Ultimate Forum Stats Integration for Non-VB Page

This Hack was a port over from my vb2.x script that pulled information from teh forum to a seperate script which you then could break apart and include into your standard website via PHP includes or SSI.

This version is about the same but it now works with VB3.00 Gold


Features for Logged in Members:

*Users Avatar
*Default Avatar For Members Without a Set Avatar
*Number of Registered Members
*Number of Threads
*Number of Posts
*How Many Posts since last visit
*How Many New PM's
*How Many PM's in your Inbox
*Latest Registered User
*Member with the Most Posts
*Member with the Most Threads

Features for Guests:

*Welcome Text
*VB3 Gold Login Box with option to Remember.
*Newest Member
*Member with the most Posts
*Member with the most Threads


All that is needed to do is download the attached Zip File. Then open the boardstat.php file in any Text Editor. Follow the Commented Portions that have been outlined in there. You will need to change all the PATHS and URLS in that file to match YOUR server. It might take some tweaking on your part but it works just fine as I have tested it with several other websites. When You are Done Editing it, just upload it to your forums directory and call it to your main website using php includes, ssi or iframes.

IF YOUR FORUMS AND SITE ARE ON DIFFERENT SERVERS THEN YOU HAVE TO USE AN IFRAME TO CALL THE FILE OVER. ANYTHING ELSE COULD YIELD HEADER ERRORS.

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Please Remember. Follow the in-file instructions
and edit all the URLS and PATHS. I can't stress this enough.
I just know someone will pop on and say "Why does my links point to http://www.yourdomain.com/forums..... This is a warning lol
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My Next Few Posts Will include Some Images of How the HTML is Built Inside the File.

[BlackxRam]

AXI the instructions are in the zip file and all over this thread, use a php command or a ssi include.

I have never had any problems with the script wanting to cache. Perhaps your browser settings are keeping stored pages longer and not refreshing.

im still at a loss Major, do you have any other hacks installed which may affect the post counts?

[Slapyo]

actually this doesn't display the stats correctly. if you have deleted posts or threads in your forum, but not physically deleted them, it will still show up in these stats, but it doesn't show up in the forum stats. here is the code i use to grab the stats from the forums itself.

PHP Code:

$specialtemplates = array(
    'userstats',
);

chdir("./forums/");
require_once("./global.php");
require_once("./includes/functions_forumlist.php");
chdir("../");

// Forum Stats
cache_ordered_forums(1);

$totalthreads = 0;
$totalposts = 0;
if (is_array($forumcache))
{
    foreach ($forumcache AS $forum)
    {
        $totalthreads += $forum['threadcount'];
        $totalposts += $forum['replycount'];
    }
}
$totalthreads = vb_number_format($totalthreads);
$totalposts = vb_number_format($totalposts);
$userstats = unserialize($datastore['userstats']);
$totalmembers = vb_number_format($userstats['numbermembers']); 


[BlackxRam]

Originally Posted by Slapyo

actually this doesn't display the stats correctly. if you have deleted posts or threads in your forum, but not physically deleted them, it will still show up in these stats, but it doesn't show up in the forum stats. here is the code i use to grab the stats from the forums itself.

Actually it does display the stats correctly, lol. It does display how many total posts your forum has, not how many you have and are also hidden heh.

The numbers numbers were meant to be an accurate account of total posts, if something is soft deleted, its not really gone, just hidden. I say, if your going to delete something... just delete it lol

[Slapyo]

if you delete it you lose the IP address of the poster. if you have a person who many be a repeat offender, soft deleting posts will allow you to see the other posts made by the same IP. obviously doesn't work for everyone, but it does work for quite a bit of people. if you hard delete then it is gone and there is no record. :/

[BlackxRam]

Thats why there is user notes. =)

[Slapyo]

but you have to sort through the notes. with this, you just click the ip link in the post and it tells you everything.

[d2sector]

How do you get around the

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.

error?

[Snetty]

does this work with 3.5?

[SirJonathan]

*bump*.. Anyone know if this works with 3.5?

[Dark Riku]

Originally Posted by Indy

A little success. Per an article at Microsoft, I added an additional <HEAD></HEAD> tag set after the </BODY> set. In both sets and put in:


Works well with Firefox and Netscape, but no go with IE. I'll propbably head over to the HTML forum where it appears I probably should have been in the first place. Didn't mean to post in the wrong forum.

Thanks for the great script!!

Has anyone found out the exact code? Thanks