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

[ozzy47]

Ok so far so good thanks again!!

[ozzy47]

LOL one more question, is their a way to get the mailbox to show up without refreshing or switching pages?

[basilrath]

you can have it on any page at anytime by adding the codelines to that particular template - in other words if you want it on the "frontpage" then add it to the cms tamplate in question

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by basilrath

you can have it on any page at anytime by adding the codelines to that particular template - in other words if you want it on the "frontpage" then add it to the cms tamplate in question

What I mean bro is if I have a new pm, is their a way to have the mail box show up without refreshing the page?

I have the code on my footer now so it will show up on every page but if I am sitting idle mailbox don't show up.

[basilrath]

Oh is see what you mean ............

Your asking in effect to run a cron, which would have to check your pm intake at "x" time / date then alert you with the animation .......... well yes it can be done as with your standard email, which runs every set time you would want ............you could argue any pm you recieve wont be alerted until you "refresh" or look at a post or thread so im not sure its worth any effort looking into.

Im assuming this is what your curious about?

[ozzy47]

yeah that way if someone sends a pm while I am idle lets say in 1 min it would show the mailbox so I would know that I have a pm.

If it is too hard it's no big deal bro!

[funmasti]

Awesome man.. this rocks

[Rich_Princess]

hey there, I was hoping for a bit of help, lol.. I cant seem to get the path edited correctly. I have /forums in url.. I edited the code in forumhome template correctly, and I uploaded the correct file for forums instead of forum, but still not working.. please help.. Thanks for you time in advance!! - Chynna

[basilrath]

send me your login details in a pm ill sort it for you

Dave

[Arae]

I followed the instructions.

But I can't understand this note. Sorry, I'm still not good with this.

Note: the flash file target url is based on the relative path of
/forum/private.php although this can be changed via the fla