Forum Home Enhancements - vbTrends 1.1.2 - An Enhanced Statistics Box on Forum Home

Keywords: Statistics, New members, joins, trends, Forum Home, threads, posts

Description:
Enhances the "YourBBS" Statistics box on the forum home to show trends of posts, threads and new users vs. the overall history of the board. Also allows you to display more than one "newest member".

Version 1.1.2:

1. Added admincp menu to reset cached counters.
2. Fixed a couple of divide by zero errors that occurred when your board had no history (was less than a month old).
3. Fixed so templates are now cached.

Version 1.1.1:

1. Fixed calculation of statistics - should definately be correct now

Version 1.1.0:

1. Fully phrased.
2. Uses templates now so look and feel can be customized
3. Fixed bug so output is valid xhtml 1.0.

Version 1.0.0:

1. Turn on/off in admincp
2. Offers the option to auto replace in templates, or to manually edit templates.
3. Allows more than one 'newest user' to be display.
4. Shows trends for posts, threads and new users - this month vs. the boards average.

Install

1. Download the vbTrends_1.0.0.zip.
2. Unzip and follow instructions in install.html.

[KevNJ]

Any further on getting this to work with 3.6. Hambil ?

[KevNJ]

another bump

[Lionel]

We need some optimization for 3.60. I just disabled this plugin after 2 weeks. My homepage went from 6.50 seconds to open to 0.75 second

[KevNJ]

Any further on getting this to work with 3.6. Hambil ?

[Zowners]

I just installed in on 3.6 with no problems..

[Smitty]

I did too, just now, but all the trends are down when I know, according to the board history and admin stats, are going up. I'll have to read through the whole thread. I LIKE the idea.

[MThornback]

I can't get it working on a PHP5 server.....I thought it was just me....but its definatly causing a session error

[Cheertobi]

I use it on a PHP5 server!

[MThornback]

Did you tweak it at all?

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by curriertech

Just an FYI for if/when you update for 3.6, the "month to date" calculation doesn't seem to be working (today is sept. 1 and it now says my stats are down 100%).

I'm on vB 3.6.4. I have this installed and I like it, all in all, but the name is mis-leading if I understand how the numbers are calculated. It doesn't actually show the true trend until the last day in any given month. So, 12 times a year you can see what the trend for the month is at the end of the last day in a given month. At the start of each month all the trends will appear to be down because it's comparing that day (e.g. February 1st) against the average of all months since the board was installed. On February 2nd it will still show a 'down' trend because it's using (<Feb 1> + Feb 2>) / <Average of All Months>

And the 'trend' will continue to be down until the number of (for example) New Members for the month reaches the average derived by <Total Members> / <Total Months Forum Installed>. This is, of course, assuming that the <number for the month> does, in fact, reach a point where it is more than <average of all months>. If the <number for the month> is lower than <average of all months> on the last day in the month you truly do have a negative trend.

By all means correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's how the hack works.

BTW - I'd like to know where it pulls the date from that it uses to define the date the board was installed. For example, I put my forum online during August 2001. But - I imported threads from my old 'board' which used UltimateBBS, and therefore my board has posts going back to June 1998 (3 years before I installed vBulletin.

Originally Posted by Cheertobi

I use it on a PHP5 server!

I also have it on a PHP5 server.