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 \\=^))

[brandy]

Originally Posted by Logician

[[($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 10 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 11 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 12)]]
thanks for paying
[[/($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 10 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 11 OR $bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == 12)]]

Thank You! That worked like charm:banana:

[proxyMX]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Are you planning on releasing a version that does?

can i use HTMl in the DHTML pop up?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by proxyMX

can i use HTMl in the DHTML pop up?

yes.

[proxyMX]

Originally Posted by Logician

yes.

Question: How can i implement the popup on the vbadvanced homepage

[Logician]

Originally Posted by proxyMX

Question: How can i implement the popup on the vbadvanced homepage

I don't know because I don't use it.

[egyptsons]

greatttttttttttttt one
I Install it

[sketch42]

when the popup appears its to the top left i want it centered how do i do this??

great hack btw thank you for putting this together

[the Sandman]

Originally Posted by sketch42

when the popup appears its to the top left i want it centered how do i do this??

great hack btw thank you for putting this together

Did you try the bug fix in This Post?

[sketch42]

Originally Posted by the Sandman

Did you try the bug fix in This Post?

no i didnt because the fix was implemented in the instructions way before i installed the hack..

[Logician]

Originally Posted by sketch42

when the popup appears its to the top left i want it centered how do i do this??

great hack btw thank you for putting this together

You can play with this line in "dfh_announcement_popup" template: " top: 50px; bottom: 50px; left: 50px; right: 50px;"

But technically there is no CSS command to make it appear in the center for all users. You can increase pixel numbers to make it go to the center but the term center will depend user's screen resolution so it may not be in the center for users who are using different screen resolutions. That is why the default location is set as top left.