Miscellaneous Hacks - [AJAX] News/Announcements

With this add-on you can quickly add new or announcements on your forum's index, forum display, or thread display. Each forum and thread can have their own unique message.

In the vBulletin options you can choose which user's can edit the text by entering their user ID into the box.
You can choose whether or not moderators can edit the message in the forums they moderate.
You can choose if you want the news/announcements to display on forum home, forum display, or thread display.

You can use bbcode and HTML but only if HTML tags have bbocde to convert to.
For example if you type <b></b> it'll convert to [b][/b].

Here are some screensohts
http://xenweb.net/images/ajaxnews/ajaxnews_1.png
http://xenweb.net/images/ajaxnews/ajaxnews_2.png

[Snake]

Wow I have been waiting for this. I used to have this feature while I was running on IPB back in the day.

Thanks!

[v2neo]

Originally Posted by harmor19

How "Enter comma-seperated User ID's that can add/edit news" works is you put the ID of the user into the box that you want to have permission to edit the news/announcement on every page.

So on your site you're user ID should be "1" and let's say you have another admin and their user ID is "5" and you want both you and the other admin to edit the announcements. In the text box you would type 1,5.

How "Moderators can add/edit news in the forum(s) they moderate." works is that you're moderators can edit the news ONLY in the forums they moderate.
If you have enabled "Global Message" it will over-ride the moderators' permission to edit the announcement.
When "Global Messages" are enabled the only people who can change the announement are the user's of the user IDs that you typed in the text box.

I will try to improve upon this hack and add more features so it isn't as limited.

ok my mistake was using user name instead of user number, but i still cant click on the field to input any message.

Just to clarify i should be able to just click on "Click on this sentence to change this message. " in the forum and type my message. and not in the admin c/p panel correct?

v2

PS i can give you access to my admin C/P if you would like to check it out

[DJ XtAzY]

nice hack.. i'll wait until the next update =]

[Veer]

Hi, I Have updated [vb]ajaxnews1.1.0.zip but its still 1.0.0

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by Pehchaan

Hi, I Have updated [vb]ajaxnews1.1.0.zip but its still 1.0.0

I just forgot to change the version number. This is nothing to worry about.

[farooqaaa]

Thanks man! this is nice!

[Veer]

Originally Posted by harmor19

I just forgot to change the version number. This is nothing to worry about.

Its all right, harmor19

Please add the ability to use full html codes, so we can add announcements with images, colors, fonts styles etc..
Thanks.

[kube]

My problem is:

I write for example

PHP Code:

Hello

nice tool 


and if ich will add the next time someting, it shows afterwards

PHP Code:

Hello
<br><br>
nice tool
<br> added text 


if i add something more, he doubles all tags !

PHP Code:

Hello
<br><br><br><br>
nice tool
<br><br> added text 


and i (i`m allowed to edit) see all tags like they are "<br>" and not the "real" output when i leave the field...


sorry for my english, but i hope you understand what i mean....

[buontaiviem]

Did not support HTML code. I tried this code but did not show images and link.

<a href="http://.....com" target="_blank"><img src="http://.....com/logo.gif" width=468 height=60 border=0></a>

[ChopBam]

I'm getting another database error from this modification whenever anybody goes to an invalid thread.

For example, t=10000 and that isn't a thread.
There'll be a DB error and I'll get an email about it. Quite annoying.
Confirm?