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

[Cold Steel]

Originally Posted by Mijae

Pfft, we need this for vB3 now :P

Bump.

[Bobbo]

OK, I feel like an idiot. No matter where I place the $vbpopup, the actual popup template appears inserted in the page rather than floating (DHTML style). Everything below the template code gets shifted down the page rather than the template code appearing on top of the page contents.

Anyone have an idea of what I overlooked? Thanks!

[mikehawk]

So does this work for VB3 or not?

[shadiguy1]

i want this for vb3 anything around

[Sia Bani]

ditto,, bump

[RCSwap]

I'm also wanting to know if it work s for vb3 or not

[amykhar]

Guys, with template conditionals you don't NEED this hack anymore. Just do a simple conditional.

[RCSwap]

I know you can set wether guest can view threads or forums but I like this idea.

[veedee]

Does this work for vB 3.5?

Are there any hacks available for 3.5 that pop up a window to guests to encourage them to register?

Thanks.

[iceman11111]

Originally Posted by veedee

Does this work for vB 3.5?

Are there any hacks available for 3.5 that pop up a window to guests to encourage them to register?

Thanks.

Would like to know as well!