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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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[Bob_R]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Did you lose site of the install button in all the hub-bub?

Marked as installed.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Good, at least we're no worse off than before we added the leap year code. It was working fine with it until we hit January 1st. I noticed a coupe of other scripts on the net were messing up on the new year, also. I'll get it sorted out. Thanks for reporting back.

My version installed says 1.06 ...

Is this the latest rev of your mod I should be using with a vb4.04 board?

I ask be cause of the confusion and problems we encountered installing another mod of yours with a version that was only for vb4.1...

Thanks ..

Regards,
Doug

[Boofo]

The two versions posted above are the same except that the 4.0.8 version included a fix for the template change in 4.0.8. The js file for both versions is the original one, not the updated one.

[Phaedrus]

Question, the "page views" portion... does this count from whatever you set it at, forever? My site has been up since 2006, what would I put in as the starting page count?

I figured it out. I used webalyzer stats for the past year and figured out the average per day and used that number... It may even be accurate.

[Alan_SP]

Since I installed it this part stays same:

Hello, Alan_SP, you are the 0 visitor to this page.

Average visits to this page: Hourly: 0 Daily: 0 Weekly: 0 Monthly: 0 Yearly: 0

I set it to 8 000 000, but it doesn't move from zero. What to set for that to start counting site hits? Any idea?

vB is 4.1.2PL1

[Boofo]

Make sure you set the3 option above it (Update the page views counter to the value below?) to yes when you enter the count. And the count does not have spaces or commas when you set it.

[Alan_SP]

Yes, I used this option, below I put 8000000 (without spaces or anything else). When I set it to yes and save it, it goes back to no and no information on forum home is displayed.

Like it doesn't recognize site hits. Maybe something server related? Or PHP?

[Boofo]

Since you are the only one who is having this issue. I would have to look at it and see what is going on. Are you running a cache on your server by chance? (Memcache, xcache, etc.)

[Alan_SP]

Ok, I just tested it on my test server. There it works with no problems. So, it is something different on server. What exactly don't know. Do you have some idea what server side needs to be enabled, or disabled? My main server is much more protected than test server. As it works fine on test server, probably I protected some part of server and this is the reason why it doesn't work...

[Alan_SP]

Yes, I run xcache on both servers.