Live Forum Statistics on All Pages in Header

Plugin Keywords: Forum, Stats, Statistics, Members, New Members, Forum, Statistics, Member Info

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Requested by :
Myself :devious:

Context :
Searched through vb.org but could not find a similar plugin/hack for vB3.5/vB3.0.x. I wanted to show all vital forum stats like total posts, total threads, total members and newest member on each page of my forum as well as vBa CMPS, in header template and this plugin performs exactly the same function.

What this plugin does ?
This plugin uses the 'global_start' hook and stores the desired information from your forum database into php variables and when called in 'header 'template, produces the desired results.

Utility :
Imagine... an unregistered/guest visits your website for the first time via a search engine link (95% of times its not the homepage that is found via a search engines link) and the first thing s/he notices is the forum header information and says wow!! this forum has got xxxx members, xxxxx threads, xxxxxx posts, why not get registered with this community and see what this forum has got in store for me. LOL!! quite true actually.

Demo : http://www.sikhism.us

Any Screenshots : Demo is self-explanatory.

Warning : This plugin executes 5 queries per page.

Installation Instructions : (Also attached alongwith the plugin.)

 
Step by Step Instructions: 
1. Ofcourse, download the Plugin.
2. Go to 'Plugin System' module in vb admin panel and click 'Download/Upload Plugins'.
3. Towards the botton of next screen, you will see a box table - 'Import Plugin Definitions XML File'. Click the 'Browse' button and select the Plugin Definitions XML File downloaded and saved somewhere on your computer. Click the 'Import' button and well... you are not quite yet done. LOL!!
4. Ok, Now go to Styles & Tempalte --> 'Styles Manager' and select the 'Common Templates' option from drop down menu and click the 'Go' button.
5. In the header template:
 
Find: (ususally at the end of the template file)
<!-- content table -->
$spacer_open
 
$_phpinclude_output
 
 
 
Add Above:
<!-- Forum Stats in Header Template -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
    <td>
     <div align="left"><span class="smallfont">| <b>Discussions:</b> $totalthreads | <b>Messages:</b> $totalposts | <b>Members: </b>$numbermembers | <b>Online: </b>$totalonline </b> | <b>Newest :</b> <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/member.php?u=$newuserid"><b>$newusername</b></a> (Welcome!)
</span></div>
     </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- Forum Stats in Header Template -->
 
Ofcourse you can customise this code to suit your website setup. ;)
 
9. And, now finally you are done! :)

Enjoy!!

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[TitanJeff]

Originally Posted by Griffin80

Installed and working great

Only problem i have is that it messes my gallery table on the forumhome template.

http://www.bluepearl-design.com/forums/

Anyway i can fix this?

It looks my problem is a repeat of a previous one. Anyone know the solution? Thanks.

[007]

Hi,

Does this hack also allow the "Most users ever online" record to be updated from any page as well? By default, this record seems to only updated when somebody views the index.php file and the current number of active users is higher than the current record. Does your hack update this from any page? Thanks!

~007

[MrOnline]

i'm using deliosso, and it says i "must" have this plugin, i've tried both versions of the xml but can't seem to get it to work, any tip's on what it might be ??

It's just not showing ANYTHING :-)
This is on a vbulletin v3.5.4 where all users are imported via impex :-D

[Polo]

I only used this hack for the "total users online" in the top header... and removed the extra queries for the other stats

thanks so much working great and as desired.

[Renmiri]

Sweet!

Installed :laugh:

[powerbook]

The first xml messed up the board and the db didn't work but I deleted that one and installed the second xml and now it's a treat... Thanks...

[aveon]

hey man can we make it work for the left column i tried but it didnt show the numbers???

[Firestar.chkn]

Hi,

Thanks for a great hack! Is there some way of getting some (or all the information to update themselves via AJAX? I am especially interested in updating the number of users online every x amount of minutes/hours.

If possible, could you do this in the next version (perhaps make it an option)?

[Allan]

Great hack, thank you

[Allan]

i'm a little problem

The hack statistics are differents from that of vBulletin. (screen)