Statistics Modifications - vbTrends - An Enhanced Statistics Box on Forum Home

Note: This product is now being supported at www.catnine.net

Keywords: Statistics, New members, joins, trends, Forum Home, threads, posts

ATTENTION:
If you download the latest version go into your usergroups and set the 'can view trends' permission. SAVE the usergroup even if you haven't changed the setting or things may not work. There is an odd permissions bug I haven't figured out yet.

Also note that overwrite will not work. Please uninstall the previous version before installing the new one.

Description:
Enhances the "YourBBS" Statistics box on the forum home to show trends of posts, threads and new users vs. the overall history of the board. Also allows you to display more than one "newest member".

Version 2.0.0:

1. Calculations exposed and modifiable in admincp.
2. Added ability to delay updates of stats to every x minutes in admincp.
3. Added a style setting for positive and negative trends.
4. Added custom hooks for all aspects of vbTrends, and moved code into said hooks.
5. Changed template to still show total threads when trend is negative and 'positive trends only' is enabled.
6. Usergroup permission to view trends.

Note: You cannot cause an error by messing up the calculations in the admincp. If the calculation you provide contains errors the stat in question will show as N/A.

This is a major rewrite, so I've set the hack to beta for now.

Version 1.2.6:

1. Made some minor tweaks for cleaner code
2. Made change to build datastore call to force serialization

You can just overwrite the product.xml if you are upgrading. Remember vbTrends has an option in the admincp to reset the counters. To see any changes/fixes you'll want to run that, or you'll end up having to wait for a new day before the changes will take affect.

Version 1.2.5:

1. fixed minor bug in auto-replace that was causing it not to work on some boards

Version 1.2.4:

1. fixed bug in percentage of active users
2. fixed bug in limit of queries (added order by)

Thanks to bchertov and Battle_Ring for the testing

Version 1.2.3:

1. Added option to display % of active users.
2. Added option to set the number of previous months to include in the trend data.

Version 1.1.3:

1. Updated for vBulletin 3.6.
2. Fixed long standing problem with stats calculating incorrectly.
3. Added option to only show positive trends.

Version 1.1.2:

1. Added admincp menu to reset cached counters.
2. Fixed a couple of divide by zero errors that occurred when your board had no history (was less than a month old).
3. Fixed so templates are now cached.

Version 1.1.1:

1. Fixed calculation of statistics - should definately be correct now

Version 1.1.0:

1. Fully phrased.
2. Uses templates now so look and feel can be customized
3. Fixed bug so output is valid xhtml 1.0.

Version 1.0.0:

1. Turn on/off in admincp
2. Offers the option to auto replace in templates, or to manually edit templates.
3. Allows more than one 'newest user' to be display.
4. Shows trends for posts, threads and new users - this month vs. the boards average.

Install

1. Download the vbTrends_2.0.0.zip.
2. Unzip and follow instructions in install.html.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by subnet_rx

Reverted the template, which got my original stats back, but nothing works to get the trends up. I did a full uninstall/reinstall after re-downloading the zip from here and it doesn't indicate any problems, it just doesn't show up on ForumHome.

Okay, well at least we have the original stats back. Now, let's see - if the manual template edit didn't work for you that means the code to fill that variable isn't getting reached. That's in the forumhome_complete hook. Someone isn't playing nice, so go into the vbTrends forumhome_complete hook and set the 'Execution Order' to 1. See if that helps.

[subnet_rx]

Hmm, still nothing. I checked to see if any other plugins were hooked at forumhome_complete and yours is the only one. I manually edited the template again, and got a blank. If no one else is having this problem, I can just go back to 1.2.6 and use it. I updated to get the "Changed template to still show total threads when trend is negative and 'positive trends only' is enabled."

[hambil]

Originally Posted by subnet_rx

Hmm, still nothing. I checked to see if any other plugins were hooked at forumhome_complete and yours is the only one. I manually edited the template again, and got a blank. If no one else is having this problem, I can just go back to 1.2.6 and use it. I updated to get the "Changed template to still show total threads when trend is negative and 'positive trends only' is enabled."

If you want to PM me a temp login, I'll see if I can find the problem.

[blastup]

i got blank on both mysites

[blastup]

when i manuelly edits it... but when with auto replace.. i just got the regular stats.. not the one with vbtrends..

[hambil]

Originally Posted by blastup

when i manuelly edits it... but when with auto replace.. i just got the regular stats.. not the one with vbtrends..

If you want to PM me a temp login I'll see what I can do.

[blastup]

i just don't know what is wrong.. i tried on two sites..one with template edit.. one with out. the template edited one becomes blank.. and the other with autoreplace.. still remains the same stats.. not the vbtrends..

[hambil]

subnet_rx and blastup:

There is an odd bug I don't quite understand yet, that was first reported by KingPin6 in this post. Please try what he suggested (going into the usergroup and saving it), to see if that fixes the problem.

[tehPARADOX]

Also confirm trends no longer showing up, both auto and manual edits.

And when I tried doing permissions suggested by kingpin, received this database error:
MySQL Error : Unknown column 'vbtrends_permissions' in 'field list'

Uninstalled.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by tehPARADOX

Uninstalled.

Good.