Forum Announcement(s) on CMPS

[Slave]

Can you show what you have between ..

//------------------------------------------------------------------------
// begin configuration
//------------------------------------------------------------------------

and

//------------------------------------------------------------------------
// end configuration - no other changes necessary
//------------------------------------------------------------------------

Within your announements.php file ..

[Slave]

Oh .. I've sort of fixed my problem .. (dleblanc take note) ..

Within "adv_portal_announcementbit"

Find both instances of:

$announcement[forumid]

and replace both with correct forum number .. ie 1

This will work if all you want to show are announcements which are forum wide .. ie you've ticked "All Forums" when creating the announcment ..

[dleblanc]

Slave,

That work and also I noted that if you create an announcements and put it in a single forum and not All Forums it still will display Latest Announcements by overiding the All forums as the lastest announcements enter. Cool.....

What if you want to keep let say the last 3 announcements displayed is that possible?

[Slave]

just edit your announcement.php file within your modules folder .. change ..

//How many announcements to display
$maxannouce = 1;

To whatever number of announcements you want to show ..

Remember that you have to have that many current announcements else you'll only get the number of current announcements showing .. (if that makes sense!) ..

[Slave]

say ..

//How many announcements to display
$maxannouce = 3;

[dleblanc]

Thanks I miss that one..guess that my Alzheimer’s kicking in again.

$maxannouce = 3;

[trulylowcarb]

THANKS! Easy to install and use. Working great w/ vb 3.06 and CMPS1.01

[TeamGoFast]

nice add on!! thanks for sharing!

[ricoche]

Originally Posted by trulylowcarb

THANKS! Easy to install and use. Working great w/ vb 3.06 and CMPS1.01

Wow, I have the same deal and followed the directions above, but the no announcements are pulled from the forums.

//Forum(s) to pull announcements from
$forumid = 92;

//How many announcements to display
$maxannouce = 1;

//How many characters to display per announcement
$maxchrs = 2000;

//Only change this by reference above
$sqltext = "forumid = $forumid";

Module has been added and the templates too. Everything has been configured, but still no go.

Thanks

[Tom M]

One change I made was to modify the behaviour for when there are no announcements. The initial design still showed the banner of "Latest Announcement". With this change the block disappears completely if there aren't any current announcements.

At the end of announcements.php change

eval('$home[$mods[\'modid\']][\'content\'] .= "' . fetch_template('adv_portal_announcements') . '";');

To

if ($announcebits != '')
{
        eval('$home[$mods[\'modid\']][\'content\'] .= "' . fetch_template('adv_portal_announcements') . '";');
}

[Slave]

Originally Posted by Tom M

One change I made was to modify the behaviour for when there are no announcements. The initial design still showed the banner of "Latest Announcement". With this change the block disappears completely if there aren't any current announcements.

Ah ha! .. the last piece of the puzzle ..

Thanks Tom ..

[Elleth Faewen]

I am about to try this. It looks like just what I need.

Originally Posted by Viks

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in /hsphere/local/home/vikram/thalforum.com/forums/modules/announements.php on line 23

HHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLP

Viks, Did you ever get the problem fixed? Looking at your code above, it looks like a typo on the filename. There is no letter 'C' in your announcements.php.

[tarang]

What about Global Annoucements?
I mean.. what should i put in the forum id to pull from configuration for Global Annoucements?

[gothic1213]

Only one thing I must find out and that is if there is a way to use the WYSIWYG editor with Announcement(s)..

Anything new on this, like this idea.

[Mikecp421]

I installed this, very easy and works great! Thanks it was exactly what I was looking for!

[klaush]

Hello from Germany,

sorry, but i couldn´t get this hack to work with CMPS!

May be i don´t understand how to create modules and/or templates.

So if any of you could specify a detailed information to build this hack i would be glad to see and thanks for your help.

Greetings

Klaus

[dleblanc]

Has anyone actually gotten this module working in vBadvanced 2.0 and vBulletin 3.5. If so can you either download your module and give instructions on how to install or just use the vBa CMPS download/Upoad feature.

[Mikecp421]

if anyone needs help AIM me at mikecp421, I'll do what I can as it was easy for me to install on my forum


edit: FYI I am running this on 3.0.8 and 3.0.9 not 3.5

[2ams]

Hi I'm a noob to vBulletin, I wanna display this on my front page, Could someone give me a step by step plan on what im doing, I've attempted twice and I've gotten

adv_portal_announcements
adv_portal_announcementbit
adv_portal_announcements
adv_portal_announcementbit

sitting at the top of my page,

vBulletin Version 3.0.7
CMPS v2.0.0 (vB 3.5)

[sinjix_media]

Originally Posted by Elleth Faewen

I am about to try this. It looks like just what I need.



Viks, Did you ever get the problem fixed? Looking at your code above, it looks like a typo on the filename. There is no letter 'C' in your announcements.php.

I get the same error
What do we fill in here?
// get announcements
$announcebits = '';
$announcements = $DB_site->query("
SELECT