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.

[basilrath]

Originally Posted by Keyser S?ze

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

thats a strange thing to want ?

why?

[Boofo]

That's what I thought but what the hell do I know?

[MissKalunji]

what's the different between the txt file and in the datastore? ima noob just wanting to know b4 i upgrade

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by basilrath

thats a strange thing to want ?

why?

So his visitors doesn't think that he had ONLY that amount of visitors over the 4-5 years but since the date he installed the hack

[Boofo]

He can set the hits for how many he thinks he has, though. It wouldn't be too hard to figure out an approximate hit count.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

what's the different between the txt file and in the datastore? ima noob just wanting to know b4 i upgrade

The datastore is faster and less server intensive. And the text file wasn't working right on some servers and I never did figure out why. Plus, all settings can be done in the Admin CP now so no more need for chmodding anything or editing the text file for the hit count.

Plus "datastore" sounds so much cooler, don't you think?

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by Boofo

He can set the hits for how many he thinks he has, though. It wouldn't be too hard to figure out an approximate hit count.

He probably didn't think of that :-p

Originally Posted by Boofo

The datastore is faster and less server intensive. And the text file wasn't working right on some servers and I never did figure out why. Plus, all settings can be done in the Admin CP now so no more need for chmodding anything or editing the text file for the hit count.

Plus "datastore" sounds so much cooler, don't you think?

Definitely and chineese for those who has no idea what it is lol

Thanks for clearing up

[Boofo]

Any time, young lady, any time.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by Boofo

The datastore is faster and less server intensive. And the text file wasn't working right on some servers and I never did figure out why.

Working sweet as now , thank you sir :up:

[Pamela]

*installs update*

Thank you for the update! The original version was a bit hard to install for newbies but this version was super easy!

Thanks!