Forum Home Enhancements - Site Life Status

Site Life Status for vB3.7
Version 1.0.4
(By Boofo)

What does this product do?
This product will add a Site Life Status info area, including Site Startup Date, Site Age and a Pagehits counter to your forumhome What's Going On box.

NOTE: The maximum counter value will depend on your system. The maximum signed integer value for 32 bit systems is 2147483647 (or 2,147,483,647), while the maximum signed integer value for 64 bit systems is 9223372036854775807 (or 9,223,372,036,854,775,807). These are the highest numbers this counter will be able to count to, depending on your system.

Version Information:
Version 1.0.1 --Initial release for vB3.7
Version 1.0.2 --Fixed changed variable in the template manual edit code.
Version 1.0.3 --Added phrases for counter. Now fully phrased.
Version 1.0.4 --Counter moved to the datastore. Added setting for the page views start count.

NOTE: You will need to uninstall any previous version and do a clean install of 1.0.4 to upgrade. You will also need to delete the forumhome_pagehits.txt file as it is no longer needed.

Credits:
A big thank you goes out to Shawn Dean for supplying the javascript code for the Site Age counter.

Installation overview:
Products to install: (1)
Templates to edit: (1) - Optional
Files to edit: (1)
Files to Upload: (2)
Images to upload (1)

Installation Instructions:
1. Upload life_status.gif to the images/misc folder on your site.

2. Upload site_life.js to the clientscript folder on your site.
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4. Go to your Admin CP
Scroll down to 'Plugin System'
Click 'Manage Products'
Click 'Add/Import Product'
Click the 'Browse' button, and locate the product-site_lifestatus.xml file on your computer

5. Go to your Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Help Site Life Status and set the following options:
--Site Life Status Enable: Enable/Disable the Site Life Status.
--Site Life Status Startup Date: Enter your site startup date.
--Site Life Status Automatic Template Replace: Click yes to have the template automatically edited.
--Update the page views counter to the value below? If you want to change the current page views counter value on forumhome to the value provided below, set this to "Yes" - it will automatically be reset to "No" once the new value has been set (at the next page view).
--Site Life Status Forumhome Page Views Counter: Enter the number of page views, without commas, to start the page views count at. (Example: 16897)


NOTE: You are done unless you opted to do the manual template install. If you chose Site Life Status Automatic Template Replace, there is no need to do the manual template edit in the install file.

Done!
Enjoy!

NOTE: If you do not click install, you do not need support.

[SpeedJunkyz]

for some reason my "Site Age" resets everytime you refresh to -30 seconds. Its counts up to "0" and thens starts to count up from zero.

[Boofo]

It looks perfectly fine to me.

[BeerLuver]

Originally Posted by Boofo

You regally don't need to upgrade the config.php on upgrades unless they tell us that they have changed something in it, which seldom happens on minor upgrades.

Thanks for the heads up on this notion . I really should spend the time to overlook what fixes they've done when a new patch comes out for vB, before I upgrade my forums then. Definitely gonna do that from now on; and not overwrite ALL files unless required. Thanks again man

[Boofo]

The config.php should be the only file you don't need to overwrite every time. The rest I would do.

[BeerLuver]

I don't update the images directories unless there are new images added; I had to alter their default images to work better with darker styles; aside from any custom images we made that is.

[Boofo]

I have a separate directory for my images for the skin I am using so it makes no difference for me. But, yes, the images directory is one that you can bypass unless they have changed or added something.

[SpeedJunkyz]

Originally Posted by Boofo

It looks perfectly fine to me.

yeah it looks fine to me now......but awhile ago it was doing what stated above....weird!


SJ

[Boofo]

There is no way it can do what you stated it was doing it you install the hack properly.

[EagleNick]

It constantly says " There have been 0 visitors to this page. ".... I did what it said to do to fix the problem.

Why, is this, and how do I fix it?

Thanks in advance.

BTW, this is a very neat hack

[Boofo]

Do the config.php file edit.