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, not inside thread view. So visitors will read them on home page without clicking any links.
• The Hack's announcements are not static: ie. they can be powerfully programmed to display themselves according to many conditions.

This hack is the VB3 version of my Dynamic Forum Home Announcement Hack and it is a bit more improved in that it is now able to display your announcement as it was before AND also in DHTML popup box as well which ever you prefer better or even both. (DHTML poupup announcement is not technically a popup so popup killers can not kill it either.)

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:

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

It's tested in vb versions from v.3.0.0 to 3.0.9 and works fine with all of them. It will work for all future 3.0.x versions too. For vb2 version click here.

Here is a Screenshot from a general table announcement.
Here is a Screenshot from a popup announcement.

Some Features:

• It's Admin CP integrated (Screenshot)
• Smiley, BBCode, HTML, IMG tags are supported in announcements.
• 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.
• Poupup announcement can not be killed by popup killer software

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

Hacks of the hack:
* Hack 1: Puts the announcement into header instead of forum home page so that announcement appears in all forum pages.
* Hack 2: Integrates announcement with vBA_CMPS portal hack.
* Hack 3: Popup announcement will popup once in every XX hours.


Logician \\=^))

[Host Directory]

Does anyone know how to set up a conditional so that a message will display to users who have registered but not yet confirmed their registration with the confirmation email ?

The reason i would like to know if this is possible is because i have noticed that a lot of my users have not been posting - i have also realised that many confirmation emails are being bounced back to my email account due to over zealous spamming software.
There is a lot of users which would never recieve their confirmation email because of this and think the error is with my forum rather than their email client.

I want to put a message for these people to tell them that if they have not recieved their confirmation email to use another email address or email me so that i can confirm their registration manually.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Host Directory

Does anyone know how to set up a conditional so that a message will display to users who have registered but not yet confirmed their registration with the confirmation email ?

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]] Show this announcement if page visitor is from email confirmation waiting usergroup[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]

[Host Directory]

Thanks Logician, i will install this hack and test the conditional later today.

[Host Directory]

Originally Posted by Logician

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]] Show this announcement if page visitor is from email confirmation waiting usergroup[[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3)]]

Works a treat Logician !
Try it yourself - www.hostcompanies.com/forums - register and then do not confirm by email - now login and your see the message explaining that the email may have been bounced. Obviously you can't post either. Now confirm the registration email and the message dissapears and everything works fine.

Brilliant !

I have recently had a lot of bounced emails from people trying to register because of their stupid spam software - thats one of the reasons why people sign up and never post. Atleast they now know its their email spam software which is the problem.

Your a star Logician... a star!

[ranger2kxlt]

What is the code to add for custom fields? I added a location field and would like all my members to fill it in, can you give me the code to do so?

Thanks

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ranger2kxlt

What is the code to add for custom fields? I added a location field and would like all my members to fill it in, can you give me the code to do so?

Thanks

correct thread?

[ranger2kxlt]

Sorry logician, let me explain a bit more....

I want my members to show their location on post bits, and since i added this after i had about 100 members and before i made it a req. field a few are missing the info. But Its a custom field, and I want a pop-up to show for those members that don't have this filled in yet. Any curdentials i can add that will show this info?

Thanks

[Logician]

Originally Posted by ranger2kxlt

Sorry logician, let me explain a bit more....

I want my members to show their location on post bits, and since i added this after i had about 100 members and before i made it a req. field a few are missing the info. But Its a custom field, and I want a pop-up to show for those members that don't have this filled in yet. Any curdentials i can add that will show this info?

Thanks

I see! This should help:

[[(!$bbuserinfo[fieldX])]] You haven't filled the location field yet! Please do so by following the link to your profile edit page. [[/(!$bbuserinfo[fieldX])]]

(X should be replaced by the profile field id of your location field.)

[kristian]

<font size="1">Thanks Logician (clicks install)</font> :devious:

[craig hughes]

I can honestly say this is one of the most beneficial, easy, (should have been in the final vb3 release) hack sever. Very well done.

I have a PAY only site and this is exactly what I needed to give the site the locked door with info treatment

WELL DONE!!!!!