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)

[Mikevet1984]

Hello!

Nice mod! I have a little bug which needs to be fixed! I have a transparent skin and the modification backrounds has a white similar color. Can sb please help me to change sth in the stylevars or templates of the skin?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Mikevet1984

Hello!

Nice mod! I have a little bug which needs to be fixed! I have a transparent skin and the modification backrounds has a white similar color. Can sb please help me to change sth in the stylevars or templates of the skin?

You can edit the forumgoals template, the second line has this code:

background-color:#EEEEEE;

That controls the background color... set it to whatever you want or remove it completely for no background.

[Mr_Running]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

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

Oops so I did...It was late and I went to sleep shortly after

Thanks I will play around with the bar length and border:up:

[BirdOPrey5]

Updated to 1.92-
Added the ability to show the mod only to selected usergroups if you choose.
Primary or Secondary will work.

[Mr_Running]

Excellent and the numbers in post #88 worked great !!!
Thank you for the usergroup permissions.

[reddyink]

Excellent MOD.

Question: Is it possible to pick just a single forum for this or forum by forum rather than the whole board.

I have Forum 1, Forum 2, Forum 3 (I have arranged them in different tabs).

Is it possible to Assign this MOD to a single forum 1 and/or Forum 2 and/or Forum3

[BirdOPrey5]

Not as it's designed now, no. It wouldn't be a simple change either otherwise I'd tell you how to do it, you'd need to add at least 1 and probably several database queries to accomplish that since vBulletin doesn't keep counts of each forum, it gets them in a query as needed.

[NarutoFTW]

Could you add the option to move it to footer?

[BirdOPrey5]

Well you can put it below the forums easily by editing the plugin Forum Goals in your Admin CP -> Plugin Manager.

Find the line:

$template_hook[forumhome_above_forums] .= $templater->render();

and change it to:

$template_hook[forumhome_below_forums] .= $templater->render();

Another option is:

$template_hook[forumhome_wgo_pos5] .= $templater->render();

But that one is inside another DIV, I don't think it looks as good.

[Brandon Sheley]

It didn't show on my forum, I'll have to dig around a bit.