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!

[assassingod]

Screenshot:

[Oblivion Knight]

I don't suppose there's a way to make the announcements go back above the sticky topics is there? Don't worry if not, it's not often I post announcements anyway..

[assassingod]

There is a way, and I had it figured out earlier, IIRC its just messing around with the arrangment of the variables. I'll have another attempt at it later

[[Fx]AssAssiN]

nice hack!
/me installs

[assassingod]

Thank you

[shorty]

This rules. :rambo:

If you manage to find out how to get announcements above (for us slightly n00bie PHP/VB-ers). That would be top

[high]* shorty hits install button[/high]

[Oblivion Knight]

This mod also seems to be seperating any new threads that are moved and have the "Moved: " prefix.. :ermm:

Screenshot attached.

Note: I haven't moved the $announcement variable to forumdisplay_sepsai yet since I wanted the announcement to stay on top of my stickies.. Though this doesn't make a difference to this problem anyway.

[assassingod]

Ah right, I thought something like this might happen, never looked into it though.

I'll have a play with it later and see if i can fix it

[shorty]

Thanks Assassin

What variable did you move? Im lost