vbPopup will determine your guests to signup to your forums in an elegant way.
If a guest visit your forum (or a specific area of it), a popup will show (for a setable period of time) a message (you decide what you want, from hotest info in your forum, or simply an advertising banner) and an option to register. The great part of this hack is that it cannot be disabled by classic popup killers. :)

The hack is designed to make the popup show only to guests.
You can set the timer value by modifying vbpopup.js parameters and the popup's look by editing the vbpopup template. Also, all you have to add in your templates (the ones you want the popup to show) is: $vbpopup, so it doesn't take alot of time to edit the forums look. I recommend you to insert it only in showthread template, but that is up to you. ;)

ESTIMATED INSTALL TIME: 4 minutes

A 'vbpopup' template installer is included in the package. I tried to make your life easy. ;)
IMPORTANT: Run the template installer in root/forum/admin.

FILES TO MODIFY:
- root/forum/global.php
- headinclude template

A screenshoot is shown below. I recommend you to keep small the popup window size. In this way the newcommers will not get annoyed by the popup.

Comments, likes, dislikes are welcome. Fell free to post them all here. Also, post a link to your forums to show off your vbPopup integration (it might give ideas to others). :D

NOTE: The java code was inspired and modified to suit the VB needs from this script (you can see it in action). My hack will produce a similar efect on the forums pages. The only difference is a cleaner code to improve the load time and integration of VB variables.

UPDATE
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Ok, I eliminated the confusion in readme.txt file about the template installer.
The hack is attached in Post #9.
It seems to be a problem updating the attachments here. Anyway, I fixed this issue by reposting the .zip file below. Sorry about the inconvenience.

UPDATE
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As I said before, this hack is extremly easy to adjust to suit your forum needs. A good example is shown below:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...821#post222821

the VB integration. ;)

hmmmmm.. problems with the attachments. firefly, check it please.

Beatiful idea, I'll install it tommorrow as I need to sleep now!

Is there a link where we can see this in action (not just a screenshot)?

Thanks :)

i have VB hosted on my server (localhost). for the feel of this java code, you can look at the original script here. the java code included with this hack was optimised, but the feel is similar. :)

Working Great! Here's a demo on my forums:

http://www.games-fusion.net/therage/forums/index.php

(I changed the pic around :D)

I added $vbpopup to templates: forumhome, forumdisplay, & showthread

Works like a charm! Mad props to Nakkid! Great hack!

One problem tho, I had problems using your installer, kept getting errors, so I just manually added the template.

you must run the template installer in root/forum/admin. ;) i like the way you added the monkey in there.. :D

:)

Thats super lame - are you trying to get people to leave your forums?

Sorry - but I wouldn't install this, nor would I register anywhere which runs it.