Forum Home Enhancements - Menu Alert

Hey all,

What is Menu Alert?
This modification, installs an alert that is displayed globally across your vBulletin forum.
It is completely admin controllable, and simple to install.

What can I do using Menu Alert?
The features of Menu Alert include:

• Alert Menu Switch - Ability to turn your alert on/off.
• Title/Content Change - Ability to change the title and content of your alert.
• Title/Content Colour Change - Ability to change the colour of both your title and content of your alert.
• Marquee Switch - Ability to turn on a 'Marquee'. This turns your alert into a 'Marquee'.
• Marquee Direction - Ability to change the direction in which the marquee turns.
• Title Prefix - Ability to change the prefix of your title.
• HTML Ready - You can use HTML in this release!

How long will it take me to install Menu Alert?
Menu Alert is easier to install than any of my previous modifications! Just one product, will install:
1 Template
1 Plugin
1 Admin Controllable Menu
All you must do is insert $menualert into your navbar template and it's fully installed!

Screenshots
Admin Control Panel

Alert with Marquee

Alert with No Marquee


Support
For support on this mod, you can...
Post in this topic!

Suggestions
Got a suggestion? Post it here, PM me, or email me, I will try my best to include it in a future version.

Credits
Menu Alert was Created By: Marky

Other
You must not allow this file for download anywhere but vbulletin.org without the consent of Mark Spiers (Marky)

If you install this modification, please click 'Install' to show your support!

vBulletin Version: 3.6.8
Current Version: 1.1

Thanks,

Marky

[cygy2k]

Yup, in navbar exactly as instructed and no go on vba pages.

[killerkraft]

Marky,

Just wondering, is there a way that just some usergroups see the Alert ?

i.e., for instance, you want some things said to mod's or supermod's and use your code to do it.

KK

[ymy]

Interesting. Thanks for the release of the hack

INSTALL Clicked

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[Marky]

Originally Posted by ETDC

Nice one Marky - very useful. Installed.

Can't seem to get HTML working though - is it possible to have a hyperlink in the marquee? Useful none the less.

Also, can the Title be left justified please? And maybe some more room for longer titles before they word wrap?

I'll take a look at these ASAP

Originally Posted by KillerKraft

Marky,

Just wondering, is there a way that just some usergroups see the Alert ?

i.e., for instance, you want some things said to mod's or supermod's and use your code to do it.

KK

Im sure this can be arranged Look out for Version 1.2 soon

[lostguy]

This support version 3.7.0 Vb ????

lg

[Ben E Lou]

OK. I've got some information that I'd like to auto-update in the menu alert. I've written a php page that puts the information I want in the table:

UPDATE `{databasename}`.`vb_setting` SET `value` = '{$scroll}' WHERE CONVERT( `vb_setting`.`varname` USING utf8 ) = 'alert_menu_alert' LIMIT 1

This is working properly, to a fashion, but it isn't fully automated. When I go into the control panel, I see the text that I've written, but I have to save it before it actually shows up in vbulletin. There must be some caching going on somewhere, I guess. Any ideas for how I can make this show up with no user interaction?