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As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[Amaury]

Originally Posted by Paul M

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

Thanks, Paul. I'll do that now.

[root2012]

Originally Posted by emperatour

After enabling this plugin, when I browse to www.myforum.com/forum/ the page redirects to www.myforum.com/forum/misc.php?do=topposters instead of redirecting to www.myforum.com/forum/forum.php.

exactly the same problem I have I already did fix it for

[xxdestinyxx]

Hey Paul,

My forum has been using this application for quite awhile and we LOVE it.

Recently we implemented a change where if a member posts less than 100 characters it does not add to their post count. We used this mod to do it.

The issue which has arisen is that although their post count does not increase, on your modification it still does. We have been using your modification to keep track of how many posts a member makes each month.

Is it possible for me to edit the code somewhere to have it pulling from the active post count and not just if the member makes a post at all? And by "possible for me to edit" I mean, if this is possible can you help show me how? (Location/what to replace etc).

I would sincerely appreciate it.

[Paul M]

For the most part this counts the physical posts, so it would not be very easy to exclude posts certain posts. You could probably do it with some fancy SQL check, but that would likely put a burden on the query processing, which would certainly slow it down on larger forums.

[xxdestinyxx]

Alright, thank you Paul

We only average about 50 members, but we're using justhost at the moment and they suck when it comes to SQL connections so I'd rather not burden it.

[RSNF]

Great Mod thanks for this!!