Toplist

Toplist
Developer: derekivey
Version: 2.0.0
vBulletin Version: 3.5.5 (Seems to work fine on 3.6.0)
File Edits: 0
Template Edits: 2 (Optional)
New Phrases: 294
Uses Plugins: Yes!
Difficulty: Easy

Description: This hack adds a Toplist to your forums. You can choose in the AdminCP whether to rank the sites by their In hits or their Out hits. It is fully phrased to make it easy to translate to another language if you need to. The users are able to add a site, edit, or delete their site if they added it. The Administrators can Edit the users' sites or Delete them.
This hack is for vBulletin 3.5.5.

*** I Strongly Recommend That You Backup Your Database Before Installing/Upgrading This Hack! ***

Planned features for a later release:

• Add Image Storage Setting (hot linking or upload)
• Add Stats Page [ Will be released later ]
• Add API to get site info onto non-vB pages and other vB pages.
• Add Site Comment System
• Fix bug with & not being allowed in URLs [ Done ]
• Add Setting to choose where to put Toplist Sites Marquee
• Whatever else is suggested

Change Log
The change log is now available here.

Screen Shots
I have added screen shots of this hack in action below.
More screenshots are located here.

Demo
You can find demo information here.

Translations
You can find a French translation of this hack here.

For a How To on Editing the Dynamic Image, See this Post.

Please click Install you installed this hack.


Thanks!

[DementedMindz]

im using firefox and thats the only thing that takes long to load. just seemed strange cause everything else flys on opening but then it waits for the images. another nice feature would be to have say only the first 5 sites display there image. i know there is a feature for the hits but im thinking it may be more useful having it for only the first few sites cause if you have like 40 sites that would be some lag if they all had images displayed.

[derekivey]

Ok, I'll try and add that to the next version as well . What do you want it to show for the other sites then? Just have it say none?

[DementedMindz]

yeah that or have it just not display anything i been looking at ways to change the look of mine a bit. this way it removes that button table and adds it all in one with the site name and description. and then has the stats on the left side of it like it is now

[derekivey]

Ok, I'll see what I can do. I might have to site name row have a colspan of 2 for the ones with no button shown.

Derek

[derekivey]

Hi,

Can someone please make me 2 small images for this hack? The first one needs to be a green arrow pointing up, and the other should be a red arrow pointing down. Size should be around 25x25 (or whatever looks better, just needs to be small). These will be beside sites that have increased or decreased their rank since the cron last ran (a new feature I am implementing).

Thanks,
Derek

[DementedMindz]

25 x 25 thats kinda big. for the stats to go up and down with dont you think?

[DementedMindz]

here is to 13x13 images i can make others once i get back.

Attachment 53180
Attachment 53181

[b6gm6n]

Here's a couple more arrows!

-b6

[derekivey]

Thanks guys. Those should be fine . I will include both in the zip file to give everyone a choice of which they want to use.

Derek

[dendrob]

Derek,
Thanks for implementing the up/down since last ranking period. Also don't forget a 3rd image (remained the same). It will help the layout flow better. Perhaps a dot or a dash.

also, if you have time those would be great additional features (recap from PM):

- In AdminCP, select ranking cycle as either day/week/month. This would reset the counters daily/weekly/monthly. So after the time period it would be clean slate and the ranking would start at zero again. Yet the up/down/same graphics would tell you what happened to the site since last ranking period.

- I know you said it would be hard to do, but (at least for me) the IN/OUT hits aren't really needed, if you're ranking by pageviews, would be great if you could hide the other columns and just display pageviews.

- In addition, calculating average figures, would be great too.
- Ranking could be by either actual pageviews (the number of visitors to the listed page) or average pageviews (based on whatever history you have - or say the last 10 ranking cycles)

- I already love the statistics page !!!

- I believe you already implemented this, but it's not working for me very well. I would love for the topsites script to count all the pageviews that the listed sites are getting, even if no one actually visited the forum or topsite. basically if I'm ranking by pageviews and the listed site got 5000 visitors, I'd love the script to rank them at 5000, even though 300 were guests from my forum. I hope you know what I mean. Have it count pageviews independently from vb/topsite visitors. This is actually a dream come true for me! This is the muscle behind AArdvarkTS


dendrob
www.VivariumTopSites.com