[VB3 RC3] Board Spent Time

This hack keeps track of how much time a user has been online at the
forums and adds it to the information in any of his posts, then any
other user can see if you have been 1 hour, 5 hours, 1 day or even up
to years online at the forum.

Also this hack calculates an "average time online" in a very similar way to
how the average posts works.

Thanks to the people that suggested this hack in the request forum, it is
a really nice one and a very fun one too!

Keep in mind this hack will only start tracking the time that you are online once you install it, it has no way of knowing how much time you had been on the forums before.


*Update*: You can show the board spent time in your memberlist, then you can use your memberlist as a leaderboard. For this modification see this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=50


Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[EH-Jay]

Originally Posted by Kentaurus

Did you run the query in the instructions? (phpmyadmin or admincp)

alter table user add timespent int not null;

If you forget to run that query the forum doesn't give you any error, it just shows < 1 sec all the time.

Hey Kentaurus,
I get the same error. I ran the query perfect:

Your SQL-query has been executed successfully (Query took 0.0234 sec)  
SQL-query: 
ALTER TABLE user ADD timespent int NOT NULL

And it's still < 1 sec

I made all the correct changes, obviously because it's showing < 1 sec, but it won't update.

Any help?

[EH-Jay]

So I guess this problem is going to stay in limbo then?

[98EXL]

I'm either a complete moron, or not, but, in includes/function_showthread.php, I do not have:

// ###################### Start getreputationimage #######################

I can't even start the hack, so sad

[Andreas]

Guess this Hack needs an Update ... fetch_reputation_image() has been move to functions_reputation.php.

Anyway, I think functions_showthread.php is still the right place.

Look for

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start process_highlight_postbit ####################### 


And place the Code above that, might work.

[98EXL]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

Guess this Hack needs an Update ... fetch_reputation_image() has been move to functions_reputation.php.

Anyway, I think functions_showthread.php is still the right place.

Look for

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start process_highlight_postbit ####################### 


And place the Code above that, might work.

as soon as I typed that, went to page 12, there it was.

Clicks install....this works great already!

[Virtuosofriend]

Originally Posted by Rickie3

well my friend can you explain why it doesnt work??,i actually sat back and read every thread over and over and i finally got it to work,and it does exactly what its supposed to,it works perfectly for me on my test board 3.0.3,and 3.0.7,the secret is to read carefully

what i did was place everything in order to the attached below,it is not a rewrite of the original,just placed in order to make the coding for 3.0.3 and 3.0.7 a little easier

Because simply it doesnt work.I have tested in all the forums i am admin and it doesnt work.And believe me i have far more experience than you.

[Rickie3]

Originally Posted by Virtuosofriend

Because simply it doesnt work.I have tested in all the forums i am admin and it doesnt work.And believe me i have far more experience than you.

it does work!!!!!!! it is currently working on my forum and has done for the last 3 weeks,it is also working fine on my test board.Quite frankly i could'nt care less if you have more experience,i'm still learning for sure.What all the forums have you tested it in??????,I am a admin as well

P.S you have a nice forum

[lewisbeech]

i am trying to install this on 3.0.8, and i cannot find '// ###################### Start getreputationimage #######################' in the funtions_showthread.php file.
please help

[RustedBucket]

2 questions.

First, I want to use the $post[timespent] result in the Postbit template based on the users online status, but I can't seem to get it to cooperate. Using something like this in postbit_legacy:

<if condition="$post[onlinestatus]!='Online'">$post[timespent]</if>

Does nothing. The value for $post[timespent] is viewable regardless that status. Basically I only want to display this if the user is Online, not for Invisible or Offline. I can't read the value of $onlinestatus in this template either. Any clues on how to get a value I can use a conditonal against?

Second question: What the easiet way to change the time to reflect 00:00:00 vs # hours # minutes # seconds??

Thanks alot

[Azra_el]

Originally Posted by lewisbeech

i am trying to install this on 3.0.8, and i cannot find '// ###################### Start getreputationimage #######################' in the funtions_showthread.php file.
please help

not finding the getreputationimage part either... any clues?