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Top posters widget type
Version: 4.0-0.1 a2, by Carnage Carnage is offline
Developer Last Online: Sep 2014 Show Printable Version Email this Page

Category: vBulletin CMS Widgets - Version: 4.0.2 Rating:
Released: 02-18-2010 Last Update: 02-04-2011 Installs: 59
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Additional Files Is in Beta Stage  
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What does this do?
This mod provides a Top Posters widget type which can be configured to show the members who made the most posts over a period of time.

Features
  • Provides widget type Top Posters.
  • Displays a list of the top posters on your forum inside a widget.
  • Allows multiple instances of the widget.
  • Easy installation via products system.
  • Configuration options:
    • Usergroups to include
    • Eight different time periods to choose from
    • Number of posters to display.
  • Displays avatar of 'top poster'

Potential features
  • Exclude forum(s) from counting
  • Exclude forum(s) with no post count
  • Top all time posters (eg based on post count)
  • Top bloggers widget
  • Top article posters widget
  • Top social groups widget
  • Top posted in forums widget
  • Top posted in threads widget
  • Top commented on album/blog/articles widget

Installation
1. Upload the contents of the upload folder to your site.
2. Import product file.
3. Clear CMS cache. (failing to do this may mean the widget doesn't show up in the create new widget box)

Usage
1. Go into the widget manager and select Create new widget.
2. Select the top posters widget type from the drop down list.
3. Fill out the remaining form items and hit save.
4. Configure the widget from the widget manager.
5. Add the widget to a layout.

What is an Alpha release?
This modification has been released as an Alpha release. This means that it has only been tested within a limited number of environments, eg My development board and boards of a small number of other users. As far as I'm aware, all releases are bug free at the time of release, but due to the limited number of users not all the bugs may have been found yet.

As with all mods, make a full backup of your database before installing and ideally, test on a development board which matches the setup of your live board as closely as possible first. Please report any issues you have and any solutions you find, to help improve this product.

Changelog
  • 4.0-0.1 a2
    • Fixed issue with configuring widget on vb 4.1
    • Added avatar of top poster to widget.
  • 4.0-0.1 a1
    • Initial release

Notes
  • I created this widget because the existing ones that do similar things had performance issues and the mod author was unwilling/slow to implement the fix I sent them. This behaives much more reasonably, even in the worst case (top posters this year) It takes a little over a second when run against my 1.2 million posts board. Considering that this result is cached for a day, the performance implications of this widget are minimal.
  • Caching behaivour can only be changed by editing the code; currently the last* time periods cache the result to the end of the time period (eg if you are using last month, the cache is set to expire about 1 minuite after the start of the next month) For this year and this month, the cache is set to expire after a day, this week is set to expire after 6 hours and today is set to expire hourly. A future version may allow customisation over these timings.
  • The Planned features are a set of ideas that I could do using the current code fairly easilly; however most are not required for my own use, if there are sufficient people interested in a feature to make it worth my while coding it, I will do.
  • This is an example of how to write a widget properly and I used the direct php execution widget as a model of how to implement it. Please feel free to use this code as an example when creating your own widgets types.

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File Type: zip Top Posters Widget Type v4.0-0.1 alpha 2.zip (17.3 KB, 401 views)

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  • This modification may not be copied, reproduced or published elsewhere without author's permission.

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  #62  
Old 02-06-2011, 05:01 PM
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Which version of vbulletin are you running?
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Old 02-06-2011, 08:33 PM
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so does this mean I can now download and it will work for 4.1.1??
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Old 02-07-2011, 02:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Carnage View Post
Which version of vbulletin are you running?
Hey mate, its 4.1.1 :up:
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Old 02-07-2011, 04:31 PM
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Where abouts is that error coming up? The function is a standard vb function so I'm not sure why it wouldn't be defined...
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Old 02-07-2011, 09:20 PM
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Its on the CMS Home page ...
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Old 02-08-2011, 05:24 AM
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When I install this widget in my homepage all I get is a whitepage on my portal, everything dissapears
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hmmm... i wonder.

What other widgets do you have on the pages that its causing an issue on?
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Well I have the media library widget, the user's who have visited today widget and jaxel's facebook widget, but I also tried just having this widget on the frontpage, but I still got a white screen.
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Old 02-09-2011, 07:34 PM
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I've got an idea what may be happening; could you try adding a vb widget to the page which shows avatars such as recent posts?
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We got a database error as well.
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