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 fiber1

Not going to happen with this script, It just was not designed for that.

Would be nice though!

Exactly. It would be nice to have it but its structure is not appropriate for this feature.

[Mosh]

* jd clicks install *

I have been testing this for a while, it is great just installed it on my live forum.

Thank you.

JD.

[Symbian.info]

Originally Posted by Symbian.info

So is there a beter editor for the vb 3.x version?? If not, can somebody make a hack for it??

Nobody with the same problem? :ermm:

[poolking]

Nice hack, installed without a problem on 3.0.3

[djohn]

installed and working, great hack. both announcement types work fine, exept for the fact that the popup one appears somewhere on the side of the forum table, not in the middle, like i want it to be. any chance of changing that?

[SaN-DeeP]

Originally Posted by djohn

installed and working, great hack. both announcement types work fine, exept for the fact that the popup one appears somewhere on the side of the forum table, not in the middle, like i want it to be. any chance of changing that?

use the center tag

[sv1cec]

Logician,

If someone wants to have a link to the Dynamic Forum Announcements, from the menu on the left column of the AdminCP, what would that link point to? I would rather having it there, than being forced to go into vBulletin Options, etc.

I assume it is something in the options.php, but I am not sure of the parameters or the syntax.

Many thanks and kind regards

CANCEL THAT, found it : admincp/options.php?dogroup=dynamic_fha

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John

[djohn]

use the center tag

i've tried that, even the div allign=middle and such, but the actual box with the announcement still appears somewhere on the side of the forum table

[heynurse]

Is there a way to only show conditional message to members are not in X usergroup?

For example, it would be a nice way to encourage users to become premium members by showing them a message inviting them to become a premium member, but I don't want existing premium members to see this message.

Sorry if this was covered already, I read through most of the post and couldn't find my answer.

Thanks

[Mokster]

/me installs! very nice!