Statistics Modifications - vbTrends - An Enhanced Statistics Box on Forum Home

Note: This product is now being supported at www.catnine.net

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

ATTENTION:
If you download the latest version go into your usergroups and set the 'can view trends' permission. SAVE the usergroup even if you haven't changed the setting or things may not work. There is an odd permissions bug I haven't figured out yet.

Also note that overwrite will not work. Please uninstall the previous version before installing the new one.

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 2.0.0:

1. Calculations exposed and modifiable in admincp.
2. Added ability to delay updates of stats to every x minutes in admincp.
3. Added a style setting for positive and negative trends.
4. Added custom hooks for all aspects of vbTrends, and moved code into said hooks.
5. Changed template to still show total threads when trend is negative and 'positive trends only' is enabled.
6. Usergroup permission to view trends.

Note: You cannot cause an error by messing up the calculations in the admincp. If the calculation you provide contains errors the stat in question will show as N/A.

This is a major rewrite, so I've set the hack to beta for now.

Version 1.2.6:

1. Made some minor tweaks for cleaner code
2. Made change to build datastore call to force serialization

You can just overwrite the product.xml if you are upgrading. Remember vbTrends has an option in the admincp to reset the counters. To see any changes/fixes you'll want to run that, or you'll end up having to wait for a new day before the changes will take affect.

Version 1.2.5:

1. fixed minor bug in auto-replace that was causing it not to work on some boards

Version 1.2.4:

1. fixed bug in percentage of active users
2. fixed bug in limit of queries (added order by)

Thanks to bchertov and Battle_Ring for the testing

Version 1.2.3:

1. Added option to display % of active users.
2. Added option to set the number of previous months to include in the trend data.

Version 1.1.3:

1. Updated for vBulletin 3.6.
2. Fixed long standing problem with stats calculating incorrectly.
3. Added option to only show positive trends.

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_2.0.0.zip.
2. Unzip and follow instructions in install.html.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by spazz191

How many queries does this mod do? I am trying to streamline my forum and disable query intensive mods.

It depends on your settings. If you leave it at the default settings it will add four small queries on each page refress, and three large queries once a day. If you change the delay setting in the admincp options to 10, it will do four small queries once every ten minutes. So it can be made very efficient, you just sacrifice some of the real-time nature is all.

[mcyates]

Newst members are the wrong way round but this is what it says.

Welcome to our newest 5 members, lastyearsman, borofan16, messi, NedvedShevchenko, foxy lady
Welcome to our newest member, foxy lady

When foxy lady was the 5th last person to join the forum. lastyearsman is the newest member.

Will this be fixed?

[hambil]

Originally Posted by mcyates

Newst members are the wrong way round but this is what it says.

Welcome to our newest 5 members, lastyearsman, borofan16, messi, NedvedShevchenko, foxy lady
Welcome to our newest member, foxy lady

When foxy lady was the 5th last person to join the forum. lastyearsman is the newest member.

Will this be fixed?

You've done some customization of the template, because in the default install newest member isn't shown anymore. It is replaced by newest x members. I recommend removing it. There is no reason to show both. Just set 'newest members' to 1 in the admincp options if that is what you want.

[zhabbo]

FANTASTIC! Thanks a bunch

[spazz191]

The same issue is back in the new version that you fixed in the old version...vbseo and my arcade link....what did you change to make it work before?

[hambil]

vbseo was screwing up the datastore, breaking the cache possibly? I moved everything to a cron job. But, I decided that is not a practical solution. I'd suggested taking it up with vbseo. I will see if I can remember/give you more details.

[subnet_rx]

Hmm, this update isn't working for me at all. When I first installed, I noticed that the trend stats were completely gone and replaced with my regular forum stats. I just went in and did a manual template update, and it just displays a blank box there now. I completely uninstalled and reinstalled, and I turned auto template edits off.

[hambil]

Okay, just an FYI to let you know 2.0.1 is in the works. It will add some minor, but useful updates, like:
1) Number formating (10,000 vs 10000)
2) If you make the manual template edit, disabling vbTrends will no longer leave the stats box empty - instead it will revert to use the original template.
3) Will attempt intelligent datastore unserialization - hope it helps with some of the problems a few of you have been having. vb made a real mess of this IMHO.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by subnet_rx

Hmm, this update isn't working for me at all. When I first installed, I noticed that the trend stats were completely gone and replaced with my regular forum stats. I just went in and did a manual template update, and it just displays a blank box there now. I completely uninstalled and reinstalled, and I turned auto template edits off.

Revert the FORUMHOME template - it auto-replace worked before it should still work. Then make sure you download the latest zip, even though the version hasn't changed a number of fixes have been done and uploaded. Then if a full uninstall/reinstall still doesn't fix things for you we'll see what the next step might be.

[subnet_rx]

Reverted the template, which got my original stats back, but nothing works to get the trends up. I did a full uninstall/reinstall after re-downloading the zip from here and it doesn't indicate any problems, it just doesn't show up on ForumHome.