PM indicator?

Regular Joined: Nov 11, 2003 Posts: 61

ok im looking for some one to help me out a bit......i know most people have the pop up blockers and others dont have the pop up window enabled so what i was wondering is if there is a way to make the PM links "glow" or blink? to draw attention to itsself so they know they have a new PM...this would only glow or blink when a new pm is in their box and is always on by default.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

There are many options to accomplish this. Real quickly, and this is just throw together code, you could try this. In your user info block code, assuming you are using one of the more common ones, you should have code like this

Code:

   $content .= "<img src=\"images/blocks/email-r.gif\" height=\"10\" width=\"14\">"._BUNREAD.": <b>$newpms</b><br />\n";

Modify it to this

Code:

   if ($newpms>0) $content .= "<img src=\"images/blocks/email-r.gif\" height=\"10\" width=\"14\"><span style=\"position:relative; height:10;filter:glow(Color=#009966,Strength=3)\">"._BUNREAD."</span>: <b>$newpms</b><br />\n";


    else $content .= "<img src=\"images/blocks/email-r.gif\" height=\"10\" width=\"14\">"._BUNREAD.": <b>$newpms</b><br />\n";

and play around with it. Bottom line you will probably want to add some sort of style attribute to a span tag to surround the UNREAD message text.

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 2:34 pm

thanks

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:48 pm

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I made the status bar flash there when users have a PM. You might want to edit your javascript.php instead of your header.php. (I had special reasons for editing my header.php)