[Bane]

1) WHERE could I (we) find a full complete reference of all usable variables in a template ?

There is none available at the current time. Though I did what some people even made fun of me for overcommenting, my documentation wasnt as complete as it needed to be for a project of this size. When I made it I had assumed a working knowledge of vb before implementation. This however is being outpaced with hacks being easier to install and people starting sooner and sooner with hacking their board to pieces.


2) Is there any syntax to that $startdate or it's only a displayed variable which doesn't affect actually the statistics reported (i.e. the starting date is when I installed this hack... ) ??

There is NO purpose to this apart from display purposes. You can put whatever you like. from "September 5th, 2001" to "09/05/2001" or even "When the flying monkeys last landed on my porch for a rest on the way to Florida" ... actually the last may not fit.. Thanks


3) What's the total hits variable to show a line like your example above ?

Umm.. ($total hits since $startdate!) would be the string but that will only work where it is declared. those two vars are both declared in the file.

Sorry but, as about the vbstats_forumhome template inclusion, all the instructions aren't absolutely too clear about this matter .

The biggest problem with this is all the actual changes sans adding the counter to phpinclude (which is there in plain lettering) are OPTIONAL. The documentation was rushed because I was recieving 5-10 emails daily asking about the status of the hack, etc..

I'm even trying to improve this now.. But I'm only one guy with a lot of projects on my hands.. I hope you can understand that.

With the next version of talkloud in progress and two or three clients en queue my time is fairly limited. Enough so that I'm not sure I will have a large amount of time to do proper justice to the next round of vbstats unless requested by a client (I dream of this ) This is my baby.. Yes? But its a baby thats being taken care of and nurtured by users like FWC until I get back from work.