Scrolling Announcement

[mholtum]

What this does is give you a scrolling announcement under your navbar prompting visitors to register for your site and if they are registered and have a post count of 0 it prompts them to post. You can see it in action here.

I have it set to display "Please register to participate in the Forums, Chat & Gallery. It is fast, easy & Free." if a unregistered or unlogged in visitor views your site and "Our logs show that you have never posted on the forums! Please take a moment and do so, you will be equally rewarded."


This mod shouldn't take you more that thirty seconds to install.

1: Open your navbar template and find ( at the very bottom )

<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->
</if>

Place directly below:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 2 AND $bbuserinfo['posts'] <= 0">
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<div class="panel"><div align="$stylevar[center]">
<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px">
<legend>Announcement</legend>
<marquee behavior="scroll" align="center" direction="left" scrollamount="2" scrolldelay="20" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()"><strong><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[welcome_x]</phrase> Our logs show that you have never posted on the forums! Please take a moment and do so, you will be equally rewarded.</strong></marquee>
</fieldset>
</div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table><br /><br />
</if>
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 1">
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<div class="panel"><div align="$stylevar[center]">

<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px">
<legend>Announcement</legend>
<marquee behavior="scroll" align="center" direction="left" scrollamount="2" scrolldelay="20" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()">
<strong>Please register to participate in the Forums, Chat &amp; Gallery. It is fast, easy & Free</strong>
</marquee>
</fieldset>
</div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table><br />
</if>

[smackLAN]

I love it Mike...thanks!!! ***Installed***

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by smackLAN

I love it Mike...thanks!!! ***Installed***

Glad you like it.

[petersweb]

Well done! -> installed

[VVIper]

That is very cool, Very easy to install and neat.
Thankyou for sharing

[mholtum]

I am glad you all like it..

[notorious]

thats cool it looks great thx for this

[sunnycher]

Thanks Mike! Love it! INSTALLED

[mholtum]

Glad you like it.

[SomeName]

That's pretty nifty!

[lalotte]

Very nice! Thanks!

[axi]

does the 1.x hacks/addons work for 2.x also ?

[mholtum]

as this is only a template mod, it isnt version dependant

[FroggyStyle]

Looks good however even if I am logged in I still see, the please register messsage.

[mholtum]

there are two messages. 1 telling you to register and 1 if you havent posted..

[FroggyStyle]

So if I am registered and have many post, I should still the message asking me to register?

[mholtum]

No, obviously not. If you are registered and many posts and you are seeing the announcemnet, then they copied the code wrong.

[FroggyStyle]

This what I have"

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 2 AND $bbuserinfo['posts'] <= 0">
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<div class="panel"><div align="$stylevar[center]">
<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px">
<legend>Announcement</legend>
<marquee behavior="scroll" align="center" direction="left" scrollamount="2" scrolldelay="20" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()"><strong><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[welcome_x]</phrase> Our logs show that you have never posted on the forums! Please note, all accounts with 0 post will be removed after 30 days</strong></marquee>
</fieldset>
</div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table><br /><br />
</if>
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 1">
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<div class="panel"><div align="$stylevar[center]">

<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px">
<legend>Announcement</legend>
<marquee behavior="scroll" align="center" direction="left" scrollamount="2" scrolldelay="20" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()">
<strong>You must register to participate in the Forums</strong>
</marquee>
</fieldset>
</div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>



And I am registered and have many post and I see the onet telling me I must register.


EDIT:

I think I see the problem. I have mutiple user groups on my board, I see the script is refering to group 1 and group 2. I am not in either of those groups, is it possible to to add multiple groups to each???

[blackpheonix]

i dont use the navbar for my portal any way i can add this with out enabling navbar?

i changed your code slightly the scrolling text is now links.
one points to register and the other points to my introduction forum.

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 2 AND $bbuserinfo['posts'] <= 0">
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<div class="panel"><div align="$stylevar[center]">
<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px">
<legend>Announcement</legend>
<marquee behavior="scroll" align="center" direction="left" scrollamount="2" scrolldelay="20" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()"><strong><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[welcome_x]</phrase><a href="/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3">Our logs show that you have never posted on the forums! Why not introduce your self in our introduction forum.</strong></a></marquee>
</fieldset>
</div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table><br /><br />
</if>
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 1">
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<div class="panel"><div align="$stylevar[center]">

<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px">
<legend>Announcement</legend>
<marquee behavior="scroll" align="center" direction="left" scrollamount="2" scrolldelay="20" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()"><a href="/forum/register.php">
<strong>Please register to participate in the Forums, Chat &amp; Gallery. It is fast, easy & Free</strong></a>
</marquee>
</fieldset>
</div></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table><br />
</if>

a few things you have to do if your a using an introduction forum.

Firstly.

Find

<a href="/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3>

and point the link in the right direction of your introduction forum.

If you dont want or have the introdution forum revert back to the origanal code

Find

<a href="/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3">Our logs show that you have never posted on the forums! Why not introduce your self in our introduction forum.</strong></a></marquee>

and replace with

Our logs show that you have never posted on the forums! Please take a moment and do so, you will be equally rewarded.</strong></marquee>

Secondly

Find

<a href="/forum/register.php">

and point the link in the right direction of your register.php file.

and thats that

[mholtum]

Phoenix, You can place the code anywhere you want.