hi!

i want to request a plugin that make short the portal announcement to a certain number of words, images or videos and in the end a button that say's read more, and when a user click that button go to the thread in forum.
that's all, i will be very thankful i someone can make this plugin
thanks in advance!!!

salutes!!!

i just send a tut for it at mybbtuts.com
i think it waits for appoving after that you can get it from http://mybbtuts.com/tutorials/.

name will be Short portal annnouncement.

great men, i will wait for the approving then

thanks!!!

Thank you dared.
It is now here: http://mybbtuts.com/tutorials/37/

how can i add a link with the text Read More an when someone click the link go to the thread in the forum?

@Dalton
it's a pleasure =)

@Azagthoth
did u see "// You can edit this line too " comment? edit ....... part of that line for exp:

change this
$announcement['message'] = substr($announcement['message'], 0, 85)."......"; // You can edit this line too

to this

$announcement['message'] = substr($announcement['message'], 0, 85)."Read More..."; // You can edit this line too

or this:

$announcement['message'] = substr($announcement['message'], 0, 85)."Read More"; // You can edit this line too

thats all

Completed as tutorial.

/Moving to Completed

This is wonderful, but is there any way to preserve the formatting? For example, if I use any font tags and the font tag isn't closed before the character cut-off number is reached, the opening part of the tag will be displayed on the portal.

So, for example... on the forum it looks something like this:
This is just a test. I am testing. Did you hear about the woman who went to Australia to film a movie about drop bears?

But on the portal it looks something like this:
[size=x-small]This is just a test. I am testing. Did you hear about the woman who went...

its a known issue and i cant fix it. maybe you can request to nickman or other masters...

I have made a topic at MyBB. Hopefully someone can help fix this issue:
http://community.mybboard.net/thread-57631.html