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.

[Lindsey]

You made this by your self?

[Bree]

Thank Boo! I finally got this installed (on my .org site for now)... Quick and Easy just like I likes 'em =0) I wanna tweak it a bit before I put it on the .com... I have smn special in mind... lets just hope I can make it work -- I might have to bug you like mad LOL I'm teasin', I'll behave!

Anyways great job... but then, you know I'm a big fan of yours already =0)

Always, Bree

[Boofo]

Thanks, Bree! Just give me a shout on what you need and we can tackle it together.

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by princeedward

it really keep coming back my visitors count to 2 digits...using (vb3.6.8.PL2) check that forumhome_pagehits.txt to my hcpanel...same 2 digit... i might remove this There have been 75 visitors to this page. instead...any idea or help more on this please...

thanks and best regards...

Bump!

[Boofo]

Not much I can do without looking at how you have it set up.

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Not much I can do without looking at how you have it set up.

bro...what i mean is how, where or what to edit to eliminate the last line
There have been # visitors to this page.

pls view my attachment...

thanks and best regards...

[Boofo]

Wouldn't you rather have it fixed?

[mikeinjersey]

I thought of a little recommendation for this mod.

For instance, when page views / registration logins / guest visitors are increased for the day, you can have a green arrow pointing upwards with something like - ^ 115% from yesterday or something like that. (meaning its 115 % move lively then yesterday ) you can use different parameters to calculate the overall percentage.

[karnevil]

/home66c/sub005/sc39562-VQLH/www.legal-beagles.co.uk/forumhome_pagehits.txt

is my document root path

does that sound right ?

I've done everything except change the CHMOD 777 cause I'm having trouble getting in the server to do it grr. I'm assuming thats why i get the errors at the top of the forum so have turned it off for the moment. Otherwise the days since opening etc works fine.

[Bounce]

ARGHHHHH after weeks of being ok mine has just "reset" itself

Site Startup Date: 23 June 2002
Site Age: 5 years 324 days 17 hours 40 minutes 3 seconds
There have been 995 visitors to this site.