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]

I think most hacks that use the time and date functions are like that so it is no big news.

[msu2k]

How can I get rid of the "There have been XX visitors to this page." part altogether?

[Boofo]

Edit the template for the hack.

[Guy Betten]

Boofo, I want to thank you for all the work you put into this mod! With all you did for me today, I am up and running. Thanks again, JPT.

[Bubble #5]

Great work Boofo

One of those "Why didn't someone think of this before" hacks

[BeerLuver]

Hmmm... anyone else have issues with this mod not working right after upgrading to the new 3.7.2 vb patch? It displays and everything, it just doesn't show/count the visitors now... it just stays at 0. It was working fine before upgrading. Any ideas?? Guessing/hoping an update will come about sometime soon then .

[Boofo]

Did you replace your config.php file? If so, you need to re-do the edit.

[soundbarrierpro]

I like this, and I will use this. Thank you sir.

[BeerLuver]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Did you replace your config.php file? If so, you need to re-do the edit.

DOH haha... completely overlooked that. Thanks Boofo working fine again.

[Boofo]

You regally don't need to upgrade the config.php on upgrades unless they tell us that they have changed something in it, which seldom happens on minor upgrades.