Seperate Announcments & Stickies from regular threads

[HIGH]Seperate Announcments & Stickies from regular threads[/HIGH]

Author: assassingod

Description: This will seperate all announcments and stickies in all forums from regular threads.

Screenshots:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=414561

[IMG]images/attach/txt.gif[/IMG]Download:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=425778

Tested on vB version:
2.3.0

[HIGH]Update 13/08/2003[/HIGH]
Fixed most bugs - Check download link

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Add-ons -
How to add images to the divider

(Author bitg)

$announcement
<tr valign="top">
 <td colspan="10"><img src="{imagesfolder}/clear.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td>
</tr>

Just change the "clear.gif" reference to the image you want to use. You must change the height and width settings to the height and width of the new image though. If you do not know what that is, just remove it. You would then use a line simular to the following:

<img src="{imagesfolder}/InsertYourFileNameHere.gif" alt="">

How to change the divider to a random image

(Author bitg)

If you want to know how to do this, follow these instructions.

[high]Note:[/high] Do this only after you have successfully installed this hack.

Make a directory under your {imagesfolder} directory called "divider" or whatever you want to call it and put all your images that you wish to pull from in there. Name them "1.gif", "2.gif", etc...

Edit your "phpinclude" template and add the following to the bottom of it:

PHP Code:

$dividerimagenumber=rand(1,6);
$dividerimage="/divider/$dividerimagenumber.gif"; 


[high]Note:[/high] Modify the "divider" to be the name of the directory you created under {imagesfolder}.

[high]Note:[/high] Change the (1,6) to 1,the number of images in your "divider" directory). If you 25 images in your divider directory, it would says (1,25);

Save the "phpinclude" template.

edit your "forumdisplay_sepsai" template.

Replace the default values from the hack in this template with the following:

$announcement
<tr valign="top">
 <td colspan="10" bgcolor="#000000" align="center"><img src="{imagesfolder}/$dividerimage" alt=""></td>
</tr>

[high]Note:[/high] Change the bgcolor="#000000" to any color you like. You can type in a 6-digit hex code (if you know it) or just replace the "#000000" with "black" or "red" or whatever.

If you use this hack please click the INSTALL button - thank you!

[assassingod]

shorty;
I will take a look at moving announcements to the top later on tonight, if that's alright with you

[shorty]

Fine with me Im just curious as Im in the n00b phase with PHP. Hacks I can install and generally nudge around if they aren't quite right but when it gets to this.. Im teh n00bness :alien:

[alkatraz]

awesome hack, saw this on someones board the other day and wanted it.. a few days later it apears! thx!!!





I modified mine a little bit because the seperator line colour was a bit too harsh.



For those who want this change but don't know how to do it:

Here's how to make it match your table header BG colour:

$announcement
<tr valign="top" bgcolor=#1D6AA0>
<td colspan="10"><img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/clear.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1"></td>
</tr>

[AXH]

Yesterday at 12:39 PM Oblivion Knight said this in Post #8
This mod also seems to be seperating any new threads that are moved and have the "Moved: " prefix.. :ermm:

open forumdisplay.php
cut:

PHP Code:

if(!$addedRow and $stickyids and $thread[sticky] == 0 and $addedRow = true){
          eval("\$sepsai = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_sepsai')."\";");
        } else {
            $sepsai = '';
        } 


paste the code above:

PHP Code:

if ($thread[open]==10) { 


[assassingod]

Yesterday at 11:39 AM Oblivion Knight said this in Post #8
This mod also seems to be seperating any new threads that are moved and have the "Moved: " prefix.. :ermm:

I just tested this out, and it didn't move 'moved' threads to the top.

Also, AXH, that wont work. Ive tried it and got a parse error (since you didnt mention you need a '}' after

PHP Code:

  $sepsai = '';
} 


)

And after I sorted that it stopped my hack from working.

[shorty]

Any luck on annoucements above mate *hint hint* :laugh:

[Oblivion Knight]

Today at 08:08 PM assassingod said this in Post #15
I just tested this out, and it didn't move 'moved' threads to the top.

It doesn't move previously moved threads above the seperator, it's after you install it and move a new thread, things seem to go weird..

Any chance it's conflicting with this hack by Xenon?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=40604

[assassingod]

shorty;
Still working on it

Oblivion Knight;
Yes, I know, I installed my hack then moved a thread and it didnt move it to the top, strange
Xenon's hack may be conflicting with mine, I havent used his but I will test it out later tonight.

[assassingod]

shorty;
To make announcements appear at the top, open up template 'forumdisplay_sepsai' and remove

$announcement

then add

$announcement

above

$forumdisplaybits

in template, 'forumdisplay_threadslist'

I'll be adding this to the instructions

[AXH]

Today at 09:08 PM assassingod said this in Post #15
I just tested this out, and it didn't move 'moved' threads to the top.

Also, AXH, that wont work. Ive tried it and got a parse error

works fine for me