vbPopup - will determine your guests to register

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

[thehobbyforum]

Find in forumhome template:

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
$unregwelcomemessage
<tr valign="bottom">

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above it place:

$vbpopup

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This makes it to where it will only be called up when a guest enters the main forum page!

[GOD-Dblade]

bad ass hack

[thehobbyforum]

I didn't say this but this integration still requires you to upload vBpopup like regular!!

[Robert Basil]

The day we have to start running POP-UPS on Sportbike World is the day I shut the server down. I would never register at a site that sent me pop-ups begging me to join.

[TECK]

nice website sportbikeworld. congrats.

[Robert Basil]

Originally posted by nakkid
nice website sportbikeworld. congrats.

Thanks.

We plan on using your VBHome hack (and drop VBPortal) as soon as you make the pro version available. Great job on the "lite" version.

[thehobbyforum]

I think people need that little bit of encouragement - for my site advertisers keep it alive - advertisers want to see numbers - if 50% are inactive and just registered because of the popup that doesn't hurt the forum - we still have quality members but when it comes to choosing a place to advertise the mass of people do count - the other thing I feel is that after a member registers they become involved in the forum - I have had people tell me they were just passing through and then when encouraged to register took the chance and are now very active! Iwas against a popup too at first but the numbers don't lie!!

[Robert Basil]

Originally posted by thehobbyforum
I think people need that little bit of encouragement - for my site advertisers keep it alive - advertisers want to see numbers - if 50% are inactive and just registered because of the popup that doesn't hurt the forum - we still have quality members but when it comes to choosing a place to advertise the mass of people do count - the other thing I feel is that after a member registers they become involved in the forum - I have had people tell me they were just passing through and then when encouraged to register took the chance and are now very active! Iwas against a popup too at first but the numbers don't lie!!

After visiting your site and checking out your pop-up I do have to admit that is the best looking pop-up I have ever seen.

My only worry is that some people might think that registration is required to just read the forum.

We are getting ready to hit 16,000 members, so I really don't think we would need this hack. But I must admit it is a good idea for smaller forums looking to build their userbase.

[thehobbyforum]

Yeah I agree - as soon as the forum gets a good user base I will take it off - seen your site looks great!

[akaler]

First, great hack ! Thanks, nakkid!

And thanks John for sharing your great reg form!

I've got some questions for you, John.

First... let's say someone's cookies expired, or they're logging in on another computer. Maybe there should be a place to login on your form. Or a little X to close it. Something.

A close ability would reduce the annoyance for non-members and members alike. A way to login (Already a member? [Username Field] [Password Field] [Login! button]) or a link to the login area would help.

Also... your colors are hard coded. I think you can use vB variables to automatically integrate your colors, so they'll automatically change should you change your forum colors. And, of course, it'd make it more of a snap for people here installing your awesome template. Heh. A bit of a selfish suggestion, I know.

Thanks again, guys. This is great work. Good stuff, good stuff.