Total Time Spent On Forums
 

Total Time Spent On Board
Author: tnguy3n
Live Demo: http://12.226.255.221/vb35

This hack shows total time that users spent on the board.

To show all time units including seconds, minutes, hours, etc, uncomment lines for thoese variables in "Total Spent Time On Board" plugin.

Query: 1
File modification: 1
Plugins: 2
Template mod: 2

Update: 10/12/05
Add option to show user's total spent time on forums in the profile.
If you want to run the User's Total Spent Time In Profile as an stand-alone hack, you have to run run following query:

Instructions = "Open includes/class_score.php"

Guess that should be "Open includes/class_core.php" ?

Get this error when trying to add template edit !

Second anyway :)

Will install once someone confirms it works for them ;)

Ok found the error in the template edit :-

should be :-

Clicked install

Anyway to install without running a query?

This is not an Extention as it requires editing of the source code. Good'n though.

How does it calculate the time?

It tracks the time when a user start to login 'til (s)he logout (or timeout), then add up to total & store in database.

and yes, it should be in Code Modification forum instead. I was confused by vB 3.5 release forums. :ermm:

Okay, if there is no way to use this without a query, how would I do it in phpMyAdmin? But when I submit the query I get "You have to choose at least one column to display"

Will it work if I put it in memberinfo instead of postbit? I really like it but I want a more minimal postbit... :)

Wanted to check demo but your site seems to be down s

You can change the hook to memberinfo_complete, then change all vars $post['timeonboard'] to $userinfo['timeonboard'].

Wait, I don't know php, I am only good on changing templates! :P
If I just put $userinfo['timeonboard'] in place of $post['timeonboard'] will it work?
Or do I have to alter the code too? What specifically should I do in the php code?

get no errors all went well but get no info looks as if nothing changed?

Ahh! Wondered if it takes into the past too, thought it was too good to be true! ;)

Nice hack though, I'll use it.

installed, changed the hook so it would display on the member info but all i see is "time on board : sec"

any ideas?

[edit]

fixed had to edit the sql to include my table prefix[/edit]

is there any way to display a "top 10 list of the time spent online" ?

I had a 3.0.X version of this hack installed, does this mean that the Total Time Spent will be from when i installed that version, or upgraded to this?

this plugin is written for vb 3.5, not an update or port of any hack. Check if the hack you installed coincidently had the field name, then you don't have to alter user table, and it would calculate your time rather than new time of this plugin.

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=789743&postcount=10" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...3&postcount=10</a>
Anyone?

is that the error message when got when you ran the query? :question:

Well there is a vb 3.0.X modification pretty identical
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...e+Spent+Forums

Just assumed this was an update of this version.

I've installed it in memberinfo_complete and it seems to be running fine, but it's simply displaying the time spent as numbers, without hours/seconds or whatever. It simply says time spent: 644

Any idea what the problem might be?

check first post. I updated to show user's spent time in profile.

live demo: http://192.168.1.101/vb35/member.php...lastposter&f=2

Works perfectly, thank you very much sir.

I assume the SQL add. is still needed, in which case might be an idea to include it in the Profile version instructions.

I'm not sure if the demo URL is supposed to be based at what appears to be a localhost address lol, but at any rate it doesn't load anything.

It doesn't work for me :(
No errors but it shows nothing...

That would be correct. You still need to add timeonboard column in user table as in the original hack.

So the recording will start AFTER I install the hack?? vB doesn't record it?
Cause then the result wouldn't be correct!

did you modify your template?

I did. I probably have to run the query.
But before I do it,. please tell me how the recrding is done. Does this hack record it, so it starts recording AFTER its installation or vB records it and the hack just "grabs" the info?

start recording after installation of the hack, cuz vbulletin doesn't keep track on when/how long users login.

Then it's not an accurate measure.
Sorry, I'll uninstall :/

refresh the page or try to logout then login to see it.

installed, works a treat.

/me clicks install

Ive had to temp uninstall this, i started to get a few random 1 off mysql errors, and the last thing I changed was this hack, going to leave it a few days and see what happens, anyone else getting errors?

and what error you got?

How about an avg time per day spent ;)

Here is what i got, got around 60 in all
had no errors today, going to reinstall tomorrow and moniter what happens