Private Messages Enhancements - Private message Animation

This cool little mod will simply enhance and add some fun to your Private Message alert and adds a little flash animation to the bottom right corner of your board. The flash mail box can then be clicked and will redirect to your private message box. Animation is based on forum home page but can easily be added to display on any page required or indeed every page and will dissapear when mailbox is read.

Added new MSN Style Pop up alert box


There are three animations you can use. including msn style pop up alert box

If anyone has a different path and needs this altering in the swf and fla please post and i will arrange this asap - thanks



Edit template - FORUMHOME

Find

PHP Code:

{vb:raw footer} 


After add

PHP Code:

<!-- mail -->
<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[pmunread]">
<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:-40px;right:-20px;" title="Click Here - new message!">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
   data="/path-to-your/you-got-mail.swf" 
    width="150" height="250">
     <param name="movie" value="/path-to-your/you-got-mail.swf" />
   <param name="quality" value="high"/>
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
 </object>
</vb:if>
<!-- end of mail --> 


Save template

Upload - the relevant swf to your forum root

Note: the flash file target url is based on the relative path of

/forum/private.php although this can be changed via the fla

Demo can be seen via the site ............ HERE

Tested on ie,ff and Safari 4


added alternative swf animated mail character - choose either for your notification

+++ Updated and added "you-got-mail.swf" to suit any board using "forums" in path +++

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MSN Style Pop up Alert Added to Alert (including sound)

Same idea code below in the same place as above (use this for msn style pop up alert)

PHP Code:

<!-- mail --> 
<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[pmunread]"> 
<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:1px;left:3px;" title="Click Here - new message!"> 
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"  
   data="/path-to-your/msn-popup.swf"  
    width="148" height="119"> 
     <param name="movie" value="/path-to-your/msn-popup.swf" /> 
   <param name="quality" value="high"/> 
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> 
 </object> 
</vb:if> 
<!-- end of mail --> 


The MSN Alert can be seen on the youtube clip here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0tz8TWH4MM
(sound not on video clip)

or login on
username: msn
password: pass123
use the demo-mods stlye at the bottom of site to view test message

path to private.php is set at: /forum/private.php
(The fla is attatched also if the path needs changing on msn-popup.swf)



Mark Installed

[basilrath]

Originally Posted by syrn

yep, thanx for help
i Reloaded attached file and overwitre it, but when i recived new pm
its not appear Automatically

Now What i Can do ???

Ill look now ............ strange

Whats your login again

[syrn]

Originally Posted by basilrath

Ill look now ............ strange

Whats your login again

i send pm login detail , thanx

[basilrath]

Do you mean in your "default" style or your "green seo fixed width style ............

i logged in and in the green style it shows and works fine -

If you want it in your blue default then the code will have to be added to the same place but in that particular style.

I have just logged in and sent a test pm and it works fine and directs to the inbox when the animated mailbox is clicked.

[ALBCODERS]

how to add the code to work in cms home page ?
and what file do i have to put this code in

regards

[basilrath]

Admin cp

style your using

edit templates>vbcms_page

look for {vb:raw footer}

and add code - this will show on the cms home page

[ALBCODERS]

great thx mate

[eSekar]

Big thanks for the Author, defnitly going to use this later, Marked as **installed**


For those who can't get this to work,

• Remove the "/" from the path in the code,
• example: "/path-to-your/you_got_mail.swf" change to: "path-to-your/you_got_mail.swf"

For those who can't edit the .fla file and their forums isn't on /forums path

• simply go to your cPanel & make a new redirect from /forums/private.php to /private.php
  that will fix your problem until you find a way to edit the link within the .fla file.

For those who wants the swf to show on all page

• instead of placing the code in your FORUMHOME template, add the code to the very beginning of your footer template.

[Deviant K1]

INSTALLED!!
Great Job!

Kinda glad I kept my old copy of Macromedia Flash 2004 LOL.

[customcolor]

installed...well kinda..

well i took the last frame of the flash file and turned it into a pic instead and i had to make the pic have the link to the private.php...reason is i just could not get any of the flash files to be clickable..and thats ok...

i took that pic and i put it the bottom of the navbar template...it works great!

here is a snap shot of it...

[basilrath]

Hey thats quite nice suits the layout too - by the way if you want the flash file clickable pm me ill work it for you