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.

[FRANKTHETANK 2]

thank you i forgot to do the clientscript upload works great

[Knightmane]

Awesome Plugin. *Marked as Installed* Thanks, Boofo.

[amirlol]

it's very very slow

[Boofo]

That doesn't tell me anything. Explain. And click install.

[Ohiosweetheart]

Downloaded AND clicked Install

Will install on my site later today.

[SuperDave71]

Hey Boofo,

I have a quick question. I have this up and running works great BUT...

for some odd reason, the stats sometimes CHANGE.

For example, the other day my site stats were 27,000 people who have visited and this morning it was 18,000.

Is there something I am missing? Isn't this just a set it and forget it ?

I love the mod though....

Just thought I would ask.

-Dave

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by SuperDave71

for some odd reason, the stats sometimes CHANGE.
For example, the other day my site stats were 27,000 people who have visited and this morning it was 18,000.

I'm having the same problem...

I "custom " set it to the figure as I posted previously in this thread now it's

There have been 2,553 visitors to this site.


LOL !!

[Boofo]

No way that can happen on it's own. All it does it write the number to the text file and then read it back. Make sure the fle is set to chmod 777, which it should be to work.

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by Boofo

No way that can happen on it's own. All it does it write the number to the text file and then read it back. Make sure the fle is set to chmod 777, which it should be to work.

Aye it was at 644 in my case, apologises,will keep an eye out :up:

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by hIBEES

Aye it was at 644 in my case, apologises,will keep an eye out :up:

From the first post and install file:

NOTE: You must chmod 777 the forumhome_pagehits.txt file so it can be written to when updating the pagehits.