Forum Post Breakdown (Per User)

This hack was inspired by Lesane's recent hack, How many threads a user started in a forum. It achieves the same thing, only with post totals, instead of thread totals.

Short description: it turns your post totals on your forumhome template (and your forumdisplay forumbit templates, if you want) into clickable links that brink up a popup window showing you how many posts each user has in that forum. It orders them by total number of posts there. Right now it only displays the top 3, however, as too many, for larger boards, would get REALLY cray-zay. You can change the part in whoposts.php that says "LIMIT 30" to whatever you want, though.

I find that this hack is quite useful when used along with Lesane's hack. I love to turn virtually EVERYTHING into a link leading to relevant/useful information.

Attached is a ZIP archive. In it are 3 files: whoposts.php, templates.txt, and instructions.txt. They should all be pretty self-explanatory. Screenshots available below. Enjoy.

[Shadowwalker]

Will it work on 2.2.1, well I'll try it anyways.

[TWTCommish]

Yes, this should work on ALL 2.x versions. I don't see why it wouldn't...

[eva2000]

nice hack.. is it possible to make is viewable only in the admin control panel ?

[TWTCommish]

I 'spose so -- or to make it viewable only to admins of usergroupid 6. But where in the Admin CP would it be?

[eva2000]

Originally posted by TWTCommish
I 'spose so -- or to make it viewable only to admins of usergroupid 6. But where in the Admin CP would it be?

i'd like to use this as tool for helping me determine who will become potential moderators on my forums

so maybe in admin panel under statistics category have heading

forum totals

when clicked

lists a hyperlinked list

forumtitle | total posts

when that's clicked reveals the totals for each member ?

[TWTCommish]

ooooh, tricky. I'll take a look and see what I can do.

[Lucky]

Works great on 2.2.2

Thank you.

[Overgrow]

Great little hack. Not your fault but it took too long (8 seconds on the larger forums and this is in the middle of the night with a small load.. 140k posts, 700k total). A quick modification and the link is now only visible to admins, normal users don't get the link:

open index.php, find:

PHP Code:

eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_forumbit_level$depth$tempext")."\";"); 


above that add:

PHP Code:

// *HACK: FORUM POST COUNTS

        if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==6) {
            $replycountlink="<a href=\"javascript:whoposts($forum[forumid])\">$forum[replycount]</a>";
        } else {
            $replycountlink="$forum[replycount]";
        }
        // *HACK : FORUM POST COUNTS 


And then in the forumhome_forumbit_level1_post, etc templates, replace the link:

<a href="javascript:whoposts($forum[forumid])">$forum[replycount]</a>

with

$replycountlink

[eGoR]

great addie, Over
thx alot

and thx to hack writer