Are you trying to include:
a) dynamic announcement in a non-vb page?
b) a html page inside a webtemplate?
c) the announcement in a webtemplate?

installed and works fine

/me clicks install

one thing is smilies etc supposed to show up in this box as when i do one the announcement shows up but the smilie i entered shows as text.

any idea why cause the hack works fine besides that.

Searched thread? I believe somebody else had a similiar problem and it is likely that I had provided a solution. I think...

Great hack, though I am having a small problem.
The install seemed to go well but the announcement is not showing up on my forum homepage. I removed the default conditional message and replaced it with a standard text message so that it would apply to all user groups, still nothing.

Where would you suggest I begin my troubleshooting?
I am running version 2.8.0

Ran the install file, re-implemented all the steps and still not working in v2.3.2

Forgot to add... I now have 2 copies of the DFA option in admin cp.

logician- how hard would it be to get this working on 3.0, beta 6?

Make sure you applied all steps correctly (Do not reapply step 1, if you already did). Especially make sure:
a) In Step 4 you applied the correct code according to your vb version
b) In STEP 3, you created the template IN ALL template sets if you have more than 1.
c) In STEP 4, you are adding the code into forum/index.php, NOT forum/admin/index.php

I didn't test this hack with 2.3.2. I tested it with 2.3.0 though and it is working ok so I wouldn't expect any problems in 2.3.2 too. See my suggestions for Wolverine above.

To fix double options problem: (which happened because you ran the file in step 1 twice):
Edit "forum/admin/config.php", at the end file find the line ?> and before that add:
Then close all your browser windows, open again and login into your admin cp. You'll see a new link named "Edit Settings" under "vb options", click it and scroll at the end of page. You see double "Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack" link there, remove one of them. Then edit your config.php file again and remove the line you added there.

I don't know. I didn't look at it yet. As you know VB3 hacking is not allowed at the moment.

Thanks a bunch! I did indeed manage to add the code to index.php in the admin folder by mistake. Works great now, thanks a ton :)