Member of the Day!

The idea is from SitePoint Forums.

I think a lot of people really want this hack, and I've even seen a released version of it here, but it used cronjobs and stuff like that I'm sure not all of use want to mess with.

So, here's my version of the hack, completely crobjob-less and 100% working.
The hack also includes an easy way for the admins to change the member of the day at any given time. (see note below)
You can see it in action in this board, on the main page in the stats box.

To install this hack download the attached file (memberofday.hack.php), upload to your /admin folder and use vbHacker.

A couple of notes:

• The member of the day will reset every day at 12:00am server time.
• It is possible for the admins to re-choose the member of the day at any given time, by adding "?resetmember=1" when visiting index.php. (only logged in admins can use this; for regular users it won't do anything)
• The only check in the code is to prevent the same member of the day two days in a row. It is possible, however, that the same member will be chosen two days after he was already a member of the month.
• I don't recommend using this hack on a small forum (with not-so-many members) because of the above.

That's it, have fun.

[Sharp]

Yes, how do you run a query? :?:

Double bump this.

[cditty]

Firefly, any way to put a little graphic or something on the MOTD user's post for the day? Something like the birthday hack.

ps...my users really like this. thanks.

Chris

[Hamma]

Originally posted by FireFly
Replace:

                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1]

with:

                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1] AND lastactivity>".time()-(86400*14)."

(14 is the number of days)

By the way, I'm not sure myself whether it's lastactivity or lastvisit we need to check, so I'm open for corrections here.

When I do this, ?resetmember=1 does not work anymore, which makes me wonder what it will do at midnight

[WreckRman2]

I installed this but it shows the same member everyday unless I do the reset thing myself. In other words it's not selecting a new member on it's own each day. Any ideas why?

[DiSS Troya]

Nevermind, I fixed my problem.

[cditty]

****bump****

[Floris]

Waaaaaay cool.

I just applied 'Who was online today' hack and merged that with the WOL box, I had one blank line left, and this just fit in perfectly! Fnx

[WreckRman2]

Originally posted by WreckRman2
I installed this but it shows the same member everyday unless I do the reset thing myself. In other words it's not selecting a new member on it's own each day. Any ideas why?

I've ran this for about a week now and it's never changed the member of the day. Any reason why it isn't automatically changing daily?

[Admin]

What version of MySQL are you using?

[ForKmaN]

I get this:

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.1:

Invalid SQL: SELECT userid,username
FROM user
WHERE userid<>
AND (usergroupid=5
OR usergroupid=6
OR usergroupid=7
OR usergroupid=2)
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 1
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'AND (usergroupid=5
OR usergroupid=6
' at line 4

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Sunday 24th of February 2002 03:53:22 PM
Script: http://www.gb-mod.net/forums/forums/index.php?
Referer: http://www.gb-mod.net/forums/admin/i...hp?action=head


And how Do I query that first line?