Miscellaneous Hacks - Top Posters List

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This displays a page with the Top Forum Posters for a given set of periods. Two of the periods are fixed ('This Month' & 'Overall') but can be turned off in the options. The other three periods are user definable (in days). The default values for these columns are 1 day, 7 days & 28 days (note that 0 = off).

* The number of posters to be shown can be set, the default is the Top 10 posters.
* You can select which usergroups are included (or excluded) in the count, so members in banned groups etc are not shown
* You can exclude individual userids such as rss posters.
* You can exclude forums from the counts - however, this exclusion does not apply to the final "overall" count.
* If enabled, this will also add a link to your Quick Links or Community Links menus.
* There is an option to prefix the link path if you use something like CMPS.
* Usergroup & forum settings now display actual lists rather than needing csv id lists.

To install just unzip the xml file and import it using the Product Manager


History:

v4.0.1 : 03-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 12-Jan-2010 : Fixed WOL location. Added userid exclusion facility.
v4.0.3 : 17-Jan-2010 : Updated settings display. Added forum exclusion facility.
v4.0.4 : 20-Jan-2010 : Internal update, not released.
v4.0.5 : 26-Jan-2010 : Various updates.
v4.0.6 : 16-Feb-2010 : Settings update.
v4.0.7 : 27-Feb-2010 : Style code updates for vB 4.0.2.
v4.0.8 : 26-Sep-2010 : Install Code Updated.
v4.0.9 : 06-Nov-2010 : Install code updated.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.
v4.1.1 : 05-Mar-2011 : Fix possible array issue.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

[Paul M]

There is no code to perform redirects in it.

[Amaury]

Installed!

Two questions, though:

1. What controls the background?
2. Is it possible to create a plugin hook or something to make the Current Activity be "Viewing Page Top Posters" (Top Posters being a link) instead of that Viewing Top Posters with the URL?

EDIT: Never mind the first one.

I fixed it by inserting this into the additional.css template, changing the color accordingly when I added it to the additional.css template for Dance of the Dream Eater (Light).

.toptable td {
    border: 1px solid black;
}

.toptable .alt1 {
    border: 1px solid black;
    background: #323232;
}

.toptable .alt2 {
    border: 1px solid black;
    background: #323232;
}

[Amaury]

Originally Posted by Amaury25

Is it possible to create a plugin hook or something to make the Current Activity be "Viewing Page Top Posters" (Top Posters being a link) instead of that Viewing Top Posters with the URL?[/LIST][IMG]http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m62/AmauryGarcia/TopPosters.png[

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...Activity-2.png

Bump.

[SoloX]

generates lots of load on the server with many users. anyway to cache this?

[Paul M]

Multiple repeat posts removed. If someone is going to answer you they will, we dont need repeated posts with huge images every week.

[SoloX]

here is what i did to reduce the load on the server.

i created a cron job to run every 4 hrs and save output to an html file. i then created a link in Quick Links ..

PHP Code:

0 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * *  /usr/bin/curl http://mydomain.com/forums/misc.php?do=topposters > /var/www/localhost/htdocs/forums/top.html 


[Amaury]

Okay, I got it to sort of work.

online_location_unknown:

if ($userinfo['activity'] == 'topposters')
{
    $handled = true;
    $userinfo['action'] = $vbphrase['top_view'];
    $userinfo['where'] = '<a href="misc.php?do=topposters">'.$vbulletin->options['bburl'].'/misc.php?do=topposters</a>';
}

I changed it to this:

if ($userinfo['activity'] == 'topposters')
{
    $handled = true;
    $userinfo['action'] = "Viewing Page";
    $userinfo['where'] = '<a href="misc.php?do=topposters">'.$vbulletin->options['bburl'].'/misc.php?do=topposters</a>';
}

However, I still can't get the URL to just be a simple hyperlink (Top Posters).

if ($filename == 'topposters.php')
{
    $userinfo['activity'] = 'topposters';
}

I tried changing that to this, but it just made it appear as an unknown location:

switch ($filename == 'topposters.php')
{
    case 'topposters.php':
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'Top Posters';
        break;
}

Any help?

EDIT: I changed online_location_unknown again and made it this:

switch ($userinfo['activity'])
{
    case 'Top Posters':
        $userinfo['where'] = '<a href="misc.php?do=topposters">'.$vbulletin->options['bburl'].'/misc.php?do=topposters</a>';
        $userinfo['action'] = "Viewing Page";
        $handled = true;
        break;
}

...and the activity name is still not working how I want it to.

This is what it should be:
Viewing Page Top Posters

This is what it says:
Viewing Page http://www.kh-mediaflare.net/misc.php?do=topposters

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Paul M]

You seem to be over complicating a simple change.

Simply replace ;

PHP Code:

$userinfo['where'] = '<a href="misc.php?do=topposters">'.$vbulletin->options['bburl'].'/misc.php?do=topposters</a>'; 


With

PHP Code:

$userinfo['where'] = '<a href="misc.php?do=topposters">'.$vbphrase['top_list'].'</a>'; 


Nothing else needs to be done.

[Amaury]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You seem to be over complicating a simple change.

Simply replace ;

PHP Code:

$userinfo['where'] = '<a href="misc.php?do=topposters">'.$vbulletin->options['bburl'].'/misc.php?do=topposters</a>'; 


With

PHP Code:

$userinfo['where'] = '<a href="misc.php?do=topposters">'.$vbphrase['top_list'].'</a>'; 


Nothing else needs to be done.

I really appreciate the help, Paul, and I apologize. I've modified plugins for activity name stuff before, and this one was just getting to me because of that extra information.

Anyway, I reverted the changes I did and changed what you told me to change, and it worked.

The only additional change I made was changing this:

$userinfo['action'] = $vbphrase['top_view'];

...to this:

$userinfo['action'] = "Viewing Page";

That way it says Viewing Page Top Posters instead of Viewing Top Posters Top Posters.

Thanks again, Paul!

[Paul M]

You should not change the code, but simply edit the phrase.