Seperate Announcments & Stickies from regular threads

[HIGH]Seperate Announcments & Stickies from regular threads[/HIGH]

Author: assassingod

Description: This will seperate all announcments and stickies in all forums from regular threads.

Screenshots:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=414561

[IMG]images/attach/txt.gif[/IMG]Download:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=425778

Tested on vB version:
2.3.0

[HIGH]Update 13/08/2003[/HIGH]
Fixed most bugs - Check download link

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Add-ons -
How to add images to the divider

(Author bitg)

$announcement
<tr valign="top">
 <td colspan="10"><img src="{imagesfolder}/clear.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td>
</tr>

Just change the "clear.gif" reference to the image you want to use. You must change the height and width settings to the height and width of the new image though. If you do not know what that is, just remove it. You would then use a line simular to the following:

<img src="{imagesfolder}/InsertYourFileNameHere.gif" alt="">

How to change the divider to a random image

(Author bitg)

If you want to know how to do this, follow these instructions.

[high]Note:[/high] Do this only after you have successfully installed this hack.

Make a directory under your {imagesfolder} directory called "divider" or whatever you want to call it and put all your images that you wish to pull from in there. Name them "1.gif", "2.gif", etc...

Edit your "phpinclude" template and add the following to the bottom of it:

PHP Code:

$dividerimagenumber=rand(1,6);
$dividerimage="/divider/$dividerimagenumber.gif"; 


[high]Note:[/high] Modify the "divider" to be the name of the directory you created under {imagesfolder}.

[high]Note:[/high] Change the (1,6) to 1,the number of images in your "divider" directory). If you 25 images in your divider directory, it would says (1,25);

Save the "phpinclude" template.

edit your "forumdisplay_sepsai" template.

Replace the default values from the hack in this template with the following:

$announcement
<tr valign="top">
 <td colspan="10" bgcolor="#000000" align="center"><img src="{imagesfolder}/$dividerimage" alt=""></td>
</tr>

[high]Note:[/high] Change the bgcolor="#000000" to any color you like. You can type in a 6-digit hex code (if you know it) or just replace the "#000000" with "black" or "red" or whatever.

If you use this hack please click the INSTALL button - thank you!

[gldtn]

Everything seems to be working fine for me.. The annoucements are placed at the top and so forth.. My only problem is that it only separate the stuff from other topics if I have an Annoucement and a FIXED(sticky) thread together. If I only have an Annoucement it does not separate the annoucement alone.

Here is the annoucement on top w/ stickys'..:
http://www.shroomsinbrazil.org/forum...php?forumid=11

Here is just the annoucement:
http://www.shroomsinbrazil.org/forum...php?forumid=12

Great little hack by the way.

[assassingod]

AXH;
Well I got a parse error...

gldtn;
Hmmm, I just tested this locally, and my announcement disappeared. Very strange. I'll sort this out, among other problems later tonight. Thanks for bringing this to my attention

[gldtn]

Today at 03:48 AM alkatraz said this in Post #13
awesome hack, saw this on someones board the other day and wanted it.. a few days later it apears! thx!!!





I modified mine a little bit because the seperator line colour was a bit too harsh.



For those who want this change but don't know how to do it:

Here's how to make it match your table header BG colour:

Just to help those that didn't quite understand what they had to do with that code in oder to get it to mach your vB board..

On step 2 onto installing your SEPSAI hack change the following line:

<img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vbimages/clear.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1">

To:

<img src="/images/clear.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1">

..and that should use the clear.gif image in your's forum image dir . :banana:

assassingod

No problem..

[assassingod]

Thanks gltdn, I thought I changed that because I was using {imagesfolder} but vB converted it to vB.orgs images folder & clear.gif.

I will work on the problems tomorrow night.

[Ninth Dimension]

i'm using my own verson of his hack, and it's working a charm

[Floris]

Good work assassingod !! :-d

[Kars10]

Thanks Assassin!!
Very cool hack.
Installed without any Problems on my 2.3.0!!

[high]* Kars10 licks install!
[/high]

Kars

[shorty]

Yesterday at 08:22 PM assassingod said this in Post #19
shorty;
To make announcements appear at the top, open up template 'forumdisplay_sepsai' and remove


then add


above



in template, 'forumdisplay_threadslist'

I'll be adding this to the instructions

You are a star mate! EXCELLENT WORK!

Hope you can track the final parts

[assassingod]

Thanks all I'll be sorting out the other problems later tonight

[David Bott]

Looking forward to this hack being sorted out. Ready to install when ready on AVSFORUM.COM .