Top XX Posters

LAST UPDATED: 3.26.01 2:10 AM Eastern

I put together a little thing to show the top XX posters on your board. It can be used on a non-vB page. The username is a link to the member's profile.



Hack version: 0.0.4

Changes from version 0.0.1: Fixed a small bug with the path.
Changes from version 0.0.2: Added option to exclude admins from list of posters.
Changes from version 0.0.3: Fixed alternating colors so they are horizontal, not vertical. Changed $path to $url and $path2 to $path to make variables easier. Added a seperate header row color.

For version: 2.0.0 beta 3 (possibly also beta 1 and beta 2, but it is untested with those versions).

Files needed: topposters.php (see attached zip file below).

Files to edit: topposters.php (see instructions below).

Possible file locations: Anywhere, so long as the $path is set correctly.

Instructions

• Unzip the file topposters.php from topposters004.zip to your hard drive.
• Open topposters.php in an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad (Windows), SimpleText (Mac), EditPlus, UltraEdit, TextPad, etc. (DO NOT use WYSIWYG HTML editors such as FrontPage, HotDog, DreamWeaver, etc. They will in all likelyhood screw up the file! I will not be able to support you if you edit the file in one of these programs.)
• Edit the variables at the top. These are:
  ---$maxposters > This is the number of posters you want to show.
  ---$hc > Set this to the color you want the header row to be.
  ---$bc1 and $bc2 > These are the first and second alternating colors. Look at the picture in the vbulletin.com thread and you'll see what I mean.
  ---$text and $link > Set the colors of the main text and the color of the links. Make sure this color is visible on both alternating colors, set in step 3b.
  ---$font > This is the font(s) to use for display. You can set specific fonts (e.g. Verdana, Arial, etc.) or general font-families (e.g. sans-serif, serif).
  ---$fontsize > Set a point size for your font. Size 8 is about equivelant to <font size=1>. Anything below about 6 will basically be undreadable, so be careful.
  ---$url > This is the path to your board files, such as index.php, members.php, etc. This is *not* the path to config.php (e.g. don't include the /admin part of the URL)!
  ---$path > This is the path to config.php - normally in the /admin directory. Do not add a trailing slash. It may need a leading slash.
  ---$admins > If you want admins included on the list of posters, set this to 1. If you do *not* want admins included, set this to 0.
• Upload it to your website. You can include it as follows. To include it on a PHP-parsed page (.php, .php3, .phtml, etc.):
  

  <? include("topposters.php"); ?>

  To include it on a server-parsed page (.shtml, .shtm, .ssi, etc.):
  

  <!--#include file="topposters.php"-->

Instructions are included in the zip file (topposters.txt) and brief instructions are also in the topposters.php file itself.

FEEDBACK WANTED! Likes/dislikes/modification requests, please.

Which main page? The vB's main page or your site's main page? It is designed to go on an external page (e.g. the main page of your site), not a page inside the vB.

i would love to see it on the index.php page of my vb site is it possible?
and if not then could u tell me how i can put in another button like the profile and search and faq....etc?

dito,

The include would go on the main index.html file for your site if you want it to show up on your home page. You can take a look at my site to get an idea.

dito: I'll see what I can do about a version to use on the index.php vB page.

[dito]

hehe that would be great tubedogg hope u work something out!!
thanx in advance maybe u would contact me when and if u found a way to get it on the index.php !
icq:71547154

<a href="http://www.agnfr.com/portail/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.agnfr.com/portail/index.php</a>

I'm trying to put it on my phpwebsite portal and it doesn't let me include it on my mainpage, I don't know why but it doesn't insert it and my script is ok because I can see it using a shml file..... Any idea?

Also, the admins still in the list

Thanks, it will bee nice when I'll get it done

[maverick1236]

Warning: Failed opening 'upload/admin/config.php' for inclusion (include_path='') in h:\nusphere\apache\htdocs\upload\admin\topposters. php on line 59
this is what i see after installimg the topposters hack

[tubedogg]

You will need to move your topposters.php file up one directory, to h:\nusphere\apache\htdocs\upload\topposters.php and then adjust your $path to just "admin"

[maverick1236]

IT WORKED!