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Dynamic Announcements: Programmable Forum Home Announcement/Message with conditionals
Version: 1.00, by Logician Logician is offline
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Released: 04-20-2004 Last Update: 05-18-2004 Installs: 318
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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 \\=^))

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  #52  
Old 05-04-2004, 12:34 AM
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How about having the text in colors?
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How about having the text in colors?
What about it? You can use bbcode or HTML so it is possible.
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Great Hack Logician. Installed perfectly on the first try and using your 2nd post in this thread helps alot with people that don't have the greatest understanding of your conditionals.

Nonetheless it has worked flawlessly with me.

*Clicked Install.
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very fine thxxxx, *click install*
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Is there any way to make the text scroll across the box ?

And how do i resize the popup box? it's a bit huge hehehe.

New at this, so sorry if they are dumb questions.
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Is there any way to make the text scroll across the box ?
HTML is allowed so try simply putting <marquee> </marquee> tags around your announcement text.
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And how do i resize the popup box? it's a bit huge hehehe.
You can play with the css setting in the dfh_announcement_popup template to change the color/size/location etc. of popup box.
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Ok firefox messed the popup up thats why.

However i can't seem to find the values to change size for in that template
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Great function Logician! I wonder if it is possible to show or popup calendar events. Now i know that it is rather boring to look at an event-popup the whole day so i hope there is a way to do this with a controled popup, but if this is impossible an event announcement would be very nice!
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Logician, how many query it'd add to the process?

I'd love to play with this, but I dont wanna slow down my board
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