Statistics Modifications - vB Weekly Stats

Title
vB Weekly Stats - Display and email weekly forum stats

Version: 1.7

Description
A plugin that will display and email weekly statistics for the vBulletin forum software. The project was spurred from a project that a fellow forum member was working on which got me thinking about a better way to monitor what was going on. This allows me to keep up with statistics very easily and monitor the progression my forum is making.

Language: PHP

Tested System: CodeCall.net

License
GNU although a link back to http://www.codecall.net would be nice for anyone using.

Todo List/Bugs

• Make XHTML compliant

Change Log

Version 1.6 - 17

• If the CRON script is executed after 12:00 you no longer get zero filled values.
• You can now exclude forums from showing (Options)
• Username has been clarified in options (bolded) so that no one is confused. The default username "Administrator" has been removed and set to blank.

Version 1.5 - 1.6 by skoenig - Thank you!

• Fixed major bug in Email Plugin - All emails sent from forum now function correctly.

Version 1.4 - 1.5 by Bolas - Thank you!

• Now Uses vB method to send email
• Hooks change on-the-fly the Content-Type

Version 1.3 - 1.4

• Corrected Link in newly registered members display

Version 1.2 - 1.3

• Added Previous Week and 2 Weeks Ago to weekly display.
• Removed User Requests, requests are removed after they are completed so the actual number is always 0 (unless you never complete them).
• Modified cron job to run 15 minutes before 12:00 which will prevent the email being filled with 0 values.
• Added post number to newly registered users this week (in brackets beside name).
• Aligned newly registered users in a table to conserve space.

Version 1.1 - 1.2
-- Changes by TkTech

• (None) tags instead of mis-drecting links when no threads found

Version 1.0 - 1.1

• Added all registered users names for week using Javascript.
• Changed Display, grouped common seciotns
• Added Most Replied and viewed thread created this week.
• Fixed Title - CodeCall isn't hard coded any longer
• Changed wording of Activity Number

Notes
This software is in the version control system of CodeCall.net. If you would like to contribute, please join this forum and become a member. All suggests are greatly welcome!

Install (after you unzip)
1. Upload all files in the upload directory to the root of your forum directory (where index.php is).

2. Login to the admin control panel

3. Goto Plugins & Products and click on Manage Products

4. Click on Add/Import Product

5. Browse to the directory of Weekly Stats and Select Weekly-Stats.xml

6. Click Import

7. Setup the product in vBulletin Options

8. Thats it, your done! You can access the stats at http://www.youdomain.com/forum/weeklystats.php

The cron job is scheduled to run every Sunday at 11:59 which will deliever stats to your email
account.

Support
Support will be given at http://forum.codecall.net/community-...kly-stats.html only. New releases will appear there first before they are updated here. Create a post at this URL for installation problems, bugs or suggestions. I will not be checking this thread very often.

Demo
http://forum.codecall.net/weeklystats.php

[TheBlackPoet]

i have been hoping that someone would write this hack.... and here it is... not to sound unappreciative, but Zia's idea sound like a great enhancement to an already great hack that i am voting for MOTM...

[Jd19]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Ok and the trivial question isssssssssssssss.. Will this work with 3.5.3 ?

I think this will work fine in 3.5.3 although I have not tested. I will create a test system tonight and see if it does. If I remember correctly, the database changed from 3.5.3 to 3.6.x (changing the users table to user).

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Very nice addition, however is there a way to set which usergroups can view this.

Thanks.

Yes, if you go to your admin-cp and general settings and then select Weekly Stats Alert System you can change which groups view it. Separate these by comma delimited ids (EX: 1,6,10).

Originally Posted by Zia

its really nice...

but can u add few more options here
its just showing a numerical summury page

like :
* Latest Poll n vote stats -
* Higtes Replied & hightes hited thread -
* Registerd user's name for the week -

Html coded..
Like a community news letter...
It would be very nice

thnx

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add these in the next release which will probably be this week. I'm also going to change the display which I am not very happy with, its a bit hard to read.

I've added these to my todo list at
http://forum.codecall.net/community-....html#post8426


Please keep any more suggestions coming! I'll be more than happy to add them.

[Canis Firebrand]

Very nice and great suggestions so far.

I'm not sure what this one stat is tracking though as the wording isn't anything I can find at first glance.

Number of Activity This Week

Also, you have the webpage title hard coded. You might want to make it use the vb phrasing so that the individual forum title will be in there instead of CodeCall Programming Forum - Weekly Stats.

Make it be vb[title] - Weekly Stats.

Or whatever vb phrasing gets you the title of the forum.

[Jd19]

Originally Posted by Canis Firebrand

Very nice and great suggestions so far.

I'm not sure what this one stat is tracking though as the wording isn't anything I can find at first glance.

Number of Activity This Week

Also, you have the webpage title hard coded. You might want to make it use the vb phrasing so that the individual forum title will be in there instead of CodeCall Programming Forum - Weekly Stats.

Make it be vb[title] - Weekly Stats.

Or whatever vb phrasing gets you the title of the forum.

The number of activity so far is the amount of users that have visited this week total. I should reword that. Thanks for the tip.

Ahh, the title slipped my mind! I completely forgot about it. I've added these items to my todo list. Thank you!

[Canis Firebrand]

Thanks.. Looking forward to the updates. This is exactly what some of the users at my site have been wanting.

[Zia]

helo Jd19..
pretty impressive ur prompt action..

I just thinking it as a new modified version of Commbull (Community Bulletin)

that thing isnt working working for vb3.6.3..

I trust all of the vb3.6.3 user will be gratefull to u..if it comes with all the new feature

sure i will vote it for MOTM

Thnx Man.

[rasun]

Nice one, *klick install*

Thank You

[Jd19]

Thanks guys! I just released an Update which you all might want to download. The Display and Email looks a lot better now and has some of the features you guys requested.

[ninjamaster]

thanks for the update

[Hornstar]

Request: Number of Registrations This Week:

when you click view, if it could also have the amount of posts they have next to their name.

However I'm thinking there could be a problem with showing over a thousand peoples names down the page.

What would be the best solution for this? maybe showing them down in columns? or showing a max of 300 per table or something.

thanks.