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!

[Mr. Brian]

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

That should be it. :speechless:

Thanks in advance..

[Mr. Brian]

Well, I think I've got the answer... my table border color.. and that's the one!

How stupid am I as it took me weeks to clear this doubt..

thanks for your time anyway...

[assassingod]

Well glad you got it

[Opie]

Any fix for the Moved: issuse yet? I would really like to add this hack.

[assassingod]

Sadly I still haven't found an obvioud fix fort he moved issue, although I have some ideas, I will work on a fix soon (Today probably)

[AmericanWoman]

Anxiously awaiting both the moved threads and the announcements without stickies fixes, as this is a very nice hack to have for a board with at least 2 or 3 stickies in each forum!

[Mr. Brian]

Oops.. almost forgotten to click install. :speechless:

08-29-03 at 04:16 PM assassingod said this in Post #93
Well glad you got it

Matthew *Click install*

[David Bott]

YEs...Still looking forward to this hack.

[PixelFx]

great hack,

I know someone prob did this, but I was updating my forum with vb 2.3.2. and made this small template change if anyone is interested works great good job!

Edit: Template "forumdisplay_sepsai" change contents to:

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

basically I just added {tableheadbgcolor} with a bgcolor change, to make it fit any style again I didn't read the whole post so not sure if someone did this or not, but hope it helps.

[Holidazed]

assassingod, thanks for a wonderous and simple hack.

Somebody said earlier that the divider was a bit harsh and they offered a suggestion. what i ended up doing was using an image as my divider. This can be done by making the following change to your 'forumdisplay_sepsai' template.

$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="">

I took mine a step further. It pulls a random image out of a directory and displays it in the divider spot.

See the image I have provided for an example of how mine looks or you can goto http://www.dungeonkeepersdomain.com and look in any of the forums for a working example. Reload the page and see if the image changes.

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

Note: 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:

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

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

Note: 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>

Note: 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.

That is pretty much it. Now when you load up a page where this hack is necessary, it will pull a random image from the "divider" folder and display it.