Forum Home Enhancements - Site Life Status for vB 4

Site Life Status for vB 4
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, Site Location, Pagehits counter and Average visits, 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 1.0.0 --Initial release for vB 4
Version 1.0.1 --Added Site Life Status Date Display Format option to settings.
Version 1.0.2 --Added Site Life Status Locale option to settings. This will allow you to display the Site Life Status Date Display Format day and month name in your local language.
Version 1.0.3 --Fixed for WGO style changes in vB 4.0.8. (Site_Life_Status_vb4.08.zip only)
Version 1.0.4 --Reverted back to the original js file because of the timer messing up with the added leap year code.

Credits:
A thank you goes out to Shawn Dean for supplying the original javascript code for the Site Age counter.

Installation overview:
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1 Product XML (5 Plugins, 36 Phrases, 1 template, 7 settings and 1 file)

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Installation Instructions:
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1. Upload site_life_status.js to the forums/clientscript folder on your site.

NOTE: You will need to delete the old site_life.js file as the new one has been renamed.

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2. 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-boofo_site_lifestatus.xml file on your computer

3. Go to your Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> 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 Location: Type your site location in here. If you do not wish for your location to be shown, leave this option blank.
--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)
--Site Life Status Locale: Set your system locale here. This will allow the Site Life Status Date Display Format below to display the month and day names in your local language.
--Site Life Status Date Display Format: Enter the date and time format you want the Site Startup Date to display on the forumhome.
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Done!
Enjoy!

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[Alan_SP]

Just to know, does your mod counts page hits or unique visitors?

[Boofo]

Page hits for the forumhome. I can set it to count every page hit on the site, too.

[Alan_SP]

Well, that would be great, I'd like to have it this way...

And I looked at mod and am wandering is secret hidden here:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['site_lifestatus_enable'] AND THIS_SCRIPT == 'index') 


But it adds one query to every page loaded or not?

[Boofo]

My way wouldn't.

[Alan_SP]

And what is your way, if you want to share it?

[Boofo]

I'd have to add another setting so the user can select how they want to do it. Not really worth the trouble for a free mod and something I, myself, would never use.

[Alan_SP]

Ok, I'll use it till I see that my servers starts melting. Then I may consider further usage.

Would you maybe explain the way to avoid one query for every page? I just removed

PHP Code:

AND THIS_SCRIPT == 'index' 


condtion in plugin for updating counter.

[Boofo]

If your server melts, it isn't anything to do with this mod. This mod does not affect resources in the least. Use it or not, totally up to you.

What you did should work fine.

[steve1966]

Thank you rated this 10/10

[haytham]

Is there any way this fantastic mod can run on 3.8.7? By the way, I always look after the first post at "Similar Mod" to find if the mod is compatible with other VB versions..that's why I am asking, since there isn't any similar mods listed.