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 \\=^))

[asianboi]

is there a way to make the close this window button to work?

[92GreenGT]

Originally Posted by Logician

Please read the thread. Several times asked and answered.

I did, thanks man for the great mod. I got everything I wanted to know out of the thread. :nervous: Thanks again for the mod.

[yesfans]

Can anyone help me figure out why it is showing up on my style set 7 on www.yesfans.com and not the others. I have everything set up right, can't find it.

[Billspaintball]

I cant believe that I havent stumbled accross this hack before.

Excellent!!!

Consider it Installed

[Samira]

Originally Posted by greenhybrid

Mine flipped out on the very first step by throwing up an unexpected ] on the following line:

PHP Code:

            $xml .= "\t<setting varname="$set[varname]" displayorder="$set[displayorder]"" . iif($set['advanced'], '],'],' advanced="1"') . ">\r\n"; 


Ditto. That line wasn't touched, any suggestions?

[BfB]

Logician,

Excellent hack! I do appreciate it very much. I installed it on 3.0.3, and it works like a charm.

However, I do have one question, and please do forgive me for possibly repeating something another may have already asked (we're up to 26 pages now, and it is quite tedious to scroll through every single page):

Q: How do you keep the popup within the viewing screen of the browser for when you scroll, so as not to allow it to disappear?

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,

James

[Imperial Fritz]

How can I show different messages to people with different board languages?

[David_R]

Originally Posted by Logician

Not tested, should work:
Apply STEP 5 like this: (btw dont forget to revert your old step 5 installation first! That is remove the hack in step 5 from index.php before applying this)

STEP 5- Edit global.php (in forum main directory), find

PHP Code:

// parse headinclude, header & footer 


REPLACE IT AS:

PHP Code:


// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'] OR $vboptions['dynamic_popup']) {require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_fha'])
{
eval('$dynamic_fha = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_fha']) . '";'); 
$dynamic_fha=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_fha);
$dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_fha);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_announcementtopaste)) {eval('$dfh_announcement = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement') . '";');}
}

if ($vboptions['dynamic_popup'])
{
eval('$dynamic_popup = "' . addslashes($vboptions['dynamic_popup']) . '";'); 
$dynamic_popup=str_replace("\\'", "'", $dynamic_popup);
$dfh_announcement_popuptopaste = dynamic_a($dynamic_popup);
if (trim($dfh_announcement_popuptopaste)) 
    {
    eval('$dfh_announcement_headercode = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_headercode') . '";');
    eval('$dfh_announcement_popup = "' . fetch_template('dfh_announcement_popup') . '";');
    }
}

// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
// parse headinclude, header & footer 


find:

PHP Code:

// if we are in a message editing page then get the editor templates 


Replace it AS:

PHP Code:

// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_headercode';
$globaltemplates[] = 'dfh_announcement_popup';
// Logician Hack: Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack
// if we are in a message editing page then get the editor templates 


Upload the file.

Now put
$dfh_announcement_headercode
$dfh_announcement_popup
$dfh_announcement
variable in any template you like.

I found a small problem here. If post caching is enabled it screws my thread display with content of forum annoucement

I am forced to place this in forumshome only
do you got any idea, why it screws the showthread content display of first post in a thread when applied on header ?

thanks.

[agiacosa]

I need to present an announcement to my mods that have been inactive. Therefore, I want to show this announcement to usergroup 7 who have posted less than 10 posts in the last two weeks.

Can someone please help me with the conditionals that would be needed to achieve the above?

Thanks.

[Divokymuz]

i use the hack in different forums. it is realy great.

but i got one problem.

when i install a forum, i import a style, which i produced before in a testforum.
if you then did not make the announcement hack, and import the style as second, you geht a database error, if you try to do the addsettings.

is there anyone, who has an idea, to solve this problem ?