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.

[Boofo]

This will only count the forumhome page hits. Did you get it running?

[TimberFloorAu]

Cheers Boofo
Another great mod


Ozzy Clicks Installed

[SpeedJunkyz]

yeah it is running I think..... but no picture/icon and I do not know what step #2 and #3 did. I didn;t see a change when i completed it. I uploaded xml file first.....

SJ

[Boofo]

It looks like your image directory setting isn't right in the style. Just edit the template for the hack for the icon directory. It is working. You just need to set the starting hit count that you want to have the count start at. Check the setting for the hack and you can set it there.

[SpeedJunkyz]

How do I edit the template for the hack lol..... Im new at this stuff.

I already did set the hit count....didn't I?

[Boofo]

You can set the hitcount to a higher starting number if you want to. Just look for the template called boofo_site_life_status and change the path to the image in there. Did you upload the image file to the skin misc directory?

[SpeedJunkyz]

I put the image in the Images>misc folder on my server Admin

[Boofo]

Do a right click on where the image should be and look at what the image path is supposed to be. You have uploaded the image to the wrong place for that skin, like I said above.

[SpeedJunkyz]

Ok I will try that.......I may use a different image......BRB

[SpeedJunkyz]

Ok is this what I am looking for?

"The requested URL /forums/images/speedfire/misc/life_status.gif was not found on this server."

I right clicked and only saw open image. so I opened it and it said that^^