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.

[cditty]

This is the error that I am getting.

[code]
Database error in vBulletin 2.2.1:

Invalid SQL: -1209600
AND (usergroupid=5
OR usergroupid=6
OR usergroupid=7
OR usergroupid=9
OR usergroupid=10
OR usergroupid=2)
ORDER BY randNum
LIMIT 1
mysql error:

mysql error number:

Date: Thursday 07th of March 2002 06:46:03 AM
[\code]

This is the code as I have it in my index.php3 file.

$newmember=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT userid,username,userid*0+RAND() AS randNum
                                        FROM user
                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1] AND posts>99
                                         AND lastactivity>time()-(86400*14)
                                         AND (usergroupid=5
                                          OR usergroupid=6
                                          OR usergroupid=7
                                          OR usergroupid=9
                                          OR usergroupid=10
                                          OR usergroupid=2)
                                       ORDER BY randNum
                                       LIMIT 1");

I have tried it with and without the "s around the time() section. Wierd thing is that I can run this query though mysqladmin.

Chris

[cditty]

I just got it going. I simply replaced the "s with 's. Seems to work like a charm.

Thanks again.

Chris

[Dakota]

Thanks, my members love this hack, just need to change it so that the use must still be active on the forum.

[Dakota]

Originally posted by FireFly
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.

when I changed it to go by the activity, it gave me an error. I don't know why, I copied everything correctly.

[cditty]

try using single quotes instead of double. That was my problem.

Chris

[Vivi Ornitier]

can we make it so when a user is the member of da day, he'll get an email saying he's the member of the day . .yadda ydda yadda?

[Admin]

Put

time()-(86400*14)

around parenthesis, like this:

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

[Mathiau]

Mever mind, saw above link, :

[E]

how do i run a query ...

[Mathiau]

Originally posted by e_dove
how do i run a query ...

read above post by cditty:


Check out this thread - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...?threadid=18558

Chris

[Admin]

Just uploaded a vbHacker version to the first post.

[GeOrGe]

Originally posted by squawell
great job FireFly~~

i'll be use it~

I use it too, but why does it say nothing?


Look: http://chatter-board.de

[Admin]

Did you run the query you were told to run?

[GeOrGe]

Originally posted by GeOrGe


I use it too, but why does it say nothing?


Look: http://chatter-board.de

Mein Englisch ist nicht das beste, deswegen versuche ich das nun Deutsch, aber hoffe auf antwort.

Ich brauch den Hack, dass meine Zitate und so auch in diesem K?stchen erscheinen, wo bekomm ich den her, kann mir da einer von euch helfen?

[GeOrGe]

Originally posted by FireFly
Did you run the query you were told to run?

So I think so