Homepage Statistics Cache

A little while ago I ran into this problem... I like having a lot of statistics on my forum's homepage, but I don't like having a lot of queries on that page. That got me to start thinking of a better way to do it, hence the creation of this hack.

How does this hack work?
It's pretty simple really. Instead of counting every single thread, post, member and etc every time someone loads your forum, it only counts these after a specified amount of time and updates one table that the information will be pulled from. This hack is especially useful for high traffic sites and can reduce the time it takes to load your forum's homepage.

Statistics Included:
Total Threads
Threads Today
Total Posts
Posts Today
Total Members
Newest Member
Top Poster
Top Thread Starter
If you are an admin, it will show you the last time the stats were updated as well.

(Please note that some of these started as hacks from other members at vB.org. Most of them are so simple though I don't see much of a point in trying to figure out which one's I got from here X months ago. If your hack was included here and you would like credit given please post here and I will add it.)

Normally these stats would add 8 queries to your forum's homepage. With this hack installed it will only perform 1 query most of the time, and 9 queries when it needs to update the information. I have found this very useful to cut down on the number of queries on my homepage, decrease the page's loading time, and put less overall stress on my server.

Well that's about it. I hope some others will find this hack useful and if anyone has some suggestions for other stats they would like to include in the stats cache please let me know and I will try to implement them.

[Snapperhaed]

Tigga, #3 can be found at:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=25755

Thanks!! I'll also peep to see what I may have altered.

[Tigga]

Well here's the first two for you. The 3rd looks like it would take a little more work so I'll have to post that for you tomorrow.

For members today and total thread views, first run this query via phpMyAdmin:

ALTER TABLE `statscache` ADD `threadviews` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ;
ALTER TABLE `statscache` ADD `memberstoday` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ;

Then open your index.php file (assuming you've already installed the hack) and look for:

PHP Code:

$getstats[posttoday]=number_format($getstats['posttoday']); 


Below that Add:

PHP Code:

$getstats[threadviews]=number_format($getstats['threadviews']);
$getstats[memberstoday]=number_format($getstats['memberstoday']); 


Then look for:

PHP Code:

$poststoday=$getpoststoday[count]; 


Below that Add:

PHP Code:

// members today
$getmemstoday=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS count FROM user WHERE joindate>='$datecut'");

// thread views
$getthreadviews=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT SUM(views) AS tviews FROM thread"); 


Then look for:

PHP Code:

posttoday='$poststoday', lastupdate='".time()."'"); 


Replace that with:

PHP Code:

posttoday='$poststoday', lastupdate='".time()."', threadviews='$getthreadviews[tviews]',memberstoday='$getmemstoday[count]'"); 


Then just add the variables $getstats[threadviews] and $getstats[memberstoday] in your forumhome template where you would like those to appear. (Remember it will take 10 minutes, or however long you set between updates, before those will appear.)

[Snapperhaed]

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!

Installed and worked perfectly. Many thanks for the assistance!
As a side note, I checked to make sure none of the original code was altered, before install, and it wasnt. But soon as I made the changes you provided, cured the problem right up!

Again, Thank you! Your the greatest.

[Logician]

caching such stats are always a good idea, especially in forum home, so very good job!

[Tigga]

Snapperhaed - No problem at all. I've added those stats to my forum page as well.
By the way, I noticed that you have mYvBindex installed on your site. You can use the same code there to pull the info and save 4 queries on your homepage (and add more stats) as well.

Logician - Thank you.

[mossyuk]

1997 PMs?!?! Is that in total or just yours? Wow

[Boofo]

Ok, I got the other 2 figured out (finally). This is what I have left. Can anyone please tell me how to incorporate this, too?

//Page Counter Code
$mycounter = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT count FROM mycounter");
$DB_site->query("UPDATE mycounter SET count = count + 1");
$mycounter = number_format($mycounter['count']);
//Page Counter Code

[Kars10]

Works like a charm and saves me about 5 Querys on Forumhome / and vBindex!!

Thanks
Kars

[high]* Kars10 kicks install! [/high]

[Tigga]

mossyuk - Yep, those are all mine. The board's been up for a little over a year and I rarely delete anything, so I guess they add up pretty quickly.

Boofo - I don't think that's something that should really be integrated with this... Since it's a page counter, updating it only every ten minutes wouldn't allow it to be accurate. It appears that it would only be 2 very small queries and a small table though, so it shouldn't affect performance much at all.

Kars10 - Glad you like it.

[Boofo]

You're right. I got to thinking about it after I wrote the message. I went from 31 queries down to 23 (and at 35 when the cache updates) and I have a couple of more stats than I had before. I did the Top Profile Views with this, too, if anyone is interested.