Off-Topic Post Counter for Posts in Specified Forum(s)
 

As requested by rex of www.cruiselineforums.com:

What does this hack do?

Adds a new Post Counter, for off-topic posts.

It enables you to define a Forum (or Forums) as 'Off-Topic Forums'.
Any posts made by users in that Forum are not added to the Post count, they are added to the Off-Topic Post count instead.

As a bonus, OT posting won't be rewarded with promotions or points or anything linked to $bbuserinfo[posts].

Queries to run: One
Files to edit: One
Templates to edit: One (postbit or postbit_legacy).


########################### SQL EDITS START ###############################

Run this query: (change user to yourtableprefix_user if you use a table prefix).
[sql]
ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `otposts` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;
[/sql]
############################# SQL EDITS DONE ###############################



############################ FILE EDITS START ##############################

In includes/functions_newpost.php

Find:
Change to (make X equal to the forumid of your Off-topic forum):
Save and upload.

############################ FILE EDITS DONE ###############################


############################ TEMPLATE EDITS START ##########################

In postbit (or postbit_legacy) find:
Under, add:
############################ TEMPLATE EDITS DONE ###########################


And you are done.

Rejoice!

Updates:
0850 1 April 2005 (GMT+12): Added name attribute to div tag for mouseover explanation.

1800 7 April 2005: Dan's AdminCP Update Offtopic Counter Addon: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....2&postcount=14

Installed!

screeny at cruiselineforums.com

cn this be setup so if we have a one section any posts in there (well threads as post are not needed) can be added up ?

I don't understand the question, sorry. :S

is fine m8 it was way i worded it.

Does this work on posts only - would prefer one that actually worked on threads
so if i had a section for posting say pics etc evertime someone made a thread in that section it would increase the counter by 1,but people replying to the same thread would`nt get an increase as its based on threads only.

Ahh, right.

Well, as vB is by default, I believe that this hack would achieve what you want. (ie: as far as the $postcount variable is concerned, it increases regardless of whether it was a reply or a post.)

Therefore, new replies OR new threads in the specified OT forum would not add to Post count, but would add to OT Post count. That's why I called it 'OT Posts Hack' and not 'OT new replies Hack'. :)

you need to add an update counters thing for it. else it'll only apply to posts made after the hack is installed.

Well, duh.

If *you* want to make an Update Counters thing for it, go ahead.

I can't find where it is I claim that it works retrospectively anywhere in this thread, so I don't 'need to add' anything.

mmm true...

i think it should be easy to do thou, just copy the update posts code and change this query:

i think the following should do it:

alternativly you could try manually setting the folowing variable:

$gotforums = '';

to
$gotforums = '1,2,3';

where 1,2 and 3 are the forum ids of the forums you wish to count