbuserinfo[posts]==1)]]

* [[($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.

[Logician]

[reserved for future use like FAQ]....

[TyleR]

heyyy, nice to see this ported to 3.5 :)

* TyleR clicks install

[Feckie (Roger)]

Nice One Thanks

[David_R]

Nice One Thanks

hey Logician, thanks for updating the hack. just one question, does the 3.5 version carries any improvements over 3.x version ?

thanks.

[Logician]

hey Logician, thanks for updating the hack. just one question, does the 3.5 version carries any improvements over 3.x version ?

It is mostly same but there a few improvements:

1- You can set up the frequency of popup announcement. Eg. you can make it popup in every 12 hours for the same user instead of every visit. (See admin cp screenshot above)

2- I get rid of the complainted "green" color Popup window and make it inherit your vb style with a cool red border.

3- It does not require any PHP hacking and can be installed through your admin cp as a pluggin.

4- Unlike vb3.x version, I don't support "header" version of it in which the announcement is displayed in all forum pages, not only forum home. It caused some minor bugs in post cached enabled forums so I only support forumhome announcement version which is stable

[TTG]

Great hack and could be very useful, I do however have one problem :)

I have a flash header on my forum and the popup announcements are hidden behind the flash .. is there any way of placing the popup announcements to show lower within the forum ?

[Logician]

Great hack and could be very useful, I do however have one problem :)

I have a flash header on my forum and the popup announcements are hidden behind the flash .. is there any way of placing the popup announcements to show lower within the forum ?
Sure.. You can edit template 'dfh_announcement_popup'. The location of popup announcement is fixed there in the line:

<DIV ID="ANNLAYER" STYLE="background-color: red; position: absolute; margin-left:5; margin-right:5; margin-top:5; margin-bottom:0; top: 50px; bottom: 50px; left: 50px; right: 50px; padding: 10px; overflow: auto; border-color: 000000; border-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-right-width: 3px; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-left-width: 2px;">

[Sovereign]

Yay awesome! Been wanting this.

[TTG]

Sure.. You can edit template 'dfh_announcement_popup'.

Thanks Logician .. clicked install.

[SHANE-D-PAIN]

Looks great, I will be sure to install this tomorrow after College or maybe even in College depending on the mood of the lesson!

Could be useful for letting members know about parts of the site that are not used all to often! :D

[Gottcha]

downloaded and installed ... can get the popup to work fine but cant get the Forum Home Table Announcement to work...any ideas?

[memorex]

Looks sweet, I'll install as soon as I have 3.5.0 gold upped :D

[dieselpowered]

Please forgive my ignorance, however, I did a quick little test for the pop-up, just a one line announcement and the red window is the size of my screen???

How do I make it look like yours with just a small red outline around the window?

Great hack!

[Logician]

downloaded and installed ... can get the popup to work fine but cant get the Forum Home Table Announcement to work...any ideas?
I'd say make sure you applied INSTALLATION STEP 2 correctly. (If you have more than 1 style sets, repeat this step for all FORUMHOME templates in all style sets)

[Logician]

Please forgive my ignorance, however, I did a quick little test for the pop-up, just a one line announcement and the red window is the size of my screen???

How do I make it look like yours with just a small red outline around the window?

Great hack!
Please see POST #9 in the thread. You can play with everything about popup announcements design via that line.

[Logician]

Just a confirmation since vb 3.5.0 GOLD is released : The hack works fine with vb 3.5.0 GOLD.

[dieselpowered]

Please see POST #9 in the thread. You can play with everything about popup announcements design via that line.

I am sorry, I guess I missed that.

At first glance it looks as though it has something to do with the flash.

Thanks.

[Vizionz]

awesome hack thanks

[dreck]

Nice hack, installed on 3.5.0 gold no problems. :banana:

Thanks.

*install*

[utw-Mephisto]

Just wondering, I don't see in the screenshots to turn it actually off ? Do I have to remove the text to disable it ?

Just wondering about events I would like to announce in a popup which I use several time .. I just want to avoid typing it everytime (or copy / paste etc.) ...

[Vizionz]

if you dont want nothing to show up yeah just remove the text in the fields and nothing will show up or just disable the plugin till u need it then reable it

[utw-Mephisto]

I was afraid you'd say that ;)

[Logician]

Just wondering, I don't see in the screenshots to turn it actually off ? Do I have to remove the text to disable it ?

Just wondering about events I would like to announce in a popup which I use several time .. I just want to avoid typing it everytime (or copy / paste etc.) ...
If you don't want to remove and readd the text, put it inside a wrong conditional :

[[(1==0)]]
My text that I don't want to reinsert everytime
[[/(1==0)]]

So when you want to enable it you can remove conditional tags and it is on.

[SirJonathan]

Just wanted to say.. AWESOME!.. Thanks! :) Love this hack!

[utw-Mephisto]

Just wanted to say.. AWESOME!.. Thanks! :) Love this hack!

I must 2nd that :) Works like a charm ..

[SirJonathan]

Hey there!

As I'm re-installing the mod I've been studying the conditionals and I came up with a conditional which I couldn't seem to make work. Is there anyway I could have a message show if a user hasn't posted in a certain forum? So, if user has no posts in (insert forum ID), a message will display?

Would this be possible? :)

Thanks!

-Jonathan

[bang]

I have the vBShout hack installed, and the accouncement box appears under the shoutbox. is there a way to move it directly under the navbar, above the shoutbox?

[Vizionz]

you have to edit the template for the pop up in your style

dfh_announcement_popup

<DIV ID="ANNLAYER" STYLE="background-color: black; position: absolute; margin-left:255; margin-right:255; margin-top:354; margin-bottom:50; top: 341px; bottom: 120px; left: 130px; right: 5px; padding: 1px; overflow: auto; border-color: 000000; border-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px;">

[Andreas]

Suggest to get rid of the Template edit:

forumhome_complete

$headinclude .= $dfh_announcement_headercode;
$header = $header . $dfh_announcement_popup;
$navbar .= $dfh_announcement;

[XtremeOffroad]

Very cool, Works flawless so far.
Clicks Install

[utw-Mephisto]

Could someone give me a bit of a code to get a red box around the dynamic announcement (not the popup, the other one) ?

[Logician]

Suggest to get rid of the Template edit:

forumhome_complete

$headinclude .= $dfh_announcement_headercode;
$header = $header . $dfh_announcement_popup;
$navbar .= $dfh_announcement;

Edit : Nope, didn't work! Navbar is compiled after "forumhome_complete" hook in index.php ;)

[Logician]

Hey there!

As I'm re-installing the mod I've been studying the conditionals and I came up with a conditional which I couldn't seem to make work. Is there anyway I could have a message show if a user hasn't posted in a certain forum? So, if user has no posts in (insert forum ID), a message will display?

Would this be possible? :)

Thanks!

-Jonathan
Nope sorry.. The hack can not know whether a user has posted in a forum or not without querying the DB so this can't be done without modifying hack code.

[Avalon111]

i have used your old version of this hack with 3.0.9. worked great!

today i have uplraded my forum to 3.5 gold.
i have deleted the old dfh templates and installed this new version on my forum.

now i have 2 forum home and 2 pop up boxes in admin cp. only 1 of each is working.

what have i done wrong?

[Logician]

i have used your old version of this hack with 3.0.9. worked great!

today i have uplraded my forum to 3.5 gold.
i have deleted the old dfh templates and installed this new version on my forum.

now i have 2 forum home and 2 pop up boxes in admin cp. only 1 of each is working.

what have i done wrong?
Nothing.. Please follow these step:
* admin cp/manage products/uninstall Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician
* edit includes/config.php, find:

?>

replace this line as:

// Debug
$config['Misc']['debug'] = true;
?>


(and upload to the server)

* login to admin cp, go to vb options/dynamic forum home announcements

* delete all settings and settings group in that page to remove 3.0 settings. (by clicking "delete" next to 2 settings and 1 setting group title)

* Revert your config.php (and upload the server)

* Now install 3.5 version.

[Avalon111]

thank you very much!!!
everything is working now!

[jesus likes pie]

I am so getting this when I get home!

[dookie]

Nice hack, works fine @ 3.5 Gold

[Mike Gaidin]

Excellent, I love this one.

/me clicks install.

[dsotmoon]

i have it working great but it isnt following the colors of my forum and it just doesnt look right, is something wrong?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2005/09/1.jpg (http://hostyourimage.com/landing.html)

[Logician]

i have it working great but it isnt following the colors of my forum and it just doesnt look right, is something wrong?

http://www.hostyourimage.com/uploads/ab4f76c36a.jpg (http://hostyourimage.com/landing.html)
Please double check you applied STEP2 correctly. If you are sure you installed that step correctly but it still does not work for you, I can check it in your board if you give me admin cp access.

[Bellinis]

I'm so glad I found this hack! :)

One question though...
My forum uses two official languages. It would be great if I could write personal announcements in the users' preferred board language.

Is this possible with this hack? And if not... does anyone know how I could accomplish that? ;)

[Logician]

I'm so glad I found this hack! :)

One question though...
My forum uses two official languages. It would be great if I could write personal announcements in the users' preferred board language.

Is this possible with this hack? And if not... does anyone know how I could accomplish that? ;)
Not tested but should work:

[[($bbuserinfo[languageid]==1)]]
Tell me something in language 1
[[/($bbuserinfo[languageid]==1)]]

[[($bbuserinfo[languageid]==2)]]
Tell me something in language 2
[[/($bbuserinfo[languageid]==2)]]

[Billspaintball]

Just installed.
I was running this hack with my vB3.0.8 board which I upgraded to 3.5 tonight.

There is one small side effect of upgrading to 3.5 then installing this hack, in the announcements section of the ACP, there is two windows for the forum home announcement, and 2 windows for the popup announcement.

If you put the announcements in the bottom windows all works fine, but I guess I should work out how to delete the two old windows so noone else gets confused :)

[dreck]

Logician,

I just love this hack. I do have a question? I am trying to get this to display on my cmps_index.php page.
I edited the adv_portal template from:
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
To:
$dfh_announcement_headercode
</head>
<body>
$dfh_announcement_popup
$header
$navbar
$dfh_announcementBut I couldn't get to work. Do I need to edit anything else?


Thanks, dreck

[Logician]

Just installed.
I was running this hack with my vB3.0.8 board which I upgraded to 3.5 tonight.

There is one small side effect of upgrading to 3.5 then installing this hack, in the announcements section of the ACP, there is two windows for the forum home announcement, and 2 windows for the popup announcement.

If you put the announcements in the bottom windows all works fine, but I guess I should work out how to delete the two old windows so noone else gets confused :)
Please see here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=782487&postcount=37

I am trying to get this to display on my cmps_index.php page
I'm sorry but I'm really not familiar with cmps. I have never used or even installed it.

[dreck]

I'm sorry but I'm really not familiar with cmps. I have never used or even installed it.Ok, thanks!

[Crazy Serb]

Logician,

I just love this hack. I do have a question? I am trying to get this to display on my cmps_index.php page.
I edited the adv_portal template from:
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
To:
$dfh_announcement_headercode
</head>
<body>
$dfh_announcement_popup
$header
$navbar
$dfh_announcementBut I couldn't get to work. Do I need to edit anything else?


Thanks, dreck

I have the same problem...

since cmps_index.php removes anything above the </head> tag in forumhome template, we should be adding that code to the adv_portal template instead.

however, it doesn't work wherever I put it... I just don't get any code from the dfh_ templates... weird.

[Logician]

I can't give you a solution since I don't use cmps but apparently this is normal. Because the hack produces its results only when "index.php" (forum home script) runs. Since you don't run it but instead your cmps script, it is normal that the annoucement is not produced.

[Crazy Serb]

I can't give you a solution since I don't use cmps but apparently this is normal. Because the hack produces its results only when "index.php" (forum home script) runs. Since you don't run it but instead your cmps script, it is normal that the annoucement is not produced.

hmm... what does it depend on, though?

all conditionals that were supposed to appear in forumhome template are in the adv_portal template (since that is the "new" forumhome, sort of... it uses most of the code from other templates except that it strips out everything in the <head>...</head> part)

I have renamed my cmps_index.php into the index.php (so that is my homepage), and the forum page (previously index.php) has been renamed to forum.php.

Now, is there anything that appears in forum.php that this hack checks for, and then displays the announcement?

[csidlernet]

/me installs
Very.. very uhh dynamic

[Ugur CETIN]

Installed guys, thank you very much....

[JJR512]

Logician, you missed one tag causing XHTML non-compliance: In the dfh_announcement template, there is one "<br>" tag, should of course be "<br />". :)

[swantonio]

as I can modify the dimension of the red window

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/ (http://img112.imageshack.us/my.php?image=immagine16oz.png)

[Logician]

Logician, you missed one tag causing XHTML non-compliance: In the dfh_announcement template, there is one "<br>" tag, should of course be "<br />". :)
as you wish.. fixed :)

[Logician]

as I can modify the dimension of the red window

http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/7991/immagine16oz.th.png (http://img112.imageshack.us/my.php?image=immagine16oz.png)
The dimension of the red window is set according to your style settings. If you want to overwrite it and use manual settings, edit template dfh_announcement_popup (in ALL TEMPLATES SETS you have) and play with this line:

<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">

(Use fixed numbers for $stylevar[cellpadding] and $stylevar[cellspacing])

[one9er]

Thanks Logician!

[Ugur CETIN]

Hi logican, i installed this hack, very thnx for this but after install, i'd imported a new skin. Reinstalled product but it doesnt works. everything seems ok...

What do u think about problem..?

[Logician]

Hi logican, i installed this hack, very thnx for this but after install, i'd imported a new skin. Reinstalled product but it doesnt works. everything seems ok...


What do u think about problem..?
Apply forumhome template modification to your new skin's forumhome template.

[Ugur CETIN]

Oh, sorry, i'd solved problem...

Thnx mate..

[breaume]

For all you VBA CMPS users I have this working on the CMPS home Page. Here is what I did. I am no coder but it works on my site. I also add step 2 to forum display and showthread.

1. in the Plugin System -> Plugin Manager
move Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician from forumhome_complete to Global_start hook location

2. edit adv_portal template just the same as in the forumhome template.
Replace

</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
with
$dfh_announcement_headercode
</head>
<body>
$dfh_announcement_popup
$header
$navbar
$dfh_announcement
3. ADmincp -> VBA CMPS -> Default Settings -> Portal Output Global Variables

Add the following
dfh_announcement
dfh_announcement_popup
dfh_announcement_headercode

and Save :)

[havefun]

great hack! :) THX

* havefun clicked install

[Crazy Serb]

For all you VBA CMPS users I have this working on the CMPS home Page. Here is what I did. I am no coder but it works on my site. I also add step 2 to forum display and showthread.

1. in the Plugin System -> Plugin Manager
move Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician from forumhome_complete to Global_start hook location

2. edit adv_portal template just the same as in the forumhome template.
Replace

</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
with
$dfh_announcement_headercode
</head>
<body>
$dfh_announcement_popup
$header
$navbar
$dfh_announcement
3. ADmincp -> VBA CMPS -> Default Settings -> Portal Output Global Variables

Add the following
dfh_announcement
dfh_announcement_popup
dfh_announcement_headercode

and Save :)


that did it.

you da man!

[Allan]

Thanks for this Hack :)

Click Install

[Allan]

Under IE, it's OK, work perfectly, but with firefox, it's very big :( (screen)

[Boots]

works fine in IE but Firefox 1.0.7 doesn't display that popup...

[LICryptkeeper]

Hi, Installed this on my forum, Like it, but I have one question, Is it possible to have this in a thread?

I know it's intended use, but I would like to have a "nag" screen for visitors to register, and since most links to my site are pointing to showthread.php and not index.php, most visitors are going directly to a thread.

is this possible?

[SVZ]

The popup looks *really* bad in firefox...it's a huge red block

[Logician]

The popup looks *really* bad in firefox...it's a huge red block
Here is the fix for this :

Edit template "dfh_announcement_popup" (in ALL TEMPLATE SETS YOU HAVE!), find :

top: 50px; bottom: 50px; left: 50px; right: 50px;

replace it as:

top: 50px; left: 50px;

[Logician]

Here is the fix for this :

Edit template "dfh_announcement_popup" (in ALL TEMPLATE SETS YOU HAVE!), find :

top: 50px; bottom: 50px; left: 50px; right: 50px;

replace it as:

top: 50px; left: 50px;
Hack ZIP file updated for this fix.

[Allan]

Now, with firefox :

[Logician]

Now, with firefox :
That darn firefox and its layer positioning!

Try this one to use as your dfh_announcement_popup template:


<DIV ID="ANNLAYER" STYLE="background-color: red; position: absolute; margin-left:5; margin-right:5; margin-top:5; margin-bottom:0; top:25%; left:25%; height:50%; width:50%; padding: 10px; overflow: auto; border-color: 000000; border-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-right-width: 3px; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-left-width: 2px;">

<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="100%" height="100%" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<div class="panel"><div align="$stylevar[left]">

$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste

<br /><br />

<input type="button" onclick="clearpopupannouncement('ANNLAYER')" name="clear" value="$vbphrase[closeannouncement]" class="button">
<br />

</div></div>

</div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>

</div>

I know it is still not 100% perfect for firefox but this is all I can do for you guys, sorry.. If you like, you can keep playing with HTML in this template tweak it further.

[Allan]

Thanks Logician, it's perfect for me :)

[Crazy Serb]

how hard would it be to incorporate this dynamic dropin ad window as the announcement popup part:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/dropinbox.htm

i can't get it to open up a popup window when I try substituting the code from the dhtml popup into the dfh_popup template, and adding the javascript code to the head tag...

plus I think it looks a lot nicer than the popup that is a part of the hack right now... no offence or anything, but someone's made a more sophisticated one, and it would be really cool to see it implemented.

[Logician]

how hard would it be to incorporate this dynamic dropin ad window as the announcement popup part:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/dropinbox.htm
Does not sound so hard but please try yourself. I really don't have time to improve this hack further.. You should add the STEP 2 part into "dfh_announcement_headercode" template and STEP 3 into "dfh_announcement_popup" template.

Replace "SPECIFY YOUR CONTENT HERE. IT COULD BE TEXT, IMAGES, OR RICH HTML" with "$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste"

[Crazy Serb]

Does not sound so hard but please try yourself. I really don't have time to improve this hack further.. You should add the STEP 2 part into "dfh_announcement_headercode" template and STEP 3 into "dfh_announcement_popup" template.

Replace "SPECIFY YOUR CONTENT HERE. IT COULD BE TEXT, IMAGES, OR RICH HTML" with "$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste"

exactly what I did, and it doesn't seem to be working... can anyone else try this out?


EDIT: I know what the problem was... the code for the popup itself. I've tried another dropin code from dynamicdrive and it worked just fine.

Thanks Logician...

[ambumann]

Great extension, installed here!

Isn't it possible to make a "easier to use" menu system for the conditonals so we don't have to remember/look them up every time a new announcement is in the making?

[womansnet]

Is there any way to put this on all the main pages of the forums? I have it working on the home page, but it would be great to be able to add it to other pages, especially for when someone uses a direct link to a thread.

[bigmonay2k]

not working for me damn

[Logician]

not working for me damn
What problem you have?

[bigmonay2k]

What problem you have?
Warning: Unknown(./includes/functions_dfha.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /index.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required './includes/functions_dfha.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/dafirm2/public_html/forums/index.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 5

[Logician]

Warning: Unknown(./includes/functions_dfha.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /index.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required './includes/functions_dfha.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/dafirm2/public_html/forums/index.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 5
Have you uploaded file "functions_dfha.php" into vb's /includes/ folder?

[NexDog]

Hi Logician,

I have had this hack working great on our VB2 board for two years but now we are finally upgrading to vb 3.5.0 and this hack is integral to our design. What we do is show a message on the left menu that either displays user info for members or a "Sign Up" messgae for visitors. See here - http://nexusportal.net.

I'm having trouble getting this to work in VB 3.5.0 though. We don't need the pop-up or separate table - we need to keep the current integration. Therefore your step 2 maybe shouldn't apply? In the forumhome template on vb2 I put:

<!-- Begin Conditional Hack-->
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]]
Stuff here
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]]
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
Other stuff here
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
<!-- /End Conditional Hack-->

I put $dfh_announcement in the forumhome template where I want the message to show and then put the code in the box in the vbulletin settings section which is:


<!-- Begin Conditional Hack-->
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]]

<td align="center"><font color="#3A3D65" size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><strong>USER
INFORMATION </strong></font></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="185" height="100%" align="left" valign="top" background="nexica_01/main/sidebar_bg.jpg"><table width="162" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" valign="top">
<tr>
<td height="3" valign="top"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><smallfont>
<p>
<center>
$avatarimage</a>
</center>
<br>
$welcometext<strong><br>
<br>
Total Posts: <font color="#3A3D65">$bbuserinfo[posts]</font><br>
<b>Credits:</b> <font color="#3A3D65">$storepoints</font>
<br>


<br>
You Last Visited:</strong><br>
$bbuserinfo[lastvisitdate].<br>
<br>
<strong>Time Now:</strong> $timenow.<br>
<br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">
<a href="store.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=main">Your Store</a><br>
<br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">
$newposts<br><br>
</smallfont>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr id="cat">
<td height="19" align="center" background="nexica_01/main/side_title.gif"><font color="#3A3D65" size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><strong>PRIVATE
MESSAGES </strong></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p><smallfont> <b>$bbuserinfo[username]</b>
- You have <b>$newpm[messages]</b> new message(s)
since your last visit.<br>
<b>Unread Messages:</b> $unreadpm[messages]
<br>
<b>Total Messages:</b> $allpm[messages]<br>
<br>
<font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1"><img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">
</font><a href="private.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">Open
Your PM Inbox</a><br>
<br>
</smallfont></p></td>
</tr>
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]] [[($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
<td align="center"><font color="#3A3D65" size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><strong>THE
NEXUSPORTAL! </strong></font></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="185" height="100%" align="left" valign="top" background="nexica_01/main/sidebar_bg.jpg"><table width="162" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" valign="top">
<tr>
<td valign="top"><smallfont> <p> <strong>Welcome
to NexusPortal!</strong> This site is open
to all current and prospective Nexus members.
Take full advantage of this site! Register
now to gain:<br>
<br>
<b><img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6">
Full Posting Privileges.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"><br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6">
Access to all areas.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"><br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6">
Community Support.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"><br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6">
Ability to Interact.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"></b></p>
<p align="center"><img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">&nbsp;<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">
<a href="register.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=signup"><strong>REGISTER
NOW!</strong></a> <img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow02.gif" width="9" height="9">&nbsp;<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow02.gif" width="9" height="9"></p>
<p>$newposts<br>
<br>
</p></td>
</tr>
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
<!-- /End Conditional Hack-->


This is one of our testbeds:

http://test.nexusportal.net/index.php?styleid=4

You can see the USER INFORMATION on the top of the left menu but after that it's all a mess. Can you not put HTML in there?

The vb2 version was so simple. :D

[Logician]

Hi Logician,

I have had this hack working great on our VB2 board for two years but now we are finally upgrading to vb 3.5.0 and this hack is integral to our design. What we do is show a message on the left menu that either displays user info for members or a "Sign Up" messgae for visitors. See here - http://nexusportal.net.

I'm having trouble getting this to work in VB 3.5.0 though. We don't need the pop-up or separate table - we need to keep the current integration. Therefore your step 2 maybe shouldn't apply? In the forumhome template on vb2 I put:

<!-- Begin Conditional Hack-->
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]]
Stuff here
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]]
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
Other stuff here
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
<!-- /End Conditional Hack-->

I put $dfh_announcement in the forumhome template where I want the message to show and then put the code in the box in the vbulletin settings section which is:


<!-- Begin Conditional Hack-->
[[($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]]

<td align="center"><font color="#3A3D65" size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><strong>USER
INFORMATION </strong></font></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="185" height="100%" align="left" valign="top" background="nexica_01/main/sidebar_bg.jpg"><table width="162" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" valign="top">
<tr>
<td height="3" valign="top"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><smallfont>
<p>
<center>
$avatarimage</a>
</center>
<br>
$welcometext<strong><br>
<br>
Total Posts: <font color="#3A3D65">$bbuserinfo[posts]</font><br>
<b>Credits:</b> <font color="#3A3D65">$storepoints</font>
<br>


<br>
You Last Visited:</strong><br>
$bbuserinfo[lastvisitdate].<br>
<br>
<strong>Time Now:</strong> $timenow.<br>
<br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">
<a href="store.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=main">Your Store</a><br>
<br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">
$newposts<br><br>
</smallfont>
</p></td>
</tr>
<tr id="cat">
<td height="19" align="center" background="nexica_01/main/side_title.gif"><font color="#3A3D65" size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><strong>PRIVATE
MESSAGES </strong></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p><smallfont> <b>$bbuserinfo[username]</b>
- You have <b>$newpm[messages]</b> new message(s)
since your last visit.<br>
<b>Unread Messages:</b> $unreadpm[messages]
<br>
<b>Total Messages:</b> $allpm[messages]<br>
<br>
<font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1"><img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">
</font><a href="private.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">Open
Your PM Inbox</a><br>
<br>
</smallfont></p></td>
</tr>
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]!=0)]] [[($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
<td align="center"><font color="#3A3D65" size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><strong>THE
NEXUSPORTAL! </strong></font></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="185" height="100%" align="left" valign="top" background="nexica_01/main/sidebar_bg.jpg"><table width="162" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" valign="top">
<tr>
<td valign="top"><smallfont> <p> <strong>Welcome
to NexusPortal!</strong> This site is open
to all current and prospective Nexus members.
Take full advantage of this site! Register
now to gain:<br>
<br>
<b><img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6">
Full Posting Privileges.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"><br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6">
Access to all areas.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"><br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6">
Community Support.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"><br>
<img src="nexica_01/customicons/bullet02.gif" width="6" height="6">
Ability to Interact.<img src="nexica_01/customicons/menuspacer.gif" width="1" height="15"></b></p>
<p align="center"><img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">&nbsp;<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow01.gif" width="9" height="9">
<a href="register.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=signup"><strong>REGISTER
NOW!</strong></a> <img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow02.gif" width="9" height="9">&nbsp;<img src="nexica_01/customicons/arrow02.gif" width="9" height="9"></p>
<p>$newposts<br>
<br>
</p></td>
</tr>
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)]]
<!-- /End Conditional Hack-->


This is one of our testbeds:

http://test.nexusportal.net/index.php?styleid=4

You can see the USER INFORMATION on the top of the left menu but after that it's all a mess. Can you not put HTML in there?

The vb2 version was so simple. :D
I think you confuse this hack with my vb2 template conditionals hack.

This hack is for putting an announcement to forum home (with conditionals if you like) and the other hack was to use conditionals in any vb template you like.

If you need to put a fixed conditional to your forumhome template, you don't need this hack, you can use built-in conditionals of vb3.x: (In other words my vb2 template conditionals hack is now a built-in feature in vb 3.0.x and above)

IE.
<if condition = "$bbuserinfo[userid]>0">
Stuff to display to members
</if>
<if condition = "$bbuserinfo[userid]==0">
Stuff to display to guests
</if>

[NexDog]

Ah, thanks for that. I knew vb2 really well but I've been out of it for so long. VB 3.5.0 might as well be phpbb2 for all I know now.

Where is the best place to find out about this new in-built conditional functionality? And also I need to work out the new variables for $avatarimage, $welcometext, $newposts and others. Any insight would be helpful and sorry to take the thread of course a bit. :)

[NexDog]

I'm getting there slowly. :D

[q8-star]

Hi I've done all the steps ,but ,I got this error when home page is loaded :
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dynamic_a() in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\arabic-av.com\httpdocs\forum\index.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 158

And yes,I have done everything including uploading,modifying ...etc . :)

[Logician]

Hi I've done all the steps ,but ,I got this error when home page is loaded :
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dynamic_a() in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\arabic-av.com\httpdocs\forum\index.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 158

And yes,I have done everything including uploading,modifying ...etc . :)
Uninstall that product and use that one. I think this should help.

[womansnet]

Any way of getting this to work on all pages rather than just the home page?

[Logician]

Any way of getting this to work on all pages rather than just the home page?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=781116&postcount=7

[womansnet]

Thank you. I am disappointed but hey, you can't always get what you want.

[q8-star]

Uninstall that product and use that one. I think this should help.

No ,didn't work .problem still there .
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dynamic_a() in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\arabic-av.com\httpdocs\forum\index.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 158

:disappointed:

[Logician]

No ,didn't work .problem still there .
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dynamic_a() in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\arabic-av.com\httpdocs\forum\index.php(459) : eval()'d code on line 158

:disappointed:
I really believe you do something wrong (especially related to step 1) but if you are sure you do everything correctly, give me admin cp and FTP access to your board and let me check.

[bang]

what's been updated today?

[bigmonay2k]

Have you uploaded file "functions_dfha.php" into vb's /includes/ folder?
nevermind I got it, I think :squareeyed:

[Avalon111]

what's been updated today?
good question!
changelog?

[Logician]

good question!
changelog?
If hack is working for you, nm

[tqvn2004]

Very nice hack! Keep up the good work, Logician :D

I have one request for modification: Is it possible to make the announcement appeared in all page, not just forum home page? I would like users to see announcement when they are viewing threads, for example.

[Logician]

Very nice hack! Keep up the good work, Logician :D

I have one request for modification: Is it possible to make the announcement appeared in all page, not just forum home page? I would like users to see announcement when they are viewing threads, for example.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=797219&postcount=92

[eNforce]

I don't get a popup in firefox 1.0.7 at all :(


Technically not a bad thing for the user, but as an admin I want users to see it if they are on firefox 1.0.7

[Kran]

I love it, I love it to death, thank you so much :D

[funinthesun]

*Installed* Can anyone tell me if it works ok on other browsers as I use IE.

Thanks :)

[Bullethead21]

Works great!! Nice Hack!! Installed has been "clicked"....:))

I use IE and it seems to work fine. The pop-up seems to "pop-up" within the VB window so IE settings dont affect it.

[Oblivion Knight]

It should be noted that this will add 2 additional queries to the forumhome if a condition is met by the user and an announcement is displayed. I've not tested this with the pop-up, but it is the case for the table..

I'm glad to see this one ported, very useful indeed! :)

[funinthesun]

To save me from reading through all the posts on this thread, can anyone tell me if there is a fix on this hack for firefox and netscape users as my members say that they are unable to close the pop up. Thank you :)

[Logician]

To save me from reading through all the posts on this thread, can anyone tell me if there is a fix on this hack for firefox and netscape users as my members say that they are unable to close the pop up. Thank you :)
I try it with Mozilla 1.7.8 and Firefox 1.0.6 and I can close the popup fine.

[funinthesun]

Weird, I tried it after some of my members said they couldn't close it and it won't close for me either? Very odd.

[Logician]

Weird, I tried it after some of my members said they couldn't close it and it won't close for me either? Very odd.
When did you install the hack? If you installed long ago, get the recent file in the first post. But if you installed in the last 2-3 days, this can't be the problem.

[funinthesun]

I installed 2 days ago. I've just checked again and it is now working fine. The only thing I have changed since I last checked it is removing the fish hack so I guess that was what was interfering with it. Sorry, about that :nervous:

[q8-star]

I really believe you do something wrong (especially related to step 1) but if you are sure you do everything correctly, give me admin cp and FTP access to your board and let me check.

Logician sorry for late reply :speechless: .Man .... you were absulutely right, I changed the ftp manager and the hack works absulutely fine ... :)

Thanks again for the great job ...

[Mu5icMan]

I have a problem when installing this product the database throws an error:

Warning: Unknown(): Unable to access /*****/includes/functions_dfha.php3 in /index.php3(459) : eval()'d code on line 5

Warning: Unknown(/******/includes/functions_dfha.php3): failed to open stream: Success in /index.php3(459) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required '/******/includes/functions_dfha.php3' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /******/index.php3(459) : eval()'d code on line 5

According to the vb files there is no functions_dfha, so why is it looking for it?

Sorry dumb mistake forgot to add the file to includes folder :P

[LJR]

OMG! This enhancement is the absolute DOGZ DANGLY BITS!!!! Thank you for putting this together and imho this should be part of the core product.

A disable radio button would be nice, but it's easy enough to work around (as stated in numerous previous posts).

Thanks again!

[Extreme John]

Wow I love this!!

[gigaenvy]

It is mostly same but there a few improvements:

1- You can set up the frequency of popup announcement. Eg. you can make it popup in every 12 hours for the same user instead of every visit. (See admin cp screenshot above)

2- I get rid of the complainted "green" color Popup window and make it inherit your vb style with a cool red border.

3- It does not require any PHP hacking and can be installed through your admin cp as a pluggin.

4- Unlike vb3.x version, I don't support "header" version of it in which the announcement is displayed in all forum pages, not only forum home. It caused some minor bugs in post cached enabled forums so I only support forumhome announcement version which is stable

It would be nice to see random or rotating announcements in v3.5 and 3.0.x.

[sensimilla]

is it possible to make the announcement scroll (move) in the table ?

[LJR]

Can someone tell me what the variable name is to check a user's secondary usergroup id?

I have an awards night and want to put up an announcement only to those who nominated (known because they are part of a seconday usergroup). The $bbuserinfo[usergroupid] contains the user's primary group id.

[TitanJeff]

Love this hack but wanted to ask if the color red can be changed on the pop up. Also, I have a spacing issue with it on the front page with more space above it than below. I'd like it to be even if possible. http://www.gotitans.com/goForum/

Thanks for a great addition to my forum!

[ILTK]

INSTALLED, Very nice hack, I was using something hardcoded but this is sooo much nicer :)

Just one question, how would I go about using a conditional to not trigger it when a search engine spider drops by?

This would be great to avoid so you can write a long blurb about why people should register and not mess up onpage seo on forumhome.

Thanks!

[Logician]

Love this hack but wanted to ask if the color red can be changed on the pop up. Also, I have a spacing issue with it on the front page with more space above it than below. I'd like it to be even if possible. http://www.gotitans.com/goForum/

Thanks for a great addition to my forum!
Edit template "dfh_announcement_popup" and you'll see the part that says "background-color: red;". Your other spacing problem can adjusted by playing the style code in the same line.

[ggiersdorf]

GREAT MOD WOW! thanks but I have one question can I some how change the timing between postings for groups? Like the Guest one I want Every time they visit the home page, but Only want to send a message to Admins every 24 hours say etc, etc

can the interval be added into the condition statements?

Thanks in Advance

[secret1980]

is it possible to bring the pop up in the middle of the page ?? it comes in the middle for opera & firefox but it comes in the left side for IE.

btw great hack :D clicked install :D

[phonexpo]

Installed, thanks ;-)

[kushtiUK]

For all you VBA CMPS users I have this working on the CMPS home Page. Here is what I did. I am no coder but it works on my site. I also add step 2 to forum display and showthread.

1. in the Plugin System -> Plugin Manager
move Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician from forumhome_complete to Global_start hook location

2. edit adv_portal template just the same as in the forumhome template.
Replace

</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
with
$dfh_announcement_headercode
</head>
<body>
$dfh_announcement_popup
$header
$navbar
$dfh_announcement
3. ADmincp -> VBA CMPS -> Default Settings -> Portal Output Global Variables

Add the following
dfh_announcement
dfh_announcement_popup
dfh_announcement_headercode

and Save :)

I have tried this by following all your instructions but it does not show on my main page - has anyone else found this problem?

[dreck]

For all you VBA CMPS users I have this working on the CMPS home Page. Here is what I did. I am no coder but it works on my site. I also add step 2 to forum display and showthread.

1. in the Plugin System -> Plugin Manager
move Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician from forumhome_complete to Global_start hook location

2. edit adv_portal template just the same as in the forumhome template.
Replace

</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
with
$dfh_announcement_headercode
</head>
<body>
$dfh_announcement_popup
$header
$navbar
$dfh_announcement
3. ADmincp -> VBA CMPS -> Default Settings -> Portal Output Global Variables

Add the following
dfh_announcement
dfh_announcement_popup
dfh_announcement_headercode

and Save :)Very nice!!
I love having the forum display and showthread.

Thanks, dreck

[blue6995]

I can get the Forum Home Table Announcement to appear but I can't get the pop-up announcement to work!

[Living in music]

Hi! Anyone can help me to do this? When users enter and login to forum homepage,popup will appear but only one time.Users won't see popup again when they're back to forum homepage.This will help to avoid reading popup a lot of time which users usually feel displeased.I think if it's successful,this mod will be perfect.On the other hand,anyone knows how to make popup move along scroll bar?

I love this mod :D thanks.

[Logician]

Hi! Anyone can help me to do this? When users enter and login to forum homepage,popup will appear but only one time.Users won't see popup again when they're back to forum homepage.This will help to avoid reading popup a lot of time which users usually feel displeased.I think if it's successful,this mod will be perfect.
There is a hack setting for this so that you can configure it as you like: admin cp/vb options/Dynamic Forum Announcements/ Popup Frequency (In Hour)

[folkish]

I have the vBShout hack installed, and the accouncement box appears under the shoutbox. is there a way to move it directly under the navbar, above the shoutbox?
I'd like to know the answer to this as well.

Installed, btw. Great hack.

[jayhawk785]

This is a great hack. Quick question, how would you do one for the ucash table?

[Dan]

This is a great hack. Quick question, how would you do one for the ucash table?

Just a quick question is there a way to make it show it only shows the announcement so many times to a certain usergroup? Like I want all my registered members to only see the announcement once.

Thanks!

[silurius]

What are the big differences between this and the Welcome headers hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99579)?

[tbroush]

I can get the Forum Home Table Announcement to appear but I can't get the pop-up announcement to work!

I'm having the same issue however only in IE the popup works fine in Firefox, plus I have the time set at 12 hours and if I comeback to the site after couple hours I still see the announcement, this is happening on both browsers.

[tbroush]

I have tried this by following all your instructions but it does not show on my main page - has anyone else found this problem?

Make sure that you move the right plugin.

1. in the Plugin System -> Plugin Manager
move Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician from forumhome_complete to Global_start hook location.

There is another one that is attached to the cache_templates if you move this one is not going to work, I already did it by mistake.

[Brandon Sheley]

I'd like to know the answer to this as well.

Installed, btw. Great hack.


here is the answer. for those who want to move the popup
on the first page ;)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=781193&postcount=9

* Brandon Sheley installs

great hack, thank you

[OzgurcaN]

arkadaşlar bu konuyu türkçe [ TURKİSH ] Anlatabilecek birisi yokmu sevaba girersiniz valla.

[slank]

cheers - installs

[tbroush]

How can we add a time limit for the regular announcement?

[Brandon Sheley]

what is the condition to make it say the users name ..
like here it would be

Hello Loco Macheen pls post more :D

i seen it was set in the default, but i've edited it..ty

[Logician]

what is the condition to make it say the users name ..
like here it would be

Hello Loco Macheen pls post more :D

i seen it was set in the default, but i've edited it..ty
[[($bbuserinfo[userid] AND $bbuserinfo[posts]<5)]]
Hello $bbuserinfo[username] pls post more :D
[[($bbuserinfo[userid] AND $bbuserinfo[posts]<5)]]

Translation :

If visitor is a user but has less than 5 posts, say :

Hello $bbuserinfo[username] pls post more :D

[aacircle]

Anyone know what would be the condition if a user hasn't posted for 30 days? I have been trying the following without luck.

[[($headerstime - 1209600 > $bbuserinfo[lastpost])]]Message Here[[/($headerstime - 1209600 > $bbuserinfo[lastpost])]]

[Allan]

The French Language :)

[Logician]

The French Language :)
Thanks for sharing. I linked in the hack post.

[nexus851]

Seems like i cannot close announcement POPUP at the FORUM homepage. When it pops up, and i click "close announcement" it doesnt close and stays there.. its annoying for my users.. Only way i can close it is to goto another link. Anyone knows whats wrong or how to fix this???

John P.

[Logician]

Seems like i cannot close announcement POPUP at the FORUM homepage. When it pops up, and i click "close announcement" it doesnt close and stays there.. its annoying for my users.. Only way i can close it is to goto another link. Anyone knows whats wrong or how to fix this???

John P.
If you modified popup template, revert it to the original. If not, give me the URL of your board, put a announcement for guests and let me check it.

[davidw]

<font color="SeaGreen">* chrisitanb clicks install</font>

[nexus851]

i didnt modify the templates at all... couldnt close the announcement at my FORUM HOME only, but for my CMPS home, it closes fine. Check it out at www.pimpwithus.com and click "Forum" link under navigation link on left. It was like this even before i put in the CMPS codes in, i just thought maybe after i install the CMPS add on it'll work fine, but guess not... please advise...


P.S - it has 2 different size popup tables in the FORUM HOME.. maybe that's a clue in why it's duplicating the popup and not closing one.

[aacircle]

Logician... are you able to help with my above post #142. I am using your hack and this replaced the welcome headers hack I was previously using. The welcome headers hack was similar, but places the message on every page, whereas I don't want to be so "in the face" for our users.

Need the message to only display if a user hasn't posted for x amount of days.

Thanks. ;)

[Logician]

Anyone know what would be the condition if a user hasn't posted for 30 days? I have been trying the following without luck.

[[($headerstime - 1209600 > $bbuserinfo[lastpost])]]Message Here[[/($headerstime - 1209600 > $bbuserinfo[lastpost])]]

[[($bbuserinfo[lastpost] and $bbuserinfo[lastpost] < strtotime("-30 days"))]]Show this announcement if page visitor has not posted in the last 30 days (although he posted before)[[/($bbuserinfo[lastpost] and $bbuserinfo[lastpost] < strtotime("-30 days"))]]

[aacircle]

Thanks for your expert feedback Logician! I've cut and pasted the above, but it doesn't show your message. All my other messages display except this IF statement... :(

[Logician]

Thanks for your expert feedback Logician! I've cut and pasted the above, but it doesn't show your message. All my other messages display except this IF statement... :(
I tested it and it works for me? Are you sure you test with a MEMBER account that didn't post in the last 30 days but still has at least 1 posts?

[nexus851]

I tested it and it works for me? Are you sure you test with a MEMBER account that didn't post in the last 30 days but still has at least 1 posts?

Ok, i fixed the problem... FOR ANYONE that uses CMPS, they send the varibles through the default output page and revised the header of the 'adv' template, but what i didnt realize is that it's duplicating the popup announcement twice because of the forumhome pops and the CMPS adv template popups.. so basically, you have to deactivate one of them by:

taking out "$dfh_announcement_popup" from the FORUMHOME template only if you install the CMPS along with it. That fixed the duplicate popup announcement at FORUM HOME. =)

[Blackbeard]

ok i need help, how do i do a header for guests saying this

There are many great features available to you once you register at SWU, including :
Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the front page
Access to a great community, with a massive database of experience on hard & software issues, gaming and recreational activities, and more
Access to the SWU online chat - you could make a friend from across the world and talk to them live
Access to SWU contests & subscription offers like exclusive SWU email addresses
It's simple, and FREE!


Then put a link to the registration

Please help

[lulala]

The Traditional Chinese Language UTF-8
enjoy it

[lulala]

I tested it and it works for me? Are you sure you test with a MEMBER account that didn't post in the last 30 days but still has at least 1 posts?
me too
I cannot show it!

[Logician]

me too
I cannot show it!

Make sure you have space before and after < and also -30 days is between quotation marks. Like that:


[[($bbuserinfo[lastpost] and $bbuserinfo[lastpost] < strtotime("-30 days"))]]Show this announcement if page visitor has not posted in the last 30 days (although he posted before)[[/($bbuserinfo[lastpost] and $bbuserinfo[lastpost] < strtotime("-30 days"))]]

[lulala]

How to show an announcement in user's birthday?
What is user's birthday of conditional syntax?
$bbuserinfo[birthday] ?
I want to show "Happy Birthday" to User? :squareeyed:

[lulala]

[[($bbuserinfo[lastvisit] and $bbuserinfo[lastvisit] < strtotime("-7days"))]]
Show this announcement if page visitor has not visited my board for over 7 days
[[/($bbuserinfo[lastvisit] and $bbuserinfo[lastvisit] < strtotime("-7days"))]]

Is It Correct as above?
I cannot show it... :ermm:

[lulala]

Popup Frequency Unit is Hour
Can change to Second or minute??

[ShadowOne]

is it possible for you to add some options in the admincp?
like where you can type in a username to send it to or the user number...
And Maybe Have It Seperated By Commas(,), so i can put more than one username or number, like to send it to lets say 16 people....but only one time or whenever i need to...
or just click a radio button or something providing which usergroup you want it to be sent out to....
and maybe have a radio button for guests too...

[Logician]

is it possible for you to add some options in the admincp?
like where you can type in a username to send it to or the user number...
And Maybe Have It Seperated By Commas(,), so i can put more than one username or number, like to send it to lets say 16 people....but only one time or whenever i need to...
or just click a radio button or something providing which usergroup you want it to be sent out to....
and maybe have a radio button for guests too...
You can point users with their userid

[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==1 OR $bbuserinfo[userid]==1)]]
Show this announcement if user id is 1 or 2
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==1 OR $bbuserinfo[userid]==1)]]

[Logician]

[[($bbuserinfo[lastvisit] and $bbuserinfo[lastvisit] < strtotime("-7days"))]]
Show this announcement if page visitor has not visited my board for over 7 days
[[/($bbuserinfo[lastvisit] and $bbuserinfo[lastvisit] < strtotime("-7days"))]]

Is It Correct as above?
I cannot show it... :ermm:
put space between -7 and days

[Logician]

Popup Frequency Unit is Hour
Can change to Second or minute??
edit pluggin "Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician" at "forumhome_complete"

find:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo[lastactivity] > 0 AND $vbulletin->userinfo[lastactivity] > mktime (date("H")-$vbulletin->options[dynamic_pop_freq], date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"))) //popup once in every XX hours


replace it as:


if ($vbulletin->userinfo[lastactivity] > 0 AND $vbulletin->userinfo[lastactivity] > mktime (date("H"), date("i")-$vbulletin->options[dynamic_pop_freq], date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y"))) //popup once in every XX hours


Save it.

Now it is minutes

[ShadowOne]

You can point users with their userid

[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==1 OR $bbuserinfo[userid]==1)]]
Show this announcement if user id is 1 or 2
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==1 OR $bbuserinfo[userid]==1)]]


well i was trying to see if you could somehow add what i suggested? :ermm:

[lulala]

put space between -7 and days

I tried what you say,but the same

It not work.... :disappointed:

[lulala]

It's work....YAYA
I used this variable "$bbuserinfo[lastactivity]"
[[($bbuserinfo[lastactivity] and $bbuserinfo[lastactivity] < strtotime("-7days"))]]
Show this announcement if page visitor has not visited my board for over 7 days
[[/($bbuserinfo[lastactivity] and $bbuserinfo[lastactivity] < strtotime("-7days"))]]

[Logician]

It's work....YAYA
I used this variable "$bbuserinfo[lastactivity]"
[[($bbuserinfo[lastactivity] and $bbuserinfo[lastactivity] < strtotime("-7days"))]]
Show this announcement if page visitor has not visited my board for over 7 days
[[/($bbuserinfo[lastactivity] and $bbuserinfo[lastactivity] < strtotime("-7days"))]]
When you use lastactivity, the conditional checks his last forum visit date, not last post date.

[lulala]

When you use lastactivity, the conditional checks his last forum visit date, not last post date.
Ya,it 's i need.
Could you show how to
show an announcement in user's birthday?
What is user's birthday of conditional syntax?
$bbuserinfo[birthday] ?
I want to show "Happy Birthday" to User?

[Brandon Sheley]

[[($bbuserinfo[userid] AND $bbuserinfo[posts]<5)]]
Hello $bbuserinfo[username] pls post more :D
[[($bbuserinfo[userid] AND $bbuserinfo[posts]<5)]]

Translation :

If visitor is a user but has less than 5 posts, say :

Hello $bbuserinfo[username] pls post more :D


thank you :D

[lulala]

[[($bbuserinfo[birthday] and $bbuserinfo[birthday] == strtotime("0 days"))]]
Show this announcement if today is page visitor's birthday
[[/($bbuserinfo[birthday] and $bbuserinfo[birthday] == strtotime("0 days")]]

Is it Correct?
:disappointed:

[dc3dreamer]

Awesome! I have this working under VB 3.5.1.

I did alter it, however. I didn't like the announcement in its own box/table, so instead I edited my style FORUMHOME templates to put the announcement text into the "guest" announcement area, and removed the <if condition="$show['guest']">...</if> so that area always shows. I did not add the $dfh_announcement after $navbar. Instead, I replaced the first_visit_message phrase code with $dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste. Voila! I then used conditionals in the DFHA to control whether my guest message or my registered user message is displayed there.

Fine point: I did actually add a new phrase welcome_to_the_x_dfha and switch between that and welcome_to_the_x depending on whether $show['guest'] is true or false. That way the title of the announcement area changes between guests and registered users. I didn't post the code here because it's different in VB Classic vs Surge, etc. I can post the Classic code if needed.

Now the display is consistent with the current style, takes up less room, and is really configurable. All you do is edit the DFHA announcement text in the condiitional blox.

[dc3dreamer]

One thing that got me: You cannot nest conditionals. I might look at your system to see if it can recursively call itself to parse nested conditionals. For me at least, it would be very helpful. I use conditionals to switch between guest and registered user messages, and I can't use any condiitionals inside those. Instead I have to make a rather messy set of linear conditionals for all of the permutations of conditions I have.

Also the conditional syntax is a bit klunky, but I understand it's code you've had for a long ime. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

[Logician]

One thing that got me: You cannot nest conditionals. I might look at your system to see if it can recursively call itself to parse nested conditionals. For me at least, it would be very helpful. I use conditionals to switch between guest and registered user messages, and I can't use any condiitionals inside those. Instead I have to make a rather messy set of linear conditionals for all of the permutations of conditions I have.

Also the conditional syntax is a bit klunky, but I understand it's code you've had for a long ime. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Sorry, nested conditionals is not possible in the system.

[dc3dreamer]

Update #2 (final!): All is well now. Here is the code for dynamic_a() which implements nested conditionals:
function dynamic_a($logician_dfa_incoming1)
{
extract ($GLOBALS);

// Prevent successive conditionals on separate lines from generating
// spurious <br /> after running thru BbCode parser. You might not
// like this, it's optional.
$logician_dfa_incoming1 = ereg_replace("\]\][\r\n\f \t]*\[\[", "]][[", $logician_dfa_incoming1);
// Recursively process nested conditionals
$logician_dfa_incoming1 = trim(dynamic_b($logician_dfa_incoming1));
// Finish up by running result through BbCode parser
if (trim($logician_dfa_incoming1))
{
$parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
$logician_dfa_incoming1 = $parser->do_parse($logician_dfa_incoming1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1);
}
return $logician_dfa_incoming1;
}

function dynamic_b($dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1)
{
extract ($GLOBALS);

while (preg_match("/\[\[(.*)\]\](.*)\[\[(\/\\1)\]\]/siU", $dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1, $matches14))
{
@eval ('if ('.stripslashes($matches14[1]).') { $eval_deger= "1"; } else { $eval_deger= "0"; }');
if ($eval_deger == 1) //if conditional applied, replace with inner text
{
$dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1 = dynamic_b(str_replace($matches14[0], $matches14[2], $dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1));
}
else // Conditional not applied, delete the whole chunk
{
$dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1 = dynamic_b(str_replace($matches14[0], '', $dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1));
}
}
return $dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1;
}

The recursion continues until there are no conditionals found, at which point the final result is passed through the BbCodeParser at the end of the first method. The trick was to remove line endings from conditionals that follow one another with just newlines between. They generated extra breaks and line spacing after going through the BbCode parser. You might want to remove the * in the regexp for the call to ereg_replace(). Er, do I really have to name my parameter variable like it might exist in the host page? I hope not, but I copied Logician's style. I would have used sumpin' like $src for the parameter var :nervous:

I'm slowly coming up to speed on PHP :nervous: I was killed by the $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] variable testing against values, till my ancient Perl tablets fell out on the ground. Yumba! It can be an array and it may not even exist! Well, rookie me! I got it now.

This is so nice! Nested conditionals open up a whole new world of possibilities, but ... Thank you Logician Thank you Logician Thank you Logician ...

[Logician]

Update #2 (final!): All is well now. Here is the code for dynamic_a() which implements nested conditionals:
function dynamic_a($logician_dfa_incoming1)
{
extract ($GLOBALS);

// Prevent successive conditionals on separate lines from generating
// spurious <br /> after running thru BbCode parser. You might not
// like this, it's optional.
$logician_dfa_incoming1 = ereg_replace("\]\][\r\n\f \t]*\[\[", "]][[", $logician_dfa_incoming1);
// Recursively process nested conditionals
$logician_dfa_incoming1 = trim(dynamic_b($logician_dfa_incoming1));
// Finish up by running result through BbCode parser
if (trim($logician_dfa_incoming1))
{
$parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
$logician_dfa_incoming1 = $parser->do_parse($logician_dfa_incoming1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1);
}
return $logician_dfa_incoming1;
}

function dynamic_b($dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1)
{
extract ($GLOBALS);

while (preg_match("/\[\[(.*)\]\](.*)\[\[(\/\\1)\]\]/siU", $dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1, $matches14))
{
@eval ('if ('.stripslashes($matches14[1]).') { $eval_deger= "1"; } else { $eval_deger= "0"; }');
if ($eval_deger == 1) //if conditional applied, replace with inner text
{
$dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1 = dynamic_b(str_replace($matches14[0], $matches14[2], $dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1));
}
else // Conditional not applied, delete the whole chunk
{
$dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1 = dynamic_b(str_replace($matches14[0], '', $dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1));
}
}
return $dc3dreamer_dfa_incoming1;
}

The recursion continues until there are no conditionals found, at which point the final result is passed through the BbCodeParser at the end of the first method. The trick was to remove line endings from conditionals that follow one another with just newlines between. They generated extra breaks and line spacing after going through the BbCode parser. You might want to remove the * in the regexp for the call to ereg_replace(). Er, do I really have to name my parameter variable like it might exist in the host page? I hope not, but I copied Logician's style. I would have used sumpin' like $src for the parameter var :nervous:

I'm slowly coming up to speed on PHP :nervous: I was killed by the $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] variable testing against values, till my ancient Perl tablets fell out on the ground. Yumba! It can be an array and it may not even exist! Well, rookie me! I got it now.

This is so nice! Nested conditionals open up a whole new world of possibilities, but ... Thank you Logician Thank you Logician Thank you Logician ...
Thanks for your contribution! I've linked your post in the first post of the thread. :)

[lulala]

[[($bbuserinfo[birthday] and $bbuserinfo[birthday] == strtotime("0 days"))]]
Show this announcement if today is page visitor's birthday
[[/($bbuserinfo[birthday] and $bbuserinfo[birthday] == strtotime("0 days")]]

Is it Correct?
:disappointed:
Anyone can help me...?... :disappointed:

[Logician]

Ya,it 's i need.
Could you show how to
show an announcement in user's birthday?
What is user's birthday of conditional syntax?
$bbuserinfo[birthday] ?
I want to show "Happy Birthday" to User?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=638492&postcount=352

[tamborinegal]

Great hack! Thanks so much Logician :)

[pauloo]

Thanks Logician et merci allan pour ta traduction fr ;)

[djjeffa]

Nothing.. Please follow these step:
* admin cp/manage products/uninstall Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician
* edit includes/config.php, find:

?>

replace this line as:

// Debug
$config['Misc']['debug'] = true;
?>


(and upload to the server)

* login to admin cp, go to vb options/dynamic forum home announcements

* delete all settings and settings group in that page to remove 3.0 settings. (by clicking "delete" next to 2 settings and 1 setting group title)

* Revert your config.php (and upload the server)

* Now install 3.5 version.
i dont see admin uninstall Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician in cp/manage products/

and i dont see "delete" (by clicking "delete" next to 2 settings and 1 setting group title)

could u please help?

[akanevsky]

Umm... I do not really understand the purpose of this hack. Can't this simply be done via templating system?

[Logician]

i dont see admin uninstall Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician in cp/manage products/

and i dont see "delete" (by clicking "delete" next to 2 settings and 1 setting group title)

could u please help?
If you installed 3.5 version, you'll see uninstall in product section. If you installed 3.0.x version and then upgraded your board, you won't see it in product section, because it was not a product in 3.0.x. So if you are trying to remove 3.0.x hack settings in 3.5 follow the message you quoted above.

I do not really understand the purpose of this hack. Can't this simply be done via templating system?
Do you understand the purpose of vbulletin setting "Use Legacy (Vertical) Postbit Template"? Can't this simply be done via templating system by overwriting postbit template?

This hack gives you an easy way to put global announcements into your forum home page without dealing with templating system. It also allows you to put popup announcements to your forum homa page without dealing with multiple templates and complicated HTML codes for DHTML layers.

[Smiry Kin's]

anyway to make it smaller? :S very nice work tho! jsut massive!

[bashy]

Hi

I have uploaded the php in the right place...
I have imported the product as a product, checked it 3 times, but cant see it in the manage product list, although when i try to upload it again it says its already there...

Another thing, when i try to edit the forumhome template and click save, it just reverts back to the state it was before the edit...

This is really strange...

Any advice please...

Bashy

[Logician]

Hi

I have uploaded the php in the right place...
I have imported the product as a product, checked it 3 times, but cant see it in the manage product list, although when i try to upload it again it says its already there...

Another thing, when i try to edit the forumhome template and click save, it just reverts back to the state it was before the edit...

This is really strange...

Any advice please...

Bashy
I don't think your problem is related to this hack, it sounds as if you have a problem in vbulletin.

[bashy]

Strange that...Cause i got loads of mods installed and this is the first time it aint let me change a template....

I will try again when i have rebooted my computer!!!

Bashy

[bashy]

Hi again...

still the same problem, it will not let me edit the forumhome template for love no money, Once i edit it, it just reverts back to as it was before i edited it...
Im gonna go have a word with vB i think and see what they say...
But in the mean time can anyone see anything in the code that could have locked the template?

stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>
<!-- no cache headers -->
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<!-- end no cache headers -->
$headinclude
<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<style type="text/css">

#fadeinbox{
position:absolute;
width: 300px;
left: 0;
top: -400px;
padding: 4px;
z-index: 100;
visibility:hidden;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">

//Specify display mode. 3 possible values are:
//1) "always"- This makes the fade-in box load each time the page is displayed
//2) "oncepersession"- This uses cookies to display the fade-in box only once per browser session
//3) integer (ie: 5)- Finally, you can specify an integer to display the box randomly via a frequency of 1/integer...
// For example, 2 would display the box about (1/2) 50% of the time the page loads.

var displaymode="always"

var enablefade="yes" //("yes" to enable fade in effect, "no" to disable)
var autohidebox=["yes", 60] //Automatically hide box after x seconds? [yes/no, if_yes_hide_after_seconds]
var showonscroll="yes" //Should box remain visible even when user scrolls page? ("yes"/"no)
var IEfadelength=1 //fade in duration for IE, in seconds
var Mozfadedegree=0.05 //fade in degree for NS6+ (number between 0 and 1. Recommended max: 0.2)

////////No need to edit beyond here///////////

if (parseInt(displaymode)!=NaN)
var random_num=Math.floor(Math.random()*displaymode)

function displayfadeinbox(){
var ie=document.all && !window.opera
var dom=document.getElementById
iebody=(document.compatMode=="CSS1Compat")? document.documentElement : document.body
objref=(dom)? document.getElementById("fadeinbox") : document.all.fadeinbox
var scroll_top=(ie)? iebody.scrollTop : window.pageYOffset
var docwidth=(ie)? iebody.clientWidth : window.innerWidth
docheight=(ie)? iebody.clientHeight: window.innerHeight
var objwidth=objref.offsetWidth
objheight=objref.offsetHeight
objref.style.left=docwidth/2-objwidth/2+"px"
objref.style.top=scroll_top+docheight/2-objheight/2+"px"

if (showonscroll=="yes")
showonscrollvar=setInterval("staticfadebox()", 50)

if (enablefade=="yes" && objref.filters){
objref.filters[0].duration=IEfadelength
objref.filters[0].Apply()
objref.filters[0].Play()
}
objref.style.visibility="visible"
if (objref.style.MozOpacity){
if (enablefade=="yes")
mozfadevar=setInterval("mozfadefx()", 90)
else{
objref.style.MozOpacity=1
controlledhidebox()
}
}
else
controlledhidebox()
}

function mozfadefx(){
if (parseFloat(objref.style.MozOpacity)<1)
objref.style.MozOpacity=parseFloat(objref.style.Mo zOpacity)+Mozfadedegree
else{
clearInterval(mozfadevar)
controlledhidebox()
}
}

function staticfadebox(){
var ie=document.all && !window.opera
var scroll_top=(ie)? iebody.scrollTop : window.pageYOffset
objref.style.top=scroll_top+docheight/2-objheight/2+"px"
}

function hidefadebox(){
objref.style.visibility="hidden"
if (typeof showonscrollvar!="undefined")
clearInterval(showonscrollvar)
}

function controlledhidebox(){
if (autohidebox[0]=="yes"){
var delayvar=(enablefade=="yes" && objref.filters)? (autohidebox[1]+objref.filters[0].duration)*1000 : autohidebox[1]*1000
setTimeout("hidefadebox()", delayvar)
}
}

function initfunction(){
setTimeout("displayfadeinbox()", 1)
}

function get_cookie(Name) {
var search = Name + "="
var returnvalue = ""
if (document.cookie.length > 0) {
offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search)
if (offset != -1) {
offset += search.length
end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset)
if (end == -1)
end = document.cookie.length;
returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(off set, end))
}
}
return returnvalue;
}


if (displaymode=="oncepersession" && get_cookie("fadedin")=="" || displaymode=="always" || parseInt(displaymode)!=NaN && random_num==0){
if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", initfunction, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", initfunction)
else if (document.getElementById)
window.onload=initfunction
document.cookie="fadedin=yes"
}


</script>

<!-- main -->
<thread>
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<!-- guest welcome message -->
<DIV id="fadeinbox" style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.RandomDis solve(duration=1) progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=gra y,direction=135) ; -moz-opacity:0">

<table class="tborder" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="600">
<tbody><tr>
<td class="tcat" align="center">
<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody><tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_welcomepanel" style="">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="center" width="101%">
<phrase 1="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" 2="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>
<br><br>This box will auto close after 60 seconds.
<br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table><br>
<align="center" valign="middle">
</DIV>
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
</if>
</thread>
<thread>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

</thread>
<thread>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<tr align="center">
<td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>
</thead>
$forumbits
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
<if condition="$vboptions['forumleaders']">&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="showgroups.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a></if>
</strong></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!-- /main -->

<br />
<br />

<!-- what's going on box -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<if condition="$show['loggedinusers']">
<!-- logged-in users -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_activeusers')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[currently_active_users]</a>: $totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest" 3="$numberspiders">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="online.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/whos_online.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_whos_online]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div style="white-space: nowrap"><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase></div>
<div>$activeusers</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- end logged-in users -->
</if>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_stats')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_stats" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_stats].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_stats" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_stats]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/stats.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>" border="0" /></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div>
$vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads,
$vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts,
$vbphrase[members]: $numbermembers<if condition="$show['activemembers']">,
<span title="<phrase 1="$vboptions[activememberdays]">$vbphrase[within_the_last_x_days]</phrase>">$vbphrase[active_members]: $activemembers</span>
</if>
</div>
<div><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$newuserid" 2="$newusername">$vbphrase[welcome_to_our_newest_member_x]</phrase></div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<if condition="$show['birthdays']">
<!-- today's birthdays -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[todays_birthdays]
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&amp;day=$today&amp;sb=1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/birthday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$birthdays</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- end today's birthdays -->
</if>
<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$upcomingevents</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</if>
<!-- latest threads -->
<if condition="$show['latestthreads']">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_latestthreads')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_latestthreads" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_latestthreads].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[latest_threads]
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_latestthreads" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_latestthreads]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[latest_threads]" /></td>
<td class="alt1"><div class="smallfont">$threadbits</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</if>
<!-- /latest threads -->
</table>
<br />
<!-- end what's going on box -->
<if condition="$show['topXstats']">
$topXstats
</if>

<!-- icons and login code -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">&nbsp; $vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<if condition="!$show['guest']">
<!-- member logout -->
<td align="$stylevar[right]"><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()"><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[log_out_x]</phrase></a></td>
<!-- end member logout -->
</if>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / icons and login code -->

$footer
</body>
</html>

[harry1951]

*clicks installed*

[Smiry Kin's]

how do you add -adsense? also how do you make it smaler?

[cooltechie]

Does anyone have this working with CMPS and photopost?

[djjeffa]

i did a boo boo
I didnt read everything you said wich i know i should of.... but anyway
I had this hack when i was running 3.0.8 now i have 3.5.2 and installed it with out removing anything so is there anyway i could remove the old stuff because im seeing double in the acp.

[lasor]

*Installed*

Excellent hack just what I have been looking for.....Thanks

One question. Is it possible with the popup to show this once? When the user has seen this popup and closed the window they do not get the same popup again?

Thanks

[rlamego]

Thanks for the great hack Logician! =)

I have a question though: how can I remove the < br / > that appear before and after the announcement?

I also would like to suggest the compilation of examples to help conditional challenged people like myself =)

[Logician]

I have a question though: how can I remove the < br / > that appear before and after the announcement?

If I understood the question correctly, you can remove the <br /> in template "dfh_announcement" Also feel free to remove it at the end of navbar template if you want to remove the preceding new line.

[pauloo]

Futur suggestion: ON/OFF by option in admincp.

[bogene2020]

Does anyone have this working with CMPS and photopost?

I have this working with cmps but I am getting an error when I go to photopost .
The error is below

Warning: main(./includes/functions_showthread.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/georgiad/public_html/vbgdbase/photos/header-inc.php on line 92

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './includes/functions_showthread.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home2/georgiad/public_html/vbgdbase/photos/header-inc.php on line 92



I have disabled for now till I can fix the error . Thanks

[scootman]

<font color="Green">Install</font> Great thanks

//Regards

[BlackRanger3d]

I have 3.5.1

I have followed all the instructions but

I don't see it in the VBoption setup section.
And when I look in the plugin manager it is not listed so I can not change any of the hooks.

TIA

[bashy]

Hi

whoopsy...found in the second post, how i missed that i will never know :(

TIA

[Logician]

I have 3.5.1

I have followed all the instructions but

I don't see it in the VBoption setup section.
And when I look in the plugin manager it is not listed so I can not change any of the hooks.

TIA
Something is wrong with installation instructions step 3. Make sure you did it correctly.

Could you please post some samples for me to use,
Second post of this thread has some examples.

[BlackRanger3d]

Thanks dude, I am no fairly certian it is a vb issue.
I have istalled many hacks and products..so i am very certain that I followed your instructions..oh well off to vb forums.

[Logician]

Thanks dude, I am no fairly certian it is a vb issue.
I have istalled many hacks and products..so i am very certain that I followed your instructions..oh well off to vb forums.
It might be clashing with another hack. Try to disable other products/pluggins and try again. Also make sure you use regular vb product manager not anyother hack that extends it.

[bashy]

hi m8

could you please take a gander at the image ive attached as i cannot for the lif of me get rid of the black section, I can addjust all the rest just not the left and right?

[BlackRanger3d]

Logician is there anything else you can think of. I have gone step by step throught your instructions.

I have tried other peoples hacks, and I get the same result I am not able to get the hack to show up in vb options.

Heck can I hire you to fix my vb.

[noreturn]

What happens if 4 different guests visit within the 1 hour setting I have set? Does only the first guest see the guest message if others visit within that 1 hour? If so, how can I make it always pop up for a guest, but only at 1 hour intervals for all others? And....
Thank you.

[Logician]

What happens if 4 different guests visit within the 1 hour setting I have set? Does only the first guest see the guest message if others visit within that 1 hour? If so, how can I make it always pop up for a guest, but only at 1 hour intervals for all others? And....
Thank you.
This setting only works for members. It depends on the db value "last activity date" and vb keeps this for members only. So guests get the popup everytime.

I have tried other peoples hacks, and I get the same result I am not able to get the hack to show up in vb options.

I can suggest you to disable all pluggins and products and upload original vb files (if you hacked them) and then try again. If you still have the problem, vb.com staff should help you with this (since your board will be hackless but problematic in this scenario) if you create a support ticket.

[Logician]

hi m8

could you please take a gander at the image ive attached as i cannot for the lif of me get rid of the black section, I can addjust all the rest just not the left and right?
Sounds like a HTML clashing with your skin. I see you have a left/right column in your forum home page. As far as I can see your forum main page also has a javascript syntax error when loads. My hack HTML code is designed for default vb3 look so you need to arrange it to fit to your skin. If you get it designed, I'm sure the webdesigner who did it, can fix this easily.

[bashy]

I am the one who put mine together...
So it looks like imn stuck with this wee issue :(

Thanks anyway

Sounds like a HTML clashing with your skin. I see you have a left/right column in your forum home page. As far as I can see your forum main page also has a javascript syntax error when loads. My hack HTML code is designed for default vb3 look so you need to arrange it to fit to your skin. If you get it designed, I'm sure the webdesigner who did it, can fix this easily.

[noreturn]

This setting only works for members. It depends on the db value "last activity date" and vb keeps this for members only. So guests get the popup everytime.

Thank you for fast reply

[noreturn]

What happens if 4 different guests visit within the 1 hour setting I have set? Does only the first guest see the guest message if others visit within that 1 hour? If so, how can I make it always pop up for a guest, but only at 1 hour intervals for all others? And....
Thank you.
I have tested what you said by logging out and then visiting board without loggin in. I then click on "Forums" menu option and the guest pop-up does not appear...unless I keep it set to 0 (zero) in the admin PC option. It seems that once a guest (non-registered visitor) comes to board and clicks on Fourm link on navbar, the pop up with text only for GUEST does not show up unless no guests have visted in that hour. Or, better yet, what the heck am I doing wrong? (stargazerschat.com)

Thanks for you time.

[Logician]

I have tested what you said by logging out and then visiting board without loggin in. I then click on "Forums" menu option and the guest pop-up does not appear...unless I keep it set to 0 (zero) in the admin PC option. It seems that once a guest (non-registered visitor) comes to board and clicks on Fourm link on navbar, the pop up with text only for GUEST does not show up unless no guests have visted in that hour. Or, better yet, what the heck am I doing wrong? (stargazerschat.com)

Thanks for you time.
I think vb is reading your last visit time from your cookie even if we log out. So try with a different browser (without logging in) or after your popup expiration time you set is up.

[noreturn]

Hi - I cleared all cookies, cleared cache, went to web site and was not logged in. I click on forums but the guest pop up does not come up. I am using firefox if that means any thing.
I did the same thing and used IE and it works properly. Just not firefox for some reason.

[htscpl]

Just installed and I have a strange problem. Pop up and announcement box both work, however, any text in these are coved by a smilie !

I checked everthing I could think of but still no luck. Any ideas as to what would cause this and how to fix it?

I used your hack on 3.0.x and it worked fine. I followed the instructions to remove the old version and install this one so I am at a lost to figure out the problem.

[Logician]

Just installed and I have a strange problem. Pop up and announcement box both work, however, any text in these are coved by a smilie !

I checked everthing I could think of but still no luck. Any ideas as to what would cause this and how to fix it?

I used your hack on 3.0.x and it worked fine. I followed the instructions to remove the old version and install this one so I am at a lost to figure out the problem.
Maybe that smilie's code exist in the hack templates or the announcement somehow if it is a too general code?

[htscpl]

Maybe that smilie's code exist in the hack templates or the announcement somehow if it is a too general code?

Figured it out. Several of my smilies didn't have a replacement code. Each of them showed up on top of the announcement or popup... kinda strange but when I added a code to the smilies they went away.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

H :D

[topanet]

Thanks for great hack anyway... :)
but, i just want to know.. can i use your annoucement into specified thread/posting??
i mean, if user enter some thread, your annoucement will show up...

thanks... topz.

[nailerpa]

Is there a way to make the text in the annoucement block blink? I tried the <blink> and </blink> tags but they didn't work. Thanks!

[Logician]

Is there a way to make the text in the annoucement block blink? I tried the <blink> and </blink> tags but they didn't work. Thanks!
<blink> tag does not work with IE.

Not tested but this should work:

Put this javascript into your headinclude template:


<script language="JavaScript">
var on_color = "#FF0000";
var off_color = "#000000";
var blink_onoff = 1;
var blinkspeed= 500;
function blink()
{
if( blink_onoff == 1) {
document.all.blink.style.color = on_color;
blink_onoff = 0;
}
else {
document.all.blink.style.color = off_color;
blink_onoff = 1;
}
}
</script>


Then use this in your announcement:

<font id=blink>My announcement</font><script>document.all.blink.style.color = off_color;setInterval('blink()',blinkspeed);</script>

You can google for "blink + IE" for more info about blinking effect in IE.

[Kinneas]

Coooool!

*installs*

[nailerpa]

Thanks! That worked.

<blink> tag does not work with IE.

Not tested but this should work:

Put this javascript into your headinclude template:


<script language="JavaScript">
var on_color = "#FF0000";
var off_color = "#000000";
var blink_onoff = 1;
var blinkspeed= 500;
function blink()
{
if( blink_onoff == 1) {
document.all.blink.style.color = on_color;
blink_onoff = 0;
}
else {
document.all.blink.style.color = off_color;
blink_onoff = 1;
}
}
</script>


Then use this in your announcement:

<font id=blink>My announcement</font><script>document.all.blink.style.color = off_color;setInterval('blink()',blinkspeed);</script>

You can google for "blink + IE" for more info about blinking effect in IE.

[icare]

Warning: Unknown(./includes/functions_dfha.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /index.php(487) : eval()'d code on line 150

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required './includes/functions_dfha.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/horny/public_html/index.php(487) : eval()'d code on line 150



i AM GETTING this error. please advise

[Logician]

Warning: Unknown(./includes/functions_dfha.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /index.php(487) : eval()'d code on line 150

Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required './includes/functions_dfha.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/horny/public_html/index.php(487) : eval()'d code on line 150



i AM GETTING this error. please advise
upload functions_dfha.php to includes folder

[Fusion.nl]

Amazing, out of this world hack. I can think of a zillion way this could be useful. If everything works the way you say it does, this will be on top of my most favorite hack list.

Awesome! :bunny:

[Fusion.nl]

Is this correct?


[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==2 AND $bbuserinfo[posts]<1 AND $bbuserinfo[joindate] > strtotime("-1 days"))]]

Registred user who joined at least 24 hours ago, with zero posts.

[Logician]

Is this correct?


[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==2 AND $bbuserinfo[posts]<1 AND $bbuserinfo[joindate] > strtotime("-1 days"))]]

Registred user who joined at least 24 hours ago, with zero posts.
looks good to me but you'd better test it with a test account.

[Fusion.nl]

Will do. Thnx for the reply and once again awesome script. ;)

[Fusion.nl]

Tested it. The > before strtotime must be <. Then its fine. :)

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==2 AND $bbuserinfo[posts]<1 AND $bbuserinfo[joindate] < strtotime("-1 days"))]]

[Ziki]

OMG this is ssooooo cooool!

[D.Ilyin]

Is there any chance to do something like that?
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
Request activation HERE
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
This text see ONLY awaiting conf. group & I.
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
I see (admin) only first condition :( and do not see second.
I tried also like this:

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
Request activation HERE
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
This text see ONLY awaiting conf. group & I.
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]

But stil see only first condition :(.

Any help for this? Or maybe in future version?

[Logician]

Is there any chance to do something like that?
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
Request activation HERE
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
This text see ONLY awaiting conf. group & I.
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
I see (admin) only first condition :( and do not see second.
I tried also like this:

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
Request activation HERE
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
This text see ONLY awaiting conf. group & I.
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3 OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]

But stil see only first condition :(.

Any help for this? Or maybe in future version?
It is not clear to me what exactly you are trying to achieve but some notes:

1- Hack Only displays one announcement per user. If more than 1 conditional applies, the one with highest priority (=which is at top) is displayed.
2- Admin is usergroup 6, not 3

[fkatzenb]

I am trying to figure out a way to have a dynamic message for all people that only displays between two different server times... Is there a variable that I can use similar to the linux data function to pull hours and minutes from to allow me to show a message between 9:50am and 10:30am?

Thanks!

Frank

[D.Ilyin]

It is not clear to me what exactly you are trying to achieve but some notes:
I'd like that Users Awaiting confirmation & Admins see that line:
Request activation HERE
and admins only see that additional line
This text see ONLY awaiting conf. group & I.
1- Hack Only displays one announcement per user. If more than 1 conditional applies, the one with highest priority (=which is at top) is displayed. yepp... i see why my condition not work :(
And what about future versions?
2- Admin is usergroup 6, not 3 i know that.... :ermm:

[fkatzenb]

I am trying to figure out a way to have a dynamic message for all people that only displays between two different server times... Is there a variable that I can use similar to the linux data function to pull hours and minutes from to allow me to show a message between 9:50am and 10:30am?

Thanks!

Frank

I just figured out what to do

edited functions_dfha.php and added
// time variables...
$time_hour = date("H");
$time_minute = date("i");
$time_zone = date("T");



[[($time_hour==3 AND $time_minute>=45 AND $time_minute<=59)]]
The server is schedule to do perform a daily backup between 0345 CST and 0430 CST. Current Server Time is $time_hour$time_minute $time_zone
[[/($time_hour==3 AND $time_minute>=45 AND $time_minute<=59)]]
[[($time_hour==4 AND $time_minute>=0 AND $time_minute<=29)]]
The server is schedule to do perform a daily backup between 0345 CST and 0430 CST. Current Server Time is $time_hour$time_minute $time_zone
[[/($time_hour==4 AND $time_minute>=0 AND $time_minute<=29)]]

[fkatzenb]

Ok... I wasnt thinking clearly on the date function... fixing that now... new to php.


// time variables...
$time_for_announce = date("Hi");


[[($time_for_announce>=0345 AND $time_for_announce<=0430)]]
The server is schedule to do perform a daily backup between 0345 CST and 0430 CST. Current Server Time is $time_for_announce
[[/($time_for_announce>=0345 AND $time_for_announce<=0430)]]



Frank

[David_R]

I had this hack installed on vbulletin 3.0.x version, installed the new 3.5.3 via plugin system and now i find Forum Home Table Announcement and Forum Home PopUp Announcement appearing twice in my AdminCP..

thanks.

[Logician]

I had this hack installed on vbulletin 3.0.x version, installed the new 3.5.3 via plugin system and now i find Forum Home Table Announcement and Forum Home PopUp Announcement appearing twice in my AdminCP..

thanks.
Please read and follow the instructions labelled "IMPORTANT FOR 3.x USERS:" in the first post of the thread.

[D.Ilyin]

And what about future versions?
Logician will you plan to add in future version support for multi annoucements for milti user groups? As i described above.

[Logician]

Logician will you plan to add in future version support for multi annoucements for milti user groups? As i described above.
I think you can do what you like to do with the hack as it is:

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
Request activation HERE. This text see ONLY awaiting conf. group & I.
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6)]]
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]
Request activation HERE.
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]

[D.Ilyin]

Logician, yes, i did as you sad two day's ago, but....
but i use this scheme:
annoucement: for guests and not login
annoucement: for registred
annoucement: for moders
and another 4 groups.
i'd just like to add some notes for all annoucements visible for admins only... some for moders.
That's why i asked you about crossed permisions for annoucements.

PS Anyway thanks for this usefull hack!!!! It's very helpfull!!!! :)
PSS Sory for my bad english :(

[MissKalunji]

i got a slight problem..........when it pops and i try to close it it gives me a javascript error....

[Logician]

i got a slight problem..........when it pops and i try to close it it gives me a javascript error....
Have you been using the hack in 3.0.x? If yes, please follow the instructions in the first post to remove old hack remants first, then reinstall the hack. This problem usually happens when 3.0.x templates are used in 3.5.x

[MissKalunji]

no i wasnt using it...

[TTG]

anyone got this working on 3.5.4 ?
Mine stopped working after the upgrade.

[SaN-DeeP]

thanks for the nice update logician works abosolutely perfect on 3.5.4, uninstallation from old 3.0.x went proper as well :)

May you have time to help apply this addon globally on all pages of forum ?
Its working great here: http://forums.techarena.in :nervous:

Regards,

[MissKalunji]

anyone can help me with the javascript error?

[Logician]

anyone got this working on 3.5.4 ?
Mine stopped working after the upgrade.
uninstall/reinstall product

[Logician]

anyone can help me with the javascript error?
there is no javascript error with the default vb skin. However if you are using a custom skin, something might be clashing with your skin's HTML code. I think your webdesigner who designed the skin can help more on this.

[bashy]

I wonder if this is where i get my java script error then?
I am using this hack and also using a custom style....the style in question
is the mns7

[TheMusicMan]

Hi Logician

Is there a way of amending the default size of the edit box in the AdminCP that contains the text for the messages? It would be nice if I could increase the dimensions of that.