Announcements in threads?

[X-Fan]

Is it possible to have announcements on a forum show up not only in each forum, but in each thread in selected forums?

[Xenon]

you mean the content of the announcements or just the titles of announcements like you can see and click on in forumdisplay?

[X-Fan]

Like in forumdisplay.

[Xenon]

hmm it isn't teste but worth a try:
open your forumdisplay.php an copy the lines after // get announcements

showthread.php after:

PHP Code:

$threadid = intval($threadid);
$thread = verifyid("thread",$threadid,1,1); 


add

PHP Code:

$forumid=$thread[forumid]; 


and after that add the part from forumdisplay.php

then just add $announcement into your showthread template

[X-Fan]

You mean add this bit from forumdisplay.php into showthread.php:

PHP Code:

// get announcements
$datenow=time();
$forumlist=getforumlist($forumid,'forumid');
$doneannouncements = 0;
if ($announcement=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT announcementid,startdate,title,user.username,user.userid,user.usertitle,user.customtitle,visits
                                         FROM announcement
                                         LEFT JOIN user
                                           ON user.userid=announcement.userid
                                         WHERE startdate<=$datenow AND enddate>=$datenow
                                           AND $forumlist
                                         ORDER BY startdate DESC
                                         LIMIT 1")) {
    if ($foruminfo[allowratings]) {
      $thread[rating]='clear.gif';
      eval("\$threadrating = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplaybit_threadrate')."\";");
      $backcolor = '{secondaltcolor}';
          $bgclass = "alt2";
    } else {
                        unset($threadrating);
      $backcolor = '{firstaltcolor}';
          $bgclass = "alt1";
    }

     if ($announcement[customtitle]==2) {
       $announcement[usertitle] = htmlspecialchars($announcement[usertitle]);
         }
     $announcement[postdate]=vbdate($dateformat,$announcement[startdate]);

  if ($announcement[startdate]>$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]) {
        $announcement[icon]='newannounce.gif';
  } else {
        $announcement[icon]='announce.gif';
  }
  eval("\$announcement = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_announcement')."\";");
  $doneannouncements = 1;
} 


?

[Xenon]

yes

just giv it a try

[X-Fan]

What about the $foruminfo[allowratings] variable; does that need to be included?

I don't want to include any extra code/queries than are absolutely necessary.

[Xenon]

hmm i don't see it's necessary, so you can take out the whole clause