Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Pick A Random User In A Specified Thread ID

Random User In Specified Thread

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Author: Ken 'LiveWire' Iovino
Site: www.vbhacks.us
Version: 1.0.0
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Updates

• Fixed SQL error when no thread id is entered. (10-02-2004)

What this does
This will allow you to generate a random username for any thread id you specify. This could be good for picking a random winner in a certain thread.

I got the idea from This thread here

Anyway, it only took me a few mins to write up so i thought i would share it with everyone.

To do list...

• Time to install: 2 minutes
• Queries to run: 0
• File Mods: 1
  • /admincp/index.php
• Templates to edit: 0
• Templates to add: 0
• New Phrases: 1

Please read carefully and make all the necessary changes as stated. This is will work if installed properly.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO BACKUP BEFORE YOU BEGIN! If you like this hack

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Help & Support
Before asking for support Please make sure you have done all necessary changes! If you still need support please post a reply here.

Please post bugs and errors here. Hope you like, feedback welcomed.

[wrongful]

Works great, thanks I can make good use of this.

[wrongful]

The only small nitpick suggestion I have is to provide an error message if submit is pushed and no thread id is entered otherwise you get a database error.

[Logikos]

Ahhhh! thanks! will add that now. Thats only a simple if empty command. brb

[Logikos]

Okay i fixed that little problem, to update just reupload the new random.php file i added and it should work fine.

[Dean C]

Could be useful for competitions - thanks for sharing your work

[Logikos]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Could be useful for competitions - thanks for sharing your work

Thanks, and anyone who uses this hack, got many more to come.

[biggazillakilla]

Just in case anybody is as daft as I was and didn't know where to find this option in the admincp after making the changes: it's under the Users category.

I'm not terribly familiar with vB, but fortunately, looking at the code, I was able to find it pretty easily.

Now, onto seeing how it works...

Edit: Did what it said on the box, no problems.

Any chance of adding options? For me, for example, I had a rule about having to have a minimum of 50 posts. It'd be great to have some extra options like that. Oh, I also have a rule about posting more than once in the thread. Is there any way to eliminate doubleposters?

Anyway, thanks a million for your contribution!

[zigx]

This hack is EXACTLY what im looking for! thanks so much for putting it together man.

I have 2 questions:

1) How does it pick a member?
2) Does it consider how many posts the person has in the thread? ie if you have 5 posts in a thread and another guy has 1 do you have 5x better chance of being picked?

[ChrisBaktis]

I would love to use this - I have two Mods that run our contests - by the looks of this you would need access to the Admin Control Panel to do this - is there a way so I can add this to the Mod CP instead?