Tip of the day! hack

[Ruth]

Any thoughts?

[mjames]

How would this be related to vBulletin?

[tubedogg]

Does it matter?

vBulletin can be formed into many things, including a site front-end (portal), CMS, site back-end, etc. etc. etc.

That said, I can also see this being used internally in vB for teaching users about the intracacies of vB.

[Ruth]

Good ideas tubedogg :)

i myself would use it for the front page in a portal or the vB index.

More thoughts?

[Ruth]

This could help

http://www.mattkruse.com/scripts/tip/index.html

but i prefer to see something using a database.

[Chen]

I might start working on this.

[Chen]

By the way, do you want it to be a single tip per day (like the thread title says), or a different tip every time the page is loaded (like that script you showed us)?
I think a random tip every time is better, but it's your hack...

Also, how do you want it to be formatted?
I think a link in the footer could pop up a page, with a random tip would be great.

Tell me what you think. :)

[Ruth]

Cool :)

i made a rough screen shot of the hack to help you ...
you may change it to whatever you find easier for you

about viewing it to the members:
link with a pop up window would be nice
also, to integrate it in the page itself in a table.

hope this help :p

and thanks in advance :)


cheers,

[Ruth]

FireFly, any updates on this?

[Thomas P]

Hi,
good idea, Afterburner did this for UltraBoard and it was like in Windows Tip of the day. Was very stylish as it looked pretty the same as the tip of the day on windows machines.
We may contact him about that if he wants to share his coding he did so far.
cu,
-Tom

[Afterburner]

no this were only hardcoded links and the newest topic off all. At the moment I dont have any interest to do anything - private problems -

[Chen]

Originally posted by Ruth
FireFly, any updates on this?
Nope, sorry. I kinda forgot about this, but I'll keep working today. :)

[Ruth]

how is the work going FireFly?

[The Prohacker]

If your still doing this, I just remembered about this cool setup for a tip of the day...



http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/tod/tod.htm


If you did use this, you might have it set a cookie that will expire in 24 hours, and it will only popup if that cookie isn't present, and of course only popup if the user is registered, and has opted to receive the tips...

[ToraTora!]

I was going to suggest checking out a few free java script sites as well...these scripts are plentiful, so there is no need to try and reinvent the wheel here.
The one script i picked up, (but havent bothered using because its a pain in the ass to look at) has over 300 "tips" or "sayings" for the day, in which you can customize them any way you wish. :)

[Ruth]

using java/dhtml scripts will not be as powerful as using the DB, with functions to show different tips for different groups, or can you?

[Chen]

I didn't use usergroups for this, sorry.
I didn't know that's what you wanted until after I started working on this.

[Thomas P]

Originally posted by The Prohacker
If your still doing this, I just remembered about this cool setup for a tip of the day...

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/tod/tod.htm



That'd be awesome!
-Tom

[Ruth]

Originally posted by FireFly
I didn't use usergroups for this, sorry.
I didn't know that's what you wanted until after I started working on this.

its ok to start now without user_groups, and i think it is easier afterwards to duplicate the hack and add permissions based on users_Group_ID.

[Ruth]

any updates FireFly?

[Chen]

Ok, here it is.
This might not be the best way to do this, but well, it's something.

I'm just packed with jobs lately, just can't do them all.
And since I do have some previous commitments (yes, even earlier than this one), I must complete them first.
Veyr sorry, Ruth.

1. Run this query:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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2. Save this as tip.php, and upload to your main folder:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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3. Save this as tip.php and upload to your admin folder:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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4. Save this as tip_main template:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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5. Save this as tip_showtip template:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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6. In index.php of the admin folder add this:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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right BEFORE this:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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That's it.
This will display a random tip on every page load.

I understand if you don't want to use this, it's far from perfect.

Sorry again. :(

[Ruth]

Thanks so much FireFly :)

it is better than nothing, i'll try it soon...

thanks again for your time...you are great :D

[inetd]

Do you have demo or screenshot's?:confused:

[sysmom]

Although there's no vB admin interface to it, last week I quickly wrote up a bare bones little "verse of the day" script that works with a client's vbPortal.

It reads from a two field flat file and spits out a new one every day.

If this little scrap of code would be helpful to anyone, please let me know.

It could be used for quotes, tips, well, you know... :)

deb

[Ruth]

FireFly, i think the modify link in the CP is not working, besides what is the command to show tips in the pages?

[Chen]

Use this code in the pages:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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and just add $showtip wherever you want it.

Looks like I forgot a big part from the tip.php file, I'll find it in a min.

[shadowbreed]

Any idea why the modify option won't work?

[Chen]

Yeah, I forgot that whole part from my file, and now it's not in my file anymore! :(
I guess I'll have to re-write it.
Arrgh...

[Ruth]

Originally posted by FireFly
Yeah, I forgot that whole part from my file, and now it's not in my file anymore! :(
I guess I'll have to re-write it.
Arrgh...

any updates?

thanks

[Ruth]

can anyone finish this hack?

and the ability maybe to make usergroups defined.

thanks

[inetd]

Hello!
This is very good idea!
FireFly, sorry for anxiety, you will complete this hack? Please, please, please! :)

[Psychdrone]

heh all you gotta do is find a random script like at hotscripts, and just tie that in to Vb

eh if FF, dosn't realease this, I will finnaly crack down and release a hack:P

[dreck]

Did this hack ever get finished or is there a hack similar to it?

[dreck]

Can this code be used to do something similar? I want to do a tip of the day on my automotive forum. I was thinking it would be at the top of the pages like the message for unregistered users:


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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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Using a Phrase Varname like:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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But what I need is a way to make it revolve from a list of say 30 tips.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

[cmiller1014]

Bump, anything out there like this?

[Neutral Singh]

Would it be nice if we could pick out an item from FAQs and randomly show a small box called Tip of the day on the lines of yahoo groups... it would really helpful in introducing new features to forum automatically like just creating a new entry into FAQ section and displaying it in the box... i am surprised no body is working on such a hack... if it has already been made please guide me to it...

Thanks.