Miscellaneous Hacks - Top Posters

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Top Posters mod for vb 3.6.

This displays a page with the Top Forum Posters for a given set of periods. Two periods are fixed ('This Month' & 'Overall') but can be turned off in the options. The other three periods are user definable (in days) - the default values are 1 day (24 hours), 7 days & 28 days. These three columns cannot be turned off.

The number of posters to be shown can also be set, the default is the top 10 posters. You can also select which usergroups are included (or excluded) in the count, so members in banned groups etc are not shown. Excluded is only available from v3.29 onwards.

If enabled, it will also attempt to add a link to your Quick Links or Navbar. There is an option to prefix this path if you use something like CMPS.

To install just unzip the xml file and import it using the Product Manager


History:

v3.20 - First 3.6 release - auto adds link to quick links.
v3.21 : Dependancies updated for 3.6.0 Gold.
v3.22 : Updated for Version Checking.
v3.23 : Dependancies updated, URL's updated (not released).
v3.24 : SQL changed to use slave.
v3.25 : SQL Changes to use slave.
v3.26 : Added autolink options.
v3.27 : Fixed table index creation.
v3.28 : Added automatic version in template (not released).
v3.29 : Added option to include or exclude usergroups.
v3.30 : Internal version, not released.
v3.31 : Internal version, not released.
v3.32 : Internal version, not released.
v3.33 : Internal code changes, no funcionality change.
v3.34 : Defaults on first install updated.
v3.35 : Option for link path prefix added.

[Maxman1544]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Looks fine to me.

Again, looks fine to me, so I don't know what you mean.

The overall column isn't pulling in the actual top 10. If you go to the member list and sort on posts you can see there are people missing.

Same goes for each column. On my forum it isn't pulling in the actual top 10 for that time period. Not sure if it is related to multiple user groups or what!

[Paul M]

Did you read the notes ?

The number of posters to be shown can also be set, the default is the top 10 posters. You can also select which usergroups are included in the count, so members in banned groups etc are not shown

The default is 2,5,6,7 I believe (and also primary usergroup only).

[jacki]

SS

[kremer4]

It's working now, I upgraded to 3.6 Gold last night and magically it started working

[Ohiosweetheart]

fantastic!

[slayer666vb]

Installed

[Ohiosweetheart]

I love this hack.

One thing I do wish it had... the option to pull the top Posters for the past 12 hours, rather than just 24 hours. This would be very useful for sites that have posting contests aka Post-a-thons

[Paul M]

If you set one of the columns to 0.5 days then you will get 12 hours.

[Maxman1544]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Did you read the notes ?

The default is 2,5,6,7 I believe (and also primary usergroup only).

Thank You! Great hack!!!

[TamCaVBoy3]

i see it in quick links, but don't see it in the forumhome...weird...could it be because i installed Welcome Headers mod ?