Private Messages Enhancements - TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl)

Description:
This mod changes the way notifications are displayed. It disables the default dropdown menu listed in the toplinks in the header and uses a free open script called jGrowl to display them on the bottom left of the screen no matter where you are on a page. Helps with people "not noticing" the notifications. Enjoy. TheWindows7Site

Instructions:

1) Upload files in attachment to forum root

2) Open template headinclude

Paste the following code at the bottom

<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) --> 
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jscripts/tw7s_notifications/jquery-1.4.2.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jscripts/tw7s_notifications/jquery.jgrowl.js"></script> 
    <link href="jscripts/tw7s_notifications/jquery.jgrowl.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) -->

3) Open template header

Find the following:

				<vb:if condition="$notifications_total">
				<li class="popupmenu notifications" id="notifications">
					<a class="popupctrl" href="usercp.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase your_notifications}: <span class="notifications-number"><strong>{vb:raw notifications_total}</strong></span></a>
					<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
						{vb:raw notifications_menubits}
					</ul>
				</li>
				<vb:else />
				<li class="popupmenu nonotifications" id="nonotifications">
					<a class="popupctrl" href="usercp.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase your_notifications}</a>
					<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
						<li>{vb:rawphrase no_new_messages}</li>
						<li><a href="private.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase inbox}</a></li>
					</ul>
				</li>
				</vb:if>

Replace with:

<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) --> 
<vb:if condition="$notifications_total">
<script type="text/javascript">

$.jGrowl('{vb:raw notifications_menubits} <br />You must view your notification(s) before this box will disappear.' , { sticky: true, header : 'New Notification(s)' } );

</script>
</vb:if>

<li><a href="private.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase inbox}</a></li>
<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) -->

Done!

Have fun customizing this to fit your needs.

Arabic Translation by Dr.osamA
Spanish Translation by Destron

[promet]

installed on 4.1 works great
thx.

[8thos]

This is really awesome! A poster I sent a pm to several months ago has finally replied! LMFAO

I didn't know vbulletin's notification system sucked that much.

[LuDawgs]

I have a custom page that I've added called Odds (odds.php). The notification box pops up and it's red instead of the charcoal grey color I see on other pages. Any ideas on how to fix that?

[8thos]

Have you figured how to do it with ajax real-time notification? I'd pay for that.

[espkaruna]

Works exactly as planned in firefox, completely disables access to the board in ie 8, which even though I hate explorer, is not really fair to my other members who may use it

[xuanhuy238]

Awesome mod... really nice!

[DonosOdD]

Any problems with 4.1.5? I'd love to try this.

Tagged for later.

[alencete]

Originally Posted by DonosOdD

Any problems with 4.1.5? I'd love to try this.

Tagged for later.

I try and... Work in 4.1.5 PL1!

[DonosOdD]

Originally Posted by alencete

I try and... Work in 4.1.5 PL1!

Sweet. I'll look into it later. Thanks!

[Lostboyfan]

Tagged for later.