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)

[tdkmatt]

This code is also in headinclude_bottom

{vb:cssfile additional.css}
{vb:raw template_hook.headinclude_bottom_css}
<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="jscripts/tw7s_notifications/jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jscripts/tw7s_notifications/jquery.jgrowl.js"></script>
<link href="jscripts/tw7s_notifications/jquery.jgrowl.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<!-- TW7S - New Way To Display Notifications (jQuery,CSS,jGrowl) -->

[tdkmatt]

Sorry to keep posting! but when i change the theme to default it works?!?!?!?!? maybe it is that hadinclude_bottom?

[tdkmatt]

dont worry i fixed it! for some reason it also put the code in the headerinclude_bottom, delete that and it works!!! cheers

[tdkmatt]

is there anyway for it to display more then the two bars? instead of either a blank bar and a hall full bar, have it go with the percentage? if you get what i mean

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by tdkmatt

is there anyway for it to display more then the two bars? instead of either a blank bar and a hall full bar, have it go with the percentage? if you get what i mean

I don't understand what you mean- there's only 1 progress bar at any time. However I see you seem to have edited the graphics and they aren't working like they should- that is you are at 19% but it's showing 50%. I don't suggest people edit the built in images, if you try you MUST keep the exact dimensions.

[BirdOPrey5]

I have upgraded this mod to version 1.5.

New in this version you can choose a non-animated progress bar that doesn't use JavaScript at all. In addition even if you have the animated version selected, if any user browsing has JavaScript disabled they will see the non-animated version.

I also fixed a couple of phrases relating to "Users" and changed them to "Members" to be consistent.

[Taurus1]

Thanks for the update. But it does not matter which poll option I choose, it only shows the following:

Attachment 126107

Thanks.

[BirdOPrey5]

Get a link to your site?

[Taurus1]

I had it disabled. It is enabled now again. Here is the link:

http://creativx.net/forums/

Thank you.

[BirdOPrey5]

It looks like you customized the template in the old version- the new version won't overwrite a customized template, you'll need to revert it and then make your edits to te new template.