Not Your Normal Marquee System

Not Your Normal Marquee System


This is a very cool Marquee System non like you have or will ever see on the net. It has so many features your eyes will pop out of its socket and even more to come. Only 1 template to edit and its all in the installer xml file. All you need to do is locate the HEADER template and add:

$marquee

to it any were you want the maquee to show.

It is one of the easyest hacks you will ever install and it takes less then 1 minute to do.


Features:

Marquee .: on and off :.
TEMPORARY REMOVEDshowgroups .: set what groups you want to view the marquee :.
Marquee Behavior .: allows you to set the marquee to either scroll slide or alternate :.
Marquee Direction .: Set the direction of the marquee exp. up down left right :.
Message Height .: This is to adjust the height of the message if you are going to use up or down :.
Marquee Speed .: Set the over-all speed of the message :.
Marquee Speed Mouse On .: Speed of mouse hoover :.
Marquee Speed Mouse Off .: Speed of mouse no hoover :.
Welcome Message .: on and off (exp. Hello username) :.
Change the Hello .: allows you to change the Hello to Hi Welcome or any Language :.
Marquee Title .: on and off :.
Message Title .: Change the Title name :.
Title Font .: Change font of title :.
Title Size .: Change the Title text size :.
Title Color .: Change the title text color :.
Title Width .: Change the % of the marquee Title you want the title to take up :.
Message .: Change your marquee message :.
Message Font .: Change the Message text Font :.
Message Size .: Change the Message Size :.
Message Color .: Change the message color :.
Message Width .: Change the Width of the marquee the Text will take up :.


More options to come on the next update

I want to give special thanks to GillyBabe & Spiffware as Developer and tester he was the one to find most of the bugs so that you guys don't have to deal with them.

Installation:
Import through Products, then put "$marquee" any where you want the Marquee System to show.

Upgrade:
Uninstall Product & Install again.

[Calisse]

Absolutely fabulous

[ronoxQ]

Just as an idea, Sezmar... maybe people should post up what they're using their marquee for, so others can get ideas?

I'm trying to get it to show the newest users, myself, but thus far it's not working.

[NiTRoN]

Quick suggestion.. Any way u can add option to turn the collors off.. so it will use default template colors. It is really hard to chose right color so it works on multiple skins on your board. My board has skins that have black and white backgrounds...

my 2cents Other than that its wonderfull..

[SmashinYoungMan]

Originally Posted by NiTRoN

Quick suggestion.. Any way u can add option to turn the collors off.. so it will use default template colors. It is really hard to chose right color so it works on multiple skins on your board. My board has skins that have black and white backgrounds...

my 2cents Other than that its wonderfull..

Using custom CSS, you can get it to look however you like. I also duplicated the marquee and used <if> statements to show a different message for unregistered members.

http://www.gabshack.com/forum/

[xOzzie]

SmashinYoungMan, I like what you've done. Can you post an example of your "if" statement so I can see how you did that?

Thanks!

[SmashinYoungMan]

Originally Posted by xOzzie

SmashinYoungMan, I like what you've done. Can you post an example of your "if" statement so I can see how you did that?

Thanks!

Sure.

<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(6,7,2,5,10,11))">
<td width="50%" class="marqueebar">$marquee</td>
<else />
<td width="50%" class="marqueebar">$marquee2</td>
</if>

The array is all my registered usergroups, and $marquee shows the message I'd like them to see. The $marquee2, which is the duplicated marquee system, shows the unregistered/not-logged-in message.

[xOzzie]

Thanks!

OK, dumb question. Where did you put the code? I can't find 'marqueebar' used in any of the templates or in the .xml product file.

[SmashinYoungMan]

Originally Posted by xOzzie

Thanks!

OK, dumb question. Where did you put the code? I can't find 'marqueebar' used in any of the templates or in the .xml product file.

The first thing you will need to do is duplicate the marquee system. Attached to this post is the zip file for the duplicate. Install it just as you would the original marquee system. After you install that, you will see in your vBulletin Options settings for the second marquee system.

Then you simply substitute this code for the "$marquee" you originally put in the header template:

<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], array(6,7,2,5,10,11))">
$marquee
<else />
$marquee2
</if>

Remember to put the proper usergroup IDs in the array for your registered members.

[SmashinYoungMan]

One thing: Remember that whenever sezmar updates the marquee system, the duplicate will have to be upgraded as well. Duplicating the marquee system involves editing the original xml product file, so newbies to this sort of thing may not want to bother with this.

[xOzzie]

Great! Thanks for the detailed reply. This will be useful.

[xOzzie]

Works well but for some reason I can't get the 2nd marquee, for non-registered users, to scroll. It just displays fixed text.

I'll keep fooling with it. Even without the scroll it's extremely useful to be able to remind lurkers to register.

[SmashinYoungMan]

Originally Posted by xOzzie

Works well but for some reason I can't get the 2nd marquee, for non-registered users, to scroll. It just displays fixed text.

I'll keep fooling with it. Even without the scroll it's extremely useful to be able to remind lurkers to register.

Did you get it lined out yet? I double-checked the zip file I attached to make sure I didn't goof up anywhere, though it is the same I use on my site without issue.

[xOzzie]

Not yet, but to be honest I haven't had time to mess with it to much. I did compare both templates and both .xml files and didn't find any differences other than the change of notation to marquee2. The scroll variable seems to be set the same in both but it's only scrolling on the first marquee entry. I need to try some different postions in the header to see if that affects the function.

[digitalltv]

anyone can tell me each templates i need change for this hack work in all forum?

P.S. is possibel make that auto? i mean when install everything work in all forum?

[xOzzie]

I found that putting the $marquee notation in the HEADER template for each of the styles I use caused the marquee to display on each page of my forum. I use two different styles, one for the main forum pages and another for the vBa cmps portal page.

Admincp -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> click the <<>> next to the style you want to change. Navigate to the HEADER template, double click it to open the editor and make the change.