This is based on a hack at www.theforumz.com and written by Gutspiller. It is reposted here for the benefit of all licensed vBulletin Owners and their communities.
This add-on allows your users to see your most up-to-date topics in their Windows Taskbar (sorry Mac and Linux users). It has a scrolling display using the Marquee Tag. You can change the HTML to present anything you want really though.
Here are the features:
It now uses Global.php to connect to the database.
It now uses vBulletins database class to perform database operations.
It will show the latest topics to the user based on their vBulletin usergroup and the appropriate permissions. This allows you to hide private forums still.
All forum url's and titles are now pulled from the vBulletin Options.
All query and variable names fit in with vBulletin's naming scheme better.
All links reuse the same window.
One thing I haven't done yet is convert the whole thing to use templates though if I get the time I will do that because I hate having HTML in the code.
Installation
Edit ticker2.php and change the Title tag to represent what you want it to say.
Upload ticker.php to your website.
End User Installation
To install the ticker on your Windows 98 or higher computer (also works on Windows 95 with IE5+ installed) follow these instructions.
Right-click on your Taskbar and go to toolbars->new toolbar
Type "http://www.domain.com/forums/ticker2.php" without the quotes in the location box
Click OK
Make sure to change the domain so that it points to the proper location for them.
There is no support for this outside this thread but all you should have to do is upload it and create a new toolbar. It works on my machine and no there isn't a public demo yet. Anyway, Enjoy it.
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I believe that's a typo. You only need the one file. You can call it ticker or ticker2. You just need to use the right name when you install it on your desktop.
First, I'd like to say great hack! I installed it earlier this week, and my users really like it. It works great! I changed some of the parameters to customize it based on the feedback I've received from some folks.
One thing I haven't been able to figure out:
How can I get rid of the vertical scroll bar on the right side of the ticker? I put a border around the marquee box (so that I could see how large it was and adjusted the height of the marquee box, but its still there. My taskbar is set at double height. If I increase the size of the taskbar, the scroll bar becomes grayed out, but its still there. Is there another bit of code I can add to ticker.php to remove the scroll bar (i.e. a no scroll tag)?
When the ticker is clicked off, how about having a private message notification feature?
This page can refresh every 10 minutes or so and notify the user when he/she has received a new private message. When the user clicks on the new private message link they are taken to the private message, or log-in page or whatever.
Originally posted by Logtenberg Thanks for this hack!
Here's a suggestion I think everyone will love:
When the ticker is clicked off, how about having a private message notification feature?
This page can refresh every 10 minutes or so and notify the user when he/she has received a new private message. When the user clicks on the new private message link they are taken to the private message, or log-in page or whatever.
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01-04-2002, 06:17 AM
