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

[Vivi Ornitier]

I think it's a division, not a popup/

[nghiasi]

Nice work.

[Schorsch]

thanks!

[Symbian.info]

Works great (I use usergroupid)!

[alanvo]

does this hack work with 2.2.9?

[gopherhockey]

Originally posted by Sal Collaziano
I don't think this is such a bad idea.. Maybe if the popup only lasted 2 or 3 seconds - just to soughta say, "Hey! Register. Okay?".. That wouldn't be so bad...

Thanks,

I definitely agree. Its all in what your forum is all about. I run a system that I know has a number of people just lurking around without much opinion or input on the board... some might not even know what registration does.

However, I'm not a fan of the popups on any system. And, my popup cop seems to be taking care of this popup no problem.

I'm going to give my fairly new board some time before doing anything like this, but it could come in handy if/when needed and I thank the author for taking the time.

[TECK]

Originally posted by gopherhockey
However, I'm not a fan of the popups on any system. And, my popup cop seems to be taking care of this popup no problem.

Popup Cop cannot kill it because is not a window what you see there.

[gopherhockey]

Hmmm.. then something else must be doing it. THe window tries to come up, i hear a POP! and I see nothing...

Something is killing it, sure seems to be popup cop. Maybe mine is more trained than yours :nervous:

[TECK]

Aha, who knows.
The window is just a html code, like a table that you insert in the page, the only difference is that it will overlay it, not insert it directly into.

[saint_seiya]

I think that after i installed this i got 2 footers displayed instead of one, weird but i noticed that after installing this hack

http://www.vgcity.com/forum

What should i do?