[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.

[Boots]

I'd much prefer a seperate page that shows the top 25 users sorted by online time. Has anyone done this? It'd save me from reinventing the wheel.

[The Realist]

Just installed this hack and mine is saying the folowing:

Time spent in forums: 1 hour 4 minutes 42 seconds
Average time: < 1 sec

Average time is not working?

Is there a query missing as the instructions state only:

alter table user add timespent int not null;

Laters

[Dark Zero]

the average time is:
time spent in the forum divided with the join date

if your join date is too old, u require much time spent for move the average
(you can notice the new members have more average)

[SHARKY]

i wold love to have this can someone update this install for vb 3.0.3 i installed but all i get is errors for my edits in functions_showthread.php and member.php

[mikehawk]

I had it on my vb with 3.03 and since I upgrade to vb3.04, it is all screwed up now.

What should I do?

[Dark Zero]

only need to add again the phrases

[Boots]

here's what happens when I get bored and have too much time on my hands hahaha

http://forums.reality-check.ca/timewasters.php

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by Boots

here's what happens when I get bored and have too much time on my hands hahaha

http://forums.reality-check.ca/timewasters.php

hrhrhr nice one boots :up:

[docvader]

Originally Posted by Boots

here's what happens when I get bored and have too much time on my hands hahaha

http://forums.reality-check.ca/timewasters.php

Boots. Love it. Can you tell us how you did that?

[Boots]

Originally Posted by docvader

Boots. Love it. Can you tell us how you did that?

Just a simple php file that does a calculation based on the timespent column which this mod adds to the database. It just dumps it to a template. Maybe I'll do up some instructions and post it up.

[docvader]

Originally Posted by Boots

Just a simple php file that does a calculation based on the timespent column which this mod adds to the database. It just dumps it to a template. Maybe I'll do up some instructions and post it up.

Installed on a heavily hacked 3.03 board without any problems. Works great.

One question: I've added the "time spent" calls to my FORUMHOME template, to show this information for each individual person in a welcome message. However, the time is not being shown. What do I have to add where, to make it work? I tried putting the "showthread" hack stuff into forumdisplay, but, that didn't do it.

Anyone have any ideas?

[royals]

How do I remove seconds? People are getting into months for time spent and its too much even after I shortened the phrases.

[nautiqeman]

I'm not really positive on this, so I'm just throwing it out there. I noticed that a user signed up some time during the day and I noticed that she already had over a day on her time spent already -- has anyone else seen this or maybe fixed it if they had

[Elfo King]

This work on 3.0.3 ???
The istruction file, for 3.0.3 is bad....first on functions_shohtread....
Have correct version for 3.0.3 ?

[nintendo]

Originally Posted by Boots

here's what happens when I get bored and have too much time on my hands hahaha

http://forums.reality-check.ca/timewasters.php

Nice! Can you please post that! I got users that have made close to 10,000 posts. I think they would 'love' to see how much money there losing by living at the boards instead of having a 'real' job!!!