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[VB3 RC3] Board Spent Time · **Released**: 01-19-2004

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.

FleaBag · #32 01-20-2004, 04:59 PM

Very nice hack, should give my users something to talk about.

Anarchy · #33 01-21-2004, 02:24 AM

Leader Board not a good idea?

Kentaurus · #34 01-21-2004, 08:38 AM

Actually it's a good idea.

I would like to know if you want it into the memberlist (you see an extra "time spent" column in memberlist and can sort by it) or as a separate page.

Anarchy · #35 01-21-2004, 08:49 AM

It would be great if it were accessable in the members list and then you could be able to sort by it.

GamerzWorld · #36 01-21-2004, 02:50 PM

The Average time didnt work when i installed vb 3 Cand 3

Kentaurus · #37 01-21-2004, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GamerzWorld

The Average time didnt work when i installed vb 3 Cand 3

I have to re-check all my hacks for RC3. If there is the need for any modification I'll post it in the proper thread.

mharmon · #38 01-21-2004, 04:57 PM

I also had trouble with this hack on my VB3 RC2 board. It shows Average Time <1 Sec.

How would I go about deleting the time spent entry in my database and then trying again?

What query would I run to do this?

Kentaurus · #39 01-21-2004, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mharmon

I also had trouble with this hack on my VB3 RC2 board. It shows Average Time <1 Sec.

How would I go about deleting the time spent entry in my database and then trying again?

What query would I run to do this?

Code:

UPDATE user SET timespent=0

this resets the time spent in the board for all users to 0. If this query gives you any error it is because the column was never added to the user table.

gmarik · #40 01-21-2004, 05:24 PM

Spent all the time in the world

thanks

mharmon · #41 01-21-2004, 06:04 PM

kentaurus ---

thanks for ther quick reply. I did that query and it didn't give me an error -- although now it still says <1 for both entries on the site.

any suggestions?

Kentaurus · #42 01-21-2004, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mharmon

kentaurus ---

thanks for ther quick reply. I did that query and it didn't give me an error -- although now it still says <1 for both entries on the site.

any suggestions?

That query resets both the average time and the total time. The average time is not stored, it is calculated.

Maybe I should explain how I the average time works, as the < 1 sec might not be a problem at all. The average time is calculated by

time spent on board / days since you registered

that is, if you have been on the board for 50 minutes and you registered 2 days ago the average time would be 25 minutes. If you don't login for two days your average time drops to 12 minutes since you have 4 days registered.

In that case since this hack is new you may have very small total time spent, maybe your user has 10-20 minutes. If you registered a year ago that is 10 minutes / 365 days.. that is a very low number and maybe less than 1.

This is also how the average post count in the forum works, it makes a total posts / days since you registered

mharmon · #43 01-21-2004, 06:13 PM

kentaurus :

how often does it update the "time spent in foruns" field?

Zeitgeist · #44 01-21-2004, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mharmon

kentaurus :

how often does it update the "time spent in foruns" field?

Everytime you click on a link in the forum.

GamerzWorld · #45 01-21-2004, 06:49 PM

It wont work for Rc3 for me

mharmon · #46 01-21-2004, 11:33 PM

Same here...

I actually got mine to say "2" instead of <1 but it never goes above that.. any suggestions guys?? I have to get this hack working!

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