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Activity Modification · **Released**: 04-27-2008

This is the vB3.7/vB3.8 version of this modification.

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).

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 activity above the configured threshold, they are promoted from Junior Member to Member. When they log in with the configured amount of time as Member, they are promoted to Senior Member. You can configure the mod to also add secondary usergroups when these promotions happen.

Complexity
This modification requires 1 XML import, uploading of images, and the addition of some CSS, depending on what options you choose

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). 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. By configuration, 1 query may be added to each page load to find the logged in user's "activity today". By configuration, 1 query may be added to each member profile view to find that member's "activity today".

Upgradability
This modification will import your settings and data from the 3.0/hack version
This modification will import your settings and data from the 3.5/3.6 mod version

Frequently Asked Questions

I don't see the Activity Settings section or Activity Maintenance link on the AdminCP navbar
You're probably seeing a cached (old) copy of the navbar. Try pressing Ctrl-F5 in IE or FF, or whatever your browser requires to force it to load the current version of the page.
I installed this mod and nothing shows up
First, go to AdminCP|Activity Settings|Display and make sure the dropdown settings are not set to None. If they aren't set to none, the most likely cause is using an old style which does not have template hooks; verify this by creating a new style without a parent and checking to see if the mod displays on it (the images probably won't load, though). If the mod displays on the default style but not your normal one, you need to add template hooks, otherwise post here for help.
I installed this mod using the Download/Upload Plugin page and there was an error/it doesn't seem to work
To install this mod, you need to use the Add/Import Product link on the Manage Products page
I just installed and everyone's activity seems low
1. Part of the activity calculation is what days users visited on. This information isn't collected before the mod is installed, so no user can have 100% activity untill you've been running the mod for the full period of time you have it set to monitor
2. Please realize that there is no "roll over" for activity; if you have it set to look at 4 posts per day, your users must post 4 posts on each individual day to obtain 100%.
I founded this forum, but I don't have 100% longevity
Somehow a user's join date has been set before yours. When you install, the mod looks for the earliest join date to use to find longevity, but you can change the baseline date. To change the "Start of board" time, go to Maintenance>Activity Maintenance>Set Start of Board, enter your user number in the text field, then click Set Start of Board
Why don't the images don't show up?/Why does the postcount have 's's in front of it?
Be sure to upload one of the activity directories from activityimages.zip to the misc directory for each of your styles. To find a style's misc directory, goto the Style Manager, then from the dropdown next to the style, choose Stylevars. The setting Miscellaneous Images Folder contains the path to that style's misc directory, where you need to upload the activity directory
Can I use activity for promotions?
The project to build a full-blown promotion hack for use with this mod has been cancelled, after losing all of my work, however a much simpler system that adds secondary groups based on two thresholds has been added to the main hack.
Can you make X number get split up into digits?
I understand where you're coming from with this one, but I just can't figure out a way to work this that would be simple to use.
The tooltips don't wrap and get cut off with FireFox
The same thing happens to other vB tooltips (the thumbnail ones, for example). If you know a way to add line breaks to FF tooltips without scripting, please let me know.

Change log

Note: To upgrade, with the old version still installed, go to the Add/Import Product link on the Manage Products page, select the XML file for the new version, choose Yes for overwrite, then click Import.

Update 3.03 release

Fixed a PHP error that some people were having

Update 3.01 release

Fixed a PHP warning that did not break anything. It should no longer be added to your error logs.

Update 3.00 release
No changes

Update 3.00 beta 3

Fixed template to use correct forumhome location
Separated text-version stat block into its own template
Moved settings into their own navigation group on the left (refresh AdminCP page after upgrading)
Added new customization reference page to install zip

Update 3.00 beta 2

Fixed a bug which prevented the postbit display option from working
Fixed a bug where the Top Activity link could be in the navbar without the Top Activity page being enabled
Fixed a bug where certain users have postcount of 'n/a' in Top Activity
Added diagnostic screen
Set minimum forum version

Version 3 (3.00 beta 1) vs Version 2 (2.80)

Added template hook and DOM based styling; manual template modification no longer needed
Split the options page into four options pages
Added many options to control the style of the mod
Added "Countdown to 100%" feature in the Top Activity page
All new profile page display for vB3.7

Support

Please click the install link if you install this hack
I will support this hack in this thread on about a weekly basis.

zero5854 · #**172** 10-25-2008, 03:51 AM

First thanks for this mod....
Second sorry if this has been posted b4 but there are too many posts to search adn my search didnt quite come up.

how to change from this

To this?

Im sure they are cutom graphics...but to sit and edit ALL of them?

Thanks for any help!

WetWired · #**173** 10-27-2008, 04:08 AM

You'd pretty much have to edit them individually for that exact effect. If you look in the customization documentation, however, you will find that variables are exposed that would allow you to make the bar graph in other ways. You could, for instance, use the activitypercent to control a cell width in a table.

Chris583 · #**174** 10-28-2008, 01:57 PM

I like the mod. But I find the text in the POST COUNT images hard to read. Maybe its just me and my widescreen 1680 resolution but shouldnt it be as readable as the default text for post count?

Also, if anyone made custom images for it I WOULD LOVE to be able to see and or download them for use lol

Thanks

zero5854 · #**175** 10-28-2008, 03:56 PM

well I mean is there a PS plugin I can use or something?

WetWired · #**176** 10-28-2008, 08:25 PM

I have no trouble reading the post count out to a meter from my 20" 1600x1200 display. Even so, you could always change the images or leave the default count enabled. I have custom round images I use on zelaron, but they aren't easily reused; also, recent versions of FF have trouble with the HTML I used to layer them.

zero, the images were hand drawn in PSP. I created the filled image then unfilled it with the paint bucket, saving each step. I did this for both the light and dark versions. I also manually created each version of the ones I use on my forum.

WetWired · #**177** 10-28-2008, 08:45 PM

You could create bar graphs in your templates by replacing your activity_statblock with this:

Code:

  <if condition="isset($output['WWU002_activitylevel'])">
      <table class="WWU002postbit" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
          <td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/textactivity.gif" alt="$vbphrase[WWU002_activity]" /></td>
          <td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/textlongevity.gif" alt="$vbphrase[WWU002_longevity]" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td nowrap="nowrap" title="$output[WWU002_activityinfo]"><if condition="$width=$output['WWU002_activitypercent']/2+1">		<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_poll]/bar1-l.gif" alt="" width="3" height="10" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_poll]/bar1.gif" alt="" width="$width" height="10"
/><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_poll]/bar1-r.gif" alt="" width="3" height="10" /></if></td>
          <td nowrap="nowrap" title="$output[WWU002_longevityinfo]" ><if condition="$width=$output['WWU002_longevitypercent']/2+1">		<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_poll]/bar2-l.gif" alt="" width="3" height="10" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_poll]/bar2.gif" alt="" width="$width" height="10"
/><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_poll]/bar2-r.gif" alt="" width="3" height="10" /></if></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/texttoday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[WWU002_activity_today]" /></td>
          <td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/textposts.gif" alt="$vbphrase[posts]" /></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td nowrap="nowrap" title="$output[WWU002_todayinfo]"><if condition="$output['WWU002_maxtodaylevel']">
<if condition="$width=50*$output['WWU002_todaylevel']/$output['WWU002_maxtodaylevel']+1">
		<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_poll]/bar3-l.gif" alt="" width="3" height="10" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_poll]/bar3.gif" alt="" width="$width" height="10"
/><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_poll]/bar3-r.gif" alt="" width="3" height="10" /></if></td>
<else /><img src="$vboptions[cleargifurl]" width="63" height="10"  /></if></td>
          <td dir="ltr"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/posts$output[WWU002_postsd1].gif" alt="$output[WWU002_postsd1]" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/posts$output[WWU002_postsd2].gif" alt="$output[WWU002_postsd2]" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/posts$output[WWU002_postsd3].gif"  alt="$output[WWU002_postsd3]" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/posts$output[WWU002_postsd4].gif" alt="$output[WWU002_postsd4]" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/posts$output[WWU002_postsd5].gif" alt="$output[WWU002_postsd5]" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/posts$output[WWU002_postsd6].gif"  alt="$output[WWU002_postsd6]" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/posts$output[WWU002_postsd7].gif" alt="$output[WWU002_postsd7]" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/posts$output[WWU002_postsd8].gif" alt="$output[WWU002_postsd8]" /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/activity/posts$output[WWU002_postsd9].gif" alt="$output[WWU002_postsd9]" /></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
  </if>

Nadeemjp · #**178** 10-30-2008, 06:38 AM

hi there. it is a nic mod and i am using it. a little problem that ihave is that the font color is too light and is hard to read. my background is some what in between dark and light. is there any way that i can turn the font of the words like "longevity" or "activity" a bit more darker?

thanx

for references, i am giving the url:http://www.familybunker.com/forums/s...5449#post25449

WetWired · #**179** 10-30-2008, 02:11 PM

You could edit the graphics to be a different color. The text is a solid color, so you can just use the fill tool in your graphics editor. All the word graphics have the word "text" in their filename. You could also use the word graphics from the light set and everything else from the dark set.

Cocko · #**180** 10-31-2008, 04:24 PM

The activity addon runs fine until I have installed GARS yesterday.

Now I see under the comment button at the end of first post (only)

Code:

novPostTD novStats

When I disable the Activity Modification addon no issue appears.

What is the difference that GARS and Activity Modification don't work together?

WetWired · #**181** 11-01-2008, 05:37 AM

Those things indicate that the JavaScript was unable to find the markers it needs to modify the postbit. If you turn off the options that require JS (alternate location and removing stuff), they should go away.

I don't know what GARS is but if you're only having trouble with the first post, you might be able to put a conditional in the activity_postbit_epilogue template so it doesn't run for the first post. You might try wrapping the current contents with

Code:

<if condition="$post['postcount']>1">
</if>

though I'm not sure if that will work.

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