Forum Home Enhancements - FA Latest Announcements

What is this for?
This hack is mainly made for showing announcements on forumhome.

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Main purpose of this was just to show announcements to my users as they barely go in Announcements sections.. so I made this hack and now deciding to release this here.

If you use this hack do click install



Updates:
v1.0.1
- Added Sticky option

v1.0.0
- Updated Template Problem
- Updated Table Prefix Problem

[yui333]

Originally Posted by MimeSong Erk

I really like this plug, and have skinned it to be a lot more concise - I'd be willing to share if anyone is interested, it is not complex. You can see at www.rmxp.org

I have a question about how the topics in the FA block are ordered. On my forum as I post this, the 3 latest announcements are:

• No October backup.
• Dragon Kid Image Dump
• RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story

in that order. However, the chronological order of which has the most recent posts is:

• Dragon Kid Image Dump
• No October backup.
• RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story

Why is the FA bit not updating as fast as the forum listing itself?

Nice modification! Can you let us try it?.. Thanks

[MrPHD]

Nice Hack, Great job. Thanks

[Kadi]

Hi,

I reinstalled and its working fine now. Thanks.

Qs:

I need the thread/thread starter column to be aligned to the right. (Arabic forum). How do I do that?

How do i center the title?

I looked up the words in the phrase manager to translate them but couldn't find them. Thats how I always translate hacks. Am I missing something?

Sorry about the many questions.

Thank you.

[MimeSong Erk]

Originally Posted by yui333

Nice modification! Can you let us try it?.. Thanks

Hi Yui. The mod is pretty simple. You will have to interpret this a little: I hard-coded some of the templates since I know my announcement forum is not going to change; this saves a query or two, for what it's worth.
forumhome_la

</table>
<DIV class="announcementbox">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="thead" colspan="3">
			<a href='forumdisplay.php?f=2' class="forumtitle" style="font-size: 130%; font-stretch:wider"><span class="smallfont" style="float:right;margin-top:3px">Click here to see all announcements</span>Latest Announcements!</a>
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
$latest_announce_thread_bit
</tbody>
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="thead" colspan="3">
<a href='faq.php#faq_subscriptions' class="smallfont" style="float:right;margin-top:3px">Subscriptions and Sponsorships</a>
			<a href='http://rw.rmxp.org/index.php?title=rules' class="forumtitle" style="font-size: 130%; font-stretch:wider">Rules and Guidelines</a>
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div><br />
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

Links will have to be tweaked to suit.


forumhome_la_threads

<tr>
<td class="tcat" style="font-size:90%" align="left" width="70%">

<span class="smallfont" style="float:right"><span style="cursor:pointer" onclick="window.open('member.php?u=$latest_announce_thread[postuserid]')">posted by $latest_announce_thread[postusername]</span></span>

<a href="showthread.php?t=$latest_announce_thread[threadid]" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">$latest_announce_thread[title]</a>
</td>
<td class="alt1Active" align="left">
<center class="smallfont">Last post by <a href="member.php?find=lastposter&t=$latest_announce_thread[threadid]">$latest_announce_thread[lastposter]</a></center>
</td>
<td class="alt1Active" align="left">
<center class="smallfont">$latest_announce_thread[replycount] replies</center>
</td>
</tr>

And in Main CSS add this to the Additional CSS Definitions: (for the main skin you see on my forum default)

/* ***** style of box that contains latest announcements ***** */
.announcementbox{
padding:5px;
margin:0px;
border:solid #90e;
border-width:1px;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-image: url("[whatever the background image of your forum is]");
background-repeat: repeat;
}

You will have to play with this to make it look right on your forum, I imagine, but it should get you started.

[yui333]

Thank you MimeSong Erk for sharing this with us.

It did not work so well with my style, so I think I have to modify your code to suit my style!

But honestly, your idea is nice.. I hope I will fix it soon.

[Farjad]

Originally Posted by MimeSong Erk

I really like this plug, and have skinned it to be a lot more concise - I'd be willing to share if anyone is interested, it is not complex. You can see at www.rmxp.org

I have a question about how the topics in the FA block are ordered. On my forum as I post this, the 3 latest announcements are:

• No October backup.
• Dragon Kid Image Dump
• RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story

in that order. However, the chronological order of which has the most recent posts is:

• Dragon Kid Image Dump
• No October backup.
• RMXP.org's downtime: The whole story

Why is the FA bit not updating as fast as the forum listing itself?

Actually this is done in the order its posted, meaning the newest one at the top, oldest one at the bottom ( as you can see by the threadid ).

Originally Posted by Kadi

Hi,

I reinstalled and its working fine now. Thanks.

Qs:

I need the thread/thread starter column to be aligned to the right. (Arabic forum). How do I do that?

How do i center the title?

I looked up the words in the phrase manager to translate them but couldn't find them. Thats how I always translate hacks. Am I missing something?

Sorry about the many questions.

Thank you.

Can you please edit forumhome_la template, and change the align="center" or whatever it is currently to align="right" and you can translate it there also Sorry I have not use any vbphrases, but I will look forward to use it in the future

[Kadi]

Thanks.

I got the thread/thread starter title aligned to the right but not the posts in that column. How do I change that?

When I added vbphrases I got an error.

I'm sorry to take up your time but could you show me what to change in the template?

[Farjad]

Originally Posted by Kadi

Thanks.

I got the thread/thread starter title aligned to the right but not the posts in that column. How do I change that?

When I added vbphrases I got an error.

I'm sorry to take up your time but could you show me what to change in the template?

</table>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat" colspan="5">
			<a href='forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]' class="forumtitle">$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forumname]</a>
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead"></td>
 <td class="thead" align="left"><a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=title" rel="nofollow">Thread</a>  / <a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=postusername" rel="nofollow">Thread Starter</a> </td> <td class="thead" width="150" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=lastpost" rel="nofollow">Last Post</a> <a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=lastpost&amp;pp=20&amp;page=1"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/sortasc.gif" alt="Reverse Sort Order" border="0" /></a></span></td> <td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=replycount" rel="nofollow">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Replies&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</a> </span></td> <td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$vboptions[fa_latest_announce_forum]&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=views" rel="nofollow">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Views&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</a> </span></td> 
</tr>
<tbody>
$latest_announce_thread_bit
</tbody>
</table><br />
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

These are the words you need to change. (In Bold)

[MimeSong Erk]

Thanks Farjad, I can't believe I didn't see that in the first post.

Working on some updates to mine that will make it clearer when there have been posts in an announcement topic. I may post the changes when I am done or link to them, again if there is interest.

[puertoblack2003]

i have the forum icon hack i want to add a image where do i make the changes?

thanks