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!

[Ohiosweetheart]

Derek my site is back up, if you could please look when you have a chance. The marquee is still not working.

http://www.top-vb.com/

[derekivey]

Looking into it. It seems to be caused by a Javascript error that I am trying to narrow down.

[derekivey]

Ok, it seems to be caused by the Webmaster's Hideout site. I guess the javascript doesn't like the '. Can you try editing the site name and deleting the ' and see if that fixes it? I'm going to make it automatically escape ' in the next version.

Thanks,
Derek

[Ohiosweetheart]

ok I'll try that

[Ohiosweetheart]

That did it derek, thank you! wow, who would have thought?

Another 2 questions please?

1) How do I remove someone's button image from the toplist? I have a broken image and can't find where to remove it

2) Why would sites keep UNvalidating in the toplist when the linking code is clearly on their site, and on the url submitted?

Thanks again!

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by Ohiosweetheart

That did it derek, thank you! wow, who would have thought?

Another 2 questions please?

1) How do I remove someone's button image from the toplist? I have a broken image and can't find where to remove it

2) Why would sites keep UNvalidating in the toplist when the linking code is clearly on their site, and on the url submitted?

Thanks again!

1. Right now you will have to remove the string of random characters from the image field in the toplist_sites table. I will have a check box in the next version to allow them to be deleted. Right now, the way it works is that it just deletes it when they upload a new image.

2. Are you running the cron script that automatically checks them every day?

[Ohiosweetheart]

hmmm I'm not sure... I haven't touched any settings since I installed this. I'm just wondering why it would knock them off the list when they DO have the code on their sites.

[b6gm6n]

can i ask.... to rate a site...can guests do this?... im sure i've set this up correctly, just seems people cannot rate or cannot be bothered

-b6

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by Ohiosweetheart

hmmm I'm not sure... I haven't touched any settings since I installed this. I'm just wondering why it would knock them off the list when they DO have the code on their sites.

Hmm... is it the exact in link URL? http://www.yoursite.com/path_to_forums/in.php?id=x

Also, is it happening for all sites or just certain sites?

Originally Posted by b6gm6n

can i ask.... to rate a site...can guests do this?... im sure i've set this up correctly, just seems people cannot rate or cannot be bothered

-b6

Not currently. I never allowed it because it is kind of hard to track guests and make sure they don't keep voting for a site. I'm thinking about changing this in the next version and have a new database table to log the IPs of all guest voters and keep track of them that way. I would have it limit them to only vote X number of times (admin setting). Might do the same for the add site page too... let guests add sites, and restrict editing and deletion by their ipaddress. I'm still thinking about this though...

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by derekivey

Hmm... is it the exact in link URL? http://www.yoursite.com/path_to_forums/in.php?id=x

Also, is it happening for all sites or just certain sites?

Hi Derek, no it's not happening with all sites.. but the ones it is happening with, I've followed the link to thier sites, and there sits the link to the toplist just as plain as day, with their link code included.

Now, this morning I'm having this problem.... When I tried to upload a button image for a site I got this error:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(images/toplist/buttons/sites/n62onGm5C3u60T0ai4wr) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /edit_site.php on line 157

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/php6r3flD' to 'images/toplist/buttons/sites/n62onGm5C3u60T0ai4wr' in /edit_site.php on line 157

Warning: getimagesize(images/toplist/buttons/sites/n62onGm5C3u60T0ai4wr) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /edit_site.php on line 159

and the image isn't working, just a red x. any ideas?