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)

[Taurus1]

Originally Posted by 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.

I did that, but it made no difference. It reverted the colors, but the bar is still not showing.

Thanks for the help!

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Taurus1

I did that, but it made no difference. It reverted the colors, but the bar is still not showing.

Thanks for the help!

I see, you have css stored in the file system, I forgot to account for that.

Please download the new update version 1.6, it should fix the issue.

[Taurus1]

Sorry, but that also did not work. I reverted the template also. Same thing.

[BirdOPrey5]

Ugghh!!

OK do me a favor, look in your headinclude template... do you have either of these exact lines?

{vb:raw template_hook.custom_css_links}

{vb:raw template_hook.custom_css_list}

The last one is part of a larger line...

Also can you confirm if you CSS is stored in the file system or not? (This is a Yes/No setting in Options).

[Taurus1]

Both of those are in my headinclude. And yes, my CSS is stored in the file system.

[BirdOPrey5]

Then I really can't imagine why the call to poll.css isn't appearing in your source code... it uses the top hook and there isn't much that could go wrong other than another mod poorly programmed (with an = sign instead of .=) that "hijacks" the hook and doesn't let anything else on it.

You could try adding this line to your headinclude template...

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00090l/poll.css" />

That should manually include the poll.css file on this style for your board.

[Taurus1]

OK great. That worked for my default style. But I have 12 styles installed. And I just tried adding that code (With the style id changed) on another style, but it did not work.

Sorry for the hassle!

EDIT: Disregard that. Sorry. I forgot that I had to first revert the templates. Now it is working perfectly. Thanks again for your help!

[BirdOPrey5]

Awesome... Finally! :up:

[ellinofatsa]

thank you i insert the 2 lines in to the top of your headinclude template and now its ok!!!!!!!

if i change the : language from grecce in english its working fine and i see the blue bar.
In grecce language it look like not working its sey Goal: 50,000 P Posts to Goal: 49,966

can you see that please in my forum? if you can help my thank you again!!

http://www.ellinofatsa.gr/forums/forum.php?langid=1

[BirdOPrey5]

You need to provide translations for those phrases, obviously I can't include a translation for every possible language. This would be normal for any mod that includes phrases.

Go to Phrase Manager in Admin CP and in GLOBAL find the following phrases:

bop5goal
bop5goalreached
bop5goals
bop5posts
bop5poststogoal
bop5threads
bop5threadstogoal
bop5users
bop5userstogoal
bopdaystogoal
bopgoaldate
bopovertime

Click on them, and provide a translation for the Greek language. Alternately you, or anyone, could also provide English translations if you prefer to re-word any of the phrases. For example I use the abbreviation P, T, or M in one place to save space (meaning Posts, Threads, or Members) but if anyone wants they can edit those phrases to make them say anything they want.

A couple of phrases are built in vbulletin phrases so that's why it was partially working in Greek (or any other language a user might have installed.)