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 \\=^))

[KanyeWest]

how do i make it so only guests see the pop up and not my member who registered already?

[paulomt1]

works on 3.0.7 - clicks install

[Logician]

Originally Posted by KanyeWest

how do i make it so only guests see the pop up and not my member who registered already?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....52&postcount=2

[HarryBO]

The Hack works perfectly, but after a server Update the box is gone! Can anybody help?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by HarryBO

The Hack works perfectly, but after a server Update the box is gone! Can anybody help?

what kind of a server update it was (vb upgrade?) and which box is gone? (the one you set your announcement in admin cp/options?). If so apply instructions step 1 and 2 and you should be fine.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by Logician

My code will work for "Single-Line Text Box". As I have mentioned before what you want can not be done for other type of profile fields due to the structure of the hack.

Any type of work around? Is this also restricted to your templates hack?

[Mu5icMan]

Is there a way to set the conditionals to have it only displayed once?

Can i use HTML within the message?

I also made a slight mistake when doing forum home table announcement and popup announcement, how do i edit the data in them?

[Mu5icMan]

If any of you get a parse error line 16, i changed to https:// instead of http and it worked.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Mu5icMan

If any of you get a parse error line 16, i changed to https:// instead of http and it worked.

How come you come up with that error anyway? There is no "https://" in anywhere of this hack. ^^

[Mu5icMan]

there is. when you said, http://YOUR_SITE_URL/FORUM_URL/admin...le=dynamic_fha

if your site uses https:// as mine does and you don't include the secue layer you will recieve parse error 16