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 \\=^))

[Kihon Kata]

**CLICKS install**

Thanks Logician for helping me install it, the best popup hack around

click here to see it in action!

If you register, you will see another that I have set up promoting 5 posts right away

[carolmyt]

Has anyone tried this in 3.0.6 yet?

Also, if I install this, I'm going to use the popup. As long as there is no text, will there be no popup, or will it popup as blank? I don't plan on having anouncements every day, and I don't want to see the box if there's nothing in it.

Thanks!

[docvader]

It works in 3.06. And if you keep the pop up box blank in your admincp, there will be no pop up/ Use the addition mentioned previously, to have it only pop up once in x hours, otherwise your members will go nuts seeing it every time they hit their forum index page.

[carolmyt]

There's no way for it to only popup once for each user visit?

[Mechanical Mind]

Originally Posted by carolmyt

Has anyone tried this in 3.0.6 yet?

Also, if I install this, I'm going to use the popup. As long as there is no text, will there be no popup, or will it popup as blank? I don't plan on having anouncements every day, and I don't want to see the box if there's nothing in it.

Thanks!

There will be no pop-up if no text. There will be no announcement if no text.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by Logician

Not sure what you mean but in php this conditional checks whether the variable is blank or now: $variable==''

Does it answer your question? If not, plz elborate.

ok I am still stuck with that field 20 thing. I want users to enter thier names... I can see if I put the field using your hack it will actually print whats in there. SO I know I can use it some way. Just dont know how to make it say if field 20 is empty show this dam hack! LOL. $variable="" how would that look in your hack? I been trying this for a while now. really tring to get this to work.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

Will it work for Single-Line Text Boxes then???

bump PLEASE?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by carolmyt

There's no way for it to only popup once for each user visit?

I've released the hack of hack for this in the thread please look for it.

ok I am still stuck with that field 20 thing. I want users to enter thier names... I can see if I put the field using your hack it will actually print whats in there. SO I know I can use it some way. Just dont know how to make it say if field 20 is empty show this dam hack! LOL. $variable="" how would that look in your hack? I been trying this for a while now. really tring to get this to work.

[[($bbuserinfo[field20])]]
Your name is $bbuserinfo[field20]!
[[/($bbuserinfo[field20])]]
[[(!$bbuserinfo[field20])]]
You didn't enter a name in your user cp
[[/(!$bbuserinfo[field20])]]

[carolmyt]

Thanks!

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by Logician

I've released the hack of hack for this in the thread please look for it.


[[($bbuserinfo[field20])]]
Your name is $bbuserinfo[field20]!
[[/($bbuserinfo[field20])]]
[[(!$bbuserinfo[field20])]]
You didn't enter a name in your user cp
[[/(!$bbuserinfo[field20])]]

Doesnt work the second part. I can show the stuff that I knew...
I have a few... can you show me one that can work for one of these?
Multiple-Selection Checkbox
Single-Selection Menu
or Single-Line Text Box
this doenst work for any of them.