[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 ---

thanks for ther quick reply. I did that query and it didn't give me an error -- although now it still says <1 for both entries on the site.

any suggestions?

That query resets both the average time and the total time. The average time is not stored, it is calculated.

Maybe I should explain how I the average time works, as the < 1 sec might not be a problem at all. The average time is calculated by

time spent on board / days since you registered

that is, if you have been on the board for 50 minutes and you registered 2 days ago the average time would be 25 minutes. If you don't login for two days your average time drops to 12 minutes since you have 4 days registered.

In that case since this hack is new you may have very small total time spent, maybe your user has 10-20 minutes. If you registered a year ago that is 10 minutes / 365 days.. that is a very low number and maybe less than 1.

This is also how the average post count in the forum works, it makes a total posts / days since you registered

[mharmon]

kentaurus :

how often does it update the "time spent in foruns" field?

[Zeitgeist]

Originally Posted by mharmon

kentaurus :

how often does it update the "time spent in foruns" field?

Everytime you click on a link in the forum.

[GamerzWorld]

It wont work for Rc3 for me

[mharmon]

Same here...

I actually got mine to say "2" instead of <1 but it never goes above that.. any suggestions guys?? I have to get this hack working!

[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by kentaurus

Actually it's a good idea.

I would like to know if you want it into the memberlist (you see an extra "time spent" column in memberlist and can sort by it) or as a separate page.

Second page would be better. There enough stuff on the member list as it is.

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by GamerzWorld

It wont work for Rc3 for me

Did you re-made all the file changes for RC3? It's working in my RC3 board.

mharmon, could you give me the registered date and total spent time for the user that appears with "2"?

[mharmon]

There comes a time in every man's life that he must admit he is a dumb ass.

I was changing the wrong line in sessions.php . . . It works great when you change the right one.

Thanks for this great hack!

[Oblivion Knight]

Working great for me on RC3, thanks kentaurus.!

[Kentaurus]

An update for this one. Some extra modifications that will let you add the board spent time (total and average) to the memberlist. You can also sort by it to see who is the user with most board spent time.