Toplist

Toplist
Developer: derekivey
Version: 2.0.0
vBulletin Version: 3.5.5 (Seems to work fine on 3.6.0)
File Edits: 0
Template Edits: 2 (Optional)
New Phrases: 294
Uses Plugins: Yes!
Difficulty: Easy

Description: This hack adds a Toplist to your forums. You can choose in the AdminCP whether to rank the sites by their In hits or their Out hits. It is fully phrased to make it easy to translate to another language if you need to. The users are able to add a site, edit, or delete their site if they added it. The Administrators can Edit the users' sites or Delete them.
This hack is for vBulletin 3.5.5.

*** I Strongly Recommend That You Backup Your Database Before Installing/Upgrading This Hack! ***

Planned features for a later release:

• Add Image Storage Setting (hot linking or upload)
• Add Stats Page [ Will be released later ]
• Add API to get site info onto non-vB pages and other vB pages.
• Add Site Comment System
• Fix bug with & not being allowed in URLs [ Done ]
• Add Setting to choose where to put Toplist Sites Marquee
• Whatever else is suggested

Change Log
The change log is now available here.

Screen Shots
I have added screen shots of this hack in action below.
More screenshots are located here.

Demo
You can find demo information here.

Translations
You can find a French translation of this hack here.

For a How To on Editing the Dynamic Image, See this Post.

Please click Install you installed this hack.


Thanks!

[DementedMindz]

Yeah mine are like that too they have never showed a up arrow

[b6gm6n]

Yup...no up arrow for me...counting hits in... thought it was ok...but seeing the last comments

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by dendrob

just updated!

Derek, can you add these features to the next release:

- ranking period, ie daily, weekly, monthly
- rank by current ranking period (ie. this day/week/month only)
- rank by average ranking period (ie. average of all days/weeks/months)
- Admin selectable which "code" you want your members to use on their site
- change the iframe to count pageviews as it's putting a small square in FF and Opera and some IE versions
- possible to add the pageview counting code to the custom button code?
- AdminCP selectable which columns to show IN/OUT/Views
- Ideally, would be great if you could have it like AArdvark has it... single HTML code that counts everything


(ie. link only,
I rank by pageviews, so right now it's not fair for a newly joined member to be ranked if the existing members have half a million hits accumulated on their stats. Ranking period would take care of that.

I have to ask... when's the 2.1 coming out, hehe

I haven't made any customizations, do I need to revert any templates?

we're getting closer and closer to a super toplist ! Stats will be great when it comes out !!! Great MOD, submitted for MOF

I will keep those in mind when I work on 2.1. I have no idea when it will be out. I want to first get the stats page done, currently only the daily part of it is done, I am still trying to figure out how to do the weekly and monthly parts of it. I will definitely work on making it only one piece of code that will count views and work as an in link for the next version.

Originally Posted by ltjman22

I can probably figure this out on my own but. I added the link to the toplist in my navbar and it works when in the forum url, but not in the root where vb advanced is. The code I added to the navbar template is straight out of the usermanual. Does someone have revised code so that the toplist link will work in vbadvanced and the forums directory? Thanks.

Can't you just have a direct link to the Toplist in your navbar? Something like http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/toplist.php?

Originally Posted by b6gm6n

Just updated, great mod made much better, cheers...like the idea of putting the buttons and edit links in the position you want (if you have larger banners/buttons) would be also nice to have the description of the site under the banner itself or an option to choose either above or below...

Now i know this defeats the object a bit... but one thing i've found with people using my toplist is they never use the link info and just use my site url...thus 'in' hits are not counted... would be nice for an option to show in/out/view or a combination of...all off, or all on... or choose which you'd like to see... i hate looking at the long columns of zeros for 'in' down the page

anyways exellent job...always a pleasure, cheers

-b6

I will be adding more display options in the next version (like having the banner be displayed before the site name, and between the site name and description).

I am also trying to add some code to determine the appropriate class for each column... that is the only thing holding me back from having options to hide certain stuff such as the in hits, out hits, etc. I hope to have this done for the next version as well. For now you can just edit the templates to remove it if you want.

Originally Posted by dendrob

btw, I don't think the up/down/same arrows are working OK, perhaps it's something on my end, but I have everyone down, even the 1st place

check it out here

Doesn't look like the cron is working. Maybe try going directly to the cron file and running it to see if that fixes things (includes/cron/toplist_ranks.php).

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by derekivey

Doesn't look like the cron is working. Maybe try going directly to the cron file and running it to see if that fixes things (includes/cron/toplist_ranks.php).

I havent seen the ranks update either and my cron is working. When is the up rank arrow suppose to show I get about 30 hits every hour from one site and it dont move no wheere it dont go down it just stays equal my cron runs every 30 mins too. Also what was updated today?

[dendrob]

Originally Posted by derekivey

I will keep those in mind when I work on 2.1. I have no idea when it will be out. I want to first get the stats page done, currently only the daily part of it is done, I am still trying to figure out how to do the weekly and monthly parts of it. I will definitely work on making it only one piece of code that will count views and work as an in link for the next version.

I'm running aardvark top site elsewhere, the only code they use to count everything looks like this

<a href="http://www.vivariumtopsites.com/">
<img src="http://www.vivariumtopsites.com/button.php?u=mistking" alt="Vivarium TopSites" border="0" />
</a>

Their topsite is really top notch and does everything anyone would need. SEO is out of this world. One big thing lacking is VB Integration.

You can look up how they did their stat page here Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, I'm sure they wouldn't mind if you borrow some ideas.

Originally Posted by derekivey

Doesn't look like the cron is working. Maybe try going directly to the cron file and running it to see if that fixes things (includes/cron/toplist_ranks.php).

nope, didn't do anything. BTW, start adding features to the 2.1 list, this way you won't omit anything that should be there. This is a mod on its way to greatness, I can see it.

[angkor408]

Hi, I"m confuse how do I do that? Is there a template I need to modify?

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

angkor408 change the Toplist Layout

[DementedMindz]

its right in the main options for Toplist at the bottom..

[angkor408]

Derekivey, I don't think I modify any template. What I have done upload whatever that is in " Upload" folder and overwrite it. Also I upload the .XML file under manager product.

Can you tell me which toplist template name should I edit so it will align correctly. Thank.

Angkor

Originally Posted by derekivey

Did you modify the template at all?

[angkor408]

DementedMindz and Derek, I got it to work now. I didnt modify my template.

Under toplist option >>Toplist Layout>> It will say:Select the layout you would like to use below. This affects the toplist.php page only

I just change to: Large buttom (buttom above edit, delete, report link) It seem to show in the middle now.


Here the link again: http://www.khmerclub.com/forums/toplist.php?


Angkor

[Robbed]

It should have the code for each site in the admincp. Now on toplist it shows the exact link so if someone forgets the code I don't know what the site id is.

Another problem when using links like this

downloads.php?do=file&id=1771

It changes is to

downloads.php?do=file&id=1771