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Checking for notifications on rest of website

LimitedWardLimitedWard New
in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

I have a website that has a vanilla forum embedded inside of it (all on the same host). The rest of the website uses PHP and MySQL; however, I would like to add something at the top of each page that would let users know if they have a notification in their forum account (e.g. if someone receives a new private message, there would be a notification at the top right of each page on the website). How might I be able to do this?

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    peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited May 2014

    if someone receives a new private message,

    not sure - but are you aware you can set notifications to appear on page in vanilla in profile preferences.
    it currently appears in lower right. (are you looking to change position of the messages.)

    or are you looking to add notifications to non-vanilla web pages (as well as putting it in upper right).

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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    LimitedWardLimitedWard New
    edited May 2014

    @peregrine said:
    or are you looking to add notifications to non-vanilla web pages (as well as putting it in upper right).

    I am looking to add notifications to the non-vanilla web pages on my site.

    I know that on the vanilla pages there are notifications, and people can receive notifications via email. I'm just asking because people on my site want to be able to see the notifications as soon as they go to the (non-vanilla) homepage.

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    peregrineperegrine MVP

    maybe this will help you on your way.

    inform messages are dealt with in js/ global.js and via

    notifications can come from gdn.InformMessages and the various controller methods InformMessage

    positioning is via class InformMessages in css.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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    LimitedWardLimitedWard New

    @peregrine said:
    maybe this will help you on your way.

    inform messages are dealt with in js/ global.js and via

    notifications can come from gdn.InformMessages and the various controller methods InformMessage

    positioning is via class InformMessages in css.

    I wonder if there is a way to do it using jsConnect :\

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    hgtonighthgtonight ∞ · New Moderator

    I would suggest adding the MeModule to the rest of your site. Put in some placeholder markup and request the actual markup via an ajax request to http://forum.example.com/module/memodule and popping it in there. Copy the relative styles over and you should be good to go!

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    LimitedWardLimitedWard New

    @hgtonight said:
    I would suggest adding the MeModule to the rest of your site. Put in some placeholder markup and request the actual markup via an ajax request to http://forum.example.com/module/memodule and popping it in there. Copy the relative styles over and you should be good to go!

    Do you know where I might find documentation on the MeModule? I looked in the "Documentation" section of the site and couldn't find anything on it (perhaps I'm not searching for the right thing).

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    peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited May 2014

    vanillaforums.org/search?adv=&search=MeModule

    search the forum for MeModule.

    this might give you some ideas -

    look at a few of the comments in this discussion.

    http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/206149/#Comment_206149

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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    hgtonighthgtonight ∞ · New Moderator

    Sample code here: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/206134/#Comment_206134

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    LimitedWardLimitedWard New

    @peregrine said:
    vanillaforums.org/search?adv=&search=MeModule

    search the forum for MeModule.

    this might give you some ideas -

    look at a few of the comments in this discussion.

    http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/206149/#Comment_206149

    @hgtonight said:
    Sample code here: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/206134/#Comment_206134

    I will check these out. Thanks for all the help :)

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