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.

[berry05]

nicee hack!

[SuperDave71]

Mine HAS been set to 777 . I use FlashFXP and a simple right click and the attribs are "777".

Has been from the start. I am still clueless on this one.

Love the mod though.

-Dave

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by berry05

nicee hack!

Then click the install button.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by SuperDave71

Mine HAS been set to 777 . I use FlashFXP and a simple right click and the attribs are "777".


Has been from the start. I am still clueless on this one.


Love the mod though.



-Dave

Make sure you have no commas in the txt file. It should read something like: 27677

Other than that, there is no way it can be doing what you say it is. It updates the txt file by one on every page view and then reads it back. If it was to change, it couldn't go back to what it originally was before the change and start counting again. It would have no way to remember.

[SuperDave71]

No commas. I promise you , I am NOT losing it.

NO complaints, I agree with you. I would haev NO idea HOW on earth this would reset itself either.

I will do this....it is working 100% right now. i will post if is acts up again.

Thanks Boofo,

Dave

[Boofo]

Well, as we found out on your last problem, someone changed something. So this might be happening again. It is acts up again, PM me and I will take a look at it.

[SuperDave71]

Ok...Thanks Boofo. I really appreciate it.

I want this to work because I love the mod.

Thanks again,

Dave

[princeedward]

same problem here Bro. Boofo...it keep coming back to low visitors count always...i did followed every instructions...edit the forumhome_pagehits.txt (777 permissions) into bigger count of visitors without commas like... 357458035...it will work at the first time...but later on...it will go back to 2 digit...please advice...



best regards...

[SuperDave71]

Thanks prince..

I was beginning to think I was going crazy! It happened to me again this morning.

Mine was 28345 last night...and this morning it was 18565

no IDEA....but Boofo will figure it out I hope. I love this mod and certainly want it to work the way it should.

Thanks,

Dave

[Bounce]

Just happened to me again and mine is defo cmd to 777 :erm:

Would it reset if the server got rebooted or whatever but don't think it has as we are dedicated,just thinking out loud