vB3 Forumhome Stats Cache Serialize hack v2.2

vB3 Forumhome Stats Cache Serialize hack
Version 2.2
(By Boofo)

What does this hack do?
This hack will add some forum statistics to your forumhome that will be cached (to reduce the query load) for a certain amount of time that can be set to whatever you want. This covers most of the stats any forum Admin would use on his site.

Note: This is the setting for the time interval (in minutes) that you want the cache to be updated on. The default value is 10 minutes. The following code is in the index.php part of this hack.

$updatetime = 10;

Once you install the Admin CP setting (at the end of this file), you will be able to update this from the Admin CP vBulletin Options settings.

Credits:
I want to thank Tigga for the original Forumhome Statistics Cache hack for vB2, partly on what this hack is based. I also want to thank EvilLS1 for his time and patience in helping put this hack together. Another thank you goes out to Mike Gaidin for testing this thoroughly while I was putting together this install file. And, finally, thank you goes out to NTLDR, for helping me track down a very stupid mistake on my part which I had overlooked.

Version 2.0 credits go out to g-force2k2 for getting me started on the datastore version of this hack and guiding me through some of the rough parts in the beginning. And also to KirbyDE for answering all of my dummy questions while writing this version and verifying the code when I figured out all of my mistakes. This is my first attempt at using the datastore function but it seems to work better and be easier to code than the older way of doing things.

Version Information:
Version 1.0 --Initial release
Version 2.0 --Completely rewritten using the datastore function for vB3. It now uses "serialize" to store the data and "unserialize" to retrieve the data. There is also now 1 less query when reading from the cache.
Version 2.1 --Combined the "new threads since last visit" and "new posts since last visit" queries into 1 query, thus eliminating another query on cache hits. Thanks goes out to g_force2k2 for this one. Also added Admin CP setting code so you can change the time interval between cache updates via the Forum Display Option setting in the vBulletin Option in the Admin CP. That code to add is at the end of this file.
Version 2.2 --Added "Top Reputation" statistic (requested by rinkrat ) and totally re-did the template. It looks cleaner now.

New Installation:
Do all of the steps in this file.

To Update Version 1.0 to Version 2.0:
To update this hack you will need to do everything in this file over again except the second query (Query #2). After you have this hack up and running again and you have made sure it is running to your satisfaction, you can drop the statscache table (from version one of this hack) completely. It is no longer needed.

To Update Version 2.0 to Version 2.1:
You will need to re-add the code for the index.php and go to the end of this file and add the setting for the Admin CP.

To Update Version 2.1 to Version 2.2:
You will need to re-add the code for the index.php and replace the code for the forumhome template.

Installation overview:
Queries to run: (2)
Files to edit: (2)
--index.php
--member.php
Templates to edit: (1)
--forumhome
Settings to add: (1)
--forumhomecachetime

vB3 Arcade hack stats addon:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=262

The first attachment shows the Guest loggedin and the second attachment show the Registered Member and above loggedin.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by djohn

In fact, the tables got a little bit more messed up (both IE and Opera). See another screenshot. Some line appeared at the bottom of the stats block, that wasn't there before, also, how can i decrease the width between the title of the stats block, and the actual stats block?

See screenshot

This picture here looks like it is supposed to except for the line (as you call it) which can be fixed very easily.

[Owen]

Its probably just a <tr><td></td></tr> with the class of the td being thead.

How is the fix for the percentages doing? And that visits to this page since?

[Boofo]

I think that last picture looks like it is supposed to, don't you?

The percentages is still a mystery at this point. I am waiting to hear from someone on a possible reason why it is messing up on larger boards. I will let you know as soon as I know.

For this:

And that visits to this page since?

Post #180 of this thread explains that. I messed up the screen shot with another hack.

[djohn]

Right, i've removed the picture for now, how can i fix that "line" (don't know what you guys'd call it, but it's still a line to me ) though?

Update: the "line" is gone after removing

        <if condition="$birthdays == '' AND $upcomingevents == ''">
        <tr><td class="thead" style="line-height: 0; padding: 0; margin: 0;" colspan="6"><img src="$vboptions[cleargifurl]" alt="" width="1" height="12" /></td></tr>
        </if>

from the template, but I guess it's not right to do, because it seems to me that this chunk of code does something . Should I edit it somehow to fix my "line problem", and put it back into template?

[djohn]

Yeah, the last one is fine exept for the "line"
The picture in this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=176 is the way that Opera displays the right side of the stats blocks. Look closely at the very right side of the tables.

[Boofo]

Nope, you did it right. Since you have the threads hack below that one, you don't need that piece of code now. All that did was add a pretty blue line along the bottom to close it off nicely when you don't have anything else below this hack.

See? You're a hacker now. Good job!

[Owen]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I think that last picture looks like it is supposed to, don't you?

The percentages is still a mystery at this point. I am waiting to hear from someone on a possible reason why it is messing up on larger boards. I will let you know as soon as I know.

For this:



Post #180 of this thread explains that. I messed up the screen shot with another hack.

I know that, but I requested it... It's something I would like to have if possible.

[Boofo]

All I can say is make the colspan for this hack the same as the others in your template and see if that fixes it.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Owen

I know that, but I requested it... It's something I would like to have if possible.

And I'd like to have ... no, I won't go there.

If you want to add another table and 2 extra queries (1 to update the cache and 1 to update the table) on your forumhome during the cache update, I'd be more than happy to give you what you need for that.

[Owen]

hmmm. Is that a lot of extra load on the server?

[Boofo]

Not really since the queries only run when updating the cache. It all depends on how you are about queries, I guess. They don't bother me as much as some others since my board doesn't have a lot of traffic yet. On vB2 I was running around 36 queries at all times on my forumhome where with vB3 I run around 13 from the cache and 26 on a cache update. That sounds like a lot but it is still better than it used to be. I'm not a query conscious as most people are, I guess.

[Owen]

I think I'll get that microstats thing to count my queries first then...

[Boofo]

That's why I didn't include it in the hack and why I said the screenshot was a mistake.

[Owen]

oh I dont have that many queries going, so go ahead gimme the code please!

[djohn]

See? You're a hacker now. Good job!

[high]* djohn is proud of himself
[/high]

All I can say is make the colspan for this hack the same as the others in your template and see if that fixes it.

I tried changing the colspan to different values (from 6 to 5) in all colspan's within your hack, in apparently, it made absolutely no difference whatsoever in Opera or IE... :ermm: