Private Messages Enhancements - Private message Animation

This cool little mod will simply enhance and add some fun to your Private Message alert and adds a little flash animation to the bottom right corner of your board. The flash mail box can then be clicked and will redirect to your private message box. Animation is based on forum home page but can easily be added to display on any page required or indeed every page and will dissapear when mailbox is read.

Added new MSN Style Pop up alert box


There are three animations you can use. including msn style pop up alert box

If anyone has a different path and needs this altering in the swf and fla please post and i will arrange this asap - thanks



Edit template - FORUMHOME

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PHP Code:

{vb:raw footer} 


After add

PHP Code:

<!-- mail -->
<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[pmunread]">
<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:-40px;right:-20px;" title="Click Here - new message!">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
   data="/path-to-your/you-got-mail.swf" 
    width="150" height="250">
     <param name="movie" value="/path-to-your/you-got-mail.swf" />
   <param name="quality" value="high"/>
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
 </object>
</vb:if>
<!-- end of mail --> 


Save template

Upload - the relevant swf to your forum root

Note: the flash file target url is based on the relative path of

/forum/private.php although this can be changed via the fla

Demo can be seen via the site ............ HERE

Tested on ie,ff and Safari 4


added alternative swf animated mail character - choose either for your notification

+++ Updated and added "you-got-mail.swf" to suit any board using "forums" in path +++

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MSN Style Pop up Alert Added to Alert (including sound)

Same idea code below in the same place as above (use this for msn style pop up alert)

PHP Code:

<!-- mail --> 
<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[pmunread]"> 
<a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:1px;left:3px;" title="Click Here - new message!"> 
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"  
   data="/path-to-your/msn-popup.swf"  
    width="148" height="119"> 
     <param name="movie" value="/path-to-your/msn-popup.swf" /> 
   <param name="quality" value="high"/> 
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> 
 </object> 
</vb:if> 
<!-- end of mail --> 


The MSN Alert can be seen on the youtube clip here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0tz8TWH4MM
(sound not on video clip)

or login on
username: msn
password: pass123
use the demo-mods stlye at the bottom of site to view test message

path to private.php is set at: /forum/private.php
(The fla is attatched also if the path needs changing on msn-popup.swf)



Mark Installed

[ladycroft]

Thank you very much, it works beautifully. Thanks for the help

[basilrath]

Your very welcome

[Rucki]

Hi,
can anybody edit the swf for

/vbsforum/private.php

Thank you!
Regards,
Rucki

[basilrath]

give me 5 minutes

[basilrath]

Try the attached

[Rucki]

It was only 4 Minutes!
Great!
Working!

Thanks a lot!

I love this Modification! :up:

Regards from Austria
Rucki

[Mikevet1984]

Congrats for this great animation! It really makes the forum more vivid and beatiful.

But I have three requests from the designer if possible!

* The first please is two create two new swf files the battler and letter box for vBulletin path: vBulletin/private.php

* The other request is the designer to attach the fla file for the battler animation and why not create more animations about private messages

* My third request is if possible the designer to post a very quick tutorial (plain txt or with photos to describe the way to change the path url of the swf files using the adobe flash or any other similar programme. In that way anybody could change the swf files for his/her own forum without annoysing the designer in the future for this task. I guess the whole task would be some clicks process and not sth very difficult or complicated to learn but I may be wrong. I am totally newbie to flash files.

I don't know if my requests can be fulfilled but one more time many thanks to the designer for this great animation.

Regards!

[basilrath]

I will do as asked in the next day or so

Regards
Dave

[Mikevet1984]

One million thanks, mate!

Regards!
"Michael"

[Mikevet1984]

Hello, my friend!

You have forgotten me!

Is it possible please o create two copies of the animations for the vBulletin path forum?

Thank you again for your great modification.

Regards!