Thanks Derek :)

No Problem :).

I have a question when will the new update be and when will there be a text links available for forum home or entire vbulletin to show as top list or as random list?

I have found 2 bugs buttons show on the forumhome page when they are not validated and aproved.

And email that i get when someone post a link to topsites is not good.

I currently do not have an ETA on the next version but am working hard to finish it. I've just been pretty busy with school starting. I'll try and get it out soon. I'll try and add the text link thing to the next version as well.

Ok, I'll look into that. I probably forgot to update that part.

What do you mean?

Thanks,
Derek

Okey.. i have two questions :)

A) i have problem with the Userranking. If the rotate banner not displayed in the same category, there ar no rankings from the user displayed.

http://www.xbox360gamertag.de/Forum/toplist.php?cid=4


B) Does the Hits from the other side counted? If the private Usershomepage displayed 600 times, are the counter on 600 also? Ore just counter the "in klicks" from the button from the other side?

I wanna a stats, how often the other side be visits. Does that mod do that?

(sorry for my bad english)

I'll look into the first thing. It might be a bug.

For your second question, the hits on the user's page are counted under the views column, if they added the hits code to their site. If they add their in link to their site, and people click that, it counts as 1 in hit and also adds 1 to the views count.

I am currently working on adding stats to the next version, but do not have an ETA for the next version yet.

Derek

awesome. What do i put as the in link? Can someone help me?

Any URL you wish. Most people type in the URL to their forums, and some type in the URL to the Toplist.

any plans on caching the images cause they seem to take the longest to load and I have them uploaded to my server.

I will look into this. Although the browser should already cache them because I don't have it sending any no-cache headers.

Derek

im using firefox and thats the only thing that takes long to load. just seemed strange cause everything else flys on opening but then it waits for the images. another nice feature would be to have say only the first 5 sites display there image. i know there is a feature for the hits but im thinking it may be more useful having it for only the first few sites cause if you have like 40 sites that would be some lag if they all had images displayed.

Ok, I'll try and add that to the next version as well :). What do you want it to show for the other sites then? Just have it say none?

yeah that or have it just not display anything i been looking at ways to change the look of mine a bit. this way it removes that button table and adds it all in one with the site name and description. and then has the stats on the left side of it like it is now

Ok, I'll see what I can do. I might have to site name row have a colspan of 2 for the ones with no button shown.

Derek

Hi,

Can someone please make me 2 small images for this hack? The first one needs to be a green arrow pointing up, and the other should be a red arrow pointing down. Size should be around 25x25 (or whatever looks better, just needs to be small). These will be beside sites that have increased or decreased their rank since the cron last ran (a new feature I am implementing).

Thanks,
Derek

25 x 25 thats kinda big. for the stats to go up and down with dont you think?

here is to 13x13 images i can make others once i get back.

Attachment 53180
Attachment 53181

Here's a couple more arrows!

-b6

Thanks guys. Those should be fine :). I will include both in the zip file to give everyone a choice of which they want to use.

Derek

Derek,
Thanks for implementing the up/down since last ranking period. Also don't forget a 3rd image (remained the same). It will help the layout flow better. Perhaps a dot or a dash.

also, if you have time those would be great additional features (recap from PM):

- In AdminCP, select ranking cycle as either day/week/month. This would reset the counters daily/weekly/monthly. So after the time period it would be clean slate and the ranking would start at zero again. Yet the up/down/same graphics would tell you what happened to the site since last ranking period.

- I know you said it would be hard to do, but (at least for me) the IN/OUT hits aren't really needed, if you're ranking by pageviews, would be great if you could hide the other columns and just display pageviews.

- In addition, calculating average figures, would be great too.
- Ranking could be by either actual pageviews (the number of visitors to the listed page) or average pageviews (based on whatever history you have - or say the last 10 ranking cycles)

- I already love the statistics page !!!

- I believe you already implemented this, but it's not working for me very well. I would love for the topsites script to count all the pageviews that the listed sites are getting, even if no one actually visited the forum or topsite. basically if I'm ranking by pageviews and the listed site got 5000 visitors, I'd love the script to rank them at 5000, even though 300 were guests from my forum. I hope you know what I mean. Have it count pageviews independently from vb/topsite visitors. This is actually a dream come true for me! This is the muscle behind AArdvarkTS


dendrob
www.VivariumTopSites.com

Oops, forgot about that image. DementedMindz and b6gm6n, can you guys please make one representing no change in rank? Perhaps maybe make it yellow or black? Thanks :).

I will be working on all of those, and hope to have them done for the next version.

Derek

I have a strange problem in admincp when someone submits a site and I go to approve it I get this. There are %1$s sites in the Toplist to be validated. To view and validate them, go here. Then when I recieve the email it dont show the site it shows this.

Site Name: Array[sitename]
URL: Array[url]
Description: Array[description]
Username: Wicked

If you do all these things, that script will be da-da-da-da-da'BOMB !!!!

Ok dude...check the attached! - pick a colour!

-b6

I would use like a = sign if the stay even and there is no change in the rank

A topsite layout like this would be nice. It pretty much has everything you can ask for. You can use small buttons to large banners for images and it has a nice stats page also.

I say black - or better yet dark gray :)

yeah but you have to worry about members with dark themes also. keeping it light will allow most members to use it, if not you can always change the color easy.

True that, but if the site position didn't change, you let it be, don't need to be flashy if things remained the same. UP/DOWN you shine some colour... on a flip side, true - easy enough to change it to fit your skin

I'll probably keep the layout like it is. I will although have a new setting in the next version to have the buttons shown beneath the site name in the same column, so site owners can switch to that if they wish.

Derek

I'll take a look at this, it might be a bug. Looks like something went wrong with the construct_phrase() function.

Derek

EDIT: Yup, seems to be happening for me as well, I'll look into it.

thanks wasnt sure if it was just me

This addon is GREAT, everything I could imagine.. and more!!! Got it running on my vB3.6.0 site and it's working great.

One question, and I'm sure it's a silly one, but I just want to be sure... when you set the usergroup permissions, I assume the options of 'edit sites' and 'delete sites' options only apply to sites that that user has added?

A suggestion for an addition, to let the number of sites each user is allowed to add to be based on usergroup, rather than a global setting for all.

Anyway, great hack, looking forward to any and all updates you make :D

Yes, the edit site and delete site permissions are just for the sites added by that user. The last option (I think it's called administrate sites or moderate sites) allows that usergroup to edit each site, even if it wasn't submitted by them.

Thanks for the suggestion about changing the limit to be based on usergroups instead of being a global setting. I will try and add that to the next version as well.

Derek

I have another suggestion, if you don't mind... How about the ability for the IN page to be diffrent, based on which category the site is in?

For example, I'm running two sites, TheICE.co.uk and UnknownTales.net. What I'd like to do, in theory, is set-up a category for each of these sites, and when someone clicks on my button, it checks which category the site is in, and forwards it to the relevent page.

Of course, extended options to this feature could be the ability to define diffrent link-in buttons for each category, as well as the ability for the top-ten toplist sites data, based on category, to be displayed on a non-vB page (I might even try building that one myself).

Anyway, I hope you like the ideas :D

Nice suggestion! I will see if I can add it to the next version. Also in the next version I will have a file that will output XML and RSS feeds with the top x sites (you specify this in the url). I will also be making a simple API to show that stuff on a non-vB page.

Derek

Derek

So based on the query in the URL, you get to choose which category you wish to display... This sounds fantastic :D I assume it'll contain all the info you see on the main toplist site, as well as things like the buttons.

While I'm here, I'm interested... The veryify option you have, to check that the user had put the code on their site - exactly how does this work? I should imagine it goes to the site and looks for something, but what exactly does it look for?

Seriously, I'm blown away by how good this hack is.... keep up the good work :D

Yes, that is correct :).

i had to load a backup of my site and last time i backed up was BEFORE i added this hack.. heres the error i'm getting.

so, there's site ratings that have been made in the "plugin.php" that's holding me back from re-importing the product. Any ideas on what i can do?

Either delete all of the toplist_ tables, or you will have to manually edit the product XML file to remove the confilicting tables from it since they already exist. I will have better install code in the next version so these errors shouldn't show then.

Derek