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 \\=^))

[assassingod]

Bloody brilliant Defintely going to install this one! Great work Logican

[Floris]

Just like Mist says 'this is awesum!'
We are totally gonna try and see if we can use this.

[g-force2k2]

awesome hack Logician reason why you're one of the best at vb.org keep up the great work...

g-force2k2

[xug]

One of the coolest hacks I have seen in a while.

[Velocd]

Terrific hack Logician, as it will defiantly will prove useful for many

*slaps install*

[hypedave]

Dude this is jus what I was looking for, I see this as a good way to warnmembers, welcome visitor's even advertisement, or annouce to moderators board meetings, is is to cool, thanks and definetly keep up the good work

[joeboo]

sexy sexy! i will definetly install this

[Vile]

Great hack!
Easy installation too, thanks a bunch

[SemperFidelis]

Absoluetly brilliant hack
Very impressive
Thankyou very much

[NexDog]

Whoah, wtf? This is %$#*&@$& amazing dude!!!!!!!!!!!

/me can't wait to install