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 \\=^))

[klaattu]

cool thanks Im going to give a shot now!

[togoodhlth]

Yeah this is definitely a very useful hack which i am going to install as soon as I finish the chat box!

[klaattu]

This hack is very cool and very aesy to install and customize and also uses codes so you can put smilies inside and also Images and links.....very cool for events for example..here is a shot of the site (one for registered users another for unregistered and another for holidays and spacial announcemnets..)

Waaaayyyy coool !

[calvinnguyen]

It is very nice tips!Thanks alot

[calvinnguyen]

Is this work with vb3 beta 7? thanks

[fly]

Hmmm

What would cause the [url] tag parsing not to work?

EDIT: None of the vB code seems to work. Checked code twice. Anyone had this happen?

[Skipsoutdoors]

Logican,

Thanks for another very useful hack. I just installed it. Hopefully it'll get some of my people to check their PM box.

That makes 2 of yours that I'll have to wait to be converted before switching to vb3.

Skip
Skip's Outdoors

[calvinnguyen]

How can I removed Dynamic Forum Announcements from my database. Right now I am run vBulletin Version 3.0.0 Release Candidate 1. Right now I had problem with it, so I like to remove it. Anyone know how to do it?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by calvinnguyen

How can I removed Dynamic Forum Announcements from my database. Right now I am run vBulletin Version 3.0.0 Release Candidate 1. Right now I had problem with it, so I like to remove it. Anyone know how to do it?

add line
$debug=1;
in your includes/config.php file

Login to your admin cp
choose vb options and edit dynamic forum announcement hack. You'll see 2 DELETE links to delete the settings. First delete the below, then the title. After you're done, remove debug line from your config.php

[Kerr]

Ok, call me dumb...LOL I am new to VB. BTW....love love love this hack....*hits install*...

How do I find out what my Usergroup ID numbers are??? Is it the way they are listed ie...

(COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation =9
Administrators =8
Imported Banned Users =7
Jr. Moderator =6
Moderator =5
Registered =4
Super Moderators=3
Unregistered / Not Logged In=2
Users Awaiting Email Confirmation=1

Is that how it would work??? That is exactly how mine is setup when I go to admin cp / modify user group.

Any help would be appreciated. I want to make sure the right usergroup sees the correct message.

Thanks....

Kerr
ExoticPetHaven.com

EDIT: SORRY the one page I didnt read had the link on there....next time I will read every single page. Thanks!