[tubedogg]

I really didn't want to get involved here, but...

Originally posted by Froschie
the fault was that there is an "if" Clause where it compares the Dates from $today and $toppostall (or so) and if this values were "!=" it requests the Stats from yesterday
but the Days are not equal on every new day !!! so it writes new stats every day

This isn't accurate. Here's a basic idea of how it worked:

During installation, it got stats from yesterday and for so far today and wrote them to a "cache" (a hidden template).
Every time that index.php is called, it compares the date today to the date the "cache" was last updated. If it was not updated today, then it needs to be updated, so then it the ran the gettopall and gettop24 functions. (The gettoptoday function runs every time index.php is run because it's a running total of today and needs to be up-to-date.) The gettopall function would then compare yesterday's stats to the stats in the cache. If yesterday's number of posts was greater than in the "cache", it would rewrite that part of the cache, and same for the thread.

So you see the date comparison had little to do with anything except to see if the cache was up to date.

That being said, Froschie if you wish you may release the rewritten hack as your own, however I will not take any responsibility for it nor will I support it.