Announcements in Threadview?

[D|ver]

Hello
i have a small question:
is it possible to display the forum's announcements also in the connecting threads?

i would like to display the announcements under the toolbar in the threadview pages

therefore i tried to realise this by adding the "$announcebits" variable into the showthread template but without success ;(

can anyone help?

that would be great

Bye Diver

[Meltdown]

1 Open Template: ShowThread

2 Find:
<!-- / toolbar -->

3 Afer that Add:
<br><center>$announcebits</center><br>

...I think it looks much better if you place the $announcebits after $navbar without the <br>'s.

4 Open File:
showthread.php

5 Find the comment line:
####SHOW THREAD IN LINEAR MODE#####

6 Before that block of code place the code below. It's copied from forumdisplay, with a small modification to the SELECT statement.

###################################################
// get announcements

        $announcebits = '';

        $announcements = $DB_site->query("
                SELECT
                        announcementid, startdate, title, announcement.views,
                        user.username, user.userid, user.usertitle, user.customtitle
                FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "announcement AS announcement
                LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS user ON(user.userid = announcement.userid)
                WHERE startdate <= " . (TIMENOW - $vboptions['hourdiff']) . "
                        AND enddate >= " . (TIMENOW - $vboptions['hourdiff']) . "
                             AND forumid =".$foruminfo['forumid']."
                ORDER BY startdate DESC
                " . iif($vboptions['oneannounce'], "LIMIT 1"));

        while ($announcement = $DB_site->fetch_array($announcements))
        {
                if ($announcement['customtitle'] == 2)
                {
                        $announcement['usertitle'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($announcement['usertitle']);
                }
                        $announcement['postdate'] = vbdate($vboptions['dateformat'], $announcement['startdate']);
                if ($announcement['startdate'] > $lastread)
                {
                        $announcement['statusicon'] = 'new';
                }
                else
                {
                        $announcement['statusicon'] = 'old';
                }
                $announcement['views'] = vb_number_format($announcement['views']);
                $announcementidlink = iif(!$vboptions['oneannounce'] , "&amp;announcementid=$announcement[announcementid]");

                eval('$announcebits .= "' . fetch_template('forumdisplay_announcement') . '";');
        }

7 Save and you're done

[D|ver]

wow thank you so much for your help

but i have 2 problems:
- global announcements are not shown, only forum specified announcements
- the announcement row in showthread doesn't match the 'forumdisplay_announcement' design

i added the 'forumdisplay_announcement' template into the precached template list in showthread.php but the colors are still wrong

do you know what i can do now?

it would be great, if you could help me

[Meltdown]

Originally Posted by D|ver

- global announcements are not shown, only forum specified announcements

CP Panel > VBulletin Options > Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) > Group Announcements...set this to No and all announcements will show seperately, otherwise they are all grouped under one announcement

Originally Posted by D|ver

- the announcement row in showthread doesn't match the 'forumdisplay_announcement' design

Open the template ShowThread and put a opening and closing HTML tag around $announcebits;like this:
<table border=0 width=100%>
$announcebits
</table>

...you may need to open forumdisplay_announcement template and set the width of the first <td> tag (which hold the image icon).

Meltdown

[D|ver]

thank you so much for your help now it is working without problems

but for enabling the global announcements i changed the following line:
AND forumid =".$foruminfo['forumid']."

into this:
AND forumid =".$foruminfo['forumid']." OR forumid = -1


just in case if you also want to use it

[Hornstar]

[QUOTE=Meltdown]CP Panel > VBulletin Options > Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) > Group Announcements...set this to No and all announcements will show seperately, otherwise they are all grouped under one announcement

Thats what i was looking for.

it was really starting to annoy me.

thanks.