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Hello!

I want to run a contest on my site and winners would be determined by the # of posts they make. I was wondering if anyone has created a hack that could do this by being able to determine the start and end date of contest and then list the post standings by users. Then having a way to turn this option off when you do not have a contest running on the boards.

#12 07-30-2001, 10:02 PM

oops my mistake, I copied it wrong.

It's <?php require("global.php"); ?>

#13 07-30-2001, 10:02 PM

ok.. the parse errors seems to be coming from these files



anything with 

If they are inside the <?php ?> part you should use " // " style comments.. if they are in the html part you can use the  style..

I am still testing this

#14 07-30-2001, 10:04 PM

nevermind.. I am blind as a bat... but I am working on fixing it

#15 07-30-2001, 10:26 PM

Ok.. I don't know where your contest.php file is located... or anything, but take a look at this attachment.

if the contest.php and global.php are in the same folder (i.e. both in the vb folder) then delete the top require global and the other 2 code lines and replace that with this :

<?php require("global.php"); ?>

#16 07-30-2001, 10:42 PM

Brad thanks for helping me out.

I do have them both in the same directory.

http://www.theparentclub.com/forums/contest.php

Not working, but I'm still trying.

#17 07-30-2001, 10:59 PM

I can't get it to work

I even copied and pasted the code exactly the way you did it and it gave me an error regarding the chdir.

Please help me

#18 07-30-2001, 11:08 PM

<?php
chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/vb");
require("./global.php");
chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/vb/anotherfolder");
?>

take that and make it into this..

<?
require('./global.php');
?>

btw... if it still says /vb and /vb/anotherfolder.. those values have to changed.. but you don't need it if they are in the same directory

#19 07-30-2001, 11:13 PM

This is what I have so far (still not working):

<require('./global.php');>
<html>
<head>


<?php require '/home/theparentclub/www/style.html'; ?>

<title>The Parent Club Post Contest</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$date1 = "UNIX_TIMESTAMP(\"2001-08-01\")";

$date2 = "UNIX_TIMESTAMP(\"2001-08-31\")";

$users = $DB_site->query(
"SELECT post.userid, count(post.userid) as count, user.username from " .
"post, user WHERE post.dateline >= $date1 and post.dateline <= $date2 " .
"and post.userid = user.userid and user.username <> 'admin' group ".
"by post.userid order by count DESC");
$admin = $DB_site->query(
"SELECT post.userid, count(post.userid) as count, user.username from " .
"post, user WHERE post.dateline >= $date1 and post.dateline <= $date2 " .
"and post.userid = user.userid and user.username = 'admin' group ".
"by post.userid order by count DESC");
?>


<? include("/home/theparentclub/www/menu.html") ?>

<a href="./"><img border="0" src="images/bbtitle.gif" width="420" height="85"></a>
The TOP THREE USERS who
posts the most on-topic posts from August 1st, 2001 to Aug 31st 2001 will receive the following: TO BE ANNOUNCED. For

residences in the U.S. and Canada.
<div align="center">
<table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#9900CC">User</td>
<td bgcolor="#9900CC">Posts
from July 8th to Aug 8th</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>

 
<?php
while ($user = $DB_site->fetch_array($users))
{
$username = $user["username"];
echo"$username ";
}
echo" ";
while ($user = $DB_site->fetch_array($admin))
{
$username = $user["username"];
echo"$username ";
}
?>
 

</td>
<td align="center">

 
<?php
$DB_site->data_seek(0,$users);
while ($user = $DB_site->fetch_array($users))
{
$count = $user["count"];
echo"$count ";
}
echo" ";
$DB_site->data_seek(0,$admin);
while ($user = $DB_site->fetch_array($admin))
{
$count = $user["count"];
echo"$count ";
}
?>
 

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
 



<?php
include ("/home/theparentclub/www/menu.html");
include("/home/theparentclub/www/meter.html");
?>
</body>
</html>

#20 07-30-2001, 11:15 PM

I edited it... since you looked

take just the global requirement and put the <? and ?> around it

<?
require('./global.php');
?>

#21 07-30-2001, 11:35 PM

Now I'm beating my head against the desk.

I made the change and now the page comes up blank.

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Page Generation 0.13034 seconds Memory Usage 2,297KB Queries Executed 26 (?)
More Information
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