Forum Home Enhancements - Seasonal Forum Effects

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What does this hack do?
This hack allows you to add seasonal effects to your forumhome/entire forum to suit the time of year. The hack currently has:
Snow pixels
Snow Large Flake
Snow Small Flake
Bats
Ghosts
Witches
Fireworks Pixel
Fireworks Pixel 2
Fireworks Animation
Hearts
Heart Hug
New
Uncle Sam
Easter Basket
Green Clover

Feel free to ask for more seasonal images and I will update.

To the best of my knowledge these all work on both IE + Firefox as long as java is enabled.

Planned New Features
none

Hack Installation
Template Edits: 2
Products: 1

Credits:
Matt Hutchings (TrueDeath) - Creator
blackpheonix - Use of images

Support:
Support can be given in this thread

Don't forget to click INSTALL

If you like this creation and wish to support further creations feel free to donate to:
truedeath@gmail.com

[beduino]

A goooood question.
I try in adv_portal and don't works
All the best
Beduino

[smoknz28]

Installed on vB 3.6.3 and working as advertised.

Thanks for sharing this with the rest of us.

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by beduino

A goooood question.
I try in adv_portal and don't works
All the best
Beduino

Make a custom template
Hook it up to your vBadvanced
Then place the code that was givin above..
it should work
Ive tried it in all mine and it did the same

[Q139]

Originally Posted by beduino

A goooood question.
I try in adv_portal and don't works
All the best
Beduino

I edited the location of the java scripts

<script type="text/javascript" src="/forum/season/$vboptions[guidesvbs_type].js"></script>

and edited the location of the image files in the java scripts

 var snowsrc="/forum/season/ghost/snow2.gif"

or you could place another season folder in you adv_portal directory...

[TrueDeath]

Originally Posted by beduino

A goooood question.
I try in adv_portal and don't works
All the best
Beduino

Upload the Season folder to the root directory (as said above),

I didnt realize as i usually work by using vBulletin as my root + changing index to forums.php.

But yeh then it should work .

[blogtorank]

This is one kick ass addon!!!!!!!! Works perfect for me in all browsers IE, FF, Opera, Konqueror.. Does NOT hog my bandwidth NOR does it lag. Great hack man!

[haris_led]

This is a very good hack, and i combined it with a user profile field
From now on, my users can enable, or disable it

But i had the same problem with some other guys, that said that in firefox (and opera) the snowflakes(and the hearts, etc) dissapear quickly, and they do not drop down to the end of the page.

I did change the 2.js file (for small snowflakes) to 1000 pixels, but there was no difference

Although, in IE this works fine, to the end of the page.

Any solution?
Thanks again

[blogtorank]

Originally Posted by haris_led

This is a very good hack, and i combined it with a user profile field
From now on, my users can enable, or disable it

But i had the same problem with some other guys, that said that in firefox (and opera) the snowflakes(and the hearts, etc) dissapear quickly, and they do not drop down to the end of the page.

I did change the 2.js file (for small snowflakes) to 1000 pixels, but there was no difference

Although, in IE this works fine, to the end of the page.

Any solution?
Thanks again

Would you mind sharing your idea on how you did the enable or disable here in the user profile field, if you don't mind.. :chinese:

[haris_led]

Originally Posted by blogtorank

Would you mind sharing your idea on how you did the enable or disable here in the user profile field, if you don't mind.. :chinese:

Of course

Before making the template edits, do theese:
1) AdminCP -> User Profile Fields -> Add New User Profile Field
2) Choose "Single Selection Radio Buttons"
3) Fill in all required fields and insert two values in the Options Box: (seperated with a return)
YES
NO
4) Set "Default" to YES
5) Hit "Save" and memorize the name of your field, in my case it's "field8".
6) Now, instead of adding

<!-- Start vBGuides Season -->
<if condition="$vboptions[guidesvbs_onoff] == 1">
<if condition="$vboptions[guidesvbs_area] == 0">
<script type="text/javascript" src="season/$vboptions[guidesvbs_type].js"></script>
</if></if>
<!-- End vBGuides Season -->

at the top of the header, add this:

<!-- Start vBGuides Season -->
<if condition="$bbuserinfo['fieldX']=='YES'">
<if condition="$vboptions[guidesvbs_onoff] == 1">
<if condition="$vboptions[guidesvbs_area] == 0">
<script type="text/javascript" src="season/$vboptions[guidesvbs_type].js"></script>
</if></if>
</if>
<!-- End vBGuides Season -->

7)Also, instead of adding

<!-- Start vBGuides Season -->
<if condition="$vboptions[guidesvbs_onoff] == 1">
<if condition="$vboptions[guidesvbs_area] == 1">
<script type="text/javascript" src="season/$vboptions[guidesvbs_type].js"></script>
</if></if>
<!-- End vBGuides Season -->

in forumhome, add this:

<!-- Start vBGuides Season -->
<if condition="$bbuserinfo['fieldX']=='YES'">
<if condition="$vboptions[guidesvbs_onoff] == 1">
<if condition="$vboptions[guidesvbs_area] == 1">
<script type="text/javascript" src="season/$vboptions[guidesvbs_type].js"></script>
</if></if>
</if>
<!-- End vBGuides Season -->

You should replace the fieldX to the one specified on step 5

Known bug: If i set from acp the default to YES, it does not show the snowflakes, but my users, must set it to yes from user cp, and save, to see them. Any ideas to make it working for all users, without having to enable it for the first time?

[alawee.blawee]

man can i ask you if you faced some problems installing this hack?

coz the shapes sometimes go out from the screen and create a bar down the page destroying the fixed width

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp