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.

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by princeedward

another great idea...bro...thanks for this wonderful addon....works perfect to vB 3.6.8 PL2
one question about:

There have been # visitors to this page.

is this means the daily or today visitors only?



best regards...

sorry to bump this bro...just want to make sure of this...is this base on daily count of visitors on my forumhome???

...if it is...i might change the phrase if okay to...

There have been # visitors today to this page.



thanks & best regards

[Boofo]

That is total visitors since you installed the mod.

[Bounce]

I changed mine to

There have been 620,762,249 visitors to this site.

INSTALLED:up:

[Boofo]

Oh, that's believable.

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by Boofo

That is total visitors since you installed the mod.

good...now i got it...thanks once again bro...

[bada_bing]

Does this hack have to be installed when you launch your site or can you set the start stats withing the hacks settings. For example my one site had been up for several months already

[Boofo]

There is a setting to set the startup date.

[Howell]

Boofo,

I commented out the page hits section as I didn't think it relevant as my site has been running 2 years.

Hope you don't mind me doing this but thought I would share it with other people.

In Template: [site_life_status]

Find:

<br />
             <phrase 1="$pagehits">$vbphrase[site_visitors]</phrase>

Replace with:

<!-- <br />
              <phrase 1="$pagehits">$vbphrase[site_visitors]</phrase> -->

If this is incorrect then please let me know. :erm:

Regards. Howell

[Boofo]

You can edit the pagehits file and add however many hits you want to, you know that right?

[Howell]

oh yes so you can.

This isn't mentioned anywhere though so didn't know you could do that.

Thanks for letting me know.