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 \\=^))

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Wouldn't this also work, Sinan?

It would.. But his message was lacking ''

[TundraSoul]

Thanks, I tried that but it didn't work.

Originally Posted by Logician

[[($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 AND !$bbuserfield[field18])]]Hello $bbuserinfo[username], please take a moment to update your user profile with your current information. Click the user CP link above, and then click Edit Profile. [[/($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6 AND !$bbuserfield[field18])]]

[Logician]

Originally Posted by TundraSoul

Thanks, I tried that but it didn't work.

You are trying with an admin account whose field18 is empty right? Because the conditional is set so.

[TundraSoul]

Correct, I tested it on myself first, and field 18 was empty. I even looked into the database to make sure the option cleared it.

Originally Posted by Logician

You are trying with an admin account whose field18 is empty right? Because the conditional is set so.

[reismarktq2]

Need a little help with a conditional:

We currently have our boards set up so that new accounts must go through moderation before they can post, but right now the only way to tell whether there are accounts waiting for moderation is to log into the admin control panel (which I don't want the administrators to have to do every time).

So what I'm asking is, is it possible to set up a conditional that displays when an administrator views the front page AND there are people in the "waiting moderation" group? I have this so far:

[[(($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6) AND (!empty(insert conditional that checks for people in usergroup 4)))]]

[Logician]

Originally Posted by reismarktq2

Need a little help with a conditional:

We currently have our boards set up so that new accounts must go through moderation before they can post, but right now the only way to tell whether there are accounts waiting for moderation is to log into the admin control panel (which I don't want the administrators to have to do every time).

So what I'm asking is, is it possible to set up a conditional that displays when an administrator views the front page AND there are people in the "waiting moderation" group? I have this so far:

[[(($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6) AND (!empty(insert conditional that checks for people in usergroup 4)))]]

nope sorry, this is not possible without modification of the hack

[reismarktq2]

Originally Posted by Logician

nope sorry, this is not possible without modification of the hack

Anyone have any idea how I would do this modification?

[gigaenvy]

Any chance to make a random or rotating announcement?

[Crazy Serb]

ok, what's the suntax for checking if the users are NOT members of 2 secondary usergroups, but are members of any other primary group?

I've tried the below without any success (or I might have done something wrong along the way):

[[(!$bbuserinfo[membergroupids]==9 AND !$bbuserinfo[membergroupids]==12)]]
content
[[(!$bbuserinfo[membergroupids]==9 AND !$bbuserinfo[membergroupids]==12)]]

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Crazy Serb

ok, what's the suntax for checking if the users are NOT members of 2 secondary usergroups, but are members of any other primary group?

I've tried the below without any success (or I might have done something wrong along the way):

[[(!$bbuserinfo[membergroupids]==9 AND !$bbuserinfo[membergroupids]==12)]]
content
[[(!$bbuserinfo[membergroupids]==9 AND !$bbuserinfo[membergroupids]==12)]]

[[(!is_member_of($bbuserinfo,9 ,12))]]
content
[[/(!is_member_of($bbuserinfo,9 ,12))]]