Top xx Posters List

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The 3.5 version of my Top (10) Posters hack.

This has now been re-vamped for the release of version 3.xx - the hack no longer uses a seperate topposters.php file.

This hack displays a page with the Top Forum Posters for a given set of periods. Two periods are fixed ('This Month' & 'Overall') but can be turned off in the options. The other three periods are user definable (in days) - the default values are 1 day (24 hours), 7 days & 28 days. These three columns cannot be turned off.

The number of posters to be shown can also be set, the default is the top 10 posters. You can also select which usergroups are included in the count, so members in banned groups etc are not shown.

To upgrade (if you want to) uninstall version 2.xx and re-install this version. Note the url to display the page has changed.


History:

v3.01 - First public version 3
v3.02 - Fixed display error reported in post 59
v3.03 - Fixed display error reported in post 84
v3.11 - Series of additions, upgrades and settings added.
v3.12 - Updated install code to check for existing index.
v3.13 - Fixed uncached templates added in v3.11
v3.14 : Changes to display layout.
v3.15 : Minor changes, no update necessary.
v3.16 : Fixed bug in monthly totals caculation.

[ar2]

Can anyone help me? I've installed new ver. and it's not working neither , I get no error messages.

[Paul M]

Can you be a bit more specific than just "not working" ?

[ar2]

Hmmm it's strange because it seems to be everything (in admin panel in options everything also looks fine) ok but I cant find top posters on my forum, maybe I'm looking in wrong place. The shortcut should be in navbar? I don't know what's wrong

forum adress is forum.hdtv.com.pl

greets

[Paul M]

You have to add the link yourself, step 1 in the instructions - (adds it to quicklinks as I recall).

[ar2]

edit: ok I think I know what is wrong. Thnx for hlp.

greets

[kittykattjess]

humm ok...

my navbar templet do not have..

<if condition="$show['pmstats']"><tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="private.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[private_messages]</a></td></tr></if>

So how do I add this one then when I dont seem to have it to add the next code after???

[Paul M]

Search the template for $show['pmstats'] and you should find a line similar (check post #209, about two pages back).

[bangpc]

I haved install throught 3 steps, but nothing new to appears on my forum. Who can help me. sorry for my bad english

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by Paul M

There is something seriously wrong with your server if it takes 9 seconds to run that page. It takes less than a second on our live server (13 queries, and 20,000 posts to scan).

Hello,

I have another person with the same type of load problem.

Threads: 14,881, Posts: 645,393, Members: 16,854

Display Setting: 10 users
Page generated in 42.99153 seconds with 8 queries [Server Loads: 0.74 0.60 : 0.75]

Avj: 15k-30K posts a person - 6K new posts a day.

[Paul M]

6,000 posts day ? are you sure, that's nearly 200,000 posts per month, the board only has 645,000 posts .....

I suggest they make sure that dateline has been correctly indexed in the post table, and run an explain.

At the end of they day its very poor performance by mysql slowing it down - even if I remove the index on my server, it only takes 1.5 seconds, and that is scanning 720,000 posts, not 645,000.