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.

[Amm0]

Yeah, i'd really like to see the average count like on your test forum

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by basilrath

Hey Boofo have you tested that average count yet......................it seems a great idea !

ps all work appreciated !

Originally Posted by Amm0

Yeah, i'd really like to see the average count like on your test forum

Third In Motion Here!...

[Chance4Today]

Originally Posted by sensimilla

Ive reinstalled it and now the visitors count is stuck at 0.

Yep mine also I was just coming here to post that. Since I graded as said to mine is stuck also

[Boofo]

Because you didn't follow the instructions for the config.php file.

[MeMySelfNi]

if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
global $specialtemplates;
$specialtemplates = array_merge($specialtemplates, array('boofocounter'));
}

does this go before or after the box at the bottom?

[Boofo]

As long as it is before the ending ?> tag, you can put it anywhere you like.

[Keyser S?ze]

i have read the install 10 times, no where does it say how to do what i want to do

however in the template i found what i thought was where it needed to go, but it did not work sadly

<phrase 1="$pagehits_counter">$vbphrase[site_visitors]</phrase>

any help pls?

[Boofo]

What is it you want this to do?

[Keyser S?ze]

like this image here i edited it to make it look how i want

[Boofo]

You would have to edit the phrase for that line. But having a start date and a since date that are different is going to look strange.