vB Blinking Evelope on PM

This hack should work for every Release Candidate version.

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DEMO BOARD
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Demo board is located at: http://www.forumfreedom.net/
Feel free to visit.

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DESCRIPTION
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This hack is very simple: it adds a blinking envelope to your forum if you have a new private message, making it easier to know if you have a new private message. This actually came from a request from the 3.5 modification request forum.

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INSTALLATION
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Difficulty: Easy
Time: Less than a minute

PLEASE CLICK INSTALL!!!

UPDATE: NO LONGER REQUIRES FILE EDIT.

sugg: just make the envelop modif in the template, no need to edit the global.php...

<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><br /><if condition="$bbuserinfo['pmunread']!= 0"><IMG SRC=benvelope.gif></if>

doing so, your edit can be moved to Templates Modifications!

EDIT: changed the $vbulletin-> to bbuserinfo, as it's not parsed correctly in templates... YET!

[adamgessel]

Tried doing that but...

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/adamgess/public_html/forum/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3510) : eval()'d code on line 42

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.

That's why I had to do the template edit... maybe I'll try again later.

[adamgessel]

There... now it doesn't require a file edit.

Tried to do it before but it wasn't working for me.

i just edited my post... the $vbulletin-> thing is not parsed in templates, i always forget that... now it's working!

[Boofo]

Any pics?

[dieselpowered]

I am confused, 1st post claims that no file edits are required, yet the instructions show to modify global.php as well as edit the navbar template??

Am I missing something, should there be an xml file in the folder?

[Boofo]

You can do the global part as a navbar temple edit.

I'm still using Chen's old vb2 one that uses js and it works fine.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

er... now I'm confused. do we need to edits or not?

[Andreas]

According to the ZIP - yes.

@adamgesel
Could you please update the ZIP to make this a Template Modification so it can be moved to the correct Forum?
Thanks.