vBulletin CMS Widgets - Top posters widget type

What does this do?
This mod provides a Top Posters widget type which can be configured to show the members who made the most posts over a period of time.

Features

• Provides widget type Top Posters.
• Displays a list of the top posters on your forum inside a widget.
• Allows multiple instances of the widget.
• Easy installation via products system.
• Configuration options:
  • Usergroups to include
  • Eight different time periods to choose from
  • Number of posters to display.
• Displays avatar of 'top poster'

Potential features

• Exclude forum(s) from counting
• Exclude forum(s) with no post count
• Top all time posters (eg based on post count)
• Top bloggers widget
• Top article posters widget
• Top social groups widget
• Top posted in forums widget
• Top posted in threads widget
• Top commented on album/blog/articles widget

Installation
1. Upload the contents of the upload folder to your site.
2. Import product file.
3. Clear CMS cache. (failing to do this may mean the widget doesn't show up in the create new widget box)

Usage
1. Go into the widget manager and select Create new widget.
2. Select the top posters widget type from the drop down list.
3. Fill out the remaining form items and hit save.
4. Configure the widget from the widget manager.
5. Add the widget to a layout.

What is an Alpha release?
This modification has been released as an Alpha release. This means that it has only been tested within a limited number of environments, eg My development board and boards of a small number of other users. As far as I'm aware, all releases are bug free at the time of release, but due to the limited number of users not all the bugs may have been found yet.

As with all mods, make a full backup of your database before installing and ideally, test on a development board which matches the setup of your live board as closely as possible first. Please report any issues you have and any solutions you find, to help improve this product.

Changelog

• 4.0-0.1 a2
  • Fixed issue with configuring widget on vb 4.1
  • Added avatar of top poster to widget.
• 4.0-0.1 a1
  • Initial release

Notes

• I created this widget because the existing ones that do similar things had performance issues and the mod author was unwilling/slow to implement the fix I sent them. This behaives much more reasonably, even in the worst case (top posters this year) It takes a little over a second when run against my 1.2 million posts board. Considering that this result is cached for a day, the performance implications of this widget are minimal.
• Caching behaivour can only be changed by editing the code; currently the last* time periods cache the result to the end of the time period (eg if you are using last month, the cache is set to expire about 1 minuite after the start of the next month) For this year and this month, the cache is set to expire after a day, this week is set to expire after 6 hours and today is set to expire hourly. A future version may allow customisation over these timings.
• The Planned features are a set of ideas that I could do using the current code fairly easilly; however most are not required for my own use, if there are sufficient people interested in a feature to make it worth my while coding it, I will do.
• This is an example of how to write a widget properly and I used the direct php execution widget as a model of how to implement it. Please feel free to use this code as an example when creating your own widgets types.

[Carnage]

That isn't possible in this version; its on the list of features I'd like to add.

Since this is now the only available top posters widget on vborg, I'm going to try and schedule some time this month to get a new release out with some extra features.

[Juggernaut]

Thank you Carnage, I still have this widget tagged just in case it get's updated

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by rossco_2005

For some reason I can't configure the widget.
I choose the settings that I want then hit save, it reloads the configure screen showing the previous settings.
This is on 4.0.6.

same here on 4.1
I had to edit the php file and upload it again

[Juggernaut]

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

same here on 4.1
I had to edit the php file and upload it again

How were you able to get it to work again? can you provide the solution?

[lycheepassion]

Hey would LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEEEEEE to get this to work in newest vb pl2! ty

[lycheepassion]

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

same here on 4.1
I had to edit the php file and upload it again

Can you provide the file pretty please?

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by Juggernaut

How were you able to get it to work again? can you provide the solution?

I just edited this file
/packages/imhotektopposters/item/widget/

<?php
class imhotekTopPosters_Item_Widget_TopPosters extends vBCms_Item_Widget
{
	/*Properties====================================================================*/

	/**
	 * A package identifier.
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	protected $package = 'imhotekTopPosters';

	/**
	 * A class identifier.
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	protected $class = 'TopPosters';

	protected $config = array('usergroups' => '5,9,53',
		'type' => 'lastmonth',
        'limit'=>7);

}

and edited the groups and limit #

then uploaded the files, and imported the xml file like the instructions stated

I think that's all I changed, sorry for not posting this before
You can see it in action here.

[Carnage]

Rolling a new release.

Fixed the issue with configuration; seems vbulletin did some under the hood changes at some point which broke it, now confirmed to work on vbulletin 4.1.1

I've also added the avatar of the top poster to the top of the widget and the top posters name is displayed in a larger bold font, centred in the middle of the widget.

I had planned to add some more features, however it took me forever to track down the configuration bug

[tele955848]

Originally Posted by 210665

Hello
Demo does not work.
I can not see the product in widgets
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Hallo
Demo geht nicht.
Ich kann das Produkt nicht sehen in Widgets

Bei mir das gleiche - Schrott ?!

[49er]

Got This Error ....

Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_avatar_from_userinfo() in /home/*********/public_html/forum/packages/imhotektopposters/widget/topposters.php on line 245
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