Statistics Modifications - vbTrends - An Enhanced Statistics Box on Forum Home

Note: This product is now being supported at www.catnine.net

Keywords: Statistics, New members, joins, trends, Forum Home, threads, posts

ATTENTION:
If you download the latest version go into your usergroups and set the 'can view trends' permission. SAVE the usergroup even if you haven't changed the setting or things may not work. There is an odd permissions bug I haven't figured out yet.

Also note that overwrite will not work. Please uninstall the previous version before installing the new one.

Description:
Enhances the "YourBBS" Statistics box on the forum home to show trends of posts, threads and new users vs. the overall history of the board. Also allows you to display more than one "newest member".

Version 2.0.0:

1. Calculations exposed and modifiable in admincp.
2. Added ability to delay updates of stats to every x minutes in admincp.
3. Added a style setting for positive and negative trends.
4. Added custom hooks for all aspects of vbTrends, and moved code into said hooks.
5. Changed template to still show total threads when trend is negative and 'positive trends only' is enabled.
6. Usergroup permission to view trends.

Note: You cannot cause an error by messing up the calculations in the admincp. If the calculation you provide contains errors the stat in question will show as N/A.

This is a major rewrite, so I've set the hack to beta for now.

Version 1.2.6:

1. Made some minor tweaks for cleaner code
2. Made change to build datastore call to force serialization

You can just overwrite the product.xml if you are upgrading. Remember vbTrends has an option in the admincp to reset the counters. To see any changes/fixes you'll want to run that, or you'll end up having to wait for a new day before the changes will take affect.

Version 1.2.5:

1. fixed minor bug in auto-replace that was causing it not to work on some boards

Version 1.2.4:

1. fixed bug in percentage of active users
2. fixed bug in limit of queries (added order by)

Thanks to bchertov and Battle_Ring for the testing

Version 1.2.3:

1. Added option to display % of active users.
2. Added option to set the number of previous months to include in the trend data.

Version 1.1.3:

1. Updated for vBulletin 3.6.
2. Fixed long standing problem with stats calculating incorrectly.
3. Added option to only show positive trends.

Version 1.1.2:

1. Added admincp menu to reset cached counters.
2. Fixed a couple of divide by zero errors that occurred when your board had no history (was less than a month old).
3. Fixed so templates are now cached.

Version 1.1.1:

1. Fixed calculation of statistics - should definately be correct now

Version 1.1.0:

1. Fully phrased.
2. Uses templates now so look and feel can be customized
3. Fixed bug so output is valid xhtml 1.0.

Version 1.0.0:

1. Turn on/off in admincp
2. Offers the option to auto replace in templates, or to manually edit templates.
3. Allows more than one 'newest user' to be display.
4. Shows trends for posts, threads and new users - this month vs. the boards average.

Install

1. Download the vbTrends_2.0.0.zip.
2. Unzip and follow instructions in install.html.

[kewl1uk]

Problems with this after uninstalling 1.1.3 and installing 1.2.5:

Upgraded late last night and shows the percentage of active members but 0% for all the other stats. Uninstalling 1.2.5 and installing 1.1.3 doesn't work now either but worked before. Could it be because it's the start of the month?

Problems with the newest member: I have the newest member listed in a side bar on forumhome using the default vb code but the newest member is not listed there. The one that is listed is always the last to be listed in the vbtrends stats which is of course not the newest member - the first to be listed in vbtrends is the newest member. The only way to get the newest member listed in the side bar is to enable only 1 newest member in the vbtrends stats.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by kewl1uk

Problems with this after uninstalling 1.1.3 and installing 1.2.5:

Upgraded late last night and shows the percentage of active members but 0% for all the other stats. Uninstalling 1.2.5 and installing 1.1.3 doesn't work now either but worked before. Could it be because it's the start of the month?

Since the product was recoded and re-released last month, this is the first real test of it crossing the month barrier. There does appear to be some sort of problem. Hopefully I will have it fixed today and a bug release up.

Problems with the newest member: I have the newest member listed in a side bar on forumhome using the default vb code but the newest member is not listed there. The one that is listed is always the last to be listed in the vbtrends stats which is of course not the newest member - the first to be listed in vbtrends is the newest member. The only way to get the newest member listed in the side bar is to enable only 1 newest member in the vbtrends stats.

This is a known issue, and will be fixed in the next bug release, thanks

[kewl1uk]

Originally Posted by hambil

Since the product was recoded and re-released last month, this is the first real test of it crossing the month barrier. There does appear to be some sort of problem. Hopefully I will have it fixed today and a bug release up.


This is a known issue, and will be fixed in the next bug release, thanks

Ok thank you. Great Mod btw

[ericgray]

it's the first of the month, and everything says -100% and -99%

this is not cool -- :|

and disabling the negative stats nukes the display overall -- :|

can't disabling the negative stats just disable the negative part, not the whole stat?

[ericgray]

also, why not have a trailing last 30,60,90 days, etc, not just the current month?

it's somewhat a useless stat today, the first -- :|

[Doctor Death]

Originally Posted by ericgray

also, why not have a trailing last 30,60,90 days, etc, not just the current month?

it's somewhat a useless stat today, the first -- :|

Concur... a running window of stats?

Great mod.

[Terminatoronly]

Happy for this release since i really did wait for this mod to be for vb 3.6.4

Thanks Alot for the coder

[hambil]

Well, it's supposed to compare posts, joins, threads month to date. So, the numbers should never be that small. In other words - the first day of the month compared to the average first day of the month for all other months (or x number of months based on your admincp settings).

However, I think there is a bug I'm trying to locate at the moment that might be throwing off the numbers.

All that said, the only way I can see to 'soften' the stats, would be to expand the compare window. e.g. the last 24 hours vs. the average for the last x months. That might help some.

[kewl1uk]

Mine is just the opposite and I'm not sure whether they are right because they seem high to me:

Threads: 9,012, This Month: 70 up (77%)
Posts: 188,969, This Month: 1293 up (68%)
Members: 1,777, This Month: 8 up (4%)

I'm comparing the current with the last 12 months entered into the options in the Admin CP.

I installed 1.2.5 after uninstalling 1.1.3 just before midnight on April 1st and got 0% for all three stats. But on April 2nd the stats had recovered. Personally, I think it has something to do with the datastore cache causing the problems.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by kewl1uk

I think it has something to do with the datastore cache causing the problems.

I think you are right. I just uploaded 1.2.6 which updates the build datastore call to use the new vb3.6 parameters. Hopefully that will fix things. Remember to reset your counters for vbTrends from its admincp options.