Play Sound When Private Message Received - the Amy Way

This hack is based off of one by EvilLS1 who also kindly contributed the wav file.

His hack plays a sound when the user visits the forumhome page if they have a new PM.

My version plays the sound on any page much the same as the PM popup works. In addition, my version has a usercp option for members to turn off sounds if they wish.

It's a rather easy hack to install.

Amy

[Boofo]

Excellent work there, young lady. Let me be the first to (c)lick the install button.

[filburt1]

You see, Amy? Now who's flirting with you?

Nice

[Boofo]

Yeah, but I'm old and harmless. I can't even handle what I have at home let alone anything else.

[amykhar]

I left out two steps in the documentation earlier. The zip is updated, but if you already installed, here is the rest:

Run this query:

ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `pmsound` TINYINT DEFAULT '1' NOT NULL;


In the modifyoptions template
Find:

<tr>
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Pop up a box when you receive a Private Message?</b></normalfont><br>
	<smallfont>This will pop up a small warning box when you receive a Private Message asking whether you want to view the message.</smallfont></td>
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont>
		<input type="radio" name="pmpopup" $pmpopupchecked value="yes"> yes
		<input type="radio" name="pmpopup" $pmpopupnotchecked value="no"> no
	</normalfont></td>
</tr>

Add after:

<tr>
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Play a sound when you receive a Private Message?</b></normalfont><br>
	<smallfont>This will play up a sound when you receive a Private Message.</smallfont></td>
	<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont>
		<input type="radio" name="pmsound" $pmsoundchecked value="yes"> yes
		<input type="radio" name="pmsound" $pmsoundnotchecked value="no"> no
	</normalfont></td>
</tr>

[amykhar]

See what happens when you guys flirt? I get distracted and make mistakes

Amy

[Vile]

Sweet hack.

*installed.

[SgtSling]

Amy.. I cannot get this to work...
No sound.. nothing

[SgtSling]

I checked my files.
and it looks like I did everything correctly..

and yes I checked recieve sound pm in modify options

[amykhar]

Today at 08:47 AM SgtSling said this in Post #8
Amy.. I cannot get this to work...
No sound.. nothing

That's because I forgot another step in the documentation. I am not a night person. Gotta quit releasing these things at night.

In youre header template, you need to put :

$headsound

I put it at the very top of my header template.

Off to update the documentation.

Amy