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]

Here is the updated file, it contains most fixes for peoples problems. I am still currently doing the moved thread issue

[shorty]

Looking good mate!

Soon as you have that final bug fixed.. this is gonna be awesome!

Cheers for sticking at it

Ps.. that MOTD you did for me is working like a charmer!

[assassingod]

Thanks. I've got quite a few hacks to finish fixing bugs for, haven't got round to it til now :cheeky:

(No problem)

[Oblivion Knight]

It still doesn't appear to seperate announcements from threads if there are no sticky threads in a forum.. No other announcement modifications have been installed (I didn't re-add the mod in my 2.3.2 upgrade that I installed earlier by Xenon).

Demo:
http://www.umbrellaonline.co.uk/foru...php?&forumid=8

[assassingod]

Well I can defintly confirm that it works on my localboard. Are you sure you downloaded lastest install file and installed I correctly?

[Oblivion Knight]

Yes, the latest file added 2 extra steps to root/forumdisplay.php.

[assassingod]

There should be 3.

PHP Code:

#Find:
forumhome_moderator

#Replace with:
forumhome_moderator,forumdisplay_sepsai

#Find:
  eval("\$announcement = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_announcement')."\";");

#Under, add:
         eval("\$sepsai = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_sepsai')."\";"); 

#Find:
      if ($thread[sticky] == 1) {
         $thread[typeprefix]=$stickythreadprefix.$thread[typeprefix];
      }


#Under, add:
      if(!$addedRow and $stickyids and $thread[sticky] == 0 and $addedRow = true){ 
         eval("\$sepsai = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_sepsai')."\";"); 
      } else { 
         $sepsai = ''; 
      } 


Edit: Think I found the problem (curious how it worked on my localboard) working on a new fix now.

[Oblivion Knight]

Hence why i used the word "extra"..

This step was done in the previous instructions:

PHP Code:

#Find: 
      if ($thread[sticky] == 1) { 
         $thread[typeprefix]=$stickythreadprefix.$thread[typeprefix]; 
      } 


#Under, add: 
      if(!$addedRow and $stickyids and $thread[sticky] == 0 and $addedRow = true){ 
         eval("\$sepsai = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_sepsai')."\";"); 
      } else { 
         $sepsai = ''; 
      } 


[assassingod]

Today at 10:26 AM Oblivion Knight said this in Post #68
Hence why i used the word "extra"..

This step was done in the previous instructions:

PHP Code:

#Find: 
      if ($thread[sticky] == 1) { 
         $thread[typeprefix]=$stickythreadprefix.$thread[typeprefix]; 
      } 


#Under, add: 
      if(!$addedRow and $stickyids and $thread[sticky] == 0 and $addedRow = true){ 
         eval("\$sepsai = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_sepsai')."\";"); 
      } else { 
         $sepsai = ''; 
      } 


I think I found the problem, working in a fix now

[DeadGaze]

nice organazational hack here man....thx for this