Forum Home Enhancements - [AJAX] SmnLikQuick v2.0 - Advanced Announcements Block

Description:
SmnLikQuick v2.0 adds an advanced announcement block (Title and Content) to your vBulletin powered pages that is easily managed via AdminCP. This new version (based on the AJAX Tabs Content Script (v 2.0) written by Dynamic Drive), utilizes Ajax to display multiple announcements in one container when the title (tab) is clicked on. It also has the ability (and utilizes this ability upon install) to rotate between tabs (announcements) in a "slideshow" type manner until a user explicitly clicks on a tab (see screenshots provided).

See Post #02 for log.
See Post #98 for Upgrade Instructions.
See Post #99 for Multiple Styles Fix

DEMO: SmnLikDat.com Community

Co-Owner/Co-Authors:

• Bobster65
  (who brought you the CMPS Module: "AJAX Tabbed Content")
• King Kovifor
  (who added BB Code Parsing! Thanks so much King!)

Please Note that there is a new setting that allows Admins to choose whether to parse BB Code or HTML (not both). It is reccomended that you parse BB for security reasons, however the choice is yours.

SmnLikQuick Addons:

• SmnLikQuick CMPS Module - This turns your SmnLikQuick v2.0.x Announcements Block into a CMPS Module. You MUST have BOTH SmnLikQuick v2.0 AND vBAdvanced CMPS installed. Demo: SmnLikDat.com

Future Features:

• Usergroup permissions per Announcement.
• Slideshow timing controlled via AdminCP (Control Speed or Disable this feature)
• Display certain Announcements to certain users via their UserCP

INSTALL:

1. Upload the files within the UPLOAD folder (in this package) to the corrosponding forum directories on your server making sure to keep the filetree intact.
2. Import Product: SmnLikQuick.xml via AdminCP>Plugins & Products>Manage Products>Add/Import Product
3. Refresh AdminCP (ie: Ctrl-F5)
4. Complete Template Edits (2 Edits) - Instructions provided in .zip file.
5. (Optional) Edit includes/smnlikquick_css.css to match your style.
6. Add Announcements & Enable the SmnLikQuick Mod via AdminCP>SmnLikQuick

Don't forget to mark as installed! Support will be given in this thread. Comments appreciated and feature requests welcomed! Thank you and Enjoy! -Bree

[DjEddie]

Originally Posted by bobster65

No, you wouldn't install the whole thing, just use the content files ie, recentthreadsexp2.php for example and point a tab to it. You would do this manually in the template (for now). King K and I are working on something right now that we may talk Bree into using here which will allow specific additional content modules to be added to this as well..

Here is how to add an additional Tab for an external content file (s)

EDIT the smnlikquick TEMPLATE

I manually inserted an LI tag (IN RED) which will create an addition Tab .. all you need to do is create a content file, upload it, change the name of it in the line below, name your tab and yer golden. Works well with all the content files I have made for AJAX Tabs .. you just need to remark out the calls to any CMPS files that are not being used..

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center" border="0">
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1">
			<div id="tabs" class="indentmenu">
				<ul>
				$slq_bit
				<li><a href="tabcontentfile.php" rel="tabcontainer">TAB NAME</a></li>
				</ul>
				<br style="clear: left" />
			</div>
			<div id="divcontainer" style="border:0px; width:97%; padding: 6px; margin-bottom:1em">
			</div>

<script type="text/javascript">

var mytabs=new ddajaxtabs("tabs", "divcontainer")
mytabs.setpersist(false)
mytabs.setselectedClassTarget("link")
mytabs.init(5000)

</script>

		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

<br />

Thanks for this, got it all working now and it helped me adding my radio stations in there too, really appreciate it thank you

And a couple more questions lol,

i want to have the tabs colored before they get selected and to change the red gradient when they are selected, this might of been mentioned before somewhere but I can't see it for the life of me.

and last question, with the recentthreads php file, i want to take some info out so i only have one line...

ie i want to take out topic starter (2nd Line) date when topic made (3rd line) and next column take out the last posters name. so i just have 1 line of info across the whole table.

also can i change this so its latest thread created and not last thread posted in ?

Thanks for all ur help on this..

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by DjEddie

Thanks for this, got it all working now and it helped me adding my radio stations in there too, really appreciate it thank you

And a couple more questions lol,

i want to have the tabs colored before they get selected and to change the red gradient when they are selected, this might of been mentioned before somewhere but I can't see it for the life of me.

and last question, with the recentthreads php file, i want to take some info out so i only have one line...

ie i want to take out topic starter (2nd Line) date when topic made (3rd line) and next column take out the last posters name. so i just have 1 line of info across the whole table.

also can i change this so its latest thread created and not last thread posted in ?

Thanks for all ur help on this..

I can't find the file or I would have edited it for you.

[DjEddie]

Hi Kovifor,

I've added the unedited file as an attachment, appreciate it if you could look for us,

Thank you

[King Kovifor]

What do you want taken out?

[DjEddie]

Hi, i'd like taken out please:

Topic Starter
Date When topic made
Last poster

And not sure if this can be done, but i'd like it to Latest threads made, with the newest at the top, not showing the Latest thread that has been posted in,

Thank you

[King Kovifor]

Try the attachment.

[DjEddie]

Hi, thanx for the quick reply

Its now showing, Topic title, thread starter and data & time when topic started (in first column) other colums arent there.. . <--- the last 2 fields if possible taken off leaving just topic title ...

and the other stuff put back on lol ie Last Post - Replies - Forum columns... so its still in its table but with the last posters name taken out of the last post column

so it all ends up on 1 line on 1 row ...

[King Kovifor]

So you want most of the data, but everything to be on one line?

[DjEddie]

Everything on one line ... data to be included and in the columns is:

Topic Title, - Last Post Time (only) - Replies - Forum Name <--- that info only, so it only uses 1 line per thread..

thanks

[Dennis Kaczor]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

Your table was never created. Try exporting and reimporting your product.

Did that, and not change in the errors seen. I checked and looked at the database and the table is in there, and I was able to view the 2 test messages in there as well.

If I uninstall, will it remove the table from the database? And maybe start from scratch one more time? even removing the upload files to the server as well? Unless you have any other ideas that I can try.

I check to see if the table was there before the export and inport and it was there.

Thanks for the help. And I hope to get this going as I have a use to put this in CMPS as well, but need to correct this issue before hand. Thanks again