Most ever Visitors, Posters & Chatters (Add-on)
 

Warning: Do not run this vb 3.5 version on a vb 3.6 forum.

This is an add-on for the following hacks ;

FlashChat - Who is in the chat
Members who have visited the forum (Today or last 24 hours)
Members who have posted on the forum (Today or last 24 hours)

If you don't have any of these installed then this add-on will do precisely nothing. [high]Please note that you should have the latest version of the above hacks installed for this to work properly.[/high] If you do have any of these installed then this will add a "most ever" count similar to the one in the active users display.

Just download the product XML file and import using the Product Manager.


Note: Obviously it will only count from the time you install it, neither it nor I can see backwards in time.



History:

v2.02 : First Release.
v2.03 : Changed logic of IF statement.
v2.04 : Minor changes, no update necessary.

Very nice, Installed :)

Ermm I installed but I don't see any change...

I have only the "Members who have visited today" hack installed...

Ah, I forgot to mention this (now added as a note).

Ermmm how do I see which version of those I have? :)

Basically, if you have it listed in your Product Manager then you will see the version number in there, otherwise you will have to view the comments in the plugin code.

However, since it was only converted to a product for version 4.02, the simple rule is that if it's listed as a product, you are okay, otherwise you just have the plugin, and must upgrade to use this. :)

excellent stuff, thank you so much!

Works great, nice one Paul :)

thanks paul for the new hack :D
installed and working perfectly

Where do you download this file? When I click the download link above, it goes to a page with code:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=36136

Should this be going to an xml file?

Thanks,

Bob

Right click on the link and choose "Save target as".

Thank you! :)

Bob

Oh my, I feel like quite the dumbass.. :o

I thought this this displayed the most ever members online in one day, but it doesn't.. It displays the most ever members online within a "currently active users" period.

Oh well, I got there in the end.. D'oh! ;)

I thought hacks that needed other hacks weren't allowed? :ermm:

You thought wrong then. VB3 even had it's own forum for such add-ons, and each hack has an add-on field to show it is, in fact, and addition to another.

Added, thanks. ;)

~Bob clicks installed~

Does this only do the rolling 24 hour period? Because for both members who have posted and members online the "most" number is greater than the "today" values (though I just installed today).

I knew someone would ask this eventually. :)

This happens when you are running in the users/posters since midnight mode - because one or more of your users is in a different timezone (x hours ahead of you) so they have already reached 74 visitors/posters since *their* midnight - hence the total gets updated. Because you are x hours behind them, you haven't reached (caught up) to the 74 yet.

Obviously it doesn't affect the last 24 hour mode, as everyone sees the same total all the time.

Thanks for the hack Paul. Is it possible to make the total most ever visitors text to bold and change the time format to detailed, like September 11th, 2005? Thanks in advance!

The text is a phrase (most_visitors) so you could add bold tags to it, the trouble is that the count value would not be bold unless you left the closing tag off the phrase, but that would then screw up the names display. The only way you could fix that is to edit the plugin code.

As for the time, it uses whatever standard format you have set for your forum, to make it different to the rest of your forum would again require the plugin to be edited.

++++ing awesome hacks and most ever online add-ons Paul, I love 'em! Ever since I've had FlashChat, I've been desperately searching for something exactly what you created. Thanks!

Exactly but I've no idea where to put the <B> bold tags in the plugin code. I know I'll have to edit the plugin code again for the date format, but I really have no idea what to do exactly so can you help? I'm not really a vBulletin coder...

Sorry but I'd to bump this thread!

Don't. It annoys the hell out of me.

I don't have time to look at code changes atm - at the weekend maybe. :)

Alrighty, I'll be waiting... :)

So is there a way to get this to work in the midnight mode?

Nice hack btw.. :)

Not sure what you mean ?

hey paul, here's a question for you..

i have all of your hacks (like this) installed on my 3.0.x board.. i'm currently working on a 3.5.1 dev board, getting hacks installed, etc, so i can upgrade in production soon. my question is - after i upgrade from 3.0.x to 3.5.x, will my stats from your hacks stay in tact, or will they be starting from fresh counters?

thanks in advance!

They should remain intact.

I have this on all my forums - and I love it. Thanks Paul

Thank you, it's nice to know people appreciate things :)

Hello Paul,

can you please fix this issue, so the max users in one day works correct with the "midnight-mode" ?


BR

J?rg

I cannot fix something that isn't broken. This will always happen when you have people in different timezones.

Hm... And why shows the statistik in the AdminCP the correct value ?

Because it's not the same thing - that's just a simple current count - it's not a forum wide, long term, stored maximum.

Sorry, thats not correct. I am talking about the "User Activity Statistics". This is not a simple current count, it logs exactly all users, that were online at one day. And there is no problem with the time-zone.

But o.k., I will fix it myselfe. Thanks for your help.


J?rg

Not exactly. It's simple sql query, done on the fly, to count the number of users for each day as stored in the stats table, and more importantly - it's always a day behind. If you run it today (28th November) you will only have data up to yesterday (27th) displayed , so I really don't see how you can say it displays "the correct value" - it doesn't show any value for the current day. It also (I think) works off the servers time, rather than your local tz corrected time.

There is nothing to fix, but feel free to try .... :)

*installed* thankyou

Can somenone tell me why it tells me that this "appears to be a plugin" instead of a product when I try to put it on.

Never mind! I had a blonde moment and was in the wrong thread....