Jitter PM Alert Hack

Okay, this is nothing special -

I quickly made it for my board, where the flashing PM bar wouldn't have looked very good. This is a more subtle, but effective way of letting your users know when they have a PM. When someone gets a PM, the "Private Messages"
link on the front page jitters slightly, letting the user know that they have a PM.

I hope this hasn't been done before!

John

Addon: Number of unread PMs

[DrkFusion]

Installed

/me licks install as well

[Logician]

nice one

[Dean C]

This looks nice John Good work

- miSt

[Chris M]

[high]* Chris M licks install
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Cool hack

Satan

[John]

lol, thanks everyone - this hack only took me 20 minutes, it's nothing compared to the beast of a hack I'm working on at the moment. (vBmail - with Chen's permission, of course)

[Mithan]

What I would like to see, is a hack that adds, in brackets () next to Private Messages, the number of PM's you have, when you get them, then goes away or clears after you reply to them. This would be very effective.

[John]

Originally posted by Mithan
What I would like to see, is a hack that adds, in brackets () next to Private Messages, the number of PM's you have, when you get them, then goes away or clears after you reply to them. This would be very effective.

This is easy - if you've already installed the hack, simply open index.php and:

FIND:

  $privtext = "<span id=\"jiggle0\" class=\"jc\">Private Messages</span>";

REPLACE WITH:

  $privtext = "<span id=\"jiggle0\" class=\"jc\">Private Messages</span> ($unreadpm[messages])";

This will add the number of unread PMs you have next to "Private Messages" in brackets. However, the number of PMs will NOT jiggle!

To make the number of PMs jiggle along with "Private Messages":

FIND:

  $privtext = "<span id=\"jiggle0\" class=\"jc\">Private Messages</span>";

REPLACE WITH:

  $privtext = "<span id=\"jiggle0\" class=\"jc\">Private Messages ($unreadpm[messages])</span>";

[empreur76]

thanks for this hack but dont work for me !!
i think i have already this hack install ! (play a sound ) but i'm not sure !
in index .php i have this
//new PM sound hack
if ($unreadpm['messages']==0) {
$sound='';
} else {
$sound='<embed src="message.wav" autostart="true" hidden="true">';
}
//end new PM sound hack

can you help me !? i'm install the hack but not trembling

thank you !

[Mithan]

Yes, but I was just hoping to show Private Messages (X) at the top, without the giggle. I tried your code, editing the CSS span line out, but that didn't work. I guess I will leave it.

Thanks anyways