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.

[MissKalunji]

*sigh* at this rate there won't be anything good left on the .org

[Dingo14]

nice one thanks

[SVTCobraLTD]

Any ideas why this is like this?

Site Startup Date: June 05, 2006
Site Age: 2 years 10 hours 36 minutes 13 seconds

Says the site is 2 years old yet the startup date is tomorrow.

[Boofo]

Look at the year on the startup date. How can that be tomorrow?

[SVTCobraLTD]

Today is June 4th which would make the site only 1 year and 364 days old.

[Boofo]

Ever heard of Leap Year?

[SVTCobraLTD]

So how do I make this correct? Otherwise it is going to be off and kinda defeats the purpose.

Don't get me wrong, its a great addition to vB because members then know how long the site has been around.

[Boofo]

It counts the seconds and goes from there. It uses 365 days as a year. There is no way to correct it unless you rewrite the whole javascript file for it and that wouldn't be worth the hassle to me. It doesn't defeat any purpose to me the way it is.

[leannet]

~problem solved~

[SpeedJunkyz]

Installation Instructions:
1. Upload life_status.gif to the images/misc folder on your site.
Did this but still have "?" for the image. What did I do wrong?

2. Upload site_life.js to the clientscript folder on your site.
Done, but mine doesn't break it up in days, weeks, etc etc like the demo?


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3. In the includes/config.php file add this at the bottom:
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if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
global $specialtemplates;
$specialtemplates = array_merge($specialtemplates, array('boofocounter'));
}
Can we explain this a little more. I think I did it, but not sure if I was correct. How do you do this?


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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

Done......... easy part!



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.DONE
--Site Life Status Startup Date: Enter your site startup date.DONE
--Site Life Status Automatic Template Replace: Click yes to have the template automatically edited.DONE
--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).HUH?
--Site Life Status Forumhome Page Views Counter: Enter the number of page views, without commas, to start the page views count at. (Example: 16897)DONE

Can anyone assist me please, also will this count the portal page hit aswell? Or do I have to put one on there aswell?