Forum Home Enhancements - [DBTech] InfoPanels v2 (vB4) [AJAX]

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present InfoPanels Lite v2: The most feature-packed Welcome Panel system for vBulletin.


Why InfoPanels?

Info Panels is another product from DragonByte Technologies, creators of vBActivity and vBShout. Info Panels allows you to display useful and interesting information in a much more user friendly way, allowing your members to access important areas of the forum, and important information, without having to go through different menu screens.

The Top X Stats portion of the software allows your users to keep track of whats going on in the forum almost in real time - perfect for boards with many forums which are hard to keep track of!

The Welcome Panel displays all the information your users may want to see instantly when they log on, without having to go searching for it.

In addition, there are many improvements and upgrades to the What's happening and Forum statistics blocks.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!

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Priority support is handled at the Developers Website.

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Professional Only benefits:

User Selectable Blocks: Let your users select their favourite Top X Stats and have it remembered for their next visit.

Additional Blocks: A plethora of new blocks for your members to choose from.

Extended What's Going On Stats: Show even more detailed statistics about your forum.

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Complete Feature List
Lite

• Welcome Panel
  • Avatar
  • New Posts since last visit
  • # unread PMs (# total PMs)
  • Forum Stats: Members / Threads / Posts
  • Top Poster
  • Own Posts / Threads
  • # Posts Per Day (# Posts Today)
  • % of forum's total posts
  • Display # Achievements / Medals / Trophies
  • Show 1 line of Latest News (settable in vBulletin Options)
• Top X Stats
  • Choose "X"
  • Disable each individual block
  • Set various options per block
  • Create new blocks with different options based on each Block Type
  • User Stats
    • Newest Members
    • Top Posters
    • Top Thread Starters
  • Forum Statistics
    • Newest Replies
    • Most Viewed Threads
• What's Going On:
  • Separating staff and normal members
    • Ability to turn this off
  • Staff Legend
    • Ability to turn this off
  • Average users registering:
  • Average posts
  • Average threads
  • Average Shouts
• General:
  • vBOptimise caching
    • Settable Time To Live on the cached statistics

Pro

• Welcome Panel
  • New Posts / Threads / Blogs since last visit
  • Most active in forum x
  • # shouts
  • Activity Level (% To Next Level, # activity Points)
  • Reached #% of Daily / Weekly / Monthly Activity Target
  • Show 1 line of Latest News (settable in vBulletin Options, movable via {vb:raw show.infopanels_newsticker} (vB4) or $show[infopanels_newsticker] (vB3) within FORUMHOME template)
• Top X Stats
  • Detached Top X Stats
    • Separate "X" limit from main forum
  • User selectable blocks
    • Remembers which blocks the user chose
  • User Stats
    • Top Referrers
    • Top Reputation
    • Top Infraction Points
    • Top Profile Visits
    • Newest Social Groups
    • Highest vBActivity Level
    • Top Shouters
  • Forum Statistics
    • Hottest Threads
    • Hottest Forums
    • Latest Social Group Posts
    • Latest Blog Entries
    • Latest Replies (Subscribed Threads)
• What's Going On
  • Average vBA Level
  • Average vBA Points
  • Average vBA Daily points
  • Average vBA Weekly points
  • Average vBA Monthly points

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This mod displays a copyright notification on Forum Home which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

InfoPanels v2.0.6:
Feature: The Affiliate ID setting now properly integrates with the link-back
Feature: The News Feed can now be deleted from the Welcome Panel and relocated with {vb:raw show.infopanels_newsticker} (vB4) or $show[infopanels_newsticker] (vB3) to a custom location within the FORUMHOME template.

Fillip

[S@NL - BlackBik]

Hi Fillip,

Sorry to bother you again....
In the Netherlands we use different decimal punctuation. To separate thousands we use a dot in stead of a comma and to separate decimals we use comma's in stead of a dot.
While installing the new 2.0.6 version of this hack, I've noticed that the average stats that are placed under the forum statistics on Forum Home, used the English decimal system.
To correct this I've changed "forumhome_complete.php" a little bit.

I've added the vb_number_format function to three lines of code, starting from line 551:

$averages["$key"]['day'] 	= vb_number_format(round(($vbulletin->userstats["total{$key}"] / $difference), 2), 2);
$averages["$key"]['week'] 	= vb_number_format(round(($vbulletin->userstats["total{$key}"] / ($difference / 7)), 2), 2);
$averages["$key"]['month'] 	= vb_number_format(round(($vbulletin->userstats["total{$key}"] / ($difference / 30)), 2), 2);

This way the numbers are formatted correctly, depending on the language you choose for your forum. I've tested both the English and Dutch languages, and this works fine.
I do not use the Top X blocks of this hack, but I've enabled them for testing purposes. The number formatting "problem" is not present in this part of the hack.

Could you please correct this in a future release of this hack.
And thank you for correcting my other problem

Greetz,
Rob

[DragonByte Tech]

Added to my local build, the next release will have the changes


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Affiliate ID link hotfix

Fillip

[choihetminh]

at What's going on section, super moderator doesn't display as staff member although it appears on the site leaders page (showgroups.php). Any one have the same problem?

[choihetminh]

solved. Let change the primary type of that user to super mod.

[S@NL - BlackBik]

Hi Fillip,

Sorry to be such a pain in the ass about this, but the posts per day are still not showing correctly in the Welcome panel. They are now with two decimals, but the number is rounded. It now shows 7,00 where it should be 7,26 (or something like that).
I think it's because you are formatting the number twice.
On line 134 in forumhome_complete you format by using vb_number_format, which is correct.
But on line 371 you are doing another vb_number_format.
Somehow the number loses the decimals when formatting twice.
My solution is to get rid of the formatting on line 371, so just registering $postsperday, without the formatting. Then the number shows correctly with decimals.

It's no biggie, but I'm just trying to get this nice product best as it can get

Greetz,
Rob

[DragonByte Tech]

I'll look into it for the next version


Fillip

[jluerken]

Is there a way to add the thread prefixes in front of the titles at "Most viewed threads" and how do I do that?

[DragonByte Tech]

Due to the constraints in display width associated with the current layout, that's not currently a supported feature, sorry


Fillip