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)

[Aramist]

Any clue how to put it in a side block instead below navbar?

Ty in advance

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by rgreene1971

is it possible to have this show progress of donations? Even if I have to manually enter the donations. I use google checkout which is not available in the subscription area so I manually keep track of donations.

Originally Posted by Aramist

Any clue how to put it in a side block instead below navbar?

Ty in advance

Sorry guys, that is a no on both accounts- it's simply not designed to do either- would need to be rewritten from scratch. Code is Re-Usabled so feel free to do so if you wish.

[ringnews24]

My menu bar stays the same even after picking a new Progress Bar Type.

Javascript is enabled.

http://ringnews24.com/boxingforum/forum.php

Can someone help, thanks.

[BirdOPrey5]

Something is conflicting with the javascript. I would suggest using a non-JS bar type.

[ringnews24]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Something is conflicting with the javascript. I would suggest using a non-JS bar type.

Is there anyway to sort this Bird?

[fayax]

Excellent!

Installed on 4.2.0 pl3. Works perfect- voted 5. But the js progress bar issue is there and no matter which other bar type I use they are all the same like most people here. Template is default.
I am not very technical but can follow directions - whenever you have time. http://fe9.org

Thanks BOP5!

[BirdOPrey5]

Near the beginning of this thread I went through a number of trouble shooting options with the JavaScript- eventually it got to be so much a hassle I added the non-JavaScript options- I strongly urge using them, the JS really slows down loading on tablets and mobile devices.

[Rexsor]

My thumbs up/down thing keeps spazzing out when I hover my mouse over it..

http://xelaplus.com/forum/forum.php

[datoneer]

Animated progress bar worked with 4.2 but when i did update to 4.2.1 it doesn't work now

[BirdOPrey5]

I would suggest not using the animated bar- the javascript is too picky to work reliably. I use it on my 4.2.1 forum with a non-animated bar without issue.