Forum Home Enhancements - Most active user Last X (last day/last week/last month/ever) Fully controlled

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Attention:
Completely new version by the way, i'm working on it now. note written: 6-10-2007


Many thanks:
Paul M for his permission to capture pieces of code from his mods.


Name: Most active user (today/last week/last month/ever) Fully controlled

Descreption: Display most active user on the forums for the last day / last week / last month or ever over the boards, also with his post count for this period.


How it works:

• During installation process it calculate & select required data, then insert it in a new table.
• after that it will process the calculations through cron jops (1 cron dailly: caculates most active user for the last day & most active user ever / 1 cron caculates most active user for the last week / 1 cron caculates most active user for the last month).
• So the heavy DB Queries will be done once not every page load .
• This mod uses 4 queries to request already-calculated data that is stored in the database, each one query just request 1 row including 6 fields only, so there is not any DB load, or time load increase after installing this mod.

Features:

1. can enable/disable the mod globally.
2. can select to choose most active user for the last day or for the last 24 hours.
3. can select certain usergroups to show.
4. can do auto template change, with the ability to disable this feature & do these edits manually.
5. can choose wwhere to display it by defining Auto-Template Search Text (advanced).
6. can Collapse Display by default.
7. can enable/disable most ever active user.
8. can enable/disable most active user for the month before.
9. can enable/disable most active user for the week before.
10. can enable/disable most active user for the day before.
11. the mod hide null entries (if there is no active user for the last X it will not appear auto.)
12. this mod displays the most active user & behind his name there is the post count for the X period.
13. can exclude certain usergroups from being counted in most ative user. v1.5.0
14. can exclude certain users from being counted in most ative user. v1.5.0
15. can enable/disable showing usernames with formating tags (prefix / sufix) for usergroups. v1.5.0
16. can enable/disable display post count of most active user. v1.5.0
17. can enable/disable linking usernames with user profiles. v1.5.0
18. uses cron jop for calculations. v1.5.0
19. fully phrased.

Help Us:

• Suggestions needed to develop this mod .
• Translators needed to support more users (translation credits will go to their owners).

Known Isues:
None till now.


History:
v1.0.0 10/5/2007 7:00 AM (EEST): First initial public release.
v1.0.1 10/5/2007 7:40 AM (EEST): Fixing confliction bug with other mod.
v1.5.0 11/5/2007 9:10 PM (EEST): New re-written version, contains new features & many optimizations (approx. it's faster than version 1.0.1 by 15x) [Strongly recomended to upgrade to this version].


Notes:
v1.5.0 is re-writen & totally different from 1.x, it contains many optimizations, it loads 15x faster than v1.0.1 approx., it uses cron jop.
Supported Languages till now: Arabic, English (two products supported in the package, just install one [arabic or english]).


Screen Shots:
Available down there .


Technical Notes:
Plugins: 1
Phrases: 45
Template changes: 1 (AUTO)
Code Changes: 0
Templates: 1
Settings: 15
DB Tables: 1
Cron Jops: 3


Installation Procedure:

• Upload the required files (just three cron files), exacly upload the folder includes with its contents to your forum root.
• Install the product file from your admincp.
• Done .

[Omranic]

the third option in the mod's settings is for determining usergroups allowed to see the most active users in forumhome.

For those requesting excluding certain users, it will be included in the comming version. Be Happy.

Abdelrahman

[Kihon Kata]

Wow that must be a HEAVY DB query. It turns my home page loading time from 1 second to 15 seconds. This is confirmed, I tested it 5 times. Uninstalls

I dunno if this has to do with the size of a board: Almost 1 million posts

[FreshFroot]

I like the hack, but I agree with you. It will add a lot more loading time. For me, I've already got mods like who was online etc.. so I've already got many queries..

Unless we can add an option in say the usercp, where the user can select if they want it or not. I'm sure places with t1 or a fast connection don't have loading issues at all.

[Omranic]

Originally Posted by Kihon Kata

Wow that much be a HEAVY DB query. It turns my home page loading time from 1 second to 15 seconds. This is confirmed, I tested it 5 times. Uninstalls

I dunno if this has to do with the size of a board: Almost 1 million posts

I'm working on a new version now, it will include many optimizations including that one.
approx. it will be totally re-writtem.

Just wait a while

[FreshFroot]

can you mabye add an option like the "who posted" hack, where we can assign usergroup Id's to which can see this hack?

[Kaleem]

Great one but its not adding all the posts like at my forum they get an increment in the post when they upload a picture in the gallery that is not added.

[Omranic]

Originally Posted by FreshFroot

can you mabye add an option like the "who posted" hack, where we can assign usergroup Id's to which can see this hack?

its already exist!

Originally Posted by LightInClouds

Great one but its not adding all the posts like at my forum they get an increment in the post when they upload a picture in the gallery that is not added.

it counts the real total posts , may be i'll add an option to switch between the two modes later.

[Hornstar]

Awesome, waits for the updated version which will be more optimized, as my board is under enough load already ^^

[Paul M]

Hmm, when using big lumps of other peoples code it's usually polite to ask ..........

[Omranic]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Hmm, when using big lumps of other peoples code it's usually polite to ask ..........

Sir, perhaps you mean you modification "users visited/posted today"; I Admitted that i have taken some ideas from your Distinct mods, but i didn't take the code it self.
knowing that this mod i have released for 3.5 & now i have re-writen it from scratch.

Any way, i'm sorry if that Behavior make any Inconvenience to you.