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 \\=^))

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Zelda-King

Doesn't seem to want to work for three when I use the NOT condition.

Your syntax is wrong. Not is NOT !== it is !=
so correct syntax is
[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=8 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=1 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=13)]]
your announcement here
[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=8 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=1 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=13)]]

[Zelda-King]

Hmm, forgot that one. Let me try that on my first issue right now...

Update: Everything works fine, yes. So it was my fault. The hack's fine. I like everything except the DHTML function. The presentation needs touching up and I don't suppose there's a way of making it not pop up EVERY time one goes to Forum Home?

[Boofo]

Can we also use the built-in conditionals for vB3 with this?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Can we also use the built-in conditionals for vB3 with this?

nope

[Boofo]

Are you planning on releasing a version that does?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Are you planning on releasing a version that does?

Nope. I'm happy with my own conditional syntax, use it in many of my hacks and it is older than vb3's conditional syntax anyway. So I don't plan to create a new syntax in my hacks.

Besides my to-do (ie to-port) list is too long and I can barely find time to port my vb2 hacks into vb3. I believe I can not spend time for such add-on features.

[M.C.]

can`t wait to check it out Sounds really cool to me

[Pitman]

When I get to step 2 (After uploading the edited options.php) I get the following parse error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/*****/public_html/forums/admincp/options.php on line 116

The code that is on line 115-117 of my options.php is:

		{
			$xml .= "\t<setting varname=\"$set[varname]\" displayorder=\"$set[displayorder]\"" . iif($set['advanced'], '],' advanced="1"') . ">\r\n";
			if ($set['optioncode'] != '')

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Logician

Nope. I'm happy with my own conditional syntax, use it in many of my hacks and it is older than vb3's conditional syntax anyway. So I don't plan to create a new syntax in my hacks.

Besides my to-do (ie to-port) list is too long and I can barely find time to port my vb2 hacks into vb3. I believe I can not spend time for such add-on features.

Ok, well, thanks. That answered my question.

[Red Blaze]

Installed and works Great!
[high]* Red Blaze clicks install[/high]