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 \\=^))

[Crazy Serb]

Originally Posted by Logician

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

tried that, didn't get anything now... no popup.

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Crazy Serb

tried that, didn't get anything now... no popup.

This conditional means the user shouldn't be a member of usergroup 9 OR 12. This applies to both primary usergroup AND additional usergroups. So are you trying with a test account which does not belong to 9 and 12 at all?

[heynurse]

I want to show the announcement to everyone, except these user groups: 5,6,7,22

any help?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by heynurse

I want to show the announcement to everyone, except these user groups: 5,6,7,22

any help?

[[(!is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5 ,6 ,7, 22))]]
I want to show the announcement to everyone, except these user groups: 5,6,7,22
[[/(!is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5 ,6 ,7, 22))]]

[heynurse]

Originally Posted by Logician

[[(!is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5 ,6 ,7, 22))]]
I want to show the announcement to everyone, except these user groups: 5,6,7,22
[[/(!is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5 ,6 ,7, 22))]]

Hi Logician,
Thanks for your prompt reply, I tried the the above conditional and nothing shows up? Thanks

[Logician]

ok, I checked and you both are right. Apparently the check works just for the primary usergroup. So you can use that one if you want to check primary usergroup of the user:

[[(in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5,6,7,22)))]]
show if visitor's primary usergroup is 5 or 6 or 7 or 22
[[/(in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5,6,7,22)))]]

OR

[[(!in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5,6,7,22)))]]
show if visitor's primary usergroup is NOT 5 or 6 or 7 or 22
[[/(!in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(5,6,7,22)))]]

I have no suggestion if you want to check secondary usergroup, sorry about it.

[Mastar]

I've upgraded from 3.09 to 3.51 and I would like to know how to remove this hack from the vbulleting options?

[Logician]

Originally Posted by Mastar

I've upgraded from 3.09 to 3.51 and I would like to know how to remove this hack from the vbulleting options?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....7&postcount=38