[high]* Hellcat puts off his shoes
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Sure, get over here ;):D

Seriously: Glad you have so much use for it :):up:
At the moment it can only be installed once for one countdown.
(I tried to just change the product ID in the XML and some other identifiers - the second install still messed up the whole thing down to the unability to uninstall it - thankfully it was on my local dev. vB :D)

I might think of a way how to do more than one countdown per user....
[high]* Hellcat thinks
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If you put the contents of the counter display template inside a 1x1 cells table it should do the trick.



Whoops.... those slipped by....
The first however is the userprofilefiled decription, those don't use phrases :-/
But I'll overwrite the description with a phrase text, that should do it :D
Will all be phrased in the next update :up:

Can you seperate the signature & this countdown event? I want the count down shown & no signature, if no countdown then show the signauture, something like

If (has countdown)
Show countdown
Else
Show signature (if enable)

My users hav to sacrify! They can't have both since it's will slow down if we have a big board and everyone showing theirs!

nice hack, i'm useless at installing things but done this no problems

mod installed. thanks!

Edit (spoke too soon):

installation went fine. no problems.

but when i go to "Edit Options" i get the error below...

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/thebe6/public_html/forums/profile.php(2687) : eval()'d code on line 64

if i move it to "Edit Profile". I see it there and no error like the above. BUT after making a countdown. i don't see it in my sig portion.

help please...

Same question. Hack looks GREAT, but I would like to limit who has access, also.

If you get around to implementing something like this I will back to install in a heartbeat. :D

@rammbs:
That's weird.... I'll check it....

Also working on the usergroup permissions :)

Hellcat, no need!

i found my culprit. it was an extra "if" in the "modifyoptions" template after installing another hack.

it's all good! again, nice mod and thanks!! :up:

Or better yet, let the user purchase this option through Ebux/Estore system! :)

Happy news :)
While I was walking through the code anyway, I got the usergroup permissions working :up:

You can now choose what usergroup(s) can use the countdown via the usergroupmanager!
New archive has been uploaded.


Cool, so I can stop looking ;)


Hmm.... cool idea!
I might think about a way of including this as an action in eStore :up:

Not working here it wont save the info or display anything

Same problem here, if i set event, ans save, it wont show, and go back to edit options...there is no event???

im at a complete loss....

I'm baffled, nothing appears to have changed.

I've tried 2 different ways so far because the instructions don't mention the /xml/bitfield_hc_countdown.xml so I tried both with and without it.

Uploaded the .php file to /includes/ then added new product with the .xml file and there is nothing anywhere and I've tried 3 different test accounts.

I also tried with uploading /xml/bitfield_hc_countdown.xml and no errors, but no options anywhere for countdown.

Uninstalled for now sadly. This sounds like a great addon.

BTW, 3.5.3 with a few addons, PHP 4.4.1 with Apache 1.3.34 on Linux.

Fantastic! Up to my ears with some other things atm, but will be back to install this later this weekend. Thanks! :D

thanks for the update!

Great Idea, but I am a little lost.
I have followed your instructions and installed the mod, then I edited the user group properties.. But if you look at the image, I am not sure what to do.

@SuperJETT, please try this...

1. upload "plugins_usercountd.php" to ".../forum/includes/"
2. upload "bitfield_hc_countdown.xml" to "..forum/includes/xml"
3. then under "Plugin System" --> "Manage Products" --> "Add/Import Product"
4. import "product-hc_usercountdown110.xml"

5. go to "Usergroups"
6. edit your "Registered Users"
7. Scroll all the way down and click "Yes" to enable.
8. click "Update"

you're done.

hope this helps...

Ok, Now I am getting the Options for the countdown displaying twice.

I decided to give it one more shot, had to go in and edit the db manually though because on the last remove it didn't take the fields out properly apparently.

Short story = db is messed up. I have some work to do.

Yikes. This is causing an extra query per post on showthread.php. 38 queries had me freaked out!

Argh.

Ok, I need help on manually removing this plugin, my board is down currently. I've never had any problems like this with other plugins or my years of running phpbb forums and manually editting stuff.

Can anyone help me out? before viewthread died completely, I had 7 entries in the usercp for events. I know I haven't tried this 7 times, and I dug around in the templates and don't see multiple entries for anything related to this.

Here is my error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT field FROM vbuserfield WHERE userid='106';;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'field' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Saturday, February 18th 2006 @ 02:26:28 PM
Script : http://www.x-h2o.com/showthread.php?t=750
Referrer : http://www.x-h2o.com/search.php?searchid=22848

Classname : vb_database

I'm having the same issue on my own live server.
I already tracked it down to some sort of misbehaviour of eval()'d code on some occasions.
I think I have soon at least a workaround for this....


Did you edit the usergrouppermissions to allow usage of the timer?



Upload the contents of the "upload to ...." folder, the subfolder layou tin there is how it's supposed to be uploaded already....



That's weird :ermm:
Shouldn't look that way. Have to see and find what may cause this....

• In the table "settings" delete all entries with "varname" = "countdownfield"
• In table "profilefield" delete all entries with "title" = "User Countdown"
• In table "userfield" drop all columns added by the countdown
• SQL: DELETE FROM plugin WHERE product = 'hc_usercountdown';
• In the product table delete the "hc_usercountdown" entry
• Delete uploaded files

[EDIT]
OK, I did a few quick test, it seeme vB re-runns the install code even if it's already there. That shouldn't have happened....
That could be the cause for much troubles....

Just did that, showthread.php isn't working currently after removing everything from the db and the files from /includes.
After uploading the files again just to see if it works:
field 17 is gone of course, was one that I deleted from the db. Can you point out the code modifications I need to remove? I'm new to the .xml and can sort of understand it, but not completely.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor....

BTW, I love the idea of this plugin, and will definitely install it once it's sorted completely.

EDIT: since I was down anyway, decided to see if reinstalling would at least get me functional since the database was corrected, and it did, for now. Counters are even working. Can I get verification that the plugin uninstall works properly?

Weird that it still wanted to access the files when the plugins are deleted....
Did the product / the plugins still show up on the plugin manager?

I just installed, uninstalled and reinstalled it several times on a test installation - didn't encounter any problems :-/

Try installing, reinstall with overwrite, then uninstall and see where you end up. I think that's what got me.

That's the point: NO OVERWRITE
Besides, after unistalling the overwrite is somewhat meaningless, since there is nothing to overwrite.

I think that's what causing the problems. Reinstalling by overwriting the current one (without uninstalling it first), and vB also re-runs the installer code (wich it shouldn't) and that really messes things up.

I will enhance the installer somehow to prevent that!

very nice, I'm sure our users will like this, easy install.

BTW Hellcat, thanks, both for writing this, and for helping me get mine straightened out.

Anyone have this running on a large board? I am curious about performance. It sure does add a lot of queries.

Very nice hack though. :)

I just realized that if you don't have a sig, this will never show either. Is there a way around that?

do u have ur options set to allow all posts on one page?

I know this was a couple weeks ago, but to solve this, just use the style attribute inline for the fieldset.
in template usercountdown_display
FIND: REPLACE WITH: or whatever width you want. You can also use percentage.
REPLACE WITH: You also may need to add a <br/> before the fieldset tag.

nope

well i have it installed, its showing on edit options, i put in the info and it does not save anything.

so nothing in the sig line...

any ideas?

I somehow installed the product twice. Not sure how but now it's all messed up. After the second install it disappeared off the 'Manage Products' page.

I deleted most of the related parts in SQL but there's a few instances of the countdown that are mingled into certain tables that contain other stuff and I don't want to mess it up. Can you help me get rid of it completely? All in are in table 'datastore'. If you need the specific code LMK.

Read his replies to me, had the same problem and he helped\me get it straightened out.

I'll punch together a "clean up script" this weekend for broken installs!

I've installed but can't see the countdown, also got a modified modifyoptions template ( user select new searches). what do I need to do to alter this to get countdown to show up please??

A safe uninstaller would be useful or can i just delete the product and remove the Includes/plugins_usercountd.php and includes/xml/bitfield_hc_countdown.xml files??

I only want a small user group to have access to this product so I'm hoping queries won't be too much.

Usually a uninstall via the Product Manager works fine.
Onyl sometimes, esp. when re-installed with "Allow Overwrite" things could get a bit messy - therefor the cleanup script.

Also ATM countdowns only show when a sig is present and displayed - I'm going to tweak that as well.