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 (or other board pages), not inside thread view. So visitors will read them without clicking on them.
• The Hack's announcements are not static: ie. they can be powerfully programmed to change themselves according to many conditions.

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:

2. user is X
3. user's usergroup is Y
4. his profile field Z is X
5. user has X posts or has more than Y posts but less than Z posts
6. his last visit time was X days ago
7. 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
8. User is invisible/visible
9. user is using style A
10. his cookies are on
11. his timeset is set to A
12. etc..

The conditionals even allows you to design "Board Tips" ever changing according to user's seniority or post number. See how-to document for conditional usage and more info..

It's tested in both v.2.2.6 and v.2.2.7 but it should work with any versions > 2.0.3. (v.2.2.8 or later Users READ HERE!) I'm using it in my own board and a friend's board for more than a month and found it quite stable and released it. Although not likely, if you found any bugs, holler and I'll fix it..

Here is a Screenshot from a "general announcement".
Here is a Screenshot of announcement which is addressed to a certain user.

Some Features:

• It's Admin CP integrated (Screenshot)
• Smiley and BBCode in announcements are parsed
• 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.

If you have problems displaying HTML/smilie/bbcode in your announcements, make this tiny change in hack code

If you install the hack, click INSTALL, thank you..

Logician \\=^))

[Logician]

Originally posted by Willard Reece
If I go to another pc , I can't even log on as myself.

ok follow the suggestions above and let's see what will happen..

[Willard Reece]

Ok i did a few things and now it acts like it did right after I put on the vp add on. and what it does now is right after you log on it takes you to a blank page and if you click on the reecefamilies.com on the simi blank page it takes you to the pages.

Weird one huh.
after I put on your hack I put up some games ka flash type, tetris.swf.
not sure if it caused a prob but I got rid of it.
As soon as I get the one prob that is left I will put back on the
Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack , I loved it.

[Brad]

Logician, you just saved me alot of time. :laugh: awsome hack man. ill be using this.

[Willard Reece]

I think my prob is with vp.

You can't log on from the log on screen but if I turn on unregistered can view forums then on the vp home page you can go to the log on area and log on with no prob....

So now to go to a different area and look for vp log on problems.

Thanks Logician

I'm going to reinstall the hack as soon as I fix this prob.

Willard
reecefamilies.com

[Logician]

Originally posted by Willard Reece
I think my prob is with vp.

Thanks Logician

@Willard Reece : yw.. Actually I was kinda sure it was not related to my hack because it does not touch member.php which gives you the headache.. Glad you fixed the issue..

@Anime-loo: thx pal..

[Willard Reece]

So far I havn't found any help on this tho..

remembering back to the install of vp I had this prob after the install.

[RayMatrix]

Can anyone please tell me why this code wont work ?

[[($bbuserinfo[userid]==180)]]
Hallo $username,

nice to see you here today.
[[/($bbuserinfo[userid]==180)]]

Only the User with ID 180 can see this announcement, but in the Textfield it will no display his NICKNAME

All tips are welcome !


Ohh, Logician, very nice and functional hack !!!

[Logician]

Originally posted by RayMatrix
Only the User with ID 180 can see this announcement, but in the Textfield it will no display his NICKNAME

Try:

Hallo $bbuserinfo[username]

[RayMatrix]

THANKS !!!!

[ptbyjason]

Any reason why I would be getting the following error at the top of my forum?

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_MINUS_EQUAL in /business/bclapp/html/vbulletin/admin/functions.php on line 2407

My line 2407 in admin/functions/php is

PHP Code:

$postinfo = getpostinfo($postid);