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)

[NarutoFTW]

whats the code I use to place this mod on another page instead of forumhome?
For example, on another mod (Advance stats), its {vb:raw vsatopstats}.

[BirdOPrey5]

This mod doesn't work like that- it will only work on forumhome as it is coded, it would require major revision to work on other pages.

You'd need to find a new template hook...
Plus add or edit two plugins and change them from forumhome hooks to other appropriate hooks depending on the page(s) you wanted it on.

[NarutoFTW]

Any idea why the stats aren't updating?

[BirdOPrey5]

Nope... Never heard of that issue before... link to forum?

[NarutoFTW]

I just pmed you the link to my forum.

[BirdOPrey5]

OK All... had another bug fix today, if you set a goal over 1 Million you'd see this bug- posts (or whatever) wouldn't count towards the goal.

This was part of the comma's (and periods) separating large numbers issue.

I recommend everyone upgrade to 1.9 whether or not you've noticed it.

[Mr_Running]

Thank you!
1) Are there any user permissions = I prefer to have only login user see the goals.
2) Any way to shorten the poll bar when using vB 4xx forum sidebar is open. It causes the an overlap into the side bar.

[BirdOPrey5]

I can try and work in usergroup permissions in the next update.

As for the width, it would be very difficult to alter the width of the animated progress bar because the images would also need to be edited.

However if you use the non-animated bar it's easier, just some template edits.

In the template forumgoals:

1) Find all instances of the number 360 and change it to 200 or whatever you want. (there should be 3 instances)

2)Find the line:

<table border="0" width="400"><tr>

And change the number 400 to a number a little bigger than the number above, at least 30 pixels or so bigger, so in this example change 400 to 230.

[Mr_Running]

Thanks for trying to work in usergroup permissions in the next update.

I see all the other bars but No bar appears for the non-animated bar (just the stats/numbers)?? vb 4.1.2

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Mr_Running

Thanks for trying to work in usergroup permissions in the next update.

I see all the other bars but No bar appears for the non-animated bar (just the stats/numbers)?? vb 4.1.2

You posted a screen shot above with the non-animated bar showing just fine.