Member of the Day!

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.

[Admin]

Add the hack after require('./global.php');

[ckevin]

that's a great hack, but i think it would be much more better if we limit only members have to post say, 100 posts before he can enter to the member of the day automatically, how can we do that? =)

[Admin]

Sure ckevin, just replace this in the code:

                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1]

with this:

                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1] AND posts>99

[ckevin]

wonderful, FireFly!

Thanks,

Kevin

[DarkReaper]

What about having activity recently...say, the active within the past 2 weeks?

[Admin]

Huh? You mean only to select members that were active in the last 2 weeks?

[DarkReaper]

Yes...that way it won't have a MoTD that hasn't been to the forums in 6 months

[Admin]

Replace:

                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1]

with:

                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1] AND lastactivity>".time()-(86400*14)."

(14 is the number of days)

By the way, I'm not sure myself whether it's lastactivity or lastvisit we need to check, so I'm open for corrections here.

[importmix]

Works. Thumbs up.

[Lucky]

Great work my friend!