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Top 5 "Hot" Topics on Forum Home Page · **Released**: 07-27-2005

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

Code:

LIMIT 5

to the number of your choice.

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

Code:

ORDER BY replycount

to

Code:

ORDER BY views

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

Code:

WHERE dateline > $datecut

to

Code:

WHERE lastpost > $datecut

bloodwrath · #**112** 01-26-2006, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boofo

In your FORUMHOME template

Find:

HTML Code:

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

ABOVE it add:

HTML Code:

 <!-- 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]">
$hottopics
</tbody>
<!-- end This Week's Hot Topics -->

Make a new phrase:

Done!
Enjoy!

AWESOME your Make a new phrase:
got my title working...
still need to fix the plugin showing new threads....
http://www.help.supportcave.com/index.php
love this plugin.. dont want to remove it.

caliman · #**113** 01-30-2006, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amykhar

The easiest way would be to remove the ones you don't want in the $forumchoice array.

How exactly do I do this Amy? I'd like to exclude a private forum. Thanks!

Bikestylesinc · #**114** 02-11-2006, 07:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mastar

Mine doesn't Look like Ya'lls!

i got the same thing ????

can i get a box around it like everybody elses ???

dazzlin · #**115** 03-24-2006, 02:20 AM

Just wanted to thank Jnifoo. Your instructions above (post 108) made this hack show up on my forum home page. It was invisible before, but now it's there and working great.

Jnifoo · #**116** 03-24-2006, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dazzlin

Just wanted to thank Jnifoo.

You welcome :bunny:

Blackhat · #**117** 03-25-2006, 11:27 PM

Why wont it work when I place the code in another template area than "forumhome" ?

Thanks

amykhar · #**118** 03-27-2006, 12:03 PM

Because the plugin is active only in forumhome, Blackhat.

Blackhat · #**119** 03-27-2006, 12:08 PM

yeah, I noticed the hook location, but what hook should I use if I want it to appear on my sidebar ?

amykhar · #**120** 03-27-2006, 12:13 PM

I would try it here: ($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('parse_templates')) ? eval($hook) : false;

BUT - make sure you don't have any conflicting variables in the plugin.

WoodiE · #**121** 06-29-2006, 04:50 PM

Does this work on vB 3.5.4? I've followed the text file install directions and nothing happens on my forum home.

-Michael

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