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Originally Posted by Chroder

This hack is basically 5 hacks in one: Top Posters, Newest Members, Latest Threads, Latest Posts and Online Today. I've tried to make each as featureful as the singular hacks, though I'm open to suggestions. Each stat type can be turned on and off, and everything save Online Today has a limit variable where you can limit the amount of records to retrieve from the database. A "feature" overview:

• [Enable/Disable] Top Posters
• [Enable/Disable] Latest Threads
• [Enable/Disable] Latest Posts
• [Enable/Disable] Online Today
• [Enable/Disable] Newest Members
• [Limit] Number of Top Posters to display
• [Limit] Number of Latest Threads to display
• [Limit] Number of Latest Posts to display
• [Limit] Number of Newest Members to display
• Use user permissions when gathering Latest Threads and Latest Posts
• Specify forums to skip when gathering Latest Threads and Latest Posts (overrides the user permission setting)
• Specify the specific forums that Latest Threads and Latest Posts should come from (overrides both the above setting, and user permission setting)
• Online Today also retrieves "openhtml" and "closehtml" (ie. admins are bold and italic)
• Online Today includes buddy/invisible marks (Buddy: + and Invisible: *)
• Invisible users remain hidden except to those who can see them

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Hi Chroder, the hack looks pretty nice.

One question. Have you checked that in the 'latest posts' section no post is displayed which is in an pwd protected board or in a board where the user has no access to?

This is very important!