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!

[derekivey]

Make sure the templates were added to your skin(s). If you want me to look at it, please PM the url of your site and admin details so I can check it out for you.

Derek

[derekivey]

Also just so everyone knows my progress of version 1.0.6, I am pretty much done, I just have to finish adding the image hosting feature. vB's Product installer will automatically copy all of the current site images to your server and leave the image link in the database in case this needs to be redone.

[Twigz]

Originally Posted by derekivey

Also just so everyone knows my progress of version 1.0.6, I am pretty much done, I just have to finish adding the image hosting feature. vB's Product installer will automatically copy all of the current site images to your server and leave the image link in the database in case this needs to be redone.

Pm sent!
Thanks ..

[derekivey]

Yup, just got it. Looking into the problem right now for you.

Derek

[derekivey]

Hi, I just tried adding a site and it added fine. Does it work for you?

[Twigz]

Originally Posted by derekivey

Hi, I just tried adding a site and it added fine. Does it work for you?

Yes, seems to be working fine Now.. Thank you for whatever you did..
Great hack & Support.

-Twigz

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by Twigz

Yes, seems to be working fine Now.. Thank you for whatever you did..
Great hack & Support.

-Twigz

No Problem, I didn't do anything lol.

[derekivey]

Ok, This hack should be released by tomorrow (Sunday), I just have to add a AdminCP page to manage the uploaded images and stuff. The rest is complete.

Derek

[derekivey]

Version 1.0.6 has been released. Please see the first post for the changes in this one. Follow the readme file carefully to install or upgrade.

[derekivey]

HOW TO: Editing the Dynamic Image

You may be wondering how you edit the included Dynamic image in this hack. Here is a simple how to, to do it.

OPEN: images/toplist/buttons/dynamic/image.png

FIND:

PHP Code:

chdir('/home/derek/public_html/vbtest'); 


You need to change '/home/derek/public_html/vbtest' to the path to your forum. Make sure it looks like that though.

Next, if you want to change the background image, simply make a png image and overwrite background.png with it.

If you want to change the color of the text in the dynamic image, you would edit this line:

PHP Code:

$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 255); 


0, 0, 255 are the RGB values for the colors. You need to change them to the color you want, the current one is blue.

Now scroll to the bottom until you find a line like this:

PHP Code:

imagestring($image, $font, 44, 28, $rank, $color); 


For each of those lines, you will need to change the 2 numbers so that each each thing is aligned with the right part of the image. See my included dynamic image as an example. The first number is the x value, and the second one is the y value.

I hope this little how to helps you edit your image better, sorry if it's kind of confusing.

Derek