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.

[tobias_t]

Originally Posted by hambil

However, that said, since I've already added the delayed concept, tweaking it further makes perfect sense. This doesn't have to be an either/or thing.

Sounds great. Frankly, I haven't come around to installing the new 2.0 version yet so I haven't looked at the current features, but...

what I think would be terrific: the option to set the stat to use either a single day, week or month as the accumulation timeframe; and also, having the option for different reference values that are being compared against, namely: previous day (week/month); same day (week/month) of the previous year, so you can filter out seasonal effects; as well as average day (week/month) starting from date x. Or maybe even having multiple reference values shown at once! Just a suggestion.

[hambil]

It is my dream to eventually have this hack support this software, for some really nice trending and display capabilities. I was working on this a while back, but abandon it when I got sick. Perhaps now it will resurface.

[odie3]

Most likely have to put the gifs in your ambience/image/misc/ directory

[loonytune15]

hambil, thanks for sending me the v1.2.6 of this hack.

Hope you manage to work the rest of the bugs out of v2

[AMG021]

Dude i just update my hack now and now its not working ! Please help me!

[hambil]

Originally Posted by AMG021

Dude i just update my hack now and now its not working ! Please help me!

Can you be more specific?

[AMG021]

What do you mean. Prior to your update It was working. I just downloaded it now and its not working at all. Look at the attachment

BTW I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it. But nothing worked

[hambil]

Originally Posted by AMG021

What do you mean. Prior to your update It was working. I just downloaded it now and its not working at all. Look at the attachment

BTW I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it. But nothing worked

Did you try going into usergroups and setting the permission to see trends? Save the usergroup EVEN if it is already set to 'yes' for can view trends.

[AMG021]

Originally Posted by hambil

Did you try going into usergroups and setting the permission to see trends? Save the usergroup EVEN if it is already set to 'yes' for can view trends.

Ok that helped me thanks!

[voteforbird]

Wait, it's only comparing the X day of the month? I would think it should compare X amount of days in this month to X amount of days in past months ..