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!

[ImportPassion]

and I as well.

D

[Aaron1]

Cool hack Assasingod!
Let's hope you can make the announcement threads to go with it aswell!

[Freezerator]

Hi,

have you fixed the moved threads issue?

Because i have the same problem now, and it looks horrible...

http://forum.scooterforum.net/vbport...?s=&forumid=34

[assassingod]

I've had a look into it, but I can't find any obvious reason why it's doing that. I am sure a little more hackin' is required so I will have another go later.

[David Bott]

Any word? Nice hack, but at this point not 100% as it needs to be.

[ff8_bomb]

07-03-03 at 03:43 PM gldtn said this in Post #21
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.

Im also having this problem.. Stickies move up, and as long as they are there, announcements are up too. But when they arnt, announcements go back to being regular

[proxyMX]

hey, its not working for me

[proxyMX]

is now, template problem :P

Why does this need file edits? Wouldn't it just require a template edit?

[assassingod]

How so Hostc? In vB3 it can be done via template edits, not vB2 though.