Forum Age 1.5.5 [Updated: 4th Feb 2019]

[Peter]

Dec 22, 2012 4:05:31 GMT -8 Lainey said:

Peter thanks for the plugin but the days is 4 days dif then the v4. Where is it I can go to check the maths?

www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html

[DeltaDart]

Beautiful Peter thanks for this nice plug-in.  I've got it added to my forum now.
forum.f-106deltadart.com/

[My Name is Billy Moonstone]

Hi Peter I'm still trying to get my head around how to use the var things but I'll get there in the end

What I wondered was whether it was possible to have an option to replace the text "Forum Age" with something the admin would choose and change when they felt like it?

For example, I used to have on my V4 something like "Using common sense to an uncommon degree for X years, Y months and Z days"

[My Name is Billy Moonstone]

Bump

[Peter]

Jan 25, 2013 12:49:38 GMT -8 My Name is Billy Moonstone said:

Hi Peter I'm still trying to get my head around how to use the var things but I'll get there in the end

What I wondered was whether it was possible to have an option to replace the text "Forum Age" with something the admin would choose and change when they felt like it?

For example, I used to have on my V4 something like "Using common sense to an uncommon degree for X years, Y months and Z days"

It's quite easy, the vars are these...

{years}
{years_plural}
{months}
{months_plural}
{days}
{days_plural}

The confusing part is probably the plural vars, these basically add an "s" so that "year" becomes "years".

So an example of what you could have is this...

Using common sense to an uncommon degree for {years} year{years_plural}, {months} month{months_plural} and {days} day{days_plural}

The reason for the plural vars, is that without using them, it would read wrong (i.e "7 year, 2 month, and 13 day").

[My Name is Billy Moonstone]

Thanks Peter, I've just copied and pasted your example so that saved me a job!



What I meant about the text was the actual title, where it says Forum Age. It's this that I'd like to be able to change. I know you can add text into the field where you put the VAR characters, but I'd also like to change the title if that were possible. It's not a deal-breaker btw, great plugin, but if you do update it it would be great if it slipped in

[Peter]

Forum Age 1.3.0 is available to download from first post.

In this release I have added a new setting so you can change the "Forum Age" text.

[My Name is Billy Moonstone]

Hahahaha, you're a star Peter thanks very much! 

[DeltaDart]

Beautiful thanks Peter

[Liz]

Hi Peter

I have your plug in on my forum, but for some reason it can only be viewed when logged in. It's not visible to guests.

Is it supposed to be that way?

www.frenchfocus.proboards.com/

[Peter]

Liz

What modification have you got in place for the info center (specifically users online part)?

[Liz]

I thought that might be the problem. I have a Mod for hiding the users Online from guests...

{if
$[current_user.is_member]}<tr
class="last">
<td colspan="2">
<table>
<tr>
<td
class="icon">$[image.online]</td>
<td
class="info last">
<table>
<tbody>
<tr><th>Users
Online</th></tr>
<tr><td>$[total_staff_online]
Staff, $[total_members_online] Member{if $[total_members_online] !=
1}s{/if}, $[total_guests_online] Guest{if $[total_guests_online] !=
1}s{/if}.</td></tr>
<tr><td>
{foreach
$[online_user]}
$[online_user]{if $[online_user.invisible]} <span
class="small">(invisible)</span>{/if}$[online_user.comma]
{/foreach}
{if
$[total_online_not_shown]}
, and <a
class="$[view_active_members_link.class]"
href="$[view_active_members_link.href]">$[total_online_not_shown]
more...</a>
{/if}
</td></tr>
<tr><td>$[view_todays_active_members_link]</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>{/if}

After
this, look for the following, around lines 28-32. Once more, changes
in bold;

<div
class="content">
<table>
<tbody>
{if
$[current_user.is_member]}<tr>{else}<tr
class="last">{/if}
<td>

[Peter]

Liz

The problem is actually 2 problems since you are using that.

The first problem is that the changes to that layout template are wrong (specifically the last part of it).

The second problem is that even with the template changes fixed, the location of the forum age information will get put above all the stats, as it is looking for the "last" row so it can insert before it.

What I would recommend is asking the author of the template modification to fix the last bit of the template change (could be because ProBoards has made changes since it was posted). Once that is done, post back and I'll see about adding in a feature to add the forum age row to the end of the info center.

[DeltaDart]

Hi Peter

I'm not crazy about how the Forum Age, which I named Forum Estab., sits on an entire line by itself... wasted space and all.  I have a User Legend in there as you can see, which I edited from it's original script to give it 2 table columns.  Any ideas how I can move the Forum Age somewhere where it's not taking up so much real estate?  Or, do you know of another Stat I could add to this box to just fill up the space above the User legend?  I'm just searching for ideas at this point.

[Peter]

DeltaDart

I did have it in the actual title bar to the right (where says "Forum Information & Statistics"), as all it needed to be was a line of text. I could add that option back in I suppose?