[VB3 RC3] Board Spent Time

This hack keeps track of how much time a user has been online at the
forums and adds it to the information in any of his posts, then any
other user can see if you have been 1 hour, 5 hours, 1 day or even up
to years online at the forum.

Also this hack calculates an "average time online" in a very similar way to
how the average posts works.

Thanks to the people that suggested this hack in the request forum, it is
a really nice one and a very fun one too!

Keep in mind this hack will only start tracking the time that you are online once you install it, it has no way of knowing how much time you had been on the forums before.


*Update*: You can show the board spent time in your memberlist, then you can use your memberlist as a leaderboard. For this modification see this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=50


Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by mharmon

Any update on why in private messages it shows a long number instead of the Days, etc...?

In includes/functions_showthread.php

find:

		// format posts number
		$post['posts'] = vb_number_format($post['posts']);

change it to:

		// Hack: get the timespent and avgtimespent
                $post['avgtimespent'] = explain_time(floor($post['timespent']/((TIMENOW-$post['joindate'])/86400)));
                $post['timespent'] = explain_time($post['timespent']);

		// format posts number
		$post['posts'] = vb_number_format($post['posts']);

[mharmon]

worked great. thanks for kentaurus

[mharmon]

Actually this didn't work. It fixed the private message problem -- but it then made all the time counts in the threads say <1

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by mharmon

Actually this didn't work. It fixed the private message problem -- but it then made all the time counts in the threads say <1

Oops, I modified the hack, removed some code and somehow forgot to tell that. If you change that code in functions_showthread now the modifications done in showthread.php should now be undone. That is delete in showthread.php the two ocurrences of

$post['avgtimespent'] = explain_time(floor($post['timespent']/((TIMENOW-$post['joindate'])/86400)));
$post['timespent'] = explain_time($post['timespent']);

they are no longer needed since now it is done in the functions_showthread part, that also adds compatibility with the private messages and wherever else you use a postbit.

[mharmon]

Kentaurus --

That fixed it.. sorry for being such a pest on this -- it's just such a cool addition.

[mharmon]

I found another small bug. If someone has been on the forums 2 Days and 15 minutes for example, it says:

2 Day 15 Minutes

It leaves off the "s" for Days

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by mharmon

I found another small bug. If someone has been on the forums 2 Days and 15 minutes for example, it says:

2 Day 15 Minutes

It leaves off the "s" for Days

That's right.. I don't know how I didn't spot it. Here is how to fix it.

In the includes/functions_showthread.php

find

PHP Code:

        else
        {
return $newtime." ".$vbphrase['day']." ".explain_time($time%86400,true);        
        } 


change it to:

PHP Code:

        else
        {
return $newtime." ".$vbphrase['days']." ".explain_time($time%86400,true);        
        } 


That is just adding an "s" to day

The txt is already updated

[mharmon]

kentaurus -- i'm glad i could help you get this hack working 100%

sorry I was such a pest.

[mharmon]

BTW -- What will this do to server load?

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by mharmon

BTW -- What will this do to server load?

nothing noticeable, no queries are added (just I query is modified) and there is only some code to format the time the user has been in the forum. It is currently running in my forum that has 100 users online at peak hours.