Dynamic Announcements: Programmable Forum Home Announcement/Message with conditionals

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 (or other board pages), not inside thread view. So visitors will read them without clicking on them.
• The Hack's announcements are not static: ie. they can be powerfully programmed to change themselves according to many conditions.

Basic Usage : You can set a text in your Admin CP and it's displayed in forum home to all users.

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:

2. user is X
3. user's usergroup is Y
4. his profile field Z is X
5. user has X posts or has more than Y posts but less than Z posts
6. his last visit time was X days ago
7. 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
8. User is invisible/visible
9. user is using style A
10. his cookies are on
11. his timeset is set to A
12. etc..

The conditionals even allows you to design "Board Tips" ever changing according to user's seniority or post number. See how-to document for conditional usage and more info..

It's tested in both v.2.2.6 and v.2.2.7 but it should work with any versions > 2.0.3. (v.2.2.8 or later Users READ HERE!) I'm using it in my own board and a friend's board for more than a month and found it quite stable and released it. Although not likely, if you found any bugs, holler and I'll fix it..

Here is a Screenshot from a "general announcement".
Here is a Screenshot of announcement which is addressed to a certain user.

Some Features:

• It's Admin CP integrated (Screenshot)
• Smiley and BBCode in announcements are parsed
• 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.

If you have problems displaying HTML/smilie/bbcode in your announcements, make this tiny change in hack code

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

Logician \\=^))

[Logician]

yeah sure it will work

[Pyromate]

NOOB | NOOB | NOOB


sorry but i want to learn !!

STEP 5- Edit forumhome/forumhome template and find:

what does that mean and where to find
vbulletin.style ? or index.php ?

lol totaly noob

thx for your knowlege and helping me !!

greetz | pyromate

[Logician]

Login to Admin CP, Click Templates/Modify/Show All, find template named "forumhome" and edit it.

[robinsf]

I just upgraded and lost my announcement hack -- any special instructions or should I use the same one for v2.9?

[Logician]

for 3.0? This hack is not coded for vb 3.0.

If you meant 2.3.0, first reapply hack steps accept running install file and it should work. And if it does not, run the install file too.

[lasto]

Logician quick question

wot server load or queries will this add to main page regardless of announcments it is showing ?

[Logician]

none

[lasto]

/me lied LOL

one more question i have a page that is php how can i make this program call it in (im sure its possible if i read right)

example i want to call in a page called index.php which aint part of vbull but i want to give it the vbull members access masks so i can let certain users have access

[Logician]

Today at 12:41 AM lasto said this in Post #168
* lasto lied LOL

one more question i have a page that is php how can i make this program call it in (im sure its possible if i read right)

example i want to call in a page called index.php which aint part of vbull but i want to give it the vbull members access masks so i can let certain users have access

Where did you read it?

It is not possible unless you integrate that page into vb. You can get info for this integrations in general discussions forum. Search for keyword "require('./global.php');"

[lasto]

my fault i got it wrong - was this i read

You can enter here a PHP code which will be parsed BEFORE webtemplate is loaded. This works exactly as vb's default phpinclude template. It is just different in that this include will be parsed before this webtemplate while vb's phpinclude is always parsed. Leave blank for no inclusion.

so failing that then,if i do an html page and include the page i want at the top of the html page this will work then ?