Miscellaneous Hacks - Threads Started by User in Postbit and Profile

Threads Started by User in Postbit and Profile for vB3.7.0 beta 4
Version 1.0.1
(By Boofo)

What does this product do?
This product counts the threads started by a user and displays it in the postbit and the profile. It will also display the threads per day in the profile. The thread count is automatically updated hourly via cron job. New threads are added to the count in real time. No extra queries are run in the postbit or profile when getting the thread count, only when the cron job runs. This product only counts valid threads (not moderated or soft-deleted threads).

Note: Only 1 query is used during the hourly cron update.

Version Information:
Version 1.0.1 --Initial release (No known bugs)

Credits:
Thanks goes out to Andreas, Paul M and Hambil for their invaluable help with the original version of this product. Without them, this hack would not have been possible. And a special thanks goes out to Icy, for taking care of things while I was away.

Details:
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1 Product XML (4 Plugins, 2 Phrases)
3 Template Edits

Installation Instructions:
Go to your Admin CP
Scroll down to 'Plugins & Products'
Click 'Manage Products'
Click 'Add/Import Product'
Click the 'Browse' button, and locate the product-threads_started_by_user.xml file on your computer
Do the template edits and you're all set!

NOTE: If you do not click install, you do not need support.

[JadedSouls]

*installed*

thought I had a problem with the ministats but I sussed it out and messed up in adding the code. Fixed now

[Boofo]

You messed up? I refuse to believe that.

[intrigue]

Two requests,

Firstly, i would like to show the threads from a specific forum and
secondly i wanted to show the thread titles with a link from those specific forums.

Any advice on how to achieve this?
Thanks
Matt

[Boofo]

Not with this hack, no, sorry.

[Astrof]

Hm, either I did something wrong in template editing or this is not working on my installation.

I want to use it with postbit_legacy, so I made sure I edit that one, but nothing is showing.

Is there something else that needs to be done in order to get this to show in postbit?

I really made sure I edit all the templates correctly, I don't think I did anything wrong with that.

This is an excellent mod, thank you very much.

EDIT: Sorry, sorry, sorry, had the wrong style up, just had to switch to the default style which I edited.

Works great, thanks a lot!

[Astrof]

Hm ... I don't know if this is a problem with my installation or a bug in the mod ... But I've noticed that in my case it counts moved threads as two threads.

That is, if, for instance, a user starts 4 threads and all those threads are moved, it will say "Threads: 8" in postbit, although when you click on 8, it will display only the four started threads.

Does this happen to anyone else besides me?

Any word on this from the coder?

Thank you.

[Boofo]

I have not seen that happen and don't know how it can unless you are leaving redirects maybe?

[Astrof]

Hm, yeah, that could be the case, even though I think it even happened to some members whose threads were not redirected, but I'm not sure.

I'll test thread moving without redirects and post back.

[Boofo]

You are the first to report this so please let me know what you find out.

[Astrof]

Okay, I tested this and it is happening without an obvious pattern.

Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes with redirects, sometimes without them.

Also, even the physically deleted threads are still counted towards user's total thread count. One user opened 4 threads, all of them were physically deleted, yet his thread count is still 4.