Miscellaneous Hacks - Top Posters List

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This displays a page with the Top Forum Posters for a given set of periods. Two 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 are 1 day, 7 days & 28 days. These three columns cannot be turned off.

The number of posters to be shown can also be set, the default is the top 10 posters. You can also select which usergroups are included (or excluded) in the count, so members in banned groups etc are not shown.

If enabled, this will also attempt to add a link to your Quick Links or Navbar. There is also an option to prefix the link path if you use something like CMPS.

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


History:

v3.7.001 - First 3.7 release.
v3.7.002 - Fix counting of guest posts in certain circumstances.

[sockwater]

Paul, it looks like the index that is added on installation is not removed when uninstalling.

[Paul M]

Correct. There is no need to remove it, and its possible it may be used by other mods.

[sockwater]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Correct. There is no need to remove it, and its possible it may be used by other mods.

Every additional index that must be maintained makes inserting and deleting on that table more server-intensive.

IMO, if a product creates something, it should remove it upon uninstallation. However, if the user has another mod installed that also uses the index, it would be detrimental to remove it.

Perhaps there should be a way to track which mods create/use which indexes, so that they can be removed when the last mod that was using them is removed. Here's a brainstorm: Have a way to specify (in a product XML file) the non-vB-default indexes that a mod needs, containing the table, columns and index type. Then upon installation of a mod, vB would automatically create any indexes that don't exist and that the mod needs. When uninstalling, vB would check if the indexes that that mod used are not being used by any other mod, and uninstall them.

Indexes could be treated that way, as opposed to adding tables/columns, since the index is a shared item, and a new table/column for a mod is not a shared item.

[lazytown]

Paul,

Another great mod converts to 3.7 -- thank you! However, I'm having a problem with the column headings.

I'm now running 3.7 gold and I previously had installed topposters for 365 (which was working). I installed the 3.7.002 version of topposters and it auto-uninstalled the previous version. Index was created fine. However, the display of topposters is somewhat messed up now. The column headings are wrong. Attached is a screenshot. I did try to reinstall it, but the problem remains.

FYI: I have it set to display topposters for the last 1, 7, 30, and 'all time' days.

Thanks
-vissa

[lazytown]

I found the problem. I had to revert the 'topposters' template. Even when I completely uninstalled and re-installed, the old template remained.

-vissa

[Paul M]

It must have been a very old template, pre "product" days i would guess so didnt get zapped when you uninstalled the product.

[beansbaxter]

When I was running this on 3.6, I had no problems. It wont work on 3.7 - crashes.

[karrerax]

Perfect Installed

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by beansbaxter

When I was running this on 3.6, I had no problems. It wont work on 3.7 - crashes.

Crashes ??

[|Jordan|]

YOU ARE A GOD!

I was looking for something that did this.

<3 <3 <3 Paul

Is it possible to make it only display users that have a specific custom field in their username on (in this case a radio button)?