Forum Home Enhancements - Forum Goals with Animated Progress Bar for VB 4.x

This mod will display an animated progress bar on your forum index (FORUMHOME) showing your progress as your forum approaches a "goal" you set, (number of posts, number of threads, or number of members.)


NEW IN VERSION 1.92!
Added two new options allowing you to limit this mod to certain usergroups if you so choose.

NEW IN VERSION 1.9!
One more bug with commas in long numbers, especially evident with forums over 1 Million posts (or threads, or members).

New in Version 1.8!
Fixed another bug with languages that use periods instead of commas to separate groups of larger numbers: (1,000 vs. 1.000).

New in Version 1.6:
Fixes bug with people forums where css is stored in the file system.

New in Version 1.5:

You can now choose a non-animated progress bar which uses vBulletin's built in "Poll" graphics instead of the JavaScript and images included. This will work for anyone having JavaScript conflicts. It will also show to anyone with JavaScript disabled in their browser. (Tested in IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) If you won't be using JavaScript you need not upload any files, just import the product. See txt file for full instructions.

Also fixed in Version 1.5- two phrases were changed from "Users" to "Members" to keep wording consistent with goal types.

If Upgrading from version 1.0 simply import the product file, allow overwrite set to "yes."

See screenshots for examples.

Demo: http://www.juot.net/forums/forum.php (Live Demo is VB 3.8, see screenshots below also.)

Optionally you can set a date for the goal and it will display a countdown of days to reach the goal.

All text output is fully phrased so you can easily change the wording to your needs.

In addition the goals output is its own template, forumgoals, which you can further customize as needed.

You can also easily select a custom icon without needing to edit any templates.

Full instructions are included in the zip file.

This was made and tested on 4.0.8 and should work on all 4.0.x/4.1.x versions.

The animated progress par requires JavaScript to display. If JS is disabled a non-animated bar will show.

The progress bar uses a freely distributed JavaScript library available here:
http://www.bram.us/projects/js_bramu...essbarhandler/
"The [JavaScrpt] is now released under a creative commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license."

• 2 JavaScript and 2 images to upload
• 1 custom template
• 3 plugins
• 12 phrases

The Phrases used are GLOBAL : bop5goal, bop5goalreached, bop5goals, bop5posts, bop5poststogoal, bop5threads, bop5threadstogoal, bop5users, bop5userstogoal, bopdaystogoal , bopgoaldate, bopovertime


Please Mark as Installed if you use this!

VB 3.x version here.

Known Conflicts!
This mod has a known conflict with the TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications mod. See post # 37 to resolve this.

Basically if you have any mod that calls the jquery javascript library you must make sure the call to the jquery library happens BEFORE this mod's javascript files are called- usually that means moving jquery calls to the top of your headinclude template.

The way to know if this is your problem is if the progress bar doesn't show (but the rest of the table does) AND when you view source of your forumhome page you see the following two lines are in the code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/jsProgressBarHandler.js"></script>

If those two lines are there it means this mod is working bu javascript is conflicting preventing the progress bar from showing.

English: Download .zip file. (Version 1.92)
Arabic: Download .xml file. (Version 1.0) (Translated by Dr. osamA)

[BirdOPrey5]

Reserved.

[Juggernaut]

This looks nice, but I can't get the progress bar to look like in your forum when I select : forum_stats.png, as the goal icon.

[BirdOPrey5]

My demo site is vBulletin 3.8, it has different images than vBulletin 4.x. On 3.8 the image is called stats.gif but it's not included in VB4, you might have it if you upgraded from VB 3.x.

The "new" image for VB4 is forum_stats.png, it should be the same as I have in my screen shots- but if you customized your images it could be anything.

Here are the default images if you need them. Put them in your images/misc directory and rename them so you don't overwrite the existing image(s)- then change the setting to point to the new file name.

If you're having another issue please give me a link to your forum I will check it out.

[Juggernaut]

Actually I meant to say that the progress bar is not visible in my forum, the icon to the left of the progress bar is there, just the bar, I can't see, neither in Chrome or Explorer 8.

[BirdOPrey5]

That's usually a problem with the javascript files perhaps not being uploaded in the right place, or possible a missing template hook... can I get a link to your forum? PM me if you don't want it public.

[Juggernaut]

PM sent.

[BirdOPrey5]

I see the JavaScript files aren't loading for some reason on your page... I wonder if your style is missing the hook or possibly a poorly written mod could be hijacking the hook and not letting any other mods use it.

If you want to try and trouble shoot open your headinclude template and look if you have the line:

{vb:raw template_hook.headinclude_javascript}

anywhere in it... if you don't, add it in at the bottom.

If you just want it to work manually add the following to the bottom of your headinclude template:

<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'index'">
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/jsProgressBarHandler.js"></script>
</vb:if>

[Juggernaut]

Thank you, your second fix did the trick. I did see the {vb:raw template_hook.headinclude_javascript} inside head include, but it still wasn't loading. And I moved it to the bottom of the template, but with no results, the manual edit you provided helped with my issue however. Thank you very much.

[MAdotcom]

Cool mod, I will probably install this in the next few days :up: