Version: 1.00, by Admin (Coder)
Developer Last Online: Nov 2024
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 02-03-2002
Last Update: Never
Installs: 103
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The idea is from SitePoint Forums.
I think a lot of people really want this hack, and I've even seen a released version of it here, but it used cronjobs and stuff like that I'm sure not all of use want to mess with.
So, here's my version of the hack, completely crobjob-less and 100% working.
The hack also includes an easy way for the admins to change the member of the day at any given time. (see note below)
You can see it in action in this board, on the main page in the stats box.
To install this hack download the attached file (memberofday.hack.php), upload to your /admin folder and use vbHacker.
A couple of notes:
The member of the day will reset every day at 12:00am server time.
It is possible for the admins to re-choose the member of the day at any given time, by adding "?resetmember=1" when visiting index.php. (only logged in admins can use this; for regular users it won't do anything)
The only check in the code is to prevent the same member of the day two days in a row. It is possible, however, that the same member will be chosen two days after he was already a member of the month.
I don't recommend using this hack on a small forum (with not-so-many members) because of the above.
That's it, have fun.
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Today at 12:20 PM Rose said this in Post #201 *hehe* Hey Boofo - I've got a dupe motd. It's not a biggie, but I wanted to let you know. The dupe was motd on 3/17 and 3/22.
I noticed the same thing a few days ago on my site. I will look at the code and see what I can figure out. Sorry about that.
Rather than have it choose a member at random, how can I make it so that the member of the day is the person with the highest amount of posts that day?
Today at 05:05 PM Crazy Pete said this in Post #203 Rather than have it choose a member at random, how can I make it so that the member of the day is the person with the highest amount of posts that day?
Boofo - Not a problem at all. I'm thinking of adding some way to track the past X members of the day in a list of sorts. Like five days. Wanna point me in a direction? I keep track for reasons of giving away a free brunch, as established, but I keep an Excel sheet. I'm only afraid to miss weekends or when I'm not at the work computer which is why keeping track of the most recent 2-5 members or so might be nice.
OKay, I've installed this but even with all the different versions of lastactivity in the query, it still pulls people who haven't been active in months on my site. Anyone with a working query?
Also, I have modified it slightly to add the posts and title so they show up on my main page and it works fine with the manual reset, but doesn't work when it is automatically reset. What do I need to do to make sure it works with that as well?
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