Forum Goals with Animated Progress Bar

[BirdOPrey5]

This mod will display an animated progress bar on your forum index (FORUMHOME) showing your progress as your forum approaches a "goal" you set, either a number of posts or threads.

Demo: http://www.juot.net/forums/forum.php

Optionally you can set a date for the goal and it will display a countdown of days to reach the goal.

All text output is fully phrased so you can easily change the wording to your needs.

In addition the table is its own template, forumgoals, which you can further customize as needed.

You can also easily select a custom icon without needing to edit any templates.

Finally you can turn off the auto template injection and manually place the $forumgoals template variable anywhere on your FORUMHOME template.

Full instructions are included in the zip file.

This should work on 3.7.x and 3.8.x and possibly earlier versions as well.

The progress par requires JavaScript to display. If JS is off only a percentage will show.

The progress bar uses a freely distributed JavaScript library available here:
http://www.bram.us/projects/js_bramus/jsprogressbarhandler/
"The [JavaScrpt] is now released under a creative commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license."


2 JavaScript and 2 images to upload
1 custom template
3 plugins
10 phrases


4.x version - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=257689

Please Mark as Installed if you use this!:)

[BirdOPrey5]

Reserved.

[tafreeh]

wow, can we get this for vb4 please :)

[EddyMaxx]

Couldn't get it to work properly. I added the $forumgoals manually as well and nothing displayed.

I'm on 3.8.6. It must be conflicting with something.

[Digital Jedi]

When I get a chance to catch up on some things, I'm going to give this a try. Might goad a few folks into posting.

[BirdOPrey5]

Couldn't get it to work properly. I added the $forumgoals manually as well and nothing displayed.

I'm on 3.8.6. It must be conflicting with something.

Are you getting absolutely nothing to display?

Did you actually "set" a goal? If you don't change the goal from the default of 0 (zero) it won't show.

I made this on 3.8.6 and have it installed on 2 boards, one of them heavily modified...


wow, can we get this for vb4 please :)

Hopefully but every time I try to do something for VB4 something goes wrong and makes it take 10 times as long as it should...

[EddyMaxx]

Yeah I set the goal to 150,000 posts to enable it and nothing appeared. Let me try it again.

[BirdOPrey5]

Don't put commas into the number... just set it to 150000

[EddyMaxx]

Yeah its definitely conflicting with something. Not sure what because I have a test site (slightly less modded then my live version) and it worked. So on my newer live version... there is something conflicting with it.

When I import the file... it just goes blank. In my test site it imports as it should and refreshes.

[EddyMaxx]

Ok I figured it out Joe. It conflicts with the Today's Top Thread Starter(s) on Forum Home
mod.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=205483

I disabled that mod because I prefer this one. Thanks man!!

[eido]

thx alot bro u r the best

[BirdOPrey5]

Ok I figured it out Joe. It conflicts with the Today's Top Thread Starter(s) on Forum Home
mod.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=205483

I disabled that mod because I prefer this one. Thanks man!!

Cool, thanks a lot for this info... I will see if I can get both to work because someone else might have the same issue.

[sulasno]

waiting for vB 4's version

[BirdOPrey5]

EddyMaxx- I uninstalled my mod, installed the mod you linked to, and reinstalled my mod without issue. If you want to use both you may try re-installing the Top Thread Starts mod and see what's happening.

Reviewing the code there is nothing that should conflict off-hand.

Also I noticed the Top Thread Starter has 2 versions available, the newest one is V2, is that the one you were using?

[EddyMaxx]

Joe... I tried it again and still didn't work. If I have "Top Thread" enabled... "Forum Goals" doesn't work and vice versa. Could be also my custom template.

But either way... I'm happy with this mod. :)

[BirdOPrey5]

Thank you. :up:

[ctrlbrk]

Thank you for your work. Can I make some suggestions?

1) If the goal is a Post goal, don't show # of threads (and vice versa)
2) If the goal has a date, please show not only the # remaining but what that works out to per day (ie: 500 posts/day to meet goal)

3) If you are feeling real generous, you could do something like a 7-day average of how many posts per day the forum is running and then display something like "On target" or "Falling behind" or "Ahead of schedule" based on how the post per day average compares to the goal figure.

Thx!
Mike

[BirdOPrey5]

Suggestion 1)
Small changes like this can be made via template edits to customize it to your needs. The template to edit is: forumgoals

You can erase all the code in your existing template and replace it with the code below and it will only display threads or posts depending on your goal type:

<table class="tborder" id="collapseobj_forumhome_goal" style="">
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
$vboptions[bbtitle] $vbphrase[bop5goals]
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/$bop5goalimg" alt="$vbphrase[bop5goals]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<table align="center" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="120"><div align="center" class="smallfont" ><if condition="$bopgoalsport == 1">$vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads<else />&nbsp;</if></div></td>
<td width="120"><div align="center" class="smallfont" ><if condition="$bopgoalsport == 0">$vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts<else />&nbsp;</if></div></td>
<td><div align="center" class="smallfont" ><span class="progressBar" id="element1"> $bopgoalper%</span></div></td>
<td width="170"><div align="center" class="smallfont" >$vbphrase[bop5goal] $bop5goalposts <if condition="$bopgoalsport == 0">$vbphrase[bop5posts]<else />$vbphrase[bop5threads]</if></div></td>
<td width="170"><div align="center" class="smallfont" >
<if condition="$goalreached">
$vbphrase[bop5goalreached]
<else />
<if condition="$bopgoalsport == 0">
$vbphrase[bop5poststogoal] $poststogo
<else />
$vbphrase[bop5threadstogoal] $poststogo
</if>
</if>
</td>
</tr>
<if condition="$vbulletin->options[bopgoalshowdate]">
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center" class="smallfont" >$vbphrase[today]: $bop5todayF</div></td>
<td><div align="center" class="smallfont" > <if condition="$goalreached">$bop5goalmess<else /><if condition="$bop5daysleft >= 0">$vbphrase[bopdaystogoal] <strong>$bop5daysleftF</strong><else />$vbphrase[bopovertime]</if></if></div></td>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center" class="smallfont" >$vbphrase[bopgoaldate] $bop5goaldateF</div></td>
</tr>
</if>
</table>

</td>
</tr>
</table>

<br />


You are encouraged to experiment to make further edits, if you get something that looks better feel free to even share the code in this thread if you're willing.

If you ever mess things up too much you can always go back by clicking the "revert template" button in style manager or at worst re-install the mod.

2) Yes that sounds like a good idea, I will include it in the next release.

3) I'm pretty sure keeping an average would require editing the database which will add a whole new level of complexity to the mod so I will probably be passing on this option for the time being, but I will keep it in mind should things change.

Just a reminder to anyone this is marked as "re-usable code" if anyone wants to take a shot and add more features they are free to do so and re-release their own version.

[ctrlbrk]

Thanks Joe, I have tagged the mod.

The post per day stuff is already in vb, just look at admincp - statistics - new posts.

Mike

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks Joe, I have tagged the mod.

The post per day stuff is already in vb, just look at admincp - statistics - new posts.

Mike

Good to know, I never really checked statistics before... Will see what's available. :up:

[FIM]

Install :D

[Dexperia]

Pretty cool, installed.

However, I'm trying to modify it so it allows me to set goals for the number of users registered.

I'm not sure if I have it done correctly though.

Is it ok if I send to you in a PM what I have so far? Because I may need a little bit of help with it.

I've never really tried to make any changes to any addon, but I thought I'd give it a try with this just to see if it works.

[BirdOPrey5]

Please post what you have here for everyone's benefit, I will help best I can... thinking about this just about everything will need to be changed to make this user # based, it's not a quick edit.

[Dexperia]

Please post what you have here for everyone's benefit, I will help best I can... thinking about this just about everything will need to be changed to make this user # based, it's not a quick edit.

Ohhhh right, I see :p

Anyway, here's what I got so far.

I've got it working to select the goal for members in the admincp, but when it comes to displaying on the forum page, that's where the problems start.

I'll attach the file to this post.

Because I wasn't sure how it would work, I just gave it a guess and obviously it didn't turn out according to plan :p

But hey, everyone has to start somewhere, so why not guess :D

[BirdOPrey5]

OK... here's a "beta" version I haven't tested much but seems to work...

I added "users" as a goal type in options you can select...
I added logic to the plugin to handle users...
I added logic and code to the template to handle user goal type...
I added 2 phrases related to users.

The forumgoal template could probably be nicer for # of member goals but it's a real good start if nothing else.

Import this product, allow overwrite set to "Yes."

[Dexperia]

Thanks :)

Works like a charm :)

[BirdOPrey5]

VB 4.x Version Released: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=257689

[Wonksta]

Big Big Issue when uninstalling.

I had to uninstall it but it removed almost every image from my forum home. I had to install it again but when I uninstall it my forum is completely white with just hyperlinks and text no images showing.

Please help.

[BirdOPrey5]

This mod doesn't change your database or contain any custom install code at all, it's highly unlikely this mod caused your issues. You might have had a sever error in the middle of the uninstall unrelated to this mod, hard to know for sure.

To manually Uninstall go to the Admin CP, Plugin Manager... Find the section Forum Goals by BOP5 there should be 3 plugins listed, delete each one manually.

Then go to your styles and template manager, find the template forumgoals and
delete that too.

There are several phrases too but they won't hurt anything... If you really want to delete go to your Phrase Manager, find and delete the following phrases:

bop5goal
bop5goalreached
bop5goals
bop5posts
bop5poststogoal
bop5threads
bop5threadstogoal
bopdaystogoal
bopgoaldate
bopovertime



That's it... that will remove all traces of this mod. You can also try to uninstall it again if it's still listed in your product manager.

If you can't get to your admin cp follow the instructions to disable hooks first:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/196688-Disable-the-plugin-hook-system-globally

That should get you back in the system.

[Wonksta]

Thanks before doing what you said I tried to do the normal uninstall thinking it was just a once off but yeah the issue happened again so I had to import the XML and then do it manually very strange.

[Scyther]

nice mod..thanks

[Code Geass]

plz update for vb4.x

[BirdOPrey5]

4.x version - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=257689

[Xexiu]

Testes it on vb 3.8.6 with jquery boxes and callbacks and seems that prototype.js conflicts with jquery! Any solution? Maybe a Forum Goal realease with jquery?

Uninstalled for the momemt till a solution is found. Anyways, nice idea and keep up the good working ;).

[BirdOPrey5]

I believe if you change the order the scripts are called in it can resolve the conflict- I've seen that work on the 4.x version.

My development of this mod is over, it is reusable code if anyone wants to continue with it.

[datoneer]

Will this work on 4.2.1?

[datoneer]

I tried it and got this error:

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: forumgoals in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4591

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/____/public_html/includes/class_core.php(4716) : eval()'d code on line 90

[datoneer]

Omg i didn't noticed that this is v 3.8.x hahahahaha