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 DrkFusion

Is a similar hack available for vb2?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=43194

[WAR]

Originally Posted by Logician

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=43194

Logician, would it be difficult to gain access to the is_member_of() function in your hack?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by WAR

Logician, would it be difficult to gain access to the is_member_of() function in your hack?

Sorry conditional structure of this hack is not designed to call functions. It just checks equations. If someone is willing to change it, it is welcomed but I have a long list of to-be ported hacks, so I don't plan to spend more time for this hack until I finish porting of my other hacks.

[ImportPassion]

well, i guess you answered my question above. I wanted to see if we could get the vb editors put in instead of the textarea.

[Flow Fusion]

Very cool...clicks install.

[Intex]

Great hack as always Logican. Installed no problems on 3.0.1.

One question: is it possible to include a cookie / condition setting or something that can determine whether the person has already seen the announcement, so that it doesn't keep showing up every time they visit the page?

[high]* Intex clicks INSTALL.[/high]

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Intex

One question: is it possible to include a cookie / condition setting or something that can determine whether the person has already seen the announcement, so that it doesn't keep showing up every time they visit the page?

I agree it would be handy but not easy to achieve, sorry!

[0zone]

Thank you for an excellent hack!

I've used it for my members who are awaiting email confirmation and approval by Admins.

This will save me alot of hassle replying to the numerous emails I received concerning those issues.

Once again, thanks for a great hack.

Installed, tested, working perfectly.

[clicks install]

[Oldfart]

Some of my users and I have discovered something odd. I am not sure if it was because of this hack or vbGarage but whenever someone tries to make a change to their profile in the options menu it won't save it. I tried to change the avatar from showing to not show and after I use the save button it doesn't make the change for some reason the box's are still ticked and show avatar is still enabled.

Anyone else find this?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Oldfart

Some of my users and I have discovered something odd. I am not sure if it was because of this hack or vbGarage but whenever someone tries to make a change to their profile in the options menu it won't save it. I tried to change the avatar from showing to not show and after I use the save button it doesn't make the change for some reason the box's are still ticked and show avatar is still enabled.

It can NOT be this hack, you can bet on it. It does not even touch that file.