Private Message Sound Notification

Private Message Sound Notification plays a random .wav file whenever your users recieve a Private Message. I have included 10 .wav files in the zip that you can use or you can find and replace the .wav files with any file(s) of your choosing.

This is installed at: http://www.lssix.com (You will have to register and just PM yourself to test.)

- This used to be installed on my site running vB2 and was originally requested by myself and written by EvilLS1.

DATABASE QUERY (1)

FILE MODIFICATIONS (2)

• global.php
• profile.php

TEMPLATE MODIFICATIONS (2)

• navbar
• modifyoptions

ADD PHRASE (1)

FEATURES:

• Plays ten(10) random .wav files when a user recieves a PM (you can change this to any number)
• User CP option to allow your users to turn the sounds on/off
• Plays the .wav file from any page on your forum as the code is located in the navbar template
• Sounds are ON by default
• Sounds do NOT play when you enter the User CP or when entering the Private Messages. Thanks to EvilLS1!
• Sounds do NOT play if the member is a part of a special usergroup who does not have access to read PMs. Thanks to Onkel_Tom!

* Last Updated 06/20/2004

For more sounds click here - Thanks to colicab-d for providing a few more sounds.

[MaxScript]

is there an AOL sounds package ?

[Revenge]

Hm, plays also sound when I go in the Usercp and click any link... every time a new page is loaded...???

[mharmon]

This is a great hack but I agree with the above comment... Is there anyway to make this so it will play ONCE per session? You have to listen to it 3 times before you actually read your message.

[350Chevy]

I did this so it played on every page no matter what page your users were viewing.

You can take the $sound out of the navbar template and just place it in the FORUMHOME template anywhere you wish. If you do that it will only play the wav file when they're on the Forum's home page. Since it's a random sound I don't think users mind hearing a different sound two times more before reading thier message. And with the option to turn it off they can disable it if choosen.

Adding the option not to play a sound when entering the private messages would require much more hacking and not really worth it.

[350Chevy]

Originally Posted by MaxScript

is there an AOL sounds package ?

What are you looking for?

Here you can find some AOL "YOU GOT MAIL" type message .wav files.

http://www.emailgifsandsounds.com/index-eng.html

[350Chevy]

I've also noticed about 3 or 4 of you that posted haven't clicked the "installed" link. Please click it if you plan to keep it.

As for the sound being played after you enter the Private Message panel I'll look into changing that. Pretty tired now though and the weekend ahead I doubt I'll be able to get to it until Monday (if I can even do it at all.. lol)

[EvilLS1]

Originally Posted by 350Chevy

Adding the option not to play a sound when entering the private messages would require much more hacking and not really worth it.

You could use a conditional in the navbar template like this:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT!='private'">	
	$sound
</if>

If ya also want to stop the sound when viewing the usercp use this:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT!='private' and THIS_SCRIPT!='usercp'">	
	$sound
</if>

Gotta love template conditionals.

[350Chevy]

Oh yeah.. never thought of that. Too tired lastnight. Thnx Evil.

First post updated.

[The Realist]

Installed.

Thanks M8

[Revenge]

Perhaps there is an easy way, that the sound only plays once, so if the user does not read the mail it is still playing until he reads it?