Private Message Sound Notification

Private Message Sound Notification plays a random .wav file whenever your users recieve a Private Message. I have included 10 .wav files in the zip that you can use or you can find and replace the .wav files with any file(s) of your choosing.

This is installed at: http://www.lssix.com (You will have to register and just PM yourself to test.)

- This used to be installed on my site running vB2 and was originally requested by myself and written by EvilLS1.

DATABASE QUERY (1)

FILE MODIFICATIONS (2)

• global.php
• profile.php

TEMPLATE MODIFICATIONS (2)

• navbar
• modifyoptions

ADD PHRASE (1)

FEATURES:

• Plays ten(10) random .wav files when a user recieves a PM (you can change this to any number)
• User CP option to allow your users to turn the sounds on/off
• Plays the .wav file from any page on your forum as the code is located in the navbar template
• Sounds are ON by default
• Sounds do NOT play when you enter the User CP or when entering the Private Messages. Thanks to EvilLS1!
• Sounds do NOT play if the member is a part of a special usergroup who does not have access to read PMs. Thanks to Onkel_Tom!

* Last Updated 06/20/2004

For more sounds click here - Thanks to colicab-d for providing a few more sounds.

[350Chevy]

Originally Posted by Spacey

is there a way to get this to work as well at the pop up message? Only the sound works when you get a pm on my site now

Double check your code. It works perfectly fine with the pop-up window. I have tested this on a few sites with zero hacks installed and on my main site with multiple hacks installed and the pop up message for new PM works perfectly fine.

Make sure you're adding below pmpopup = $pmpopup, and not replacing it. Also make sure profile.php has the 'pmpopup' => INT.

	globalize($_POST, array('newstyleset' => INT, 'dst' => INT, 'showvbcode' => INT, 'pmpopup' => INT, 'pmsound' => INT, 'umaxposts' => INT, 'prunedays' => INT, 'timezoneoffset', 'startofweek' => INT, 'languageid' => INT, 'threadedmode' => INT, 'invisible' => INT, 'autosubscribe' => INT, 'options', 'modifyavatar'));

More than likely you have another hack installed that may have overwritten a piece of the popup message code or you replaced a line instead of added below. Either way this hack in no way shape or form if applied correctly henders the pmpopup.

[mackers8923]

* Installed

However, how would I go about getting the sound to play on my home portal page. Working fine on the forums page but it would be nice to have it playing on both..

I'm running VbPortal 3.0.0 Beta 2 & Vbulletin 3.0.3

[350Chevy]

I've never messed with vBPortal however it should be about the same as vBAdvanced. If your vBPortal calls for the navbar then it should already have the neccessary code to play the sound. If it does not call for the navbar template then you could simply add

$sound

at the top in your vBPortal template header or index template. You will have to copy the "/sounds" folder and all the wav files in the folder to your vbPortal folder (most likely the root of your website.)

Example: If you have your forum here: /home/www/forums. Your sound folder is here: /home/www/forums/sounds. You will have to copy that folder to /home/www so that you will also have a folder containing all the sounds called /home/www/sounds. That should do the trick.

[mackers8923]

Hey it worked thank you very much, took all of 2 minutes to do.

Me is happy thanks again.....

[350Chevy]

Glad I could help and I'm very happy that you enjoy it..

[turbidblue]

Okay so heres the deal, everything istalled fine, but,

some people can hear it, and others hear nothing...i dont even hear it. none of the members i tested with have it disabled...

i used the re-directing of the wav file from another server, cause my host doesnt allow sound files..

but the problem is (besides ME not hearing it) is that my member who did hear, it opened her windows media player and played the file...she said she got two pop ups, one for the notification of the PM and another that was a blank white page...

any thoughts on these problems???

[350Chevy]

Originally Posted by turbidblue

i used the re-directing of the wav file from another server, cause my host doesnt allow sound files..

There in lies the problem. How are you trying to redirect? It's a bit strange that your host doesn't allow .wav files. I think I'd have to have a talk with my host if I were you.

[turbidblue]

Hi,

I am using this redirect code for the wav file, i say wav file cause i am only using one..

$sound = iif($bbuserinfo['pmunread'], '<embed src="http://www.lssix.com/forums/sounds/message'.$srand_snd.'.wav" autostart="true" loop="0" hidden="true"></embed>');

mine looks like this

$sound = iif($bbuserinfo['pmunread'], '<embed src="http://www.washmeclean.com/downloads/sounds/message'.$srand_snd.'.wav" autostart="true" loop="0" hidden="true"></embed>');


any idea?

i am contacting my host to see if i can get 1 wav file to be accepted, to try and solve this

[350Chevy]

only one file? That could be it also. When the page loads it maybe looking for the other 9 wav files to play and not playing anything because there's no wav file. But it will play once it finally randomly hits that one wav file..

Since you're only using one wav file, instead of using:


$sound = iif($bbuserinfo['pmunread'], '<embed src="http://www.washmeclean.com/downloads/sounds/message'.$srand_snd.'.wav" autostart="true" loop="0" hidden="true"></embed>');

try using:

$sound = iif($bbuserinfo['pmunread'], '<embed src="http://www.washmeclean.com/downloads/sounds/message1.wav" autostart="true" loop="0" hidden="true"></embed>');

or change message1.wav to the name of the wav file you're using(testing) and see what happens.

[350Chevy]

Also, are you sure the file is at http://www.washmeclean.com/downloads.../message1.wav? I could not find a folder on www.washmeclean.com called downloads/sounds?