Seperate Announcments & Stickies from regular threads

[HIGH]Seperate Announcments & Stickies from regular threads[/HIGH]

Author: assassingod

Description: This will seperate all announcments and stickies in all forums from regular threads.

Screenshots:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=414561

[IMG]images/attach/txt.gif[/IMG]Download:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=425778

Tested on vB version:
2.3.0

[HIGH]Update 13/08/2003[/HIGH]
Fixed most bugs - Check download link

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Add-ons -
How to add images to the divider

(Author bitg)

$announcement
<tr valign="top">
 <td colspan="10"><img src="{imagesfolder}/clear.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td>
</tr>

Just change the "clear.gif" reference to the image you want to use. You must change the height and width settings to the height and width of the new image though. If you do not know what that is, just remove it. You would then use a line simular to the following:

<img src="{imagesfolder}/InsertYourFileNameHere.gif" alt="">

How to change the divider to a random image

(Author bitg)

If you want to know how to do this, follow these instructions.

[high]Note:[/high] Do this only after you have successfully installed this hack.

Make a directory under your {imagesfolder} directory called "divider" or whatever you want to call it and put all your images that you wish to pull from in there. Name them "1.gif", "2.gif", etc...

Edit your "phpinclude" template and add the following to the bottom of it:

PHP Code:

$dividerimagenumber=rand(1,6);
$dividerimage="/divider/$dividerimagenumber.gif"; 


[high]Note:[/high] Modify the "divider" to be the name of the directory you created under {imagesfolder}.

[high]Note:[/high] Change the (1,6) to 1,the number of images in your "divider" directory). If you 25 images in your divider directory, it would says (1,25);

Save the "phpinclude" template.

edit your "forumdisplay_sepsai" template.

Replace the default values from the hack in this template with the following:

$announcement
<tr valign="top">
 <td colspan="10" bgcolor="#000000" align="center"><img src="{imagesfolder}/$dividerimage" alt=""></td>
</tr>

[high]Note:[/high] Change the bgcolor="#000000" to any color you like. You can type in a 6-digit hex code (if you know it) or just replace the "#000000" with "black" or "red" or whatever.

If you use this hack please click the INSTALL button - thank you!

[The Wise One]

is there a way to make it transparent?

i added your bgcolor code and got the color to change to what ever i want it to be...but i was hoping to make that little section transparent so the background image would show thru.

i tried lasto's thought of a simple break or space...but im not exactly sure what the code should look like in the file. is it just a simple <br> tag that replaces what is in the custom template?

sorry...but im new to all of this stuff...

i do appreciate the help

[assassingod]

Yes, I am almost certain a <br> tag will work in the custom template. However I cannot test this due to some problems with my localhost (im running ancient PHP/Apache versions hehe)

[The Wise One]

Today at 10:55 PM assassingod said this in Post #82
Yes, I am almost certain a <br> tag will work in the custom template. However I cannot test this due to some problems with my localhost (im running ancient PHP/Apache versions hehe)

ok do i insert the break tag in place of the code you have listed? or does it go somewhere inside of the code you have?

[assassingod]

Thinking about it, it may not work. But try it, open the template forumdisplay_sepsai and replace contents with <br>

(Dont think it will work due to the tables)

[The Wise One]

Yesterday at 11:13 PM assassingod said this in Post #84
Thinking about it, it may not work. But try it, open the template forumdisplay_sepsai and replace contents with <br>


(Dont think it will work due to the tables)

you are correct. it doesnt work. but thanks

any other ideas? i really like how this looks and would like to get this worked out.

[assassingod]

I'll have a go at this later today

[Mr. Brian]

Thanks for the reply

Well, what i got was a Black colored background instead of the actual green.

[i]08-10-03 at 04:57 PM assassingod

I can guess there would be no problems. [/B]

[assassingod]

What's your code?

[Mr. Brian]

You mean my forumdisplaybit?

Well,

$sepsai
<tr align="center">
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><img src="{imagesfolder}/$thread[newoldhot].gif" border="0" alt=""></td>
	<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}">$thread[icon]</td>
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" align="left" width="70%"><normalfont>$thread[gotonew] $paperclip$thread[movedprefix]$thread[typeprefix]<a href="showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$thread[threadid]">$thread[title]</a></normalfont> <smallfont>$thread[pagenav]</smallfont></td>
and so on....

[assassingod]

Sorry, I meant for foumdisplay_sepsai template