vB3 Forum Quick Stats Cache Serialize Hack v1.1

vB3 Forum Quick Stats Cache Serialize Hack
Version 1.1
(By Boofo)

What does this hack do?
It will display stats about each forum at the top of that forum. (NOTE: The attachments info will NOT show in forums that have no attachments.) Also included in the hack is Logician's vB2 "Last Post Minute Hack" (with his permission for the vB2 version, of course) optimized and redone for vB3. It now uses NO queries to get the last minute info. This hack will display a link the last post and the time the last post was made (i.e. "1 minute" or "2 days", etc.) as well as the name and link to the last poster in the forum. The stats are cached and the cache is only updated at a time set by you. With an option in the Admin CP, you can reset the time between cache updates without having to edit any more files once this hack is installed. This hack will add 1 optimized query (for the user's threads and replies stats) on a cache read, but since this hack is serialized, the cache read itself will not pull a query. On a cache update, it will add 6 queries to update the datastore. And then drop back down to the one query until the next cache update. This hack will make a cache in the datastore for each forum you have, so you don't have to worry about forums getting cross-cached with this hack. It has been thorughly tested on my site, but as we all know too well, sites can, and often do, vary in the way a hack performs on it. I forsee no problems of any kind on any site in the way this hack functions. It's basically pretty simple and hard to mess up.

Note: This is the setting for the time interval (in minutes) that you want the cache to be updated on. The default value is 10 minutes. The following code is in the forumdisplay.php part of this hack.

$updatetime = 10;

Once you install the Admin CP setting (at the end of this file), you will be able to update this from the Admin CP vBulletin Options settings.

Credits:
A BIG thank you goes out to KirbyDE for all of his guidance and patience while this hack was being written and tested. This hack might never have gotten past the dreamed up state if it wasn't for him. And it definately wouldn't have been finished by now or turned out as optimized as it is. Thank you, my friend. I learned a lot from you on our little adventure here. It was definately worth the trip.

Version Information:
Version 1.0 --Initial release
Version 1.1 --Corrected a few minor potential bugs and re-did the template. Now it has a cleaner look.

Installation overview:
Files to edit: (1)
--forumdisplay.php
Templates to add: (1)
--forumdisplay_quickstats
Templates to edit: (1)
--forumdisplay
Settings to add: (1)
--forumcachetime

Note: The first image below will show the forum quick stats for a forum that has attachments. The second image will show the forum quick stats for a forum that has no attachments.

[FleaBag]

Uh oh...

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /www/dragonninja/forumdisplay.php on line 300

Parse error: parse error in /www/dragonninja/forumdisplay.php on line 300

Any ideas Boofo?

[Boofo]

What is on line 300?

[FleaBag]

LOL I'm a fool, I pasted...

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
\ TEMPLATES MODIFICATIONS \
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

...into forumdisplay.php. Sorry to trouble you Bob.

[Boofo]

No trouble at all. Glad it was something simple.

[Mr. HillBilly]

Nice hack but,


Wrong SQL Code


Correct code:

 
INSERT INTO datastore ( title, data ) VALUES (
'forumstatscache' ,'a:15:{
s:10:"numthreads";s:1:"0";
s:10:"numreplies";s:1:"0";
s:8:"numviews";s:1:"0";
s:15:"topthreadscount";s:1:"0";
s:12:"topthreadsid";s:1:"0";
s:12:"topthreadsun";s:0:"";
s:17:"topthreadspercent";s:1:"0";
s:14:"toppostercount";s:1:"0";
s:11:"topposterid";s:1:"0";
s:11:"topposterun";s:0:"";
s:16:"topposterpercent";s:1:"0";
s:12:"attachscount";s:1:"0";
s:12:"attachsbytes";s:1:"0";
s:9:"avgrating";s:1:"0";
s:10:"lastupdate";s:1:"0";
}' )

[Boofo]

First of all, you don't really need to even run this query, if you don't want to. When the stats get inserted into the datastore, it will be made up then. And second of all, if someone uses a table prefix, they would need that part of it if they did use this query. So, actually, the query is right. Yours would be wrong, if they had a table prefix. I had the query as you have it before I changed it to add the table prefix, by the way. Other than that, there is no difference in the 2 queries.

[SpeedStreet]

Can you set this up so that it is only displayed in certain forums?

I don't want this in my off-topic, but my user support forum...this would be great.

[Boofo]

Sure. You could use a condition in the forumdisplay for that real easy.

[SpeedStreet]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Sure. You could use a condition in the forumdisplay for that real easy.

How so?

[Boofo]

<if condition="$forumid == '30'">
$forumdisplayquickstats
</if>

Just make the 30 above the ID of the forum you want to show it in. I just tested it and it works fine.