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Site Life Status for vB 4
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, Site Location, Pagehits counter and Average visits, 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 1.0.0 --Initial release for vB 4
Version 1.0.1 --Added Site Life Status Date Display Format option to settings.
Version 1.0.2 --Added Site Life Status Locale option to settings. This will allow you to display the Site Life Status Date Display Format day and month name in your local language.
Version 1.0.3 --Fixed for WGO style changes in vB 4.0.8. (Site_Life_Status_vb4.08.zip only)
Version 1.0.4 --Reverted back to the original js file because of the timer messing up with the added leap year code.

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

Installation overview:
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1 Product XML (5 Plugins, 36 Phrases, 1 template, 7 settings and 1 file)

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Installation Instructions:
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1. Upload site_life_status.js to the forums/clientscript folder on your site.

NOTE: You will need to delete the old site_life.js file as the new one has been renamed.

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2. 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-boofo_site_lifestatus.xml file on your computer

3. Go to your Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> 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 Location: Type your site location in here. If you do not wish for your location to be shown, leave this option blank.
--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)
--Site Life Status Locale: Set your system locale here. This will allow the Site Life Status Date Display Format below to display the month and day names in your local language.
--Site Life Status Date Display Format: Enter the date and time format you want the Site Startup Date to display on the forumhome.
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Done!
Enjoy!

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[basilrath]

works fine now

[New Joe]

So which on of the 2 should I download?

[Hippy]

Just wanted to express My Opinion here about this mod..
Lets start with great support..2 thumbs up
Great addition to vb
This Mod Should be stock with vb..
ok now

It's been downloaded 636 times but only installed 142 times..

If your running this mod .. Please Mark installed ( it's the least you can do)
thanks for the great mod, time spent, and the support you give boofo

[horussjr]

it is not working is it should. i set my start date to 14 Sep 2007 16:48 and it looks like it is working Friday, 14 September, 2007 at 16:48 but at site age it at every refresh it start at 3 years -48 seconds and i goes to 3 years 59 seconds then it goes another time from 3 years 0 seconds to 59. it continuously restart.

take a look www.stormzone.ro/forum

please help

[Boofo]

Check the startup date setting. You have it set wrong. The date that shows on the forumhome is a separate setting.

[horussjr]

oh, dont be silly. take a look at this then go to the site and look at that
IN ADMIN CP
Site Life Status Startup Date 14 Sep 2007 16:48
IN FORUM
Site Startup Date Friday, 14 September, 2007 at 16:48
Site Age 3 years, 4 seconds

[TosaInu]

Nice hack Boofo,

I installed it on a testforum first, the pageview counter works there. I installed it on the productionboard on the same server and the counter for the visits doesn't run. The clock works on both. Is there some vbul setting or cache that's different?

Edit: there is the boofocounter in datastore and it gets updated with data. I guess it's some cache setting?

Edit 2: the working one is odd too. The yearly views rise, while the hourly one stays at zero. After say 50 pagehits it looks like this:

Average visits to this page
Hourly 0.00 Daily 0.01 Weekly 0.05 Monthly 0.22 Yearly 2.63

I denstalled it from the testone to try the 4 version. That one has the wrong order too and doubles the numbers.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by TosaInu

Nice hack Boofo,

I installed it on a testforum first, the pageview counter works there. I installed it on the productionboard on the same server and the counter for the visits doesn't run. The clock works on both. Is there some vbul setting or cache that's different?

Edit: there is the boofocounter in datastore and it gets updated with data. I guess it's some cache setting?

Are you running xcache or another caching program on the server?

[TosaInu]

Yes, it does: Memcached. The testboard is running [DBTech] vB Optimise Lite v2.0.1.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by TosaInu

Yes, it does: Memcached. The testboard is running [DBTech] vB Optimise Lite v2.0.1.

There's your answer. The counter will be updated when the cache is updated, although it will still be adding up in the meantime. I am running xcache on my server and so far I have not found a way around it.