Top xx Posters List

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The 3.5 version of my Top (10) Posters hack.

This has now been re-vamped for the release of version 3.xx - the hack no longer uses a seperate topposters.php file.

This hack displays a page with the Top Forum Posters for a given set of periods. Two periods are fixed ('This Month' & 'Overall') but can be turned off in the options. The other three periods are user definable (in days) - the default values are 1 day (24 hours), 7 days & 28 days. These three columns cannot be turned off.

The number of posters to be shown can also be set, the default is the top 10 posters. You can also select which usergroups are included in the count, so members in banned groups etc are not shown.

To upgrade (if you want to) uninstall version 2.xx and re-install this version. Note the url to display the page has changed.


History:

v3.01 - First public version 3
v3.02 - Fixed display error reported in post 59
v3.03 - Fixed display error reported in post 84
v3.11 - Series of additions, upgrades and settings added.
v3.12 - Updated install code to check for existing index.
v3.13 - Fixed uncached templates added in v3.11
v3.14 : Changes to display layout.
v3.15 : Minor changes, no update necessary.
v3.16 : Fixed bug in monthly totals caculation.

[theArchitect]

Any chance of this being re-made as a plug-in so I can drop it onto my home page in the whats going on area?

Love the mod, just don't like that it is on a page all by itself.

[Paul M]

I wouldn't recommend having it on the homepage of a large board - the queries can be quite intensive if you have a large number of posts per month.

I don't intend to make it as a plugin, but you could do what you want pretty easily I think - just copy lines 18 to 80 of the code from the file to a plugin using the forumhome_start hook - and copy the table template code (i.e. the stuff between the <table> and </table> tags ) from the top_posters template into the forumhome template, above or below the "What' going on" table, depending on your preference. You might want to make it the Top 5 as well - for space reasons.

[theArchitect]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I wouldn't recommend having it on the homepage of a large board - the queries can be quite intensive if you have a large number of posts per month.

I don't intend to make it as a plugin, but you could do what you want pretty easily I think - just copy lines 18 to 80 of the code from the file to a plugin using the forumhome_start hook - and copy the table template code (i.e. the stuff between the <table> and </table> tags ) from the top_posters template into the forumhome template, above or below the "What' going on" table, depending on your preference. You might want to make it the Top 5 as well - for space reasons.

Interesting. I don't have a massive board, but hope to in the future, so I will follow your advise and keep it as a seperate page.

[Trevor Hannant]

Originally Posted by Trevster

Has anyone been able to write code to show the top average posters (ie. posters with highest 'posts per day')?

Realise this may be a 'messy' one to try but before I do, want to check if anyone else has been able to........

Paul, any thoughts on this or how to have this seperately somewhere?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Trevster

Paul, any thoughts on this or how to have this seperately somewhere?

Not at the moment, but I'll keep it in mind.

[Aeolian]

this ia a great addon..

is it compatible with vb 3.5 gold..

thanx~

[Paul M]

It'll work with any 3.5 version.

[Vizionz]

installed worked fine for me on gold

[csidlernet]

sweet. very nice i like!

[chanzero]

Originally Posted by csidlernet

sweet. very nice i like!

installed it -- cool

can anyone tell me how i could make this link appear in the Quick Links instead though?