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.

[Boofo]

If anyone is still having a problem with the text file resetting, PM me and I will let you test the new version. I have re-written the pagehits code and now there is no setting required for the forumhome_pagehits filename and path. It now resides in your forums directory.

[flipstyle]

Does anyone know how I can move the site life status into the forums default statistics box to the right of threads, posts, members etc?

[princeedward]

million thanks for the new update Bro. Boofo...

[Boofo]

Are we happy now?

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Are we happy now?

i hope so...Bro...hope this is the final stable release now and not to have or encounter any problem anymore...btw...i thought we're gonna have the one from rob30UK Style:

Site Age: Years, Month, Days, Hours, Minutes, And Seconds

can we edit or add it somewhere?

anyway thanks again...

[Boofo]

Well, the only way it can mess up now is if everything else messed up first as this now uses the db datastore. Foolproof, as much as possible.

The rob30UK style won't be accurate as it doesn't account for months with 31 days, or February with 28 days. And weeks was not added as the days would never get over 7 in the count.

Take another look as the AND part was added in the new version.

[princeedward]

opppsss... i guess i don't have that AND thing...hmmm...

and also how come you got this Average hits per day: # to your site...and we don't?

[Boofo]

Did you completely uninstall and reinstall like the instructions said to?

The 'Daily visitors to this page average:' is something I am working on now and will be testing. An after-thought, if you will.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by Boofo

The 'Average of daily visitors to this page:' is something I am working on now and will be testing. An after-thought, if you will.

Thanks for the update, the "visitors to this site" is working now

You should know that if we see a function we just got too have it

[Boofo]

LOL Nothing for myself, huh?