Pick Random User
 

This hack lets you pick a random user given a minimum number of posts and by usergroup. This is helpful for forums with raffles and other similar features.

Screenshot:

randomuser.php:

Nice, keep em comin', this is yet another good one...:)

Very good idea burty :p!

- miSt

yay!! Nice, i'll start a online Lottery now, lol

Alright, this is cool, I could use this to make a member of the month now. XD

You can use the hack called Member of the Week or Moment or Month to do that, rofl.

could this be added into the mod cp, so that mods could do this

Just upload the file there.

Nice hack. This can eventually be put into alot of other hacks.

hi filburt1, i am from Germany and i don't understand you. What is raffles :(

gr??e subu1

This was too easy to pass up!! Installed Thanks.

Hey BTW any way we cna do it so it only picks from the users that posted in the last X days?

A raffle is like a lottery, where people buy a chance to win a prize.

Is there a way to "weight" certain users???

either percentage or amount or both, whatever

I would like to see something like this too, but this is still a great hack. :D

Cool :) Thanks.

There's no simple way that I know of, but then again it wouldn't be random, now would it?

Well I am going to install this nice hack some time soon, time permitting :) The only thing I would not mind seeing also is to add user has posted since a certain date or certain number of days. I know many admin just never delete accounts that are not being used just to have a large number of users :) I remove mine and do not display how many users are registered.

Yes this would be great, as I have members going away for weeks at a time and it would be great to only include members active in the last week or so.

Looking Good :classic:

Nice! I was just asked if I could run a give-away for one of my vendors. Can this be set to pick users from a certain thread?

I would be very interested in something like that. OR how about members that have posted that month.

Very nice Super easy hack :)

I am new to all this side of things, And starting to learn, from the basics

Could someone tell me if this is 100% compatible with Vb3.01

Thanks in advance,

Could someone alter this hack to make it run in 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4

TIA

-Phoenix

In admincp/index.php find:
THis
construct_nav_option($vbphrase['generate_mailing_list'], 'email.php?do=genlist', '<br />');

Under that add this:
construct_nav_option($vbphrase['pick_random'],'randomuser.php?', '<br />');

Upload the file randomuser.php to your admincp/ dir
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In admincp add a new phrase:

Varname - random_user
Text - Pick Random User
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All done!.

Enjoy :)

-Pheonix

Could not get this to work, I am using VB3.0.1