Xiphoid:

Actually, you need to run the value through the number_format parcer, otherwise, it won't properly display large numbers (> 999).

Cheers,
Kaelon

thank you xiphoid, works fine. Only problem is that it doesnt display the comma ',' but I can live without that lol

Kaelon, it doesn't ?
I am nearing 1000 registrations, so we will find out :)

Hi, Xiphoid,

Nope - you need to run it through the number_format parser in order to have it properly add commas for text display of the userid value, otherwise, it'll simply show up as a numerical string completely different from your other value strings.

On a totally different note, I just wanted to let you know that I visited your forum and it looks like vB3 handles user visits differently; I was visiting it and it said that there were 0 members and 0 guests online; I had to refresh a couple of times before the system actually picked me up. I'm guessing deferred guestvisits, a la Jujubee's system?

Kaelon

great hack

Well, for our board it is a nice hack, a big thank you also.

Server load didn't rise either that i can see.

Glad that it works well for you! Since there are no added queries, you'll find that there's no shift in performance. :)

Kaelon

How would you do the total posts & total threads for the message board? If you were to update the counters would that make this not work?

very good 10/10

Total Posts & Total Threads for the message board are already included, but admittedly, you point out a good situation - it only shows the current total posts and current total threads that still exist on the forum (active). Regrettably, you'd have to add two more queries to forumhome to get the latestthreadid and latestpostid - and that makes for a not-so-great hack.

That being said, others have done this before ("Thread Statistics Hacks on Forumhome"), but I advise against using those hacks because only Total Users has already been queried in the stock vBulletin install (when it shows you the newest member); you'd have to do two more unique queries for latest thread and latest post. Not advisable.

Glad that everyone enjoys this relatively easy/simple hack.