[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.

[Nj?rd Eriksson]

For some or other reason it doesn't count the time of at least one of my super-moderators (usergroup ID 5) either. Didn't have the opportunity yet to check out others.

Marla
"Whatever happens, happens."

Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Nihilism
Posts: 1,982
Time: Not available

(I changed the "< 1 sec" phrase to "Not available")

What can be done?

[Nj?rd Eriksson]

Originally Posted by Nj?rd Eriksson

For some or other reason it doesn't count the time of at least one of my super-moderators (usergroup ID 5) either. Didn't have the opportunity yet to check out others.

Marla
"Whatever happens, happens."

Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Nihilism
Posts: 1,982
Time: Not available

(I changed the "< 1 sec" phrase to "Not available")

What can be done?

Nopes, time counting for another one of my super-moderator works:

Jack
the Ripper?

Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Behind your fridge
Posts: 987
Time: 1 h 7 m 45 s

Weird thing ... any idea why the time isn't counted for the particular user Marla?

[admiralapril]

Thanks for the great hack.


Question.... I just installed this about an hour ago and it seems to be working fine for everyone except one of my moderators (User group ID 6). The time spent is < 1 min and average time is < 1 min also, even though she's been online almost the whole time since I installed it.

I haven't tested it for other moderators since they haven't been online yet. But why would it work for some members and not for others? Different usergroup, I guess? How can I fix it?

Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: New York
Posts: 1,241
Time spent in forums: < 1 min
Average time: < 1 min

[Chris Gwynne]

Ok, I'm having the same problem a few of the people are having with this one. I've installed everything right too, would really appreciate a fix for it..

Time spent on CouchRaider: 6 Minutes 8 Seconds
Average time: 11 Minutes 44 Seconds

The average time is simply not correct, how do I go about rectifying it?

[templates911]

I get a Fatal error: Call to undefined function: explain_time() in /usr/www/users/templ911/includes/functions_showthread.php on line 429 when i try to install this.

[ogetbilo]

Can you please update your insallation instructions for VB3.0gold?
I did everything what it says on your instructions. Now I have <1sec for all my users except 3.
Those 3 are showing 3 sec, 3sec, 5sec respectively and they are not updating.

[Anarchy]

yeah i would like it too

[Catch-22|BL]

Thanks for the hack!

I got the "total time spent" and "memberlist leaderboard" working so I am happy. I did not get the "average time" to work properly, so I just took it out of the postbit and can easily forget about it. Hey, in real life we must appreciate that two out of three is not bad!

[ogetbilo]

Originally Posted by Catch-22|BL

Thanks for the hack!

I got the "total time spent" and "memberlist leaderboard" working so I am happy. I did not get the "average time" to work properly, so I just took it out of the postbit and can easily forget about it. Hey, in real life we must appreciate that two out of three is not bad!

what is your version of VB3?
I could not get it working on VB3Gold.

[Vivi Ornitier]

this hack isn't workin for gold. I put it in my postbit_legacy template and it doesn't show anything