[VB3 RC3] Board Spent Time

This hack keeps track of how much time a user has been online at the
forums and adds it to the information in any of his posts, then any
other user can see if you have been 1 hour, 5 hours, 1 day or even up
to years online at the forum.

Also this hack calculates an "average time online" in a very similar way to
how the average posts works.

Thanks to the people that suggested this hack in the request forum, it is
a really nice one and a very fun one too!

Keep in mind this hack will only start tracking the time that you are online once you install it, it has no way of knowing how much time you had been on the forums before.


*Update*: You can show the board spent time in your memberlist, then you can use your memberlist as a leaderboard. For this modification see this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=50


Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by mharmon

kentaurus --

it's working great for me now -- is there anyway to take out the "seconds" though on the display in the forums?

To get rid of the "seconds" part:

In the hack:

if ($time <= 1)
  {
   return $ignoredefault ? "" : $vbphrase['less_than_1_second']; 
  }
  else if ($time < 60) // 60 is not still a minute
  {
   return $time." ".$vbphrase['seconds'];
  }

change it to

  if ($time < 60)
  {
   return $ignoredefault ? "" : "< 1 min"; 
  }

[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by kentaurus

Works in my forum. You remembered to go to ACP and check that Board Spent Time checkboxes, right?

I had fixed it already .

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

I had fixed it already .

Care to share what was it?

[AutomatikStudio]

This is rather odd. I had a someone just join and in their profile it says

Time spent in forums: 1 Minute 32 Seconds
Average time: 11 Hours 2 Minutes 24 Seconds

Now...maybe I missed something...but how does only being in the forums for a total of 1 min. and 32 seconds make a total average of over 11 hours?

[mharmon]

kentaurus -- taking the seconds out worked fantastic -- thanks.

[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by kentaurus

Care to share what was it?

ftp client locked up

[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by mharmon

kentaurus -- taking the seconds out worked fantastic -- thanks.

Its becuase they have not been registered a day. So they out of say maybe the hour they have been registered that much time on would give a much higher avg time.

[Codeman05]

Ok well I installed this and all the querys...both fields still say <1
Any ideas? I did edit the right line btw in sessions.php

btw were are these boxes you speak of:

Originally Posted by kentaurus

Works in my forum. You remembered to go to ACP and check that Board Spent Time checkboxes, right?

[Codeman05]

lmao wow I'm an idiot...upgraded from RC2 -> RC3 and it works fine

GREAT hack works perfect

[mharmon]

Any update on why in private messages it shows a long number instead of the Days, etc...?