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]

Did anything show or just the progress bar didn't show?

If nothing showed at all I would first check to make sure the hook forumhome_above_forums exists in the FORUMHOME template... If so I'd look at any other plugins that might use that hook.

[Ricsca]

Dont work

[BirdOPrey5]

Could be a few things... first if you are using a customized style some hooks might be missing or be in the wrong spot. I would look in the headinclude template for the hooks:
headinclude_javascript, custom_css_links, and custom_css_list.

Make sure they exist in the template.

If they both exist the lack of the Javascript bar is most likely to another instance of jquery being called. Look at the instructions in the top thread under "Known Conflicts."

Also if the hooks are there and the non-animated version isn't working it could be your style has customized poll graphics. Some customized poll styles don't work with this mod since it tries to use the default poll css to show the non-animated progress bar.

[Ricsca]

vbulletin style defoult dont work...

[BirdOPrey5]

What version of vBulletin?

[Mikevet1984]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Also if the hooks are there and the non-animated version isn't working it could be your style has customized poll graphics. Some customized poll styles don't work with this mod since it tries to use the default poll css to show the non-animated progress bar.

How this issue be fixed? Is there any solution to the problem?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Mikevet1984

How this issue be fixed? Is there any solution to the problem?

Not that I know of, I would test on the default style before being sure the style is the issue.

If it is the style if you post your poll.css template I may be able to suggest a work-around.

[Mikevet1984]

Thank you,BirdOPrey5 for every effort you make to offer in τhe vBulletin community!

Thank you one more time....

''Michael''

[beatyourtruck]

Originally Posted by Ricsca

Dont work

Same issue here exactly. vB 4.1.2 No animation, files are in place, using poll styles just gives black bar. My poll.css is not modified from its original version. Looks like Ricsca is running 4.1.2 also: http://www.tartaportal.it/forums/

[BirdOPrey5]

I can only imagine then that there is some other mod, maybe a fairly popular one, conflicting. I have it running on a 4.1.2 test site without issue, If one of you could copy the HTML Source code on the page for me it might give some clues...

If you enable HTML comments in the general settings I need all code between the following comments:

  <!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: forumgoals -->
and
  <!-- END TEMPLATE: forumgoals -->

and paste it in this thread, between [html] [/html] tags please.