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vbPopup will determine your guests to signup to your forums in an elegant way.
If a guest visit your forum (or a specific area of it), a popup will show (for a setable period of time) a message (you decide what you want, from hotest info in your forum, or simply an advertising banner) and an option to register. The great part of this hack is that it cannot be disabled by classic popup killers.

The hack is designed to make the popup show only to guests.
You can set the timer value by modifying vbpopup.js parameters and the popup's look by editing the vbpopup template. Also, all you have to add in your templates (the ones you want the popup to show) is: $vbpopup, so it doesn't take alot of time to edit the forums look. I recommend you to insert it only in showthread template, but that is up to you.

ESTIMATED INSTALL TIME: 4 minutes

A 'vbpopup' template installer is included in the package. I tried to make your life easy.

IMPORTANT: Run the template installer in root/forum/admin.

FILES TO MODIFY:
- root/forum/global.php
- headinclude template

A screenshoot is shown below. I recommend you to keep small the popup window size. In this way the newcommers will not get annoyed by the popup.

Comments, likes, dislikes are welcome. Fell free to post them all here. Also, post a link to your forums to show off your vbPopup integration (it might give ideas to others).

NOTE: The java code was inspired and modified to suit the VB needs from this script (you can see it in action). My hack will produce a similar efect on the forums pages. The only difference is a cleaner code to improve the load time and integration of VB variables.

UPDATE
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Ok, I eliminated the confusion in readme.txt file about the template installer.
The hack is attached in Post #9.
It seems to be a problem updating the attachments here. Anyway, I fixed this issue by reposting the .zip file below. Sorry about the inconvenience.

UPDATE
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As I said before, this hack is extremly easy to adjust to suit your forum needs. A good example is shown below:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...821#post222821

TECK · #32 02-24-2002, 10:20 PM

you are more then welcome.

James Cridland · #33 02-25-2002, 11:30 AM

I've hacked my mod to show the ad banner until the user has verified their username (because otherwise you'll get lots of people registering as a@b.com or whatever). Not put the code here yet, though.

TECK · #34 02-26-2002, 11:18 PM

interesting mod. i will do the same.

99SIVTEC · #35 03-07-2002, 04:04 PM

I got this installed and running over at www.sportcompactracing.com . Definetly a nice clean script.

I would like the script to stay static on the page though instead of scrolling down with the page. How would I go about this?

I just included this at the bottom of my forumhome template.

Gutspiller · #36 03-14-2002, 07:32 PM

I went to a forum that had this so I left the forum and never returned. if you use these types of tactics your board is most likely smaller than it could be.

I along with most of the world HATE POPUPS! Quit your stupid popups. :P

Lionel · #37 03-14-2002, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gutspiller
I went to a forum that had this so I left the forum and never returned. if you use these types of tactics your board is most likely smaller than it could be.

I along with most of the world HATE POPUPS! Quit your stupid popups. :P

Look at it this way:

How would someone know what is inside when you keep it for members only?

it all depends on how interesting your forums are. At least you are getting some sort of access and if you like what you see you'll signup.

What I think is stupid is to signup for what you do not know.

James Cridland · #38 03-14-2002, 07:52 PM

Calm down...

It's a great idea for a hack. All the hacks on this board are great ideas for hacks. I loved this idea, and made an alternative hack to show ad banners instead if a user wasn't registered.

I've signed up for two board without knowing what was inside purely on the subject matter. But that's not important: the important thing is that this hack was a great idea.

thehobbyforum · #39 04-16-2002, 12:07 AM

At first I was trying to use the quick registration popup but couldn't ever seem to get the cookies set right - so then I started looking at vBpopup - vBpopup works great you just have to make sure you place the template "caller" in the right place or it will popup on every page - I liked both and since the coding was already done I just combined them - before I start though someone has to tell me how to get the clickable code box on the post - I am very new and not familiar!

If you want to check it out go to:
http://www.thehobbyforum.com/forum/index.php?s=

thehobbyforum · #40 04-16-2002, 12:34 AM

thehobbyforum · #41 04-16-2002, 12:37 AM

Since adding it last night my membership rate has well over tripled!!

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