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]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

I have a strange problem in admincp when someone submits a site and I go to approve it I get this. There are %1$s sites in the Toplist to be validated. To view and validate them, go here. Then when I recieve the email it dont show the site it shows this.

Site Name: Array[sitename]
URL: Array[url]
Description: Array[description]
Username: Wicked

I'll take a look at this, it might be a bug. Looks like something went wrong with the construct_phrase() function.

Derek

EDIT: Yup, seems to be happening for me as well, I'll look into it.

[DementedMindz]

thanks wasnt sure if it was just me

[Ninth Dimension]

This addon is GREAT, everything I could imagine.. and more!!! Got it running on my vB3.6.0 site and it's working great.

One question, and I'm sure it's a silly one, but I just want to be sure... when you set the usergroup permissions, I assume the options of 'edit sites' and 'delete sites' options only apply to sites that that user has added?

A suggestion for an addition, to let the number of sites each user is allowed to add to be based on usergroup, rather than a global setting for all.

Anyway, great hack, looking forward to any and all updates you make

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by Ninth Dimension

This addon is GREAT, everything I could imagine.. and more!!! Got it running on my vB3.6.0 site and it's working great.

One question, and I'm sure it's a silly one, but I just want to be sure... when you set the usergroup permissions, I assume the options of 'edit sites' and 'delete sites' options only apply to sites that that user has added?

A suggestion for an addition, to let the number of sites each user is allowed to add to be based on usergroup, rather than a global setting for all.

Anyway, great hack, looking forward to any and all updates you make

Yes, the edit site and delete site permissions are just for the sites added by that user. The last option (I think it's called administrate sites or moderate sites) allows that usergroup to edit each site, even if it wasn't submitted by them.

Thanks for the suggestion about changing the limit to be based on usergroups instead of being a global setting. I will try and add that to the next version as well.

Derek

[Ninth Dimension]

I have another suggestion, if you don't mind... How about the ability for the IN page to be diffrent, based on which category the site is in?

For example, I'm running two sites, TheICE.co.uk and UnknownTales.net. What I'd like to do, in theory, is set-up a category for each of these sites, and when someone clicks on my button, it checks which category the site is in, and forwards it to the relevent page.

Of course, extended options to this feature could be the ability to define diffrent link-in buttons for each category, as well as the ability for the top-ten toplist sites data, based on category, to be displayed on a non-vB page (I might even try building that one myself).

Anyway, I hope you like the ideas

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by Ninth Dimension

I have another suggestion, if you don't mind... How about the ability for the IN page to be diffrent, based on which category the site is in?

For example, I'm running two sites, TheICE.co.uk and UnknownTales.net. What I'd like to do, in theory, is set-up a category for each of these sites, and when someone clicks on my button, it checks which category the site is in, and forwards it to the relevent page.

Of course, extended options to this feature could be the ability to define diffrent link-in buttons for each category, as well as the ability for the top-ten toplist sites data, based on category, to be displayed on a non-vB page (I might even try building that one myself).

Anyway, I hope you like the ideas

Nice suggestion! I will see if I can add it to the next version. Also in the next version I will have a file that will output XML and RSS feeds with the top x sites (you specify this in the url). I will also be making a simple API to show that stuff on a non-vB page.

Derek

Derek

[Ninth Dimension]

Originally Posted by derekivey

Also in the next version I will have a file that will output XML and RSS feeds with the top x sites (you specify this in the url). I will also be making a simple API to show that stuff on a non-vB page.

So based on the query in the URL, you get to choose which category you wish to display... This sounds fantastic I assume it'll contain all the info you see on the main toplist site, as well as things like the buttons.

While I'm here, I'm interested... The veryify option you have, to check that the user had put the code on their site - exactly how does this work? I should imagine it goes to the site and looks for something, but what exactly does it look for?

Seriously, I'm blown away by how good this hack is.... keep up the good work

[derekivey]

Yes, that is correct .

[Chicago_VLNU_4s]

i had to load a backup of my site and last time i backed up was BEFORE i added this hack.. heres the error i'm getting.

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE `toplist_ratings` (
`id` int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`site_id` int(10) NOT NULL default '0',
`username` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`rating` int(1) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM;;

MySQL Error : Table 'toplist_ratings' already exists
Error Number : 1050
Date : Sunday, September 10th 2006 @ 09:42:03 PM
Script : http://www.offthaave.com/forums/admincp/plugin.php
Referrer : http://www.offthaave.com/forums/admi...?do=productadd
IP Address : **.*.***.**
Username : 4 CORNER HUSTLA
Classname : vB_Database

so, there's site ratings that have been made in the "plugin.php" that's holding me back from re-importing the product. Any ideas on what i can do?

[DementedMindz]

if you had to use a backup from before you used then the it wouldnt show in sql since you didnt have it installed then. but if you have no important info for topsites erase the topsites tables.