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About Developer · **Released**: 09-27-2005

(This hacks works with both 3.5.x and 3.6.x)

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 different texts according to different conditions.

For instance you can tell "why they should register" if visitor is a guest, but if he is a member with 0 posts, you can tell him why he should start posting etc.!

All in one announcement! Everybody will see the relevant text according to his status. (This is the hack everybody keeps asking in the TheAdminZone.com whose using the hack for members with 0 and 1 posts.)

This version of the hack is for vbulletin 3.5.x and 3.6.x (vb 3.0.x version is here and vb 2.x version is here. 3.5 version is coded as a plugin so you can install it WITHOUT modifying vb PHP files. It is easily installed in 2 steps through your admin cp.

Basic Usage of This Hack: You can set a text in your Admin CP and it's displayed in forum home to all users. Alternatively if you want, you can set another text as a popup announcement and it is displayed to all as a pop up announcement (it can't be killed with popup killers software!)

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:

user is X
user's usergroup is Y
user has X posts or has more than Y posts but less than Z posts
his last visit time was X days ago
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
etc.

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

Some Features:

Coded as a vbulletin pluggin. Can be installed easily without hacking PHP files.
It's Admin CP integrated
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

Hacks of Hack:
* For CMPS Integration see here
* French Translation by Allan : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=143
* Nested Conditionals by dc3dreamer : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=175
* Hack Annoucement appears in all vb pages:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...498#post911498

IMPORTANT FOR 3.x USERS:
If you were already using this hack in 3.0.x, remember to do 2 things:
BEFORE YOU INSTALL THIS HACK : Follow this instructions to remove the remnants of 3.0.x hack.
AFTER YOU INSTALL THIS HACK : Go to your admin cp / styles, find these 3 styles:
dfh_announcement
dfh_announcement_headercode
dfh_announcement_popup
and REVERT THEM so that your new templates that comes with 3.5 version will apply.

About vb4.x version:

I didn't consider porting this hack to vb4 because vbulletin has now a VERY SIMILAR feature in vb4 called "NOTICES". You can find it under your admin cp/Notices submenu/Notice Manager. It is not as powerful as this hack as this hack allows you to use any kind of conditional to produce your announcement but it is more user friendly because you don't need to deal with conditional syntax, you simply build your announcement (notice) with menus
If you install the hack, click INSTALL, thank you..

Logician \\=^))

Andreas · #32 09-29-2005, 08:48 PM

Suggest to get rid of the Template edit:

forumhome_complete

PHP Code:


			
$headinclude .= $dfh_announcement_headercode;

$header = $header . $dfh_announcement_popup;

$navbar .= $dfh_announcement;

XtremeOffroad · #33 09-29-2005, 10:29 PM

Very cool, Works flawless so far.
Clicks Install

utw-Mephisto · #34 09-30-2005, 08:49 AM

Could someone give me a bit of a code to get a red box around the dynamic announcement (not the popup, the other one) ?

Logician · #35 09-30-2005, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

Suggest to get rid of the Template edit:

forumhome_complete

PHP Code:


			
$headinclude .= $dfh_announcement_headercode;

$header = $header . $dfh_announcement_popup;

$navbar .= $dfh_announcement;

Edit : Nope, didn't work! Navbar is compiled after "forumhome_complete" hook in index.php

Logician · #36 09-30-2005, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SirJonathan

Hey there!

As I'm re-installing the mod I've been studying the conditionals and I came up with a conditional which I couldn't seem to make work. Is there anyway I could have a message show if a user hasn't posted in a certain forum? So, if user has no posts in (insert forum ID), a message will display?

Would this be possible?

Thanks!

-Jonathan

Nope sorry.. The hack can not know whether a user has posted in a forum or not without querying the DB so this can't be done without modifying hack code.

Avalon111 · #37 09-30-2005, 09:14 AM

i have used your old version of this hack with 3.0.9. worked great!

today i have uplraded my forum to 3.5 gold.
i have deleted the old dfh templates and installed this new version on my forum.

now i have 2 forum home and 2 pop up boxes in admin cp. only 1 of each is working.

what have i done wrong?

Logician · #38 09-30-2005, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avalon111

i have used your old version of this hack with 3.0.9. worked great!

today i have uplraded my forum to 3.5 gold.
i have deleted the old dfh templates and installed this new version on my forum.

now i have 2 forum home and 2 pop up boxes in admin cp. only 1 of each is working.

what have i done wrong?

Nothing.. Please follow these step:
* admin cp/manage products/uninstall Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack by Logician
* edit includes/config.php, find:

PHP Code:

?>

replace this line as:

PHP Code:


			
// Debug

 $config['Misc']['debug'] = true; 

?>

(and upload to the server)

* login to admin cp, go to vb options/dynamic forum home announcements

* delete all settings and settings group in that page to remove 3.0 settings. (by clicking "delete" next to 2 settings and 1 setting group title)

* Revert your config.php (and upload the server)

* Now install 3.5 version.

Avalon111 · #39 09-30-2005, 12:05 PM

thank you very much!!!
everything is working now!

jesus likes pie · #40 09-30-2005, 01:23 PM

I am so getting this when I get home!

dookie · #41 09-30-2005, 05:42 PM

Nice hack, works fine @ 3.5 Gold

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