There will be no additional releases of the vB3/hack version; this mod has moved on to vB3.5 as a plugin (see here)
I've been using a less-configurable version of this hack on my forum for over a year. After constant pestering from certain people, here is a version IMO fit for public consumption; consider it a Christmas gift.
Description
This hack adds an activity metric for users to your forum; this metric takes into account a variable number of weeks. Also provided is a Junior/Normal/Senior member system based on this metric, and a longevity metric (user registered time as a percent of the amount of time the first user has been registered).
See zelaron.com for an example of what can be done with this.
Visiting each day and posting the configured amount of times per day for the configured number of weeks will yeild 100% activity. Posts are checked individually for each day, so days cannot be skipped then spammed up afterwards. The weight of visiting for the day relative to posting is configurable. Weeks are weighted so the most recent has a bigger impact on the activity percent than the most distant.
When a user logs in with 50% activity, they are promoted from Junior Member to Member. When they log in 3 months from that time, they are promoted to Senior Member.
Complexity
This hack edits 6 files and 3 templates. The hack adds one table, four fields to the user table, as well as its own settings and phrases.
Technical
This hack adds 1 query to showthread for each user who posts in that page (or only 1 for the logged in user by configuration). 1 query per thread is performed to find join date of first user (this will be changed to a setting in a future version). In addition, the first time a member's post or profile is accessed during a day (GMT), 3 queries are performed to find that user's activity depending on configuration.
Notice
When you first install this hack, no user will have 100% activity because whether or not a user visited on a day is not recorded untill after installation. You may want to set the number of weeks to two at first and increase it as time passes and the visit log fills.
Support
Please click the install link if you install this hack
This hack is in beta because remaining bugs will only become evident over time due to the nature of this hack. I will support this hack in this thread.
3/30/2005
Added barsamples.zip, sample activity and longevity bar images.
Update v2.1
I have fixed the activity calculation so that it adds a fixed 3 queries instead of 16 to 48. To update, simply upload the new activity.php
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Originally Posted by MikaK
Handy hack. *installs*. A word of warning for noobs: There is quite a few .TABLE_PREFIX.es missing from the code. These cause sql errors in case of a sqlprfix used and solving the mess might be quite a frustrating task without at least basic knowledge of php and sql. Aside of that - cool, as said.
=M=
Can you elaborate a bit. Has these been fixed in the php file now or if not then where are the errors?
I never got a reply from him, but I assume that the problem was just with the installer. I have uploaded a new version of the installer with the table prefixes as of the time of this post. If you don't use table prefixes, this is a non-issue; if you do, I encourage you to post any errors you encounter so that I can correct them.
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