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!

[Allan]

Hey Derek

Do you have released your hack for vB 3.6 ?

[derekivey]

Not yet, seems to work fine on 3.6 though. I plan to release a 3.6 version for the next release.

[McMendo]

Originally Posted by derekivey

Looks like you created a product for that, which is only needed if you are making hacks. Instead delete that product, and import the product xml file that came in the zip file and it that stuff should show up for you.

Thank you. I don't know how it happened.

Now it's installed. Some issues:

I want toplist to be public viewable, not just for allowed usergroups. How do I go about that? (there is no usergroup "all" to allow view toplist).

Non logged viewers get this message:

You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page

I am a secret administrator, and as such I get:

Tom, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Also, I've added my first site with the image of the site. First I downloaded the image to my computer and uploaded it to the site on topfield. It doesn't show. I edited the site and in fact the field was blank. I typed the URL to the image. It still doesn't show and when I go to edit the site again the image field is blank.

I have increased max. width and height to 325x60 and max. size to 100,000. The file extensions allowed are: jpg jpeg gif (I've also tried with commas too: jpg, jpeg, gif). To no avail.

[McMendo]

Originally Posted by McMendo

Thank you. I don't know how it happened.

Now it's installed. Some issues:

I want toplist to be public viewable, not just for allowed usergroups. How do I go about that? (there is no usergroup "all" to allow view toplist).

Non logged viewers get this message:I am a secret administrator, and as such I get:

Big apologies. Too little sleep these days. View permissions are clear now.

The problem with the images still remains though..

Also, I've added my first site with the image of the site. First I downloaded the image to my computer and uploaded it to the site on topfield. It doesn't show. I edited the site and in fact the field was blank. I typed the URL to the image. It still doesn't show and when I go to edit the site again the image field is blank.

I have increased max. width and height to 325x60 and max. size to 100,000. The file extensions allowed are: jpg jpeg gif (I've also tried with commas too: jpg, jpeg, gif). To no avail.

Also, how can I make the description longer? I need to add some html code to indicate the language: <font color="red"><b>[in Language]</b></font>

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by McMendo

Thank you. I don't know how it happened.

Now it's installed. Some issues:

I want toplist to be public viewable, not just for allowed usergroups. How do I go about that? (there is no usergroup "all" to allow view toplist).

Non logged viewers get this message:I am a secret administrator, and as such I get:


Also, I've added my first site with the image of the site. First I downloaded the image to my computer and uploaded it to the site on topfield. It doesn't show. I edited the site and in fact the field was blank. I typed the URL to the image. It still doesn't show and when I go to edit the site again the image field is blank.

I have increased max. width and height to 325x60 and max. size to 100,000. The file extensions allowed are: jpg jpeg gif (I've also tried with commas too: jpg, jpeg, gif). To no avail.

Just edit the permissions for each usergroup to allow access to view (and add and edit to the ones you want to allow to edit), if you want people who aren't logged in to view it edit the permissions for the Guest usergroup to allow them to view it.

For your second problem, don't include commas in the sizes, and also make sure you CHMODed the images/toplist/buttons/sites/ folder to 777.

Derek

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by McMendo

Also, how can I make the description longer? I need to add some html code to indicate the language: <font color="red"><b>[in Language]</b></font>

You will have to add that code to the Toplist_1 and Toplist_2 templates. Find something like $sr[description] (I think thats the variable I use), and put the html code in front of it, and the closing html tag after it.

Derek

[McMendo]

Originally Posted by derekivey

You will have to add that code to the Toplist_1 and Toplist_2 templates. Find something like $sr[description] (I think thats the variable I use), and put the html code in front of it, and the closing html tag after it.

Derek

That didn't work for <font color>. It does for <center> though.

[derekivey]

Paste the code you used so I can take a look.

Thanks,
Derek

[majoreyeswater]

Originally Posted by majoreyeswater

I've searched through the thread but I am still struggling.

I've copied all the files and I've imported the xml product file.

The top list options are available to edit in admincp options, but I cannot find the toplist permissions in the usergroup settings.

I edit a particular usergroup (e.g. registered members) and cannot find anywhere in there where one edits the toplist settings.

Any help appreciated.

If I've missed something then let me know, but I can't see a toplist entry in the usergroup settings so no one has permission to use the service.

Where are the usergorup settings for this mod?

Thanks in advance.

[derekivey]

Did you upload the xml file for it into includes/xml?