Thanks for your efforts on this.

Questions:

1. Are all the stats calculated on the fly everytime the topposters page is requested?
2. Or are stats just updated periodically, like once a day?
3. If only periodic updates, is there a cron job that runs and where is it defined?
4. Is there a server load encountered during install (as it calculates stats)?
5. Any known issues with php 4 vs. 5?
6. Any known issues with mysql 4 vs. 5?

We have ~2.5 million posts and ~25K posts/week.

Thanks in advance.

1. On the fly.
2. See 1.
3. See 1.
4. There are no calculations during install.
5. Nope.
6. Nope.

Thank you for the info

** clicks install**

Great mod, no problems discovered thus far, nice and simple to install and use too. ;)

How can I add this as a side bar on my home page? All I need to know is which vbphrase is being used to call the list from the overall top posters..

I like this ;) thank you

Sorry, I don't quite follow your question.

<a href="http://www.modmymoto.com" target="_blank">www.modmymoto.com</a>. On the left, under the Google ad, I have a small table set up with a link to the top posters page at the moment. I would like to have that table actually display the overall top posters for the site.

You would need a seperate mod to do that.

Works great with vB 3.6.6 !

Hi! I really wanted to add another column of the rank of each user is the list, perhaps to put a small icon near the three top members in each category (in the three top rows, and have a number of the ranking in the other rows), but i couldn't add another column without messing up your hack completely. can you please upgrade it a bit? thanks.

I don't really know what you mean by "upgrade it a bit", but I'm not planning any changes to this.

so can you give a hint on how to add another column (a sixth column) which shows the number of each row (=the rank of each row) please?

installed, but it only updated some skins.

can you link the code to update manually?

I installed it but some user groups are not shown at top posters
how can I show that at there?

I know you have been asked this question a ton of times before, but when I went to add the link to the nav bar (I have a custom style) I could not find this:

Is there someplace else I should put the coding to add the link to the nav bar?

thanks paul

hey this is a great mod... just 1 thing though... i want it to display the no. of user threads, not the posts... can u plz tell me how this can be done ? editing plugin codeS ?

Hey Paul -

Is there a way to pull from this hack - the top posters in the last 28 days - and display just that data someplace else such as a forumhome column or a CMPS module?

Not directly no.

installed awesome this will be good for a post a thon!!!!

dont know if u found this already but follow this: go to your header file - not ur navbar file

search for:
under it add:
i just added the mod, its great :) thanks for it

I am interest this mod..Unfortunately i don't know how to install it..Can somebody help me please..:o

<i>Paul's mod's always come with very easy-to-understand instructions, usually in the first post and/or in the zip file.</i>

I get a mysql error
http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/misc.php?do=topposters

You're missing a setting ;

In the vboptions page for this mod, make sure "Set the number of Top Post lines to be displayed" has a value set.

Now I just get a blank page :mad: I have tried altering all of the settings, but nothing seems to make a difference.

Thanks for you help, btw.

I suggest you reinstall the product, sounds a bit like vb failed to import it properly.

weirdly I had done that before.... but I tried it once more on your suggestion and now it works, thankyou. :)

thanks

I had this working with the 3.27 version but when I upgraded to 3.29 via the XML file I now get this 404 error message:
Any suggestions on how I can fix this? Thanks.

Uninstall - Install again...

I uninstalled and installed again, then realized that the Quicklinks link works from forum pages but not from the vBadvanced CMPS home page. So I need to add the /forums/ to the path. But I'm not sure where to do this. Is this the line of code that the script adds to the Quicklinks:
$template_hook[navbar_quick_links_menu_pos2]
If so can I just change this to something like:
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="/forums/misc.php?do=topposters">Top Posters</a></td></tr>

Yep, that should work.

That did it. Thanks Paul!

how do I put this information on my forumhome instead of linking it to a different page

You can't, it's designed to be a seperate page.

awesome mod. Thanks :)

updated

I just updated and I'm having the same path problem for my vbA CMPS home page. If I try to add the URL to the NAVBAR code I end up with two Top Posters links in Quick Links and the one installed with the update does not work because it does not have /forums/ in the path.

Where could I edit the template hook to add the path statement or URL to make the new version work? Thanks for this great tool!