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.

[Rajdeep]

Nope thats not the matter, my site has good enough traffic, but the problem is not working correctly.. it was showing Always 0 visitors.. and also i didnt like it.. I mainly like to have the Site age and startup date..
Thanks for the Mod...

Originally Posted by Boofo

Because he didn't like the low starting count.

[Boofo]

If it was showing 0 at all times, you didn't do the config.php specilatemplates edit.

[EvilJohn]

Installed! Thank you so much. Wonderful mod. One question. Is there a scientific way, or factual way to determine page hits from day one. I am more concerned about having an accurate number for page hits.

My forum stats:
Site Startup Date: April 13, 2006
Threads: 6,662, Posts: 85,970, Members: 2,167

I tried using http://www.dnscoop.com/ but really no help.

Any ideas how to determine page hits from the start up day April 13 ,2006, on a small gaming site.
www.evilterritory.com http://evilrtcw2.com/forums/ After installing and starting at 0, page hits were at 76 in about 2 hours. Sorry I seem to be clueless

[Parabellum]

Originally Posted by EvilJohn

Installed! Thank you so much. Wonderful mod. One question. Is there a scientific way, or factual way to determine page hits from day one. I am more concerned about having an accurate number for page hits.

The way I got mine as accurate as possible was to get the all time statistics from AWStats in cPanel.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by EvilJohn

Installed! Thank you so much. Wonderful mod. One question. Is there a scientific way, or factual way to determine page hits from day one. I am more concerned about having an accurate number for page hits.

My forum stats:
Site Startup Date: April 13, 2006
Threads: 6,662, Posts: 85,970, Members: 2,167

I tried using http://www.dnscoop.com/ but really no help.

Any ideas how to determine page hits from the start up day April 13 ,2006, on a small gaming site.
www.evilterritory.com http://evilrtcw2.com/forums/ After installing and starting at 0, page hits were at 76 in about 2 hours. Sorry I seem to be clueless

There is no exacting way that I know of. You should be able to get close with some averages. You can take the 76 you have and times that by 12 and that will give you a daily average. Then just times that by how many days it has been and that should get you close enough for a starting count.

Originally Posted by Parabellum

The way I got mine as accurate as possible was to get the all time statistics from AWStats in cPanel.

Not everyone has CPanel. But that is a good idea for those that do.

[EvilJohn]

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

Originally Posted by princeedward

Third In Motion Here!...

sigh ----- If I had the avg thingy. It would be a snap to figure hits from day one. -------sigh

[Boofo]

Sorry, everyone, I won't be releasing any updates for this mod with the averages here. It seems my hacks have somehow magically started showing up on other sites that do not have permission to host them. I won't give them any more code than they already have. You can all thank whoever has been uploading them for this new policy.

[misr.cc]

translated to Arabic

[misr.cc]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Sorry, everyone, I won't be releasing any updates for this mod with the averages here. It seems my hacks have somehow magically started showing up on other sites that do not have permission to host them. I won't give them any more code than they already have. You can all thank whoever has been uploading them for this new policy.

Bad news :erm:
can't you report them to vb.com to remove this mods

[EvilJohn]

I am sorry to hear this. Thank you for what you have provided for us. Good work my friend