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nice nice THX

first of all nice hack paul m, you're the best! :D

ive installed it and it was awesome :) i was just wodering if anybody tried making this mod display at vb cmps page? ive seen somebody did it on the forumhome, so i think its quite possible

is it possible t set this to like, top 50?

If you edit the code, yes. I think 50 is a bit extreme.

Installed - Thanks!

Hi,

I'm curious to know where the results of the top posters are displayed?

On your screen when you go to the top posters page ......

The link to the top poster page is added to the navbar?

Yes.

Thanks for the replies. I installed it, works great!

bah i installed it per the instructions and i get a blank page........ :mad:

Then you didn't do it right :)

The template name is case sensitive, I would guess you haven't called it "Top_Posters".

okey i took everything off completely and then tried it again and it works. sweet as hell. thanks!

Hi, thanks for the mod.
btw, can this hack be extended to include top-10 posters in terms of "post counts of the current month"?

that would be awesome..

Thanks, installed! :)

A new version [3.01] of this has now been released. Please read the main post for details.

A couple of silly questions, but...

How do I delete the old top posters template?

I have specified that I want 20 posters in my list (through the Admin CP), but only 10 are being displayed.

You don't actually need to delete the old template, as it's also used by the new version.

I've just set mine to 20 and it's fine, are you sure the setting has been changed ?

Edit: Nevermind I see what you mean, i'll fix that now. :)

Thanks. Though, for general reference, how do I delete a template anyway?

I know how to delete a whole style, but can't seem to find an option to remove a specific template.

Okay, fixed that little oversight (uploaded).

I don't know how you would delete a single template from the master set, there doesn't seem to be a way to do it.

I guess that the boys and girls at Jelsoft figured that people (non-coders) might get into trouble if they started deleting templates, thought one can mess up a board just as easily by playing with the PHP files.

But given the number of people that mod boards they should add it.

And thanks for the updated file.

Uploaded and working.

I have just done a little digging.

You can't delete a core template, only revert it to its original state.

However, if you use the revert function on a custom template then it gets deleted. Unless the template is added by a product then it just gets reverted to the original template layout defined in the product.

Actually, uninstalling the product will remove any templates associated with it. :)

Yep, I was thinking for templates added manually, rather than those which come with a product.

Well you could fudge it by creating a dummy product, assigning the template to it, and then uninstall the product ....

Anyway, this probably isn't the best place to discuss this ;)

Thanks for the update atey

Yeah thanks for the update bro.

Uh by the way Paul, have you ever thought of making this hack, please?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99517

I am really looking forward to it. Thanks in advance!

Why would I want to make another top posters hack ?

Sorry, but I'm happy with this one, I don't have time to re-invent the wheel. :)

Gah that's sad... :(

This is a great mod! Why are you complaining?

-vissa

I was thinking I would write a little cronjob that would run this every hour and save it as html. That way it won't hammer the server every time a user requests it. Do you think that would be a good way to reduce the load this puts on a server?

-vissa

One thing that would be cool is if it had another table that showed top reputations per period of time (is that even possible?)... For example, top user reputation overall, top reputation points earned in last 30 days, etc... Perhaps even a ratio between posts and reputation earned over that period of time. Is that a wacko idea? :) I think that would make this the ultimate top user mod.

-vissa

Last question from me (promise). How would I remove certain forums from the postcount? I'm assuming I could change the SQL querry - but I might need a little help.

Thanks
-vissa

i instal but dunno where its gone ? ? anyway love all your hacks

That's life I'm afraid. vB is a hobby, not a career.

I just about have time to do, and support, the stuff I do for free, and a few small paid jobs every now and then.

Thank you.


I think that sounds like overkill. Unless you have a huge forum (> 1000 posts a day) and people are viewing this all the time, then the load is not going to worry you.

That would be a whole different hack.

Yes, you would need to add some code to the SQL WHERE lines.

Erm, where has what gone ?

Well I guess we have a huge forum since we get over 1500 posts per day (sometimes 2000 or more). I guess it does depend how often it is clicked though. Mine takes about 2.5 secs when I run the top 10 posters, according to ministats.

Any specifics?

Thanks
-vissa

Yeah, that's quite slow, but my guess it that's only a small number os times pre hour, it's not a page people keep viewing minute after minute.

No at the moment, but thinking about it, it will add extra joins to the queries, as well as the extra 'where' logic. Not recommended - esp on a forum your size - it would drive that 2.5 seconds up significantly.