top 10 hacks

[smithy256]

im just in the process of making my board could u tell the 10 best hacks to have.

[The Realist]

Star hack has gota be No1.

[mjames]

That's like asking, "what are the top 10 cars?" You're going to get ten different answers. It's your opinion which hacks are. Browse the Released forum and choose which hacks you want to add that will help your community.

[smithy256]

well ppl can still tell me there top 10 hacks

[Wayne Luke]

In no particular order----

phpMyAdmin integration to the Control panel.
My updated moderators control panel.
Help sticky tags
Atomz search integration
Moderated members
vBGlossary addon
SPF Signature Control System
Custom Forum Depth and Descriptions in User Profile.
Forum Features hack.
Avatars as files.


Please note... you will only find 9 and 10 in these forums. The rest are my own and not yet available for release.

[smithy256]

kool wluke can u tell me where to get all the avaible hacks.

[Joe]

He creates them himself :) Im just glad i dont have to update the sitepointforums! :eek:

As for my top 10, i only have installed 2 hacks avalible on the forums:

1) Community Update hack (see sig)
2) Quick new thread search on index

My fav template changes include the iframe reply, like UBB's iframe, and the search in the header, my forum went from 5 - 10 searches a day to 50 - 100 searches a day :)

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by Joe
and the search in the header, my forum went from 5 - 10 searches a day to 50 - 100 searches a day :)

That made me curious and I had to look. We only about 500 searches a day at SPF.

[Fred]

How do you know how many searches were made in a day?

Luke, do you make the hacks or does someone at your forums do it?

[tubedogg]

Wayne does it.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by Fred
How do you know how many searches were made in a day?

Luke, do you make the hacks or does someone at your forums do it?

You can get this info by running a SQL query..

This is for Yesterday.

select count(*) from search where dateline > UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2001-08-14') and dateline < ('2001-08-15')


Or since the Search table only holds the search info for the last week you can do something like:

select (count(*)/7) as average from search


I write most of my own hacks though I do have a few from here installed at SPF. I do take suggestions from my forum Members on features but implement it myself.

[Martz]

The problem with releasing a hack is probably the amount of time and effort it takes to support it for bugs and updates when vB moves along, imho.

However I use the Total Thread Views hack and Integrating jPilot with vB :)

[JamesUS]

It seems I get about 9 searches a day.

What have you done to your Mod CP, Wayne? I'm curious to know what different features are available in there.

And I take it vBGlossary is your help system?

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by JamesUS
[B]It seems I get about 9 searches a day.

What have you done to your Mod CP, Wayne? I'm curious to know what different features are available in there.

- Enhanced moderation options including the ability to look up a user's posts and entering notes that actually stay. Increased length for thread notes.
- "Quarantine Users" - This isn't a full ban but brings problems to the administrations attention. If the user and advisor work out the problem they can remove the "Quarantine".
- Centrallized location for Email Templates.
- Index Page re-written to contain News and Information.
- Advisors can edit user profiles if they violate the Guidelines (i.e. inappropriate signatures)

And I take it vBGlossary is your help system?

No vBGlossary is http://www.sitepointforums.com/glossary.php

Still working on the search features which is why it hasn't been unveiled officially yet. I don't want to settle for simple case-insensitive searching like vBulletin uses, I want full Metaphone compatibility and a few other features. Want to add Metaphone to the vBulletin search as well so that incorrectly spelt words can be handled better.

[Eficrx]

wluke any chnce of releasing that hack on sitepoint the last ten post by the user in there profile. I think thats cool :D

[BradC]

Eficrx,

I think JamesUS has something on here somewhere.. or someone does..

do a search for last 10.. or something similar

[Eficrx]

last 10 searches is also a cool one too . I want that !!!!! :D

[almighty one]

total thread started and world times hack hasd top 10 posters hack before but cant work it in now :rolleyes:

[mjames]

I recently upgraded my boards from 2.0.0 to 2.0.3 and I lost all my hacks. So I will need to add them back. The ones I have experience with are:

1. Community Bulletin Generator
2. Signature Length Restriction - already a basic componet with 2.0.3, so no longer a hack.
3. Signature preview - same as above.
4. Total Thread Views - Small, but handy hack I will add back soon.

[Eficrx]

welcome email hack, community bulletin generator . are my 2 favorite.

[SPNicky]

Wayne is a hack demon, not only has he created some great hacks to improve the forums overall for all users, but he has also made moderation/administration a heck of a lot easier.

[Castel]

Originally posted by wluke

Avatars as files.


Are you using Kier's hack for this? If so and you are running 2.0.3 would you mind giving us the additional code changes for it to work in 2.0.3? This hack is working fine for all avatars displayed besides on showthread.php, where it still uses avatar.php to display the avatar.

[Wayne Luke]

Didn't make any code changes... Just have to change the location of your modification...

The code that used to be changed in showthread.php now has to be changed in admin/functions.php in the new postbit function.

[Castel]

I am aware of the change being in functions.php now, but as a result the avatars displayed on showthread.php (just look at the source code) are still being called from the database not the images folder. On other parts of the forum where avatars are displayed it works correctly.

I thought you had made the needed additional changes in showthread.php as well. But I guess you didn't.:(