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 \\=^))

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Aurous

obviously, you think the users here are retarded!

This has nothing to do about intelligence. We have users with every kind of experience here so I got used to ask the obvious questions first.

I'm not sure what is the problem in your case but I am safe to say it is related to your end. It sounds like a editor problem to me so you can try using the notepad to hack the file for starters.

[Aurous]

I am editing files via ssh (putty), this has nothing to do with it.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Aurous

I am editing files via ssh (putty), this has nothing to do with it.

This sounds like your problem. Try to download it to your localcomputer first, edit it via notepad, then upload it back. Very likely problem will go.

[Aurous]

I am extremely sorry. It was a problem on my side. The hack is working great! Notepad saved the day after all :tired: Once again, I apologize.

Also, thanks a lot for this wonderful hack!

[Logician]

np glad you solved the problem. ^^

[Aurous]

a quick question:

How do I uninstall this hack? Not that there is anything wrong with it, but I need to make some changes on my site, uninstall a few hacks and then reinstall this hack.

Please let me know.

Thanks

[Aurous]

also whats $debug=1; for?

can I remove it after installing this hack?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Aurous

a quick question:

How do I uninstall this hack? Not that there is anything wrong with it, but I need to make some changes on my site, uninstall a few hacks and then reinstall this hack.

Just revert the hack codes from the script. Then to remove the hack settings from options follow this instruction.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Aurous

also whats $debug=1; for?

can I remove it after installing this hack?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=50

[Logician]

Originally Posted by tmhall

Great hack!

One thing... it took me an obscenely long time to figure this out, but there's a semicolon missing from the pop-up template that causes some ugly formatting:

"padding: 10px; overflow:"

Thanks!

This small bug is fixed and instructions are updated. Thanks to tmhall.