Posts Per Week Statistic

[Chris.08i]

Hello,

It's me again - so I'm looking to either create a plugin, or use whatever variables that are already available to somehow come up with a way to figure out a users post per week statistic.

I am not really sure how to go about this.

Any tips to point me in the right direction would be great.

[MarkFL]

If you are wanting to display this statistic on a user's profile page, then you could create a plugin as follows:

Product: vBulletin (or whatever product you wish this to be a part of)

Hook Location: member_build_blocks_start

Title: Compute Posts Per Week

Execution Order: 5

Plugin PHP Code:

$prepared['postsperweek'] = number_format($userinfo['posts']/((TIMENOW - $userinfo['joindate'])/(7*86400)), 2);

Plugin is Active: Yes

In the PHP Plugin Code, we are creating the number as part of the $prepared array since it is already registered there, and then using the number_format function to round it off to 2 decimal places to match the posts per day.

Then, edit your "memberinfo_block_statistics" template by locating the code:

<dl class="blockrow stats">
<dt>{vb:rawphrase posts_per_day}</dt>
<dd> {vb:raw prepared.postsperday}</dd>
</dl>


And below it add:

<dl class="blockrow stats">
<dt>Posts Per Week</dt>
<dd> {vb:raw prepared.postsperweek}</dd>
</dl>

[Chris.08i]

Thanks again Mark. I actually have another question, but I will create another thread.

For this though - I actually wanted to calculate it on a weekly basis.

I made a new column in my user table, and added a hook to newpost_complete which +1 to the count. I then added a cron job to reset the count to 0 each week (based off of there having been activity in the account in the last week to cut down on database writes)

[MarkFL]

If you want a query that returns the number of posts made by a particular user during the last week, you could use:

$posts_this_week = $vbulletin->db->query_first("
SELECT COUNT(*) AS post_count
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post AS post
WHERE userid = " . $userinfo['userid'] . "
AND dateline >= " . (TIMENOW - 7*86400)
);

$prepared[poststhisweek] = $posts_this_week['post_count'];

Then you could run this query once a week. If you want to run a query that counts the posts made by all users during the last week, let me know. :)