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Dynamic Announcements: Programmable Forum Home Announcement/Message with conditionals
Version: 1.01, by Logician Logician is offline
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Version: 3.5.5 Rating:
Released: 09-27-2005 Last Update: 01-10-2007 Installs: 721
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(This hacks works with both 3.5.x and 3.6.x)

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 different texts according to different conditions.
For instance you can tell "why they should register" if visitor is a guest, but if he is a member with 0 posts, you can tell him why he should start posting etc.! All in one announcement! Everybody will see the relevant text according to his status. (This is the hack everybody keeps asking in the TheAdminZone.com whose using the hack for members with 0 and 1 posts.)


This version of the hack is for vbulletin 3.5.x and 3.6.x (vb 3.0.x version is here and vb 2.x version is here. 3.5 version is coded as a plugin so you can install it WITHOUT modifying vb PHP files. It is easily installed in 2 steps through your admin cp.

Basic Usage of This Hack: You can set a text in your Admin CP and it's displayed in forum home to all users. Alternatively if you want, you can set another text as a popup announcement and it is displayed to all as a pop up announcement (it can't be killed with popup killers software!)

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. user has X posts or has more than Y posts but less than Z posts
  4. his last visit time was X days ago
  5. 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
  6. etc.
Here is a Screenshot from a general table announcement.
Here is a Screenshot from a popup announcement.

Some Features:
  • Coded as a vbulletin pluggin. Can be installed easily without hacking PHP files.
  • It's Admin CP integrated
  • 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
Hacks of Hack:
* For CMPS Integration see here
* French Translation by Allan : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=143
* Nested Conditionals by dc3dreamer : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=175
* Hack Annoucement appears in all vb pages:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...498#post911498



IMPORTANT FOR 3.x USERS:
If you were already using this hack in 3.0.x, remember to do 2 things:
BEFORE YOU INSTALL THIS HACK : Follow this instructions to remove the remnants of 3.0.x hack.
AFTER YOU INSTALL THIS HACK : Go to your admin cp / styles, find these 3 styles:
dfh_announcement
dfh_announcement_headercode
dfh_announcement_popup
and REVERT THEM so that your new templates that comes with 3.5 version will apply.

About vb4.x version:

I didn't consider porting this hack to vb4 because vbulletin has now a VERY SIMILAR feature in vb4 called "NOTICES". You can find it under your admin cp/Notices submenu/Notice Manager. It is not as powerful as this hack as this hack allows you to use any kind of conditional to produce your announcement but it is more user friendly because you don't need to deal with conditional syntax, you simply build your announcement (notice) with menus

If you install the hack, click INSTALL, thank you..

Logician \\=^))

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Old 09-29-2005, 04:23 PM
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Nice hack, installed on 3.5.0 gold no problems. :banana:

Thanks.

*install*
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Old 09-29-2005, 05:11 PM
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Just wondering, I don't see in the screenshots to turn it actually off ? Do I have to remove the text to disable it ?

Just wondering about events I would like to announce in a popup which I use several time .. I just want to avoid typing it everytime (or copy / paste etc.) ...
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if you dont want nothing to show up yeah just remove the text in the fields and nothing will show up or just disable the plugin till u need it then reable it
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I was afraid you'd say that
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Quote:
Originally Posted by utw-Mephisto
Just wondering, I don't see in the screenshots to turn it actually off ? Do I have to remove the text to disable it ?

Just wondering about events I would like to announce in a popup which I use several time .. I just want to avoid typing it everytime (or copy / paste etc.) ...
If you don't want to remove and readd the text, put it inside a wrong conditional :

[[(1==0)]]
My text that I don't want to reinsert everytime
[[/(1==0)]]

So when you want to enable it you can remove conditional tags and it is on.
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Just wanted to say.. AWESOME!.. Thanks! Love this hack!
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Quote:
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Just wanted to say.. AWESOME!.. Thanks! Love this hack!
I must 2nd that Works like a charm ..
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Hey there!

As I'm re-installing the mod I've been studying the conditionals and I came up with a conditional which I couldn't seem to make work. Is there anyway I could have a message show if a user hasn't posted in a certain forum? So, if user has no posts in (insert forum ID), a message will display?

Would this be possible?

Thanks!

-Jonathan
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I have the vBShout hack installed, and the accouncement box appears under the shoutbox. is there a way to move it directly under the navbar, above the shoutbox?
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you have to edit the template for the pop up in your style

dfh_announcement_popup

Code:
<DIV ID="ANNLAYER" STYLE="background-color: black; position: absolute; margin-left:255; margin-right:255; margin-top:354; margin-bottom:50; top: 341px; bottom: 120px; left: 130px; right: 5px; padding: 1px; overflow: auto; border-color: 000000; border-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px;">
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