top 10 hacks

im just in the process of making my board could u tell the 10 best hacks to have.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by Fred
How do you know how many searches were made in a day?

Luke, do you make the hacks or does someone at your forums do it?

You can get this info by running a SQL query..

This is for Yesterday.

select count(*) from search where dateline > UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2001-08-14') and dateline < ('2001-08-15')

Or since the Search table only holds the search info for the last week you can do something like:

select (count(*)/7) as average from search

I write most of my own hacks though I do have a few from here installed at SPF. I do take suggestions from my forum Members on features but implement it myself.

[Martz]

The problem with releasing a hack is probably the amount of time and effort it takes to support it for bugs and updates when vB moves along, imho.

However I use the Total Thread Views hack and Integrating jPilot with vB

[JamesUS]

It seems I get about 9 searches a day.

What have you done to your Mod CP, Wayne? I'm curious to know what different features are available in there.

And I take it vBGlossary is your help system?

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by JamesUS
[B]It seems I get about 9 searches a day.

What have you done to your Mod CP, Wayne? I'm curious to know what different features are available in there.

- Enhanced moderation options including the ability to look up a user's posts and entering notes that actually stay. Increased length for thread notes.
- "Quarantine Users" - This isn't a full ban but brings problems to the administrations attention. If the user and advisor work out the problem they can remove the "Quarantine".
- Centrallized location for Email Templates.
- Index Page re-written to contain News and Information.
- Advisors can edit user profiles if they violate the Guidelines (i.e. inappropriate signatures)

And I take it vBGlossary is your help system?

No vBGlossary is http://www.sitepointforums.com/glossary.php

Still working on the search features which is why it hasn't been unveiled officially yet. I don't want to settle for simple case-insensitive searching like vBulletin uses, I want full Metaphone compatibility and a few other features. Want to add Metaphone to the vBulletin search as well so that incorrectly spelt words can be handled better.

wluke any chnce of releasing that hack on sitepoint the last ten post by the user in there profile. I think thats cool

Eficrx,

I think JamesUS has something on here somewhere.. or someone does..

do a search for last 10.. or something similar

last 10 searches is also a cool one too . I want that !!!!!

total thread started and world times hack hasd top 10 posters hack before but cant work it in now

[mjames]

I recently upgraded my boards from 2.0.0 to 2.0.3 and I lost all my hacks. So I will need to add them back. The ones I have experience with are:

1. Community Bulletin Generator
2. Signature Length Restriction - already a basic componet with 2.0.3, so no longer a hack.
3. Signature preview - same as above.
4. Total Thread Views - Small, but handy hack I will add back soon.

welcome email hack, community bulletin generator . are my 2 favorite.