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.

[Boofo]

What are you viewing that in?

[NexDog]

I'm not viewing it in anything. I'm just hitting FireFly's .txt link in his first post and that's what I get. And it isn't just FireFly's either. I'm getting on a few others/

Tell me I'm not crazy! I'm new to hacking vB but not to php and the concept of hacking in general.

[NexDog]

Shameless bump. I know I'm asking about this in the wrong thread but that's just the way it turned out.

[Boofo]

Just download the text file and follow the instructions in it and you can't go wrong.

Originally posted by NexDog
Shameless bump. I know I'm asking about this in the wrong thread but that's just the way it turned out.

[NexDog]

Okay, got that working after someone showed me what FireFly's text doc really looks like. Have no idea why I can't see these files properly.

Also got this hack working the way I want too.

Install has been clicked.

Now to find that active users today hack, wher the hell was that.......

[NexDog]

Double post. :tired:

[NexDog]

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.

Well, that produced this:

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: -1209600
                                         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 '-1209600
                                         AND (usergroupid=5
           ' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 16th of August 2002 05:47:34 AM
Script: http://www.hostnexus.com/forum/forum/
Referer:

So I just used the minimum posts requirement instead of last activity....

[Boofo]

Did you try lastvisit?

Originally posted by NexDog


Well, that produced this:

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: -1209600
                                         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 '-1209600
                                         AND (usergroupid=5
           ' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 16th of August 2002 05:47:34 AM
Script: http://www.hostnexus.com/forum/forum/
Referer:

So I just used the minimum posts requirement instead of last activity....

[NexDog]

Not a happy chappie though.

Hack still rocks Chen. To chose an active member from the last 14 days is much better. What is wrong with the syntax in this statement:

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

???

[Boofo]

Try this and let me know what happens:

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

Originally posted by NexDog
Not a happy chappie though.

Hack still rocks Chen. To chose an active member from the last 14 days is much better. What is wrong with the syntax in this statement:

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

???

[NexDog]

You mean:

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

I'm not to keen as it took a while to identify the problem.....

[NexDog]

Ooops, didn't see that post, dude. You want to try it?

[Boofo]

Yes. Did you try it yet?

Originally posted by NexDog
You mean:

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

I'm not to keen as it took a while to identify the problem.....

[NexDog]

You won't know until the a new day and a visitor triggers the MOTD query. That's 18 hours for me.

[Boofo]

But did you get an error with that like you did with the other code?

Originally posted by NexDog
You won't know until the a new day and a visitor triggers the MOTD query. That's 18 hours for me.