Stop Banned Users from being Newest Member
 

Prevents Banned Users from Displaying in What's Going On? Statistics phrase: Welcome to our newest member

1. Open file: includes/functions_databuild.php
2. Find:
   
   PHP Code:

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   $newuser = $vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT userid, username FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user WHERE userid = $members[maxid]"); 


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3. Replace:
   
   PHP Code:

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   $newuser = $vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT userid, username FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user WHERE usergroupid != '8' ORDER BY userid DESC"); 


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4. Save File

I've applied this change to my page, but I'm not seeing it take affect on the page.

The current newest user is in the banned group, and when I try what the query should be from the AdminCP Execute SQL Query page, I get the right results, but when I refresh the index page, I keep seeing the banned user as the newest.

Is there anything else I need to do to get this to work correctly?


EDIT
Just as a test, I changed later lines on the page to return fixed values in the values array, like so:
And it still got the banned user as the newest user, as it's always been getting. Even putting an exit() statement in the page didn't prevent it from running.

It's the only file on the host with that function and that query, but it doesn't seem to be working, and I'm not sure why.

I believe I've had this problem before when deleting a banned user -- try going into the Maintenance menu and Update Counters, Update User Titles and Ranks.

Well, there was already a cron job set through vBulletin to handle that, so this morning (by the time I saw your response), it had already taken effect.

Thanks :)

To update the newest member immediately you can go:

AdminCP -> Scheduled Tasks -> Scheduled Tasks Manager -> Daily Statistics Log -> run now

After running the task it isnt working for me here somehow.
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Worked like a charm! thank you for this tip!

Thanks for an awesome tip! It wasn't cool to see banned users and their names come up on the forum index. I used this, but I modified the query some:

I guess it should theoretically create a bit slower query on the database server, but result in less memory being allocated since the result is slimmed down to 1 row instead of all members in the users-table, even if the business class uses query_first. Never ran any tests to verify it, though. :-)

I've applied this change to my forum but I'm not seeing it take affect on the forum , and still showing the banned users.