vBulletin Taskbar Ticker

vBulletin Taskbar Ticker.

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:

1. It now uses Global.php to connect to the database.
2. It now uses vBulletins database class to perform database operations.
3. 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.
4. All forum url's and titles are now pulled from the vBulletin Options.
5. All query and variable names fit in with vBulletin's naming scheme better.
6. 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.

1. Right-click on your Taskbar and go to toolbars->new toolbar
2. Type "http://www.domain.com/forums/ticker2.php" without the quotes in the location box
3. 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.

[JWB]

Very nice... I need to adjust the colors though..
Here's some screen shots:





Here is one using windows xp colors....


If you would like test out this ticker type in "http://www.allforms.net/forum/ticker3.php" as a new toolbar.

[Omero]

I did a modify to this hack, and now it works ALSO with "forumid", which lets you choose if displaying the last 10 posts from ALL board, or from a single forum

if you call it with ticker.php it gives full forum

if you call it with ticker.php?forumid=PUT_FORUM_ID_NUMBER_HERE then it will show latest posts only from that forum....

Check it out

DISCLAIMER: use it at your own risk ( but it works )

NOTE: change the colours, board name, etc... in the code, to suit your needs

[danielillo]

Originally posted by tester2
How can I get rid of the vertical scroll bar on the right side of the ticker?

Hi Tester2,

I made this change:

Original:

<marquee id="threadticker" direction=up scrollAmount=1 style="width:400px;height:28px;border:0px solid black;padding:3px" onMouseover="this.scrollAmount=0" onMouseout="this.scrollAmount=1">

New:

<marquee id="threadticker" direction=up scrollAmount=1 style="width:400px;height:15px;border:0px solid black;padding:3px" onMouseover="this.scrollAmount=0" onMouseout="this.scrollAmount=1">

Just change 28 pixels height to 15 pixels height.

Very good hack

Daniel.

[danielillo]

When Ticker is OFF, it is also reloaded every X minutes. Is there any way to change this?

Thanks again for this GREAT, GREAT hack.

Daniel.

[jiggle]

Great Hack !!
I would like to have also the time in the ticker. I mean the time for every posting. Is this possible ? If yes, what do I have to change ?

[redd]

I've installed this and it works great. However, it takes up too much room on my taskbar, using almost all of it. I've set the width of the marquee to 300, but it doesnt affect the actual size (it just cuts off part of the table) and I end up with a lot of blank space. I am using Win XP and my resolution is 10274x768.

Can anyone tell me how to make the toolbar smaller?

[Ninth Dimension]

What I've done is to put the ticker below the items on the task bar so that it can take up the whole stretch of the screen (i'm using a hybrid between ticker2 and ticker3.)

To do this, just grab the movey part of the ticker and pull it down, if you know what I mean?

Very good hack, and very useful for forum users that have some windows knowledge, but a little bit too fiddly for everyone else in my opinion.

[SamirDarji]

Has anyone tried this with vb3? I've tried it on vb3 Beta 7 and it gets a database error, which is kinda expected since the structures differ slightly between vb2 and vb3. But what to change so that it will work with vb3?

[Wayne Luke]

You can use something like Pluck RSS Reader (http://www.pluck.com/rssreader.aspx?GCID=C12286x010) or the RSS plugin for Trillian Pro to get similar functionality to this. Simply point your reader to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/...l.php?type=rss

To get a task bar scroller, you only need to decipher the array provided by:
http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/...al.php?type=js

[direcx]

how can ii fix this? i am a neebe to all this.....

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getpermissions() in /home/*****/public_html/forum/ticker2.php on line 39

then on line 39 i have this

$getperms=getpermissions($latestthread[forumid],$bbuserinfo[userid],$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]);

please someone help i like this, i will like to use it..... :disappointed: