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.

[Staxed]

can you alter this, or upload another version that will make this change to the vbadvanced stats template? I would like to use this but I only use the vba stats module (i have a vba column on all pages)

...i don't have this info in my forumhome template...

just let me know if you will do this or not, if not I'll play around with it myself and make it work.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by Irisfire

can you alter this, or upload another version that will make this change to the vbadvanced stats template? I would like to use this but I only use the vba stats module (i have a vba column on all pages)

...i don't have this info in my forumhome template...

just let me know if you will do this or not, if not I'll play around with it myself and make it work.

I will add vbAdvanced support to the list, but it may not get done for a while. So it all depends on how long you want to wait

[Staxed]

alrighty then,

i'll work on it sometime this weekend probably...and when I get it working I'll send you the code

[hambil]

Originally Posted by Irisfire

alrighty then,

i'll work on it sometime this weekend probably...and when I get it working I'll send you the code

That would be much appreciated, thanks

[djjeffa]

what happend when you reset the counter?
all my stats were up like 75% now there all down like 50% as of the beginning of this month.

[hambil]

Everytime the code runs it checks the datastore. If nothing is in the datastore, or the day in the datestore doens't match the current day, it re-runs the calculations for monthly averages. All resetting the counters does it delete the datastore entry, thus forcing a re-run of monthly stats.

[mcyates]

Originally Posted by Blackhat

looks like this makes mysql use way to much server resources for a large site like mine :P

yeah this slows down my site also, i've uninstalled it.

[ericgray]

I just uninstalled this --

-- the stats just don't make any sense -- 500%, 600%, etc --

and also, there's too much muddle at the bottom of the page, with no bold, etc. of the real stats, with this stuff unbolded --

-- i'll check back in the future to see if it's tidied up at all --

eric

[wolfe]

Originally Posted by ericgray

I just uninstalled this --

-- the stats just don't make any sense -- 500%, 600%, etc --

and also, there's too much muddle at the bottom of the page, with no bold, etc. of the real stats, with this stuff unbolded --

-- i'll check back in the future to see if it's tidied up at all --

eric

why dont you tidy it up yourself by editing the forumhome_vbtrends template

also m8 getting mysql error on cron job ? anyone else getting this problem.

[hambil]

There seems to be a lot of ongoing concern/criticism of the calculations used and the stats displayed. I've decided the best way to deal with this, since I can never make everyone happy, is to expose them to the end user to tweak.

I will be releasing a version soon that uses a short hand in the admincp settings to set the calculations to anything you want (within reason). The short hand in the admincp settings will be something like: Posts: ($current / $avg) * 100. Any mathematical expression will be allowed.

In addition it will include a few new hooks, for those with real ambition to put in there own php code to get monthly averages, and do the final percentage calculations. The hack will use these hooks itself, to provide an example to modify.

I'll also be adding some options for display formating for those who don't want to modify the template yet want to make some minor style changes.

ETA: Late tonight, early tomorrow (Pacific Standard Time).