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]

Yes It Does

[Mecho]

i set this option " Show Site Images on Forum Home? " Yes .
so it added " top sites: " in the forumhome . how can i edit and change the title (Top Sites of that box ?

Thanks

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

thats cool it had me going crazy trying to change it when they edit there code. any plans on changing the layout or having it where you can really add any kind of link or code? cause right now its limited to just a site url for example if I tried to enter in something like this which most topsites are switching to then it wont work.

<a href="http://example.net/topsites/">
<img src="http://example.net/topsites/button.php?u=dementedmindz" alt="" border="0" />
</a>

Do you remember which file it was that you were having problems with &'s being in the URL?

Not quite sure what you mean about adding any type of code. Can you please explain a little more?

Originally Posted by Mecho

i set this option " Show Site Images on Forum Home? " Yes .
so it added " top sites: " in the forumhome . how can i edit and change the title (Top Sites of that box ?

Thanks

Try searching for that phrase in vB's phrase manager. I'm not sure of the varname off the top of my head, but you should be able to find it by doing a search there. All you have to do is put what you want it to say in the language translation textarea.

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by derekivey

Do you remember which file it was that you were having problems with &'s being in the URL?

Not quite sure what you mean about adding any type of code. Can you please explain a little more?

ok when you submit your site to there site thats the code you get back. I think what would be able to work with that since it needs there site link is being able to link to there button instead of being able to upload it cause if you put that full link on your site then it would take you right to there site and count as a hit on there topsites. Ill send you a pm so you can see the true link this way you know what I mean. Its a strange way of doing the topsites code but thats how mostly all new topsites are going to. Also as for the & that only happens when you edit the site or just submit the site it wont change it to & amp;.

[derekivey]

Thanks. I'll look into these.

[DementedMindz]

one thing I could think of to maybe add besides being able to link to the images is maybe have it where admin can add html code for the button this way it will be able to use a code like I sent you in pm or maybe you can figure a way for it to work..

[zentz]

users cant add site to the toplist, i get these errors:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT `email` FROM user WHERE `userid` IN(my@email.com);

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '@email.com)' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Date : Friday, February 9th 2007 @ 09:39:31 AM
Script : http://www.site.com/add_site.php
Referrer : http://www.site.com/add_site.php
IP Address : 89.172.69.96
Username : Admin
Classname : vB_Database

Any ideas?

Also how do i check what toplist version do i currently run?

[DementedMindz]

derek any word on that fix? from this post https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1449

[Spike Saunders]

Alrighty so I have a few questions for you all, mostly for the one that developed this awesome hack

#1 - Is there anyway that this can be edited to include TWO fields to be filled out for the url, instead of one? The first one being the location of the page that the CODE will appear on. And the second one, being the actaul website's url? I know too many sites that have a Affiliate page, and link to their homepage instead. I would like to fix this so that the code is found on one page while the site themselves in the Toplist will link to the URL specified.

#2 - My forum seems to have an issue with the Redirect from another Site. Basically if you go to one of the sites that have the link back, it goes into a redirect loop while trying to access my site. This repeats indefinitely. However, it does still count the IN link, if you stop or hit back or something to escape the loop. Is there a fix for this? My forum is the most recent version. You can see th is for yourself at (http://www.community.edubn.com/toplist.php) - I understand if the url is removed by a moderator, and if that is the case, that is fine. But I don't mind people checkin it out, you do not have to register, as guest are allowed to view the sites.

#3 - In Firefox ther eseems to be issues with the SITES showing on the main forum page. Sometimes they will be split in half and only the top part of the images will show. Kind of wierd. But Firefox issue as IE does not do it.

I think that's it.

Thanks
-Spike

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by zentz

users cant add site to the toplist, i get these errors:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT `email` FROM user WHERE `userid` IN(my@email.com);

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '@email.com)' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Date : Friday, February 9th 2007 @ 09:39:31 AM
Script : http://www.site.com/add_site.php
Referrer : http://www.site.com/add_site.php
IP Address : 89.172.69.96
Username : Admin
Classname : vB_Database

Any ideas?

Also how do i check what toplist version do i currently run?

It sounds to me that you entered an email address in for the setting that lets you set who receives an email when a site needs verified. You need to enter a user ID (not username or email).

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

derek any word on that fix? from this post https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1449

Sorry, I've been too busy to take a look. I will get to it ASAP.

Originally Posted by Spike Saunders

#1 - Is there anyway that this can be edited to include TWO fields to be filled out for the url, instead of one? The first one being the location of the page that the CODE will appear on. And the second one, being the actaul website's url? I know too many sites that have a Affiliate page, and link to their homepage instead. I would like to fix this so that the code is found on one page while the site themselves in the Toplist will link to the URL specified.

That is currently not a feature, but thanks for the suggestion. I will add it to my todo list for the next version.

Originally Posted by Spike Saunders

#2 - My forum seems to have an issue with the Redirect from another Site. Basically if you go to one of the sites that have the link back, it goes into a redirect loop while trying to access my site. This repeats indefinitely. However, it does still count the IN link, if you stop or hit back or something to escape the loop. Is there a fix for this? My forum is the most recent version. You can see th is for yourself at (http://www.community.edubn.com/toplist.php) - I understand if the url is removed by a moderator, and if that is the case, that is fine. But I don't mind people checkin it out, you do not have to register, as guest are allowed to view the sites.

You probably did not set the In URL setting. Please edit the settings for the script and enter the URL where you want them to be redirected to when they click an In link. Usually people enter the URL to their homepage or the URL to their forums, it's up to you.

Originally Posted by Spike Saunders

#3 - In Firefox ther eseems to be issues with the SITES showing on the main forum page. Sometimes they will be split in half and only the top part of the images will show. Kind of wierd. But Firefox issue as IE does not do it.

I'll take a look and see if it can be fixed.

Thanks,
Derek