Dynamic Announcements: Programmable Forum Home Announcement/Message with conditionals

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

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

This hack is the VB3 version of my Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack and it is a bit more improved in that it is now able to display your announcement as it was before AND also in DHTML popup box as well which ever you prefer better or even both. (DHTML poupup announcement is not technically a popup so popup killers can not kill it either.)

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

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

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

1. user is X
2. user's usergroup is Y
3. his profile field Z is X
4. user has X posts or has more than Y posts but less than Z posts
5. his last visit time was X days ago
6. 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
7. User is invisible/visible
8. his timeset is set to A
9. etc.

It's tested in vb versions from v.3.0.0 to 3.0.9 and works fine with all of them. It will work for all future 3.0.x versions too. For vb2 version click here.

Here is a Screenshot from a general table announcement.
Here is a Screenshot from a popup announcement.

Some Features:

• It's Admin CP integrated (Screenshot)
• 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 software

If you install the hack, click INSTALL, thank you..

Hacks of the hack:
* Hack 1: Puts the announcement into header instead of forum home page so that announcement appears in all forum pages.
* Hack 2: Integrates announcement with vBA_CMPS portal hack.
* Hack 3: Popup announcement will popup once in every XX hours.


Logician \\=^))

[lanc3lot]

Hmm, and please Logician(nice nick, u are from greece maybe?) tell us if this works with 3.0.5

Thnx

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by lanc3lot

Hmm, and please Logician(nice nick, u are from greece maybe?) tell us if this works with 3.0.5

Thnx

works fine with 3.0.5!

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by Logician

Hack of Hack:

If you apply this modification, the popup announcement will popup once in every 12 hours:

Edit index.php, find (hack code):

PHP Code:

$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_popup); 


REPLACE IT AS:

PHP Code:

$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_popup);
if ($bbuserinfo[lastactivity]>0 AND $bbuserinfo[lastactivity]>mktime (date("H")-12, date("i"), date("s"), date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")))     {unset ($dfh_announcement_popuptopaste);} //popup once in every XX hours 


(Change 12 above if you want to apply a different popup duration.)

Hey bro...
how do I do a syntax for something that is null?
=="" I am not sure if "" is ok. or can I do ()

[master786]

Nice hack but its size is too much. Our forum's speed is slow after we installed this hack. Can you please tell me the easiest way how to uninstall this hack?

[lanc3lot]

Just installed

It works ok...

But just in case, is there any uninstall script to have?

Also, what is the "load" of page, that creates


Thanks in advance

Ps

A question:

In your first Hack, of the hack, u say: (at the end)
Now put
$dfh_announcement_headercode
$dfh_announcement_popup
$dfh_announcement
variable in any template you like

What do u mean with that? I must do something else, so this will work on every page?

Ps2

Is there any way, i can "change" the background color of the table of the announcement, the color of the text and the font size of the text?

I tried a code like:

<td style="background-color:#000000;color:#FF6600;font-size:9px;">

but it didnt work Can i do it differently?

Ps3

Something last...To add more than one announcement, i just write them under the first one?

Thnx and sorry for the q, just trying to fix it better

[lanc3lot]

Anybody else who use this hack, knows about that i asked?

As i think Logician is not available right now

[Mechanical Mind]

* clicks install *

I am looking forward to using this hack. Thanks Logician.

This may be the perfect tool to irritate "lurkers" into posting.

Plus - great instructions and thread here. This is the first hack that I have been able to successfully install.

I'll update this post when I learn how to use it... :nervous:

UPDATE

This is the best frickin' hack in modern history. I don't know what's better vBadvanced or this! Seriously!

[kall]

*bangs head on desk in frustration*

Well, I have tried to work out how to get 'Your Paid Subscription expires in X days' to display, but can't for the life of me think of what the variable might be to call.

Please, oh great Logician, tell me if this is even possible.

[bigmonay2k]

I got this... what I am doing wrong?? Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dynamic_a() in /home/gamewar2/public_html/forums/index.php on line 427

[djjeffa]

Originally Posted by djjeffa

i upgraded to 3.0.5 and its in my admin panel but its not showing up on my index page
can I get a lil help?

?BUMP