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 \\=^))

[Mickie D]

any news on the popup only poping up once per visit ?

i know you are busy but like i said before my members are getting annoyed buy it but i would really like to use it but if it could popup once per vist that would be great

[Logician]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

Hey Logician, Any comments on getting the header messages changed if a user changes the forums browsing ?

Example:
When user is watching Forum id=1 - all users/usergroups can see XYZ Messge
When user is watching Forum id=2 - all users/usergroups can see ABC Messge

I think you can look for an upgrade to the script to support this now ? or maybe its already supported so you can help me know the how-to on using it

Regards,

I have not tested it but it should be *partly* supported:

[[($f==1)]]
XYZ Messge
[[/($f==1)]]
[[($f==2)]]
ABC Messge
[[/($f==2)]]

This should work in forumdisplay pages but not in showthread pages.

[ndahiya]

Hi

Am trying to show a message to users who have not posted in the last 2 weeks, but nothing seems to work!!

The code below shows the message to everyone... $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-2 weeks") also does not work!!

TIA!!
nd.

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[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]+1209600<$now)]]<b>Hello $bbuserinfo[field1]</b>, we noticed that you have not posted a message in the last 2 weeks... Better get to work!!
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]+1209600<$now)]]

[Takamine334]

this hack should get hack of the year.

this is one of the best hacks I've ever implemented. Thanks Logician.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

The code below shows the message to everyone... $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-2 weeks") also does not work!!

This works ok for me:


[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-14 days"))]]
we noticed that you have not posted a message in the last 2 weeks... Better get to work!!
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-14 days"))]]

[ndahiya]

Thanks Logician

It looks like its working now...

Just another small issue... If I log out, the [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]] tag does not appear to work properly... Is it a cookie issue ?

The work around I have used is (This works fine!):
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1)]] [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1)]]

<<<text for all (non-logged in) users...>>>

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Thanks for a great hack!!
nd.

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Originally Posted by Logician

This works ok for me:


[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-14 days"))]]
we noticed that you have not posted a message in the last 2 weeks... Better get to work!!
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1 AND $bbuserinfo[lastpost]<strtotime("-14 days"))]]

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

Thanks Logician

It looks like its working now...

Just another small issue... If I log out, the [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]] tag does not appear to work properly... Is it a cookie issue ?

The work around I have used is (This works fine!):
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1)]] [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]>1)]]

<<<text for all (non-logged in) users...>>>

-

Thanks for a great hack!!
nd.

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As a matter of fact if you logged out successfully, [[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]] hey guest![[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==1)]] should work ok.

[djjeffa]

is there a way of chosing where the pop up box shows up?

[Viks]

I've installed this hack.. works GREAT! however one question.
I have added the announcments tempelates in HEADER so that it shows up on all pages. But I want some announcements to show up ONLY in Forums homepage.
how can i do this? does the forums homepage have a forum ID??

[Divokymuz]

Originally Posted by djjeffa

is there a way of chosing where the pop up box shows up?

you can position it via CSS.

just change the values after top, bottom, left, right.

but be careful. it is an absolut positioning, doesn?t change on useres monitor settings.