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 \\=^))

[digitalSite]

HI:

Everything was working fine...until i moved a usergroup over to another usergroup and deleted the original usergroup. I updated the Dynamic thingy to replect the new usergroup's id. However, it doesn't seem to work anymore, like it I never installed the hack! I still see the templates there, and I still see the modofied files...does anyone have any idea what happened?

I am using:

[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==2)]]This is a test.[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==2)]]

Thanks...

UPDATE: HA! Nevermind...it's 2:22AM and I copied /pasted from Logician's tutorial to "make sure i have the correct conditional" but I FORGOT to add the word "group" so that the correct code is:

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==2)]]This is a test.[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==2)]]

To reflect the USERGROUP and not just the USER!!!

Goodnight all!
Thanks for this cool hack!

[Takamine334]

I can't close the pop up menu...something I did wrong?

[David_R]

Originally Posted by David_R

did you got a working solution to fix the problem, when dynamic annoucements are added to global.php ?
Rebuilding post_cache fixed the problem temprarily only.

can someone help me fix my problem please

[Logician]

The hack for vb version 3.5 released here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=97073

[Takamine334]

anyone know why in Firefox the popup is huge and why when I click close, the box doesn't go away?

[TundraSoul]

Is there was way to display information from the userfield table? eg. $userfield[field18]==

[Logician]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

Is there was way to display information from the userfield table? eg. $userfield[field18]==

$bbuserfield[field18] should work if it is an inputbox

[TundraSoul]

I'm trying to get this to work. It basically opens the message if their field is empty.

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 AND $bbuserfield[field18]==)]]Hello $bbuserinfo[username], please take a moment to update your user profile with your current information. Click the user CP link above, and then click Edit Profile. [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 AND $bbuserfield[field18]==)]]

[Logician]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

I'm trying to get this to work. It basically opens the message if their field is empty.

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 AND $bbuserfield[field18]==)]]Hello $bbuserinfo[username], please take a moment to update your user profile with your current information. Click the user CP link above, and then click Edit Profile. [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 AND $bbuserfield[field18]==)]]

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 AND !$bbuserfield[field18])]]Hello $bbuserinfo[username], please take a moment to update your user profile with your current information. Click the user CP link above, and then click Edit Profile. [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 AND !$bbuserfield[field18])]]

[Boofo]

Wouldn't this also work, Sinan?

AND $bbuserfield[field18]== ''