[VB3 RC3] Member of the day

Tested in 3.0.1

This hack lets you "elect" a member of the day (member of any period of
time actually, but defaults to member of the day).

The member of the day is someone randomly picked from all the users in
your forum that have certain amount of posts the day before, that have
visited the forum and that have at least 50 posts and 10 reputation. You
can also change that values.

By default it appers in top of the forumhome. It is a nice way for members
of the forum to get to know each other.

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.

[fridayweb]

Nice feature. I would like to add the info of "join date" next to their posts. I can see where to put things, but I'm not sure the exact language to create a new variable of $mday[join]. Could anyone help me out? :squareeyed:

[JagFan]

Nice hack! Thanks..installed and working great.

[brandy]

I've got "member of the day" at my site www.doggiedoor.com/forums/ and I have it set up so that only the moderators are elected (did this by restricting all other usergroups). We've had it up for about a month now, I've got 15 moderators that it chooses from, and a few have never been chosen.

Note: They DO meet the requirements I have set up, as in posted at least once, posted and logged in in the last 30 days, have a reputation over 99.

I can't seem to figure out why they would be passed over? They are feeling neglected, apparently they've been waiting for their turn to no avail.
Any clues?
Brandy

[Odoin]

Could it just be the luck of the draw? It you look at many things that use random numbers it seems sometimes a few numbers do not come up as much as others... I donno :ermm:

[AlexanderT]

Originally Posted by will_lean

Is it possible to also call the users avatar(default one if you use it) to be displayed along with the info?

That is what I am looking for, too. Looks like Kentaurus hasn't visited this thread for the past two months though

[Maikeru]

Good work. I learned a lot by seeing this hack on some forums. I even made friends. :nervous:. I'll probably be using this hack too.

[brandy]

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

That is what I am looking for, too. Looks like Kentaurus hasn't visited this thread for the past two months though

I've noticed on mine, that some avatars appear, and others don't. It seems that the smaller avatars appear, but the larger ones don't - but I'm not sure if size is the defining factor.
Brandy

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by brandy

I installed the hack - it is nice, but isn't the user's profile image supposed to display? It isn't displaying. Am I wrong?
Brandy

Another question, how can I add a custom profile field to display in the memberoftheday? I tried various things, but can't figure it out.

Thanks much!
Brandy

Some modifications to my hack (just download the files again):

Added support for default avatars (not the ones uploaded by the user but the ones the administrator has configured in the forum)

You can now use any user or userfield variable in the memberoftheday template.




About your question of moderators being ignored I suggest you increase the value of $days to something really high. Sometimes mysql is not very good at random numbers... In my forum sometimes some member is elected twice very quickly and some other members are still waiting their turn.

[AlexanderT]

update works great!

Thanks Kentaurus.

[brandy]

Originally Posted by Kentaurus

Some modifications to my hack (just download the files again):

Added support for default avatars (not the ones uploaded by the user but the ones the administrator has configured in the forum)

You can now use any user or userfield variable in the memberoftheday template.




About your question of moderators being ignored I suggest you increase the value of $days to something really high. Sometimes mysql is not very good at random numbers... In my forum sometimes some member is elected twice very quickly and some other members are still waiting their turn.

Thank You!
The avatars are still not showing (just the small ones)
I changed the number of days from 30 to 90, so we'll see if that helps
Also, how do you write the syntax to include field5 in the template?
I tried just: $field5
but it doesn't work.
Thanks much!
Brandy

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by brandy

Thank You!
The avatars are still not showing (just the small ones)
I changed the number of days from 30 to 90, so we'll see if that helps
Also, how do you write the syntax to include field5 in the template?
I tried just: $field5
but it doesn't work.
Thanks much!
Brandy

Just wait for the next member of the day to be generated, I expect then the avatar will be visible.

You need to use $mday[field5], please let me know if that works as expected.

[fridayweb]

Do you know of a way to get the tasks list to generate a page so that people could see all of the previous members of the day?

Hmm... or maybe just do an automatic entry on the calendar so people can see it that way.

[SaN-DeeP]

i just installed it
everything is fine except the users avtars are not getting display

i think they are using custom avtars on forum..
any ideaz to fix this.

Thnx.
Sandy...

[SaN-DeeP]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

i just installed it
everything is fine except the users avtars are not getting display

i think they are using custom avtars on forum..
any ideaz to fix this.

Thnx.
Sandy...

pretty weird
but as stated in ur above post. it will work after 1 day and it does


however here is one question.
My forums are hosted in us (TIME HERE IS GMT - 8:00) and my forums people are located in india (GMT + 5:30)

When the clock strike 1:00 pm afternoon here, member of day gets changed. and not @ midnight 12:00
How do i change this,
Its kinda buggy that i changes @ afternoon when almost 13 hours have passed away.

Sandy...

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

pretty weird
but as stated in ur above post. it will work after 1 day and it does


however here is one question.
My forums are hosted in us (TIME HERE IS GMT - 8:00) and my forums people are located in india (GMT + 5:30)

When the clock strike 1:00 pm afternoon here, member of day gets changed. and not @ midnight 12:00
How do i change this,
Its kinda buggy that i changes @ afternoon when almost 13 hours have passed away.

Sandy...

Change the hour in the cron job. Instead of having it at 0 hour substract 13 hours so it can change just at midnight.