Forum Home Enhancements - Forum Goals with Animated Progress Bar for VB 4.x

This mod will display an animated progress bar on your forum index (FORUMHOME) showing your progress as your forum approaches a "goal" you set, (number of posts, number of threads, or number of members.)


NEW IN VERSION 1.92!
Added two new options allowing you to limit this mod to certain usergroups if you so choose.

NEW IN VERSION 1.9!
One more bug with commas in long numbers, especially evident with forums over 1 Million posts (or threads, or members).

New in Version 1.8!
Fixed another bug with languages that use periods instead of commas to separate groups of larger numbers: (1,000 vs. 1.000).

New in Version 1.6:
Fixes bug with people forums where css is stored in the file system.

New in Version 1.5:

You can now choose a non-animated progress bar which uses vBulletin's built in "Poll" graphics instead of the JavaScript and images included. This will work for anyone having JavaScript conflicts. It will also show to anyone with JavaScript disabled in their browser. (Tested in IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) If you won't be using JavaScript you need not upload any files, just import the product. See txt file for full instructions.

Also fixed in Version 1.5- two phrases were changed from "Users" to "Members" to keep wording consistent with goal types.

If Upgrading from version 1.0 simply import the product file, allow overwrite set to "yes."

See screenshots for examples.

Demo: http://www.juot.net/forums/forum.php (Live Demo is VB 3.8, see screenshots below also.)

Optionally you can set a date for the goal and it will display a countdown of days to reach the goal.

All text output is fully phrased so you can easily change the wording to your needs.

In addition the goals output is its own template, forumgoals, which you can further customize as needed.

You can also easily select a custom icon without needing to edit any templates.

Full instructions are included in the zip file.

This was made and tested on 4.0.8 and should work on all 4.0.x/4.1.x versions.

The animated progress par requires JavaScript to display. If JS is disabled a non-animated bar will show.

The progress bar uses a freely distributed JavaScript library available here:
http://www.bram.us/projects/js_bramu...essbarhandler/
"The [JavaScrpt] is now released under a creative commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license."

• 2 JavaScript and 2 images to upload
• 1 custom template
• 3 plugins
• 12 phrases

The Phrases used are GLOBAL : bop5goal, bop5goalreached, bop5goals, bop5posts, bop5poststogoal, bop5threads, bop5threadstogoal, bop5users, bop5userstogoal, bopdaystogoal , bopgoaldate, bopovertime


Please Mark as Installed if you use this!

VB 3.x version here.

Known Conflicts!
This mod has a known conflict with the TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications mod. See post # 37 to resolve this.

Basically if you have any mod that calls the jquery javascript library you must make sure the call to the jquery library happens BEFORE this mod's javascript files are called- usually that means moving jquery calls to the top of your headinclude template.

The way to know if this is your problem is if the progress bar doesn't show (but the rest of the table does) AND when you view source of your forumhome page you see the following two lines are in the code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/jsProgressBarHandler.js"></script>

If those two lines are there it means this mod is working bu javascript is conflicting preventing the progress bar from showing.

English: Download .zip file. (Version 1.92)
Arabic: Download .xml file. (Version 1.0) (Translated by Dr. osamA)

[ellinofatsa]

thank you i thing the problem is from mozila

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by tdkmatt

all i can see is the percentage, i've tried in IE8 and firefox, it was working until my pc decided to shut it self down!

If anyone needs help please give me a link to your forum, I can't do much without seeing it.

[tdkmatt]

<a href="http://www.fatalitynetworking.com/forum" target="_blank">www.fatalitynetworking.com/forum</a>

[tdkmatt]

i've noticed uploading the new forum_stats.png the image doesn't change from the original one...... i've tried 3 different browser's and cleared all cache.....

[Dr.osamA]

than you bro

5 stars & installed + translated to Arabic

plzz be nice and add arabic xml file to 1st post

[3amalah]

Amazing Thanks Is There's A Way That I Can make This Goal Show Custom Things Instead Of Posts And Threads ? Like Forum Alexa Ranks ??

[ellinofatsa]

i see the red bar only in explorer not in mozila my members sey the same any help?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by tdkmatt

hey, my bar was working!!!! and then it stopped working i've installed a few hacks but none of them should mess with this scrip!!!

Can you check mine please

all ive installed are these:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...232033&page=19
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=254231

I'm going to bet that the jquery mod (the second one listed) here is interfering with this mod. Please try disabling it and letting me know if it works. Some mod is interfering but I can't troubleshoot until I'm sure of which one it is.

Originally Posted by tdkmatt

i've noticed uploading the new forum_stats.png the image doesn't change from the original one...... i've tried 3 different browser's and cleared all cache.....

I just confirmed this feature is working. It must be in your images/misc directory... NOT in a style directory, only in images/misc... I also wouldn't recommend over-writing the existing image since it's used in your real forum stats. I suggest uploaded a new file with a new name.

Originally Posted by Dr.osamA

than you bro

5 stars & installed + translated to Arabic

plzz be nice and add arabic xml file to 1st post

Will do, thanks. :up:

Originally Posted by 3amalah

Amazing Thanks Is There's A Way That I Can make This Goal Show Custom Things Instead Of Posts And Threads ? Like Forum Alexa Ranks ??

It can do posts, threads, or users (members). I don't plan on implementing any other options but I suppose if there was a site to query that would supply you with a page rank in a text format someone could edit it to work. My guess is you'd want to cache the pagerank so you aren't making an external request every time your page loads.

Originally Posted by ellinofatsa

i see the red bar only in explorer not in mozila my members sey the same any help?

As you can see from the screen shots it's working fine in Firefox- I'm betting people who say it doesn't work have "NoScript" or some sort of script blocking enabled- without javascript this won't show the progress bar.

I will (eventually) try to add a non-animated non-javascript progress bar for people without javascript.

[Dr.osamA]

thank you bro

[tdkmatt]

I've tried uninstalling it and removing all the info on it, but it still doe not work.

but i did also install a live jqurey gamer server monitor too i think it's called gamerz it uses LGSL

maybe this has effected it ?

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I'm going to bet that the jquery mod (the second one listed) here is interfering with this mod. Please try disabling it and letting me know if it works. Some mod is interfering but I can't troubleshoot until I'm sure of which one it is.



I just confirmed this feature is working. It must be in your images/misc directory... NOT in a style directory, only in images/misc... I also wouldn't recommend over-writing the existing image since it's used in your real forum stats. I suggest uploaded a new file with a new name.



Will do, thanks. :up:



It can do posts, threads, or users (members). I don't plan on implementing any other options but I suppose if there was a site to query that would supply you with a page rank in a text format someone could edit it to work. My guess is you'd want to cache the pagerank so you aren't making an external request every time your page loads.



As you can see from the screen shots it's working fine in Firefox- I'm betting people who say it doesn't work have "NoScript" or some sort of script blocking enabled- without javascript this won't show the progress bar.

I will (eventually) try to add a non-animated non-javascript progress bar for people without javascript.