[VB3 RC3] Member of the day

[Kentaurus]

Tested in 3.0.1

This hack lets you "elect" a member of the day (member of any period of
time actually, but defaults to member of the day).

The member of the day is someone randomly picked from all the users in
your forum that have certain amount of posts the day before, that have
visited the forum and that have at least 50 posts and 10 reputation. You
can also change that values.

By default it appers in top of the forumhome. It is a nice way for members
of the forum to get to know each other.

Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org (../) at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[Kentaurus]

Tu further customize this hack you can edit the memberoftheday.php files, the settings are:

This is a comma separated list of the groups that will not be considered for the member of the day. Banned usergroups should be here.

$restrictedGroups = "3,4";

This are the minimum posts a user must have, if a user has less than 50 posts for example he cannot be selected member of the day

$posts = 50;

Since it makes no sense to make a user that visited the forum a month ago member of the day you can specify the number of days ago the user must have visited the forum. In this example if the user didn't visit the forum yesterday he is not elegible for member of the day

$lastactivity = 1;

Similar to the last setting only the user not only has to visit the forum but also has to post.

$lastpost = 1;

Users with less than x reputation will not be selected.

$reputation = 10;

As soon as a user is selected he cannot be selected again in this number of days. This gives other users a chance to be elected member of the day. In this example once a user was selected member of the day he cannot be selected again in 60 days.

$days = 60;

The member of the day shows the "favorite forum" of the user. This is the forum the user has more posts in. If by chance it is a private forum the name of the private forum will appear there. You might not want other users to see that because they cannot enter that forums anyway. Put a comma separated list of your private forums.

$privateForums = "1,2,3";

[MindTrix]

Looks like a nice idea, a screenshot would be nice aswell incase something goes wrong with your site.

Note the link in your first post isnt even a link to your site ;) (check your spelling in it)

[NTLDR]

Would be nice to see proper permissions for the forums. Good to see some use of the datastore and the cron system here.

[Kentaurus]

Would be nice to see proper permissions for the forums. Good to see some use of the datastore and the cron system here.
You mean something like this?

$forumpermsmday = fetch_permissions($mday['forumid']);
if (!($forumpermsmday & CANVIEW))
{
unset($mday['forumid']);
unset($mday['forumname']);
}

This will hide the forum from the users that cannot see them. A conditional in the template is also needed.

However there is no easy way to do this. Even if the forum is not shown the user can know that since there is no favorite forum it means that the user has 0 posts (not likely) or the forum is a private one. Then he knows that there are private forums. Sometimes you don't even want your users to know that there are private forums.

Of course, I could always run the favorite forum check at index.php and if the first forum can't be seen I would go for the second, third or fourth one. But that query is a little heavy and I wouldn't like it to run at the index page.

[NTLDR]

The 2nd, 3rd etc forums could be stored during the cron preventing the need to add extra queries on every index.php load then use code similar to what you posted along with some conditionals to display it.

[AN-net]

is there a way this could be modifed that the member of the moment has like a special title in their profile and postbit? just wondering;)

[Chris-FH]

I love this hack... :up:

At my Forum, we call it Camel of the Day :D

Great Work!

C.

[Boofo]

Tha age part of this hack is way off. It shows 34 for mine and it should be 49. ;)

[gmarik]

This is great - It could be used on KuraFire's Journal hack as well (hint, hint)

[Kentaurus]

Tha age part of this hack is way off. It shows 34 for mine and it should be 49. ;)
Are you sure you have your correct year of birth in your member's info? Age seems to be working for me...

[Boofo]

Are you sure you have your correct year of birth in your member's info? Age seems to be working for me...
Change your birthday to January 31st, 1954 and check it out. It shows up as 49 everywhere else just fine. ;)

[Link14716]

Are you sure you have your correct year of birth in your member's info? Age seems to be working for me...
Sounds like the old infamous January 1st, 1970 bug.

[dede1]

I do not have a problem, no Avatar lock here:

http://63.246.136.220/Board (http://63.246.136.220/Board)

[Boofo]

Sounds like the old infamous January 1st, 1970 bug.That's exactly what I was going to suggest except I though the bug had been squashed. ;)

Anyone got a fix for it?

[dede1]

I have

<td><img src="image.php?u=$mday[userid]"></td>


that now assigned

<td><img src= link adress<td>


Looks better than this cross

[gmarik]

You could export the limitating settings (group id, post minimum) to the admin cp input boxes so I could change it not connecting with ftp to my page, ok?

[Kentaurus]

That's exactly what I was going to suggest except I though the bug had been squashed. ;)

Anyone got a fix for it?That's because... nobody told me about that January 1970's bug :) It is new to me.

Fixed. Just download the new memberoftheday.php


Also, I just tested this hack with RC3, it works fine.

[Boofo]

You might want to change the name of the age variable in the text file, too, since you renamed it in the php file. ;)

[Kentaurus]

You might want to change the name of the age variable in the text file, too, since you renamed it in the php file. ;)
It wasn't renamed, it is still $mday['age']. I renamed other variables but they shouldn't harm the templates or the index.php modifications

[Boofo]

You're right. I apologize. I was trying to put it on my forumhome at the bottom so I wasn't using the template. Using mday[age] worked fine. I was looking at the code in the php file and it said memberoftheday[age] which, or course, didn't work. Needless to say, I was confused. But all is well now. ;)

[Boofo]

What does unserialize actually do? Is that like the RAND() variable or am I missing something?

[NTLDR]

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php


serialize() returns a string containing a byte-stream representation of value that can be stored anywhere.

This is useful for storing or passing PHP values around without losing their type and structure.

To make the serialized string into a PHP value again, use unserialize(). serialize() handles all types, except the resource-type. You can even serialize() arrays that contain references to itself. References inside the array/object you are serialize()ing will also be stored.

Used quite alot in vB3, the majority of the stuff in the datastore table is serailized.

[Kentaurus]

What does unserialize actually do? Is that like the RAND() variable or am I missing something?
Serialization is a method for making an object persistent in an OO language. You serialize the object and the use it later. PHP is still not so OO but still the serialization is a method to store data, in this case an array. I serialize an array, store it someplace then unserialize the data and get back my array. It is really useful because I can have arrays in arrays, different data types... almost everything.

[Boofo]

I'll have to look into that more. Thanks for explaining it. ;)

Also, here is what I get for an age for someone who hasn't entered a birthday.

(Age: 2004).

[AutomatikStudio]

When I try to run the cron I get: "Couldn't elect a member of the day, not enough members"...i have a couple of hundred members and I check to make sure the correct usergroups weren't restricted. Also the member box on FORUMHOME is just showing blank b/c it hasn't selected anybody.

[Kentaurus]

When I try to run the cron I get: "Couldn't elect a member of the day, not enough members"...i have a couple of hundred members and I check to make sure the correct usergroups weren't restricted. Also the member box on FORUMHOME is just showing blank b/c it hasn't selected anybody.
Maybe you should lower the restrictions for the member of the day, maybe none of them have 50 (or the number you set) posts, or they all have less than 10 of reputation, or maybe no one has posted recently and the lastactivity var is set to 1 or something very low.

[AutomatikStudio]

Maybe you should lower the restrictions for the member of the day, maybe none of them have 50 (or the number you set) posts, or they all have less than 10 of reputation, or maybe no one has posted recently and the lastactivity var is set to 1 or something very low.I've got it set to where no groups are restricted, 0 posts, no last days logged in, a reputation of 0, etc....i've got it set to where anybody can get picked.

[Kentaurus]

I've got it set to where no groups are restricted, 0 posts, no last days logged in, a reputation of 0, etc....i've got it set to where anybody can get picked.
Then anybody has posted in that day? It needs at least 1 user with 1 post... I can't think right now in anything else that could be causing that

[Boofo]

kentaurus, can you look at post 25 here and see if you can figure out why this is doing that, please, sir? ;)

[Kentaurus]

kentaurus, can you look at post 25 here and see if you can figure out why this is doing that, please, sir? ;)
Yes, you are right. Fixed. In memberoftheday.php

find this:
if ($year > $date[2] AND $date[2] != '0000')

change it to:
if ($year > $date[2] AND $date[2] != '0000' AND $date[2])

file updated also

[KuraFire]

This is great - It could be used on KuraFire's Journal hack as well (hint, hint)
Only if he would turn this into a Module for the Modules Manager, though. :)

[Kentaurus]

Only if he would turn this into a Module for the Modules Manager, though. :)
But first I would need an explanation of what is that modules manager.....
Anyway... I am expecting HTL 1.1 before any other hack, I am not releasing HTL hacks until I can make the .txt from there... it is really bothersome to do both an HTL and a TXT

[rinkrat]

I'm getting this, do I need to wait for the cron to run or something?

[Kentaurus]

I'm getting this, do I need to wait for the cron to run or something?
Wait for the cron or run it yourself at the admin control panel, it needs to be run at least once for the information to be generated.

[KuraFire]

But first I would need an explanation of what is that modules manager.....
Anyway... I am expecting HTL 1.1 before any other hack, I am not releasing HTL hacks until I can make the .txt from there... it is really bothersome to do both an HTL and a TXT
read http://everythingvb.com/showthread.php?t=28 for an explanation on what the Modules Manager is :) (I'm not gonna cut-paste all that here)

and HTL 1.1 will come, I hope soon but I dunno how soon.. it's so much work :(

[rinkrat]

They are asking what they get for being MOTD. How can I rig it to give the member of the day 5000 reputation points?

[Kentaurus]

They are asking what they get for being MOTD. How can I rig it to give the member of the day 5000 reputation points?Isn't that a lot? Oh anyway.

In the memberoftheday.php

Look for this:


$memberOfTheDay['forumname'] = $favoriteForum['title'];

replace it with:


$DB_site->query("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."user SET reputation=reputation+5000 WHERE userid=".$memberOfTheDay[userid]."");

$memberOfTheDay['forumname'] = $favoriteForum['title'];

[Trunks ssj4]

it is easy to change it to Member of the month? :rolleyes:

[Kentaurus]

it is easy to change it to Member of the month? :rolleyes:
Sure. Just set your cron job to run monthly instead of daily.

[AlexanderT]

Good hack :)

[AlexanderT]

Btw, does anyone know how to modify the hack to display the member's avatar, even if the avatar is from the database and not custom (currently only custom uploaded avatars are shown).

[brandy]

I installed the hack - it is nice, but isn't the user's profile image supposed to display? It isn't displaying. Am I wrong?
Brandy

[brandy]

I installed the hack - it is nice, but isn't the user's profile image supposed to display? It isn't displaying. Am I wrong?
Brandy

Another question, how can I add a custom profile field to display in the memberoftheday? I tried various things, but can't figure it out.

Thanks much!
Brandy

[will_lean]

Is it possible to also call the users avatar(default one if you use it) to be displayed along with the info?

$memberOfTheDay = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT user.userid,user.username,user.posts,user.reputati on,user.birthday

im assuming itd be more or less adding the extra avatar or profile tables to the above query?


could this also be possible for what brandy is looking for?
i.e adding in the profile feild table to the query.

this hack is very cool thanks alot!

[fridayweb]

Nice feature. I would like to add the info of "join date" next to their posts. I can see where to put things, but I'm not sure the exact language to create a new variable of $mday[join]. Could anyone help me out? :squareeyed:

[JagFan]

Nice hack! Thanks..installed and working great.

[brandy]

I've got "member of the day" at my site www.doggiedoor.com/forums/ and I have it set up so that only the moderators are elected (did this by restricting all other usergroups). We've had it up for about a month now, I've got 15 moderators that it chooses from, and a few have never been chosen.

Note: They DO meet the requirements I have set up, as in posted at least once, posted and logged in in the last 30 days, have a reputation over 99.

I can't seem to figure out why they would be passed over? They are feeling neglected, apparently they've been waiting for their turn to no avail.
Any clues?
Brandy

[Odoin]

Could it just be the luck of the draw? It you look at many things that use random numbers it seems sometimes a few numbers do not come up as much as others... I donno :ermm:

[AlexanderT]

Is it possible to also call the users avatar(default one if you use it) to be displayed along with the info?
That is what I am looking for, too. Looks like Kentaurus hasn't visited this thread for the past two months though :(

[Maikeru]

Good work. I learned a lot by seeing this hack on some forums. I even made friends. :nervous:. I'll probably be using this hack too.

[brandy]

That is what I am looking for, too. Looks like Kentaurus hasn't visited this thread for the past two months though :(

I've noticed on mine, that some avatars appear, and others don't. It seems that the smaller avatars appear, but the larger ones don't - but I'm not sure if size is the defining factor.
Brandy

[Kentaurus]

I installed the hack - it is nice, but isn't the user's profile image supposed to display? It isn't displaying. Am I wrong?
Brandy

Another question, how can I add a custom profile field to display in the memberoftheday? I tried various things, but can't figure it out.

Thanks much!
Brandy


Some modifications to my hack (just download the files again):

Added support for default avatars (not the ones uploaded by the user but the ones the administrator has configured in the forum)

You can now use any user or userfield variable in the memberoftheday template.




About your question of moderators being ignored I suggest you increase the value of $days to something really high. Sometimes mysql is not very good at random numbers... In my forum sometimes some member is elected twice very quickly and some other members are still waiting their turn.

[AlexanderT]

update works great!

Thanks Kentaurus.

[brandy]

Some modifications to my hack (just download the files again):

Added support for default avatars (not the ones uploaded by the user but the ones the administrator has configured in the forum)

You can now use any user or userfield variable in the memberoftheday template.




About your question of moderators being ignored I suggest you increase the value of $days to something really high. Sometimes mysql is not very good at random numbers... In my forum sometimes some member is elected twice very quickly and some other members are still waiting their turn.

Thank You!
The avatars are still not showing (just the small ones)
I changed the number of days from 30 to 90, so we'll see if that helps
Also, how do you write the syntax to include field5 in the template?
I tried just: $field5
but it doesn't work.
Thanks much!
Brandy

[Kentaurus]

Thank You!
The avatars are still not showing (just the small ones)
I changed the number of days from 30 to 90, so we'll see if that helps
Also, how do you write the syntax to include field5 in the template?
I tried just: $field5
but it doesn't work.
Thanks much!
Brandy
Just wait for the next member of the day to be generated, I expect then the avatar will be visible.

You need to use $mday[field5], please let me know if that works as expected.

[fridayweb]

Do you know of a way to get the tasks list to generate a page so that people could see all of the previous members of the day?

Hmm... or maybe just do an automatic entry on the calendar so people can see it that way.

[SaN-DeeP]

i just installed it
everything is fine except the users avtars are not getting display :)

i think they are using custom avtars on forum..
any ideaz to fix this.

Thnx.
Sandy...

[SaN-DeeP]

i just installed it
everything is fine except the users avtars are not getting display :)

i think they are using custom avtars on forum..
any ideaz to fix this.

Thnx.
Sandy...
pretty weird
but as stated in ur above post. it will work after 1 day and it does ;)


however here is one question.
My forums are hosted in us (TIME HERE IS GMT - 8:00) and my forums people are located in india (GMT + 5:30)

When the clock strike 1:00 pm afternoon here, member of day gets changed. and not @ midnight 12:00
How do i change this,
Its kinda buggy that i changes @ afternoon when almost 13 hours have passed away.

Sandy...

[Kentaurus]

pretty weird
but as stated in ur above post. it will work after 1 day and it does ;)


however here is one question.
My forums are hosted in us (TIME HERE IS GMT - 8:00) and my forums people are located in india (GMT + 5:30)

When the clock strike 1:00 pm afternoon here, member of day gets changed. and not @ midnight 12:00
How do i change this,
Its kinda buggy that i changes @ afternoon when almost 13 hours have passed away.

Sandy...
Change the hour in the cron job. Instead of having it at 0 hour substract 13 hours so it can change just at midnight.

[SaN-DeeP]

Change the hour in the cron job. Instead of having it at 0 hour substract 13 hours so it can change just at midnight.
where are the changes to be done exactly ??
In my cron jobs
i have set the hours to be 13 and minutes 0
is that fine ??

also the avtars are still not getting displayed.

1 more things, i have set to give 50 points to users who get this Member of Day Title.
But, it just shows members reputation to be done on the Member of Day box.

weras in there profiles it shows more. :S

Any fix for this
Thnx.
Sandy...

[Malke]

I have 2 questions:

If I set it to run once/week, does that mean that $days now stand for 1 week, or do I still set it so that the same member can't be "member of the week" in i.e 14 for 2 weeks?

In that case does 14 mean 14 days (2 weeks) or 14 weeks (since it's only being updated once/week).

Also, I've made it so that it's being updated every monday. Do I need to set an exact hour & minute for it to be done or will it just automaticly do it sunday night at midnight?

[brandy]

Just wait for the next member of the day to be generated, I expect then the avatar will be visible.

You need to use $mday[field5], please let me know if that works as expected.


Yes! Thank you, the $mday[field5] works like a charm!

Some of the avatars are still not showing up though.

When I look at the source code of the avatar image in their profile, it may be that the ones that look like this are showing up:
http://doggiedoor.com/forums/image.php?u=219&dateline=1084590730

And the ones that look like this are not showing up:
http://doggiedoor.com/forums/images/avatars/doggie/gooddoggie.gif

Just a thought.

[SaN-DeeP]

the avtar still has problems getting displayed

i stripped down my template to not fetch the avtar ;) finally


thnx for mod.
Sandy...

[SaN-DeeP]

i dunt want to display avtars using this hack.

can someone guide, what queries to be removed from memberoftheday.php file :)

i have edited index.php and template

Thnx.
Sandy...

[Alex]

This question was here before, but never was answered. Is there a way to show the information member of the day in the postbit for that user, that got elected?

[Alex]

I tried to do it myself (to get the information "member of the day" in the postbit).
My steps were:
I inserted the same things that go into index.php in the showthread.php. Also I inserted the 'memberoftheday' into showthread.php to the datastore. Even though I don't get the variables in the postbit.

Can someone help me out here?

[Alex]

Anyone?

[Gary King]

I don't like the original look of this mod, because it was so big, took up too much space, and whatnot, so I changed it a bit.

What do you think of the way it looks now, on my forums? :)

[SaN-DeeP]

I don't like the original look of this mod, because it was so big, took up too much space, and whatnot, so I changed it a bit.

What do you think of the way it looks now, on my forums? :)
looks impressive, i did the same when i had this mod installed, but due to extra amount of queries i had to take it off

[sully02]

Has someone already converted this into a CMPS module? If so, I'd like to see it. If not... I may give it a try, though my PHP is rusty at best.

[mokoboo]

Need help here, I installed your hack, but since I did, the database is down... the forums shows "refresh" and VB database error...
Please help me :(

[dfmafia]

how would i go about having just the member of the day info on its own page so i can use <?php
include('/home/XXX/XXX/forums/member_of_the_day.php');
?>

[Boofo]

how would i go about having just the member of the day info on its own page so i can use <?php
include('/home/XXX/XXX/forums/member_of_the_day.php');
?>
Just run the cron job for it and then use a query to pull the info from the db. ;)

[dfmafia]

huh?

lol


this is where im putting it:
http://dfmafia.net/network.php

as you can c its not showing up (next to the news)

[Boofo]

huh?

lol
Since it is stored in the db, all you have to do is run the query for the info in the file you want to run for the new page. I use a query for it in my forumhome cache stats hack. The file is run by cron isn't it?

[dfmafia]

from the instructions:

################################################## ####################
# Scheduled tasks to add
################################################## ####################

In your admin control panel add a new scheduled task. Name it whatever you
want and set it to run in filename: ./includes/cron/memberoftheday.php


so i would do this:
<?php
include('/home/XXX/XXX/forums/includes/cron/member_of_the_day.php');
?>

[dfmafia]

nah that didnt work

i dont want to use the format im using for the forums

thats y i made a .php page for it

i can get login info and recent posts but not member of the day info

[boo.3]

I don't like the original look of this mod, because it was so big, took up too much space, and whatnot, so I changed it a bit.

What do you think of the way it looks now, on my forums? :)

ahh yours is 10x better could u PM me code?

[Malke]

Is there any way to edit this hack so that you just pick the member of the week yourself? By let's say entering a member-id somewhere or something?

[StuKeR]

Hi I've installed as the TXT says but instead of put $memberoftheday on the forum template I put it on the CMPS template... (the unique diference) but when I try to run the scheduled task it says this...

Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/includes/cron/memberoftheday.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/motos/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/motos/public_html/foro/admincp/cronadmin.php on line 56

Warning: main(/includes/cron/memberoftheday.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /home/motos/public_html/foro/admincp/cronadmin.php on line 56

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/includes/cron/memberoftheday.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/motos/public_html/foro/admincp/cronadmin.php on line 56

so I open the cronadmin.php to see if there's a mistake and I don't see anything wrong...

if any one knows how to repair this disaster... I would be very congratulated :p

thx alot

[StuKeR]

aRG, I' so stupid, I forgotten the dot before /includes/cron/memberoftheday.php.

well I've just made it run but now appears ! as a member of the day.

When I executed the task it said this

log_cron_action("Member of the day elected: $memberOfTheDay[username]", $nextitem); ?>?>

and now I coudn't run the task again because it says
Couldn't elect a member of the day, not enough members

I've configurated the file for, anybody could be member of the day (for proposes only) but as I said before apears ! instead of the name of one of the forum...

is that correct???

thx

[Roxie]

Has anyone installed on 3.0.3?

[StuKeR]

Roxie I've installed on 3.0.3

[bigcurt]

If I want to make this a MEMBER OF MONTH. Does the box show up every day or just that one day where it picks a member? I just want it to be there for that one day.

Also I dont use the reputation system if I set the permissions to 0 for that than that will be off right?

[Pixelgrounds]

i would love a member of the month hack, has anyone done one ?

[StuKeR]

pixelgrounds just select Month by Month and the hack will select the user of the month :p.

But I don't get to make the hack running :'(. always put the ! exclamation mark instead of the user :'(

[Malke]

Suker... there's probably noone matching the description. Maybe you should change nr of posts etc requier. The same thing happened to me when I changed the reputation value by mistake.

[StuKeR]

Suker... there's probably noone matching the description. Maybe you should change nr of posts etc requier. The same thing happened to me when I changed the reputation value by mistake.

hi, there's no mistake with the requier, cause I'f the template runs on the forumhome it works well. I try to modify the $memberoftheday for the new $adv_portal_memberoftheday on the index.php but I don't get to make it run...

there's someone as an angel who wants to help me :ermm: :ermm: ?

[T3MEDIA]

Would be nice to see proper permissions for the forums. Good to see some use of the datastore and the cron system here.
NTLDR are you still alive????

HEY I hucked this up on my site. AWSOME have a mouse over and all that. really cool. Just how would I put a dont have avatar image up if they dont have one? that part is needed cuz some dont have.

Thanks.

[T3MEDIA]

Has someone already converted this into a CMPS module? If so, I'd like to see it. If not... I may give it a try, though my PHP is rusty at best.
www.sprnch.com/forums/vbindex.php

[T3MEDIA]

Just wait for the next member of the day to be generated, I expect then the avatar will be visible.

You need to use $mday[field5], please let me know if that works as expected.whaaT field 5! didnt know about this baby!

[T3MEDIA]

Just wait for the next member of the day to be generated, I expect then the avatar will be visible.

You need to use $mday[field5], please let me know if that works as expected.
Darn... doenst work for me????

[StuKeR]

does any one knows how to put the member of the day as a CMPS module?

[dacho]

there is a problem

error in page memberoftheday.php
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /hsphere/local/home/gehenom/forums.dacho.co.il/includes/cron/memberoftheday.php on line 34

line 34 is = $memberOfTheDay = $DB_site->query_first("

[Marco van Herwaarden]

there is a problem

error in page memberoftheday.php
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /hsphere/local/home/gehenom/forums.dacho.co.il/includes/cron/memberoftheday.php on line 34

line 34 is = $memberOfTheDay = $DB_site->query_first("
Are you running it as a scheduled job from ACP? Or are you just calling the script?

[dacho]

Are you running it as a scheduled job from ACP? Or are you just calling the script?
just calling the page from CP, like that :
construct_nav_option($vbphrase['Member_of_the_day'], '../includes/cron/memberoftheday.php', '<br />');

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Cron files can not be called like that i think, the schedule task mechanism wraps some initialisations around htem.

Just add a new scheduled task pointing at this script, then click run now to test

[StuKeR]

Hi... :'(

There's someone solidary who wants to help me to put the member of the day on a CMPS module... ???

help please because i'm a bit desesperated U_U

thx

[dacho]

someone ?!

[StuKeR]

well I've see that there's some one ho has converted to a CMPS module... the question is... HOW has he done... ?? help please :'(

[dacho]

where is Kentaurus ?
we need help here!!!!

someone

[StuKeR]

I think he want to kill us... :D:D:D:D muahah

[dacho]

probably :(

[StuKeR]

well Is anyone alive?

[LadyBeth]

Can this be used in the following ways?

1. can it be a user of the week
2. based upon a minimum number of posts
3. can admins and moderators be excluded
4. can this be done automatically so there is nothing for the admin to do

Please advise....thanks :)
LB~

[StuKeR]

yes could be

[Elfo King]

Nice Hack...installed!
I need to assign at the "Member of the day" 1 point of reputations, it's possible ?:P

Thx

[carolmyt]

Warning: Newbie question

I love this hack, but I want to make the background transparent. Any advice on how I can do that?

Thanks!

[SpanishHarlem]

Would have been a great hack. I installed it on my forum. It show's me that a member has been chosen in the task manager but for some reason it's not showing up at the top of the forum.

[SpanishHarlem]

Ok I have partly figured this out. Does anyone here know how I can make it so that it show's in all skin's?

[Rogue Pan]

Ok I have partly figured this out. Does anyone here know how I can make it so that it show's in all skin's?



Add the templates to all skins.

Also have one small problem i've noticed. It's set for me to change member of the day at 6:00pm every day. Ever since i had this hack, my DB crashes at 6:00pm every day for a few minutes..Any idea why this hack causes it. I say this hack, because i never had this problem until using this hack.

[SpanishHarlem]

hmmm hopefully someone will know any solution's to this. I added the skin's I do have to the default skin but it seem's for some reason member of the day will only show in default and two other's.

Can you help me so that I can make it so that it will show all skin's.

Please and thank you. :laugh:

[jilly]

Warning: Newbie question

I love this hack, but I want to make the background transparent. Any advice on how I can do that?

Thanks!


Take out this code out of the memberoftheday template to make it transparent - class="tborder"


Take this code out to shrink the space between the lines of info. - cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]"

I also put a font size="1" around the text to make it smaller

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="80%" align="center">
<tr>
<td><img src="$avatarurl"></td>
<td>
<b>Member of the day is: <a target="_top" href="member.php?&u=$mday[userid]">$mday[username]</a>!</b><br/><br/>
Posts: $mday[posts]</span><br/>
Reputation: $mday[reputation]</span><br/>
<if condition="$mday[age]">Age: $mday[age]</span><br/></if>
<br/>
Favorite forum: <a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$mday[forumid]">$mday[forumname]</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>

[Polo]

I'm also interested on using this on the cmps... has anyone accomplish this successfully? i did it, but only the avatar show in the block :( anyone else has tried it?

[jilly]

I would like to add a link in the memberoftheday template to pm the member, so if people want to pm the member of the day they can click right there and send it..

[kisersose]

When will this take effect?????????
i installed this today, and its just a blank box with this....

---------
Emcee of the day is: !

Posts:
Reputation:

Favorite forum:

[jilly]

kisersose - you need to go into scheduled tasks and click 'run now' to start it off and run it the first time - go to admin cp > scheduled tasks > scheduled tasks manager - then look for the name you gave the task, and click the 'run now' button below it.

[StuKeR]

still the same question (for remember propouses only :P )...

Does any one convertered this to a CMPS module? or atleast that it could be showed on the CMPS main page???

I'll be very pleased if anyone could help me

thx

[jilly]

If I wanted to run this more than once on a board, could I do this? For example if I wanted 'member of the day', yet I also wanted 'moderator of the month' - any ideas on what to add or how to do that?

[restless]

Not sure if anyone has answered this anywhere... but I've added this to my vba cmps.

Here how i did it (I have no idea if this is the BEST way to do it):

1. Edit global.php

Find:
$specialtemplates = array_merge($specialtemplates,
array(
'adv_modules',
add BELOW:
'memberoftheday',

Find:
$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates,
array(
'adv_portal',
Add BELOW:
'memberoftheday',

Find:
/*================================================= =====================*\
|| ################################################## ##################
|| # Downloaded: 13:38, Tue Feb 22nd 2005
|| # CVS: $RCSfile: global.php,v $ - $Revision: 1.256.2.5 $
|| ################################################## ##################
\*================================================ ======================*/
Add ABOVE:
$mday = unserialize($datastore['memberoftheday']);
if (!$mday['hascustomavatar'] && $mday['avatarpath'])
{
$avatarurl = $mday['avatarpath'];
}
else
{
$avatarurl = "vboptions[bburl]/image.php?u=$mday[userid]";
}
eval('$memberoftheday .= "' . fetch_template('memberoftheday') . '";');

2. create new template adv_portal_member

Add code:
$memberoftheday

3. Add a new module:

Module Title: Member of the Day
Template to Include: member

Place it wherever you like (left, center, right)

That's it.

[restless]

you can see this in action here: http://www.vagrantcafe.com/index.php?

this is my code for my memberoftheday template:
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="80%">

<tr><td class="alt1" width="100%"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1">
<tr>
<td class="alt1"><img src="$avatarurl"></td>
<td class="alt1"><b>Vagrant of the Day: <a target="_top" href="$vboptions[bburl]/member.php?&u=$mday[userid]">$mday[username]</a></b><br/><br/>

View $mday[username]'s <a target="_top" href="$vboptions[bburl]/member.php?&u=$mday[userid]">Profile</a><BR>
View $mday[username]'s <a target="_top" href="$vboptions[bburl]/usernote.php?&u=$mday[userid]">UserNotes</a><BR>
View $mday[username]'s <a target="_top" href="$vboptions[bburl]/buddies.php?&u=$mday[userid]">Friends</a><BR>
Posts: $mday[posts]</span><br/>
<if condition="$mday[age]">Age: $mday[age]</span><br/></if>

Favorite forum: <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/forumdisplay.php?f=$mday[forumid]">$mday[forumname]</a> </td>
</tr>

</table></td></tr>
</table><BR>

i literally just figured out and installed this tonight... so i'll probably change my look at a bit.

[cdoyle]

When I try to run the cron I get: "Couldn't elect a member of the day, not enough members"...i have a couple of hundred members and I check to make sure the correct usergroups weren't restricted. Also the member box on FORUMHOME is just showing blank b/c it hasn't selected anybody.

I'm getting this too on my testboard. Here are the settings I have everything at.
I have created a couple test members, and just posted several threads for each.

$restrictedGroups = "0";
$posts = 0;
$lastactivity = 90;
$lastpost = 30;
$reputation = 0;
$days = 7;
$privateForums = "0";

When I run the scheduler, I get that "Couldn't elect a member of the day, not enough members"

any ideas?

[cdoyle]

I got it to work, I was having the problem because this is a test forum, and I only have about 7 members listed. Since the hack wouldn't allow you to 'repeat' member of the day for at least 7 days, that is why I would get the error.

I just decreased it to 1 day and it worked finally.

Now to install on the real forum!!

[cdoyle]

Has support for this hack stopped?

I did finally get everything working, and got it to work on my CMPS page. But was wondering if some other features could be added?

Is it possible to display the users profile image? (I think that question was asked before, but I didn't see an answer)

Or how about also displaying their signature?

I hope the creator of this hack is still around!

Thanks in advance
Chris.

[Paul M]

Has support for this hack stopped?

.
.

I hope the creator of this hack is still around!
Well the hack is not marked as supported - but that may just be an oversight. The coder last visited four days ago so he's still around.

[Corriewf]

Has support for this hack stopped?

I did finally get everything working, and got it to work on my CMPS page. But was wondering if some other features could be added?

Is it possible to display the users profile image? (I think that question was asked before, but I didn't see an answer)

Or how about also displaying their signature?

I hope the creator of this hack is still around!

Thanks in advance
Chris.

Dont you think that will be a little over doing it? How much do you want to have people go through when they are trying to get to your forums?


If you really want it just input the variables using the hacks syntax.

[cdoyle]

I'm not really sure what you mean by input the 'vairables using the hacks syntax' I'm new to this, could you give me an example of what you mean?

Thanks
Chris.

[cdoyle]

I've just noticed something, it seems that it selects a new user whenever you refresh the screen?

I've checked the scheduler and it's only suppose to run on the 23rd hour of each day.

Anyone know why it would be selecting a new one, everytime the page is refreshed or opened?

Also, I'm still not sure what I would need to do add the profile pic?

Chris.

[Corriewf]

I've just noticed something, it seems that it selects a new user whenever you refresh the screen?

I've checked the scheduler and it's only suppose to run on the 23rd hour of each day.

Anyone know why it would be selecting a new one, everytime the page is refreshed or opened?

Also, I'm still not sure what I would need to do add the profile pic?

Chris.

Did you run the queries from the install? Somehow the cron is running everytime you refresh.

[Corriewf]

I'm not really sure what you mean by input the 'vairables using the hacks syntax' I'm new to this, could you give me an example of what you mean?

Thanks
Chris.


Add a template with name "memberoftheday" (without the quotes), and this content:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
<table class="" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="80%" align="center">
<tr>

<td>
<b>Member of the day is: <a target="_top" href="member.php?&u=$mday[userid]">$mday[username]</a>!</b><br/><br/>
Posts: $mday[posts]</span><br/>
Reputation: $mday[reputation]</span><br/>
<if condition="$mday[age]">Age: $mday[age]</span><br/></if>
<br/>
Favorite forum: <a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$mday[forumid]">$mday[forumname]</a>
<br/>
<if condition="$mday[signature]">Signature: $mday[signature]</span><br/></if
<td><img src="$avatarurl"></td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>

This code will move the avatar to the right hand side ( as I think it looks better there) and give you the signature you were looking for.

[cdoyle]

Ya I ran the query, but just to make sure I tried to run it again, and it said that it already existed.

I also noticed that it doesn't do it on every refresh, it seems to be more random. One time you may be able to refresh the screen 10 times in a row, and it stays the same. Then the next time you open the page, and refresh it changes on the first try.

[cdoyle]

Add a template with name "memberoftheday" (without the quotes), and this content:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
<table class="" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="80%" align="center">
<tr>

<td>
<b>Member of the day is: <a target="_top" href="member.php?&u=$mday[userid]">$mday[username]</a>!</b><br/><br/>
Posts: $mday[posts]</span><br/>
Reputation: $mday[reputation]</span><br/>
<if condition="$mday[age]">Age: $mday[age]</span><br/></if>
<br/>
Favorite forum: <a href="forumdisplay.php?f=$mday[forumid]">$mday[forumname]</a>
<br/>
<if condition="$mday[signature]">Signature: $mday[signature]</span><br/></if
<td><img src="$avatarurl"></td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/>

This code will move the avatar to the right hand side ( as I think it looks better there) and give you the signature you were looking for.

Thanks, that does look better have the avatar on the right.

I did just noticed something with the sig, not sure if this can be fixed or not, On the current member it shows as this

[COLOR=Black [SIZE=1 BMWBoard (http://www.bmwboard.com) [/SIZE [/COLOR

I had to remove some brackets in this post to make it look the way it does on my member field.

You can really see what I'm talking about at
www.caraudiocentral.net


Is there anyway to make it display correctly?

Thanks again for your help.

[Corriewf]

Ya I ran the query, but just to make sure I tried to run it again, and it said that it already existed.

I also noticed that it doesn't do it on every refresh, it seems to be more random. One time you may be able to refresh the screen 10 times in a row, and it stays the same. Then the next time you open the page, and refresh it changes on the first try.


Sounds like you have the time to run cron incorrectly set.....

[Corriewf]

Thanks, that does look better have the avatar on the right.

I did just noticed something with the sig, not sure if this can be fixed or not, On the current member it shows as this

[COLOR=Black [SIZE=1 BMWBoard (http://www.bmwboard.com) [/SIZE [/COLOR

I had to remove some brackets in this post to make it look the way it does on my member field.

You can really see what I'm talking about at
www.caraudiocentral.net


Is there anyway to make it display correctly?

Thanks again for your help.


This has nothing to do with the code or this hack itself but with cmps as the software is outside of the forum index so any link like say "navbar" have to be fully inputed along with smileys and BB code. The user who is currently member of the day is using BBcode which is currently not recognized by your cmps. You need to go to vbadanced.com and research getting that to work.

[cdoyle]

Thanks, I had a feeling it might have something to do with that.

Thanks again
Chris.

[Corriewf]

Thanks, I had a feeling it might have something to do with that.

Thanks again
Chris.


Yeah I am sure that its a easy fix, but I just dont have the time to research it for you right now......

[cdoyle]

Well I tried posting over at teh vbadvance forums about this, and the only response was to contact the author of the hack.

Here is what they said.

You'll need to talk to the hack author about including the bb code parse logic in his hack. CMPS is just displaying the results of the hack code, in order to get the hack to parse the bb codes it'll have to be changed to call the vB function.

I really don't know anything about this stuff, so if anyone has an idea! THANKS :)

[mfarmerhi]

Ooo Ooo! Me too! Me too! LOL

If anyone has some direction on porting this for a Vbadvanced module, I'd really appreciate it.

~ Mark

[bmroyer]

How do I remove this hack from my website? Or atleast get it out of view if I cant delete the hack..I don't like it anymore. Do I just edit my template addons? Not sure how to go about it, thanks.

[jilly]

How do I remove this hack from my website? Or atleast get it out of view if I cant delete the hack..I don't like it anymore. Do I just edit my template addons? Not sure how to go about it, thanks.

Did you add it to your main page, where you look at the index of the boards? if it's there, then you'd have to edit your forumhome template in your main style to find it and remove the code from view.

[FreeFox]

Hello all,

I followed the step by step, but still the box is empty from any informations !

So please provide me with the resolution.

Regards

[jilly]

Is there a way we could set this to do any or all of these things? I'd liek to make member of the day have some of the same functions as 'birthday', for example..

* Notify the member of the day that they are "member of the day" through email, or pm, or both?

* Start a thread in a specified forum, like the birthday function, that says "Today's member of the day is xxx"

[JayJay]

Would be nice to see this hack updated for 3.5.x

[cdoyle]

Ya I'm hoping someone is working on a 3.5 version as well. I really like this hack.

[ambrosious]

Is there a way to have the hack not pick a member for a pre determined time? I have it set up on a weekly basis and sometimes one member will be member of the week for three weeks out of four. Can I put code in that will take them out of the pool for... say, 4 weeks?

[MarsNIIT]

error when run Scheduled Task Manager in vbb 3.5.3

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/marsniit/public_html/includes/cron/memberoftheday.php on line 34

[cdoyle]

This hack is for 3.0x, and hasn't been converted over to 3.5x yet.

I hope someone does soon, I miss this one.

[Zachariah]

I have it almost done - I'll post soon.

75%

[cdoyle]

Great!! Cant' wait to see it!

[MarsNIIT]

Yes, great :D

Have body know about mod display member who post many of today???

[Zachariah]

I'll post 3.5x ver. tomorrow. (Sunday - 01.22.06 PST)

- CMPS Block
- FORUMHOME (no image yet)
- AdminCP settings vs. edit Cron file.
- Other things as the hack progresses

Teasers:

[cdoyle]

sweet!!

and a CMPS block too!!!

Can't wait to see it!

[jilly]

wooohooo! Go zachariah!

[cdoyle]

Is it posted yet, is it posted yet, is it posted yet :)

[MarsNIIT]

Have body know about mod display member who post many of today???

[Zachariah]

Not yet no :D
- I was working on the forumhome layout.

Default is @ the top. I had thoughts of in the "What's Going On?" box @ the bottem.

[cdoyle]

will we be able to not have it display on the forumhome?

I'm the 3.0x version, I just had it appear on the CMPS homepage and not on the actual forum.

[Zachariah]

yes the hack will have options of both.
- I have a CMPS done
- working on the "look" of the forumhome side.

There is tons of data you can pull up from the selected member, but how much of that should be, and not shown (since its all in the Profile anyhoo.)

- Shall we go basic and work from there ?

Simple w/ no member avatar.
EX: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=20416

[Zachariah]

delays
- Perhaps Monday.

[JayJay]

Thanks for your efforts thus far Zachariah :) Am looking forward to getting this working again. Been 2 months already, and the members of my community are missing it severely.

[jilly]

I just used to display mine in the upper left corner of forumhome. I put a table in above the navbar, and stuck it in that table. looked great.

Fields I suggest are:

Avatar
Username:
Join Date:
Number of Posts:
Number of Shouts:

That's all I need..

[cdoyle]

If I remember right on mine I had the
Avatar
UserName
Favorite forum
A link to their profile (but that may have just been done by clicking on their user name, can’t remember)

But really the biggie for me would be the User Name, and Avatar.

Can't wait to see this.

[Zachariah]

3.5.x
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=106188

[solent]

Are you going to release one for 3.0.xx also ?

Pretty Please Zachariah :classic:

[GamerJunk.net]

Any word on porting this to 3.5.3? I may just do it

[jilly]

yes, it's now called honorable member
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=106188

[Loxias]

Will this work for 3.6 or is there something similar?