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 \\=^))

[kall]

Originally Posted by logician

Sorry this is not easily possible.

This is actually on the very same page you asked this question. Have a read first...even if its just one page.

[fly]

How do I only show an announcement for 24 hours?

I know it has to use strtotime, but how can I find the format?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by flypaper

How do I only show an announcement for 24 hours?

I know it has to use strtotime, but how can I find the format?

[[(date("m.d.Y")=="04.05.2005")]]
show this announcement only when server time is 5 april 2005
[[/(date("m.d.Y")=="04.05.2005")]]

[fly]

Originally Posted by Logician

[[(date("m.d.Y")=="04.05.2005")]]
show this announcement only when server time is 5 april 2005
[[/(date("m.d.Y")=="04.05.2005")]]

Thanks sir!

[SmartGnome]

Thanks Logician for the hack, install is clicked and now I go into finding out the conditionals :-)

[fly]

I want to make a sincere and special thanks to Logician for his support on this hack. We've all installed a lot of hacks before, and we've all needed help sometimes. I have never seen anyone support a hack the way Logician does.

This guy truely goes above and beyond the call of duty for all of us. For free, I might add. Look through this thread, almost 1 of 5 posts in this thread is from him. And I'd bet that most of his replies were in less than 24 hours. Hell, I got my answers from him in less than a hour.

Thanks again man. It is noticed and appreciated.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by flypaper

I want to make a sincere and special thanks to Logician for his support on this hack. We've all installed a lot of hacks before, and we've all needed help sometimes. I have never seen anyone support a hack the way Logician does.

This guy truely goes above and beyond the call of duty for all of us. For free, I might add. Look through this thread, almost 1 of 5 posts in this thread is from him. And I'd bet that most of his replies were in less than 24 hours. Hell, I got my answers from him in less than a hour.

Thanks again man. It is noticed and appreciated.

Thanks for the nice message. I try to help out as much as I can. I wish I had more free times at my hands to help more but this is all I can spare.

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by flypaper

I want to make a sincere and special thanks to Logician for his support on this hack. We've all installed a lot of hacks before, and we've all needed help sometimes. I have never seen anyone support a hack the way Logician does.

This guy truely goes above and beyond the call of duty for all of us. For free, I might add. Look through this thread, almost 1 of 5 posts in this thread is from him. And I'd bet that most of his replies were in less than 24 hours. Hell, I got my answers from him in less than a hour.

Thanks again man. It is noticed and appreciated.

I agree completely!!!!!!!

[Takamine334]

anyone created a fix for the popup size that firefox interprets? Mine is HUGE and no amount of CSS manipulation changes it.

[netcommander]

how can i edit condititon for see only todays birthdays user this message