Play Sound When Private Message Received - the Amy Way
 

This hack is based off of one by EvilLS1 who also kindly contributed the wav file.

His hack plays a sound when the user visits the forumhome page if they have a new PM.

My version plays the sound on any page much the same as the PM popup works. In addition, my version has a usercp option for members to turn off sounds if they wish.

It's a rather easy hack to install.

Amy

Excellent work there, young lady. Let me be the first to (c)lick the install button. ;)

You see, Amy? Now who's flirting with you? :p

Nice :)

Yeah, but I'm old and harmless. I can't even handle what I have at home let alone anything else. ;)

I left out two steps in the documentation earlier. The zip is updated, but if you already installed, here is the rest:

Run this query:

ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `pmsound` TINYINT DEFAULT '1' NOT NULL;


In the modifyoptions template
Find:


Add after:

See what happens when you guys flirt? I get distracted and make mistakes :D

Amy

Sweet hack.

*installed.

Amy.. I cannot get this to work...
No sound.. nothing

I checked my files.
and it looks like I did everything correctly..

and yes I checked recieve sound pm in modify options

That's because I forgot another step in the documentation. I am not a night person. Gotta quit releasing these things at night.

In youre header template, you need to put :

I put it at the very top of my header template.

Off to update the documentation.

Amy