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]

Yes, that is the path you need to upload the image file to:

forums/images/speedfire/misc/

[SpeedJunkyz]

Ok I have fixed the problem. You were right it was in the wrong folder. Thanks for helping me BOOFO is the BOMB!! Kudos to HIM for helping me!!!


go check her out!

www.speedjunkyz.info/forums

[Boofo]

Boofo is a him (let me check...yup).

[Boofo]

You do know you can change the amount of visitors so it matches your starting date more closely, right?

[SpeedJunkyz]

how much do you suggest then...

[Boofo]

Depends on how busy your site it. Let it run for a day and see how many hits you get. Multiply that by the number of days you have been up so far and that should be a good starting point.

[GaiLoan]

this was so cool, thank you Boofo

[Alexvanleeuwen]

Works great, thanks.

For the Dutch people, use only the English months, otherwise the counter won't work, then you only see from 1 to 59 sec.
Dont know if somebody posted this info yet if yes, sorry

[Boofo]

That is a limitation of php and javascript. Not much I can do there, sorry.

[Alexvanleeuwen]

Originally Posted by Boofo

That is a limitation of php and javascript. Not much I can do there, sorry.

Its not a problem but it wasnt working until i discovered it, i thought mabey a tip