phpBB Global Announcement

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:11 pm (21 years ago)

OK, probably a stupid question I know, but how do you do the Global Announcement?

Junior WebHelper Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Posts: 3

how do i get loadz peopel to visit my forum not just my frineds but the public ??

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Hi Mike,

Right now it's a very cheap hack Very Happy

. All I did was include an extra field in the config table, called global_announcement. I then passed this field on to the templates in page_header.php with the assign command. I then included the assigned variable in the viewforum.tpl template, above the normal post rows. So this field basically contains an HTML link to a topic.

As to editing it, it's done via the admin panel in the "Configuration" section. Just copy the existing code for "site description" and apply it to this new field.

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 10:33 am (21 years ago)

Right, I think I might just wait for phpBB 2.2 to be released Wink

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

According to the developers that should be before the end of this year, but you never know Wink

You know there is a global announcements mod floating around, which works somewhat like global announcements do in 2.2... Smile

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 11:35 am (21 years ago)

No, I didn't know about the global announcement mod. I might go look for it.
Yeah, I can't wait til 2.2 is released, I've had a look at area51.phpbb.com and I've got (a very dodgy) CVS install of 2.1.1 on my local system Smile

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Here's a link to the mod I was talking about:

http://mods.db9.dk/viewtopic.php?t=17