Top 5 "Hot" Topics on Forum Home Page

This little one puts a list of the five threads with the most replies that have been active in the past 7 days on your forum home page.

You can change the query to make it 10 topics with most views or whatever suits your needs.

Things you may want to change:

To get the top 10, 20 or whatever topics instead of 5, change

LIMIT 5

to the number of your choice.

To get the top topics based on views instead of replies, change

ORDER BY replycount

to

ORDER BY views

To keep track of the top threads that are currently active, no matter when they were started, change

WHERE dateline > $datecut

to

WHERE lastpost > $datecut

[mooj]

Originally Posted by mooj

how can i display the var output $hottopics from ( forumhome_forumbit_level2_post ) ??

i want to add an IF condition .. to get the out put form only one forum ..
like this :
------------------------
forum bit content .. bla bla bla ............
then ..
<if condition="$forumid = 11">
$hottopics
</if>
------------------------

PLEASE HELP :cry:
I'm not getting the output of $hottopics in (forumhome_forumbit_level2_post) template .. ?

...
Is there any other (hook location) which can solve this problem ..

........
mooj

[Mastar]

Mine doesn't Look like Ya'lls!

[Stelios]

installed and it almost works.....

Problem 1. No tile
Problem 2 see the attached file

Any ideas?

[optrex]

Originally Posted by optrex

Thanks for this, I'm really impressed.

I have a question: I have a "most views" section which currently shows the most views (as long as a post has been made in the last 7 days).

How do I

a) Extend the date to say 30 days or 90 days?
b) Clear the date so I get the most views since the forum was created?

Thanks

Anyone got any ideas?

[Mastar]

I didn't get 'This Week's Hot Topic' title in the window but everything else works fine.

How do I correct?

[Mastar]

I guess there is no support here!

[fabianv]

How does one give this cool function a heading

''Hottest Threads''

[Jnifoo]

Have install this plugin, but found it not enough finished, so here is an updated install text.
- this will add a icon like the other mods in the 'what's going on box' (wgob)
- this will add a title for this section like the other mods in the wgob
- this will allow to have a smaller size of text, like the other mods in the wgob
- this will assure you to have the term 'reply' respect your own language
---------
//## Jnifoo's adapted Instructions ##

1. Import the product
*Nota: attention if you're not an english based, you'll need to change the word 'reply' into your own language and be carefull with special characters)


2. Find in your FORUMHOME template
** Careful if you use vBulletin v3.5.3 - This is updated **

</tbody>
</if>
</table>
<br />
<!-- end what's going on box -->

** Add this lines below the ' /if ' tag **

<!-- This Week's Hot Topics -->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_hottopics')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_hottopics" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_hottopics].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="smallfont"><strong>$vbphrase[hottopics]</strong><span>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_hottopics" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_hottopics]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/stats.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>" border="0" /></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$hottopics</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- /This Week's Hot Topics -->

3. create a $vbphrase[hottopics] translation to the system language system (english & your own language if required)
(-> let's translate it into, for example, 'This Week's Hot Topics')

4. modify the 'hottopics' entry in the style manager
(Nota: don't use any html table tag to be sure it is displayed on the good row)


--- Your done - hope this help ---

[bloodwrath]

mine is messed its showing the new items, not the most replied to
any ideas
http://help.supportcave.com/index.php

uninstalled and reinstalled..
maybe some other plugin is messing with it..

[caliman]

Not sure. That's weird.

*Clicked install*

Works for me out of the box.