[VB3 RC3] Board Spent Time

This hack keeps track of how much time a user has been online at the
forums and adds it to the information in any of his posts, then any
other user can see if you have been 1 hour, 5 hours, 1 day or even up
to years online at the forum.

Also this hack calculates an "average time online" in a very similar way to
how the average posts works.

Thanks to the people that suggested this hack in the request forum, it is
a really nice one and a very fun one too!

Keep in mind this hack will only start tracking the time that you are online once you install it, it has no way of knowing how much time you had been on the forums before.


*Update*: You can show the board spent time in your memberlist, then you can use your memberlist as a leaderboard. For this modification see this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=50


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.

[mharmon]

I found another small bug. If someone has been on the forums 2 Days and 15 minutes for example, it says:

2 Day 15 Minutes

It leaves off the "s" for Days

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by mharmon

I found another small bug. If someone has been on the forums 2 Days and 15 minutes for example, it says:

2 Day 15 Minutes

It leaves off the "s" for Days

That's right.. I don't know how I didn't spot it. Here is how to fix it.

In the includes/functions_showthread.php

find

PHP Code:

        else
        {
return $newtime." ".$vbphrase['day']." ".explain_time($time%86400,true);        
        } 


change it to:

PHP Code:

        else
        {
return $newtime." ".$vbphrase['days']." ".explain_time($time%86400,true);        
        } 


That is just adding an "s" to day

The txt is already updated

[mharmon]

kentaurus -- i'm glad i could help you get this hack working 100%

sorry I was such a pest.

[mharmon]

BTW -- What will this do to server load?

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by mharmon

BTW -- What will this do to server load?

nothing noticeable, no queries are added (just I query is modified) and there is only some code to format the time the user has been in the forum. It is currently running in my forum that has 100 users online at peak hours.

[Yahhoon23]

Alright, I did this hack, everything is fine except it's not showing up.

The only obvious thing i can think of is that I didn't enable it in the ACP but can't find it.

Thanks in advance

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Location of Forums - http://www.wirelessmatt.com/forums

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by Yahhoon23

Alright, I did this hack, everything is fine except it's not showing up.

The only obvious thing i can think of is that I didn't enable it in the ACP but can't find it.

Thanks in advance

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Location of Forums - http://www.wirelessmatt.com/forums

which part is not showing up, the time in the postbit / memberinfo or the memberlist?

If it is the postbit / memberinfo, did you do the template edits in the correct style?

[Yahhoon23]

sorry for not being more in depth, but it's not showing up on the actual thread under their name.

I didn't try to do it thru the memberlist yet. I just did the first one that u had.

[Baugh]

Installed this hack (my first vB hack to install ever). Absolutely love it! Thanks man.

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by Yahhoon23

sorry for not being more in depth, but it's not showing up on the actual thread under their name.

I didn't try to do it thru the memberlist yet. I just did the first one that u had.

did you modify the postbit (OR) postbit_legacy template?

If you use the normal postbit template you need to add $timespent somewhere, if you use the new vertical (horizontal?) template then you need to add $timespent to postbit_legacy

[Holidazed]

Are there any plans for making this HTL compatible? I really want this hack, but HTL compatibility would make it easier for me to deal with.

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by bitg

Are there any plans for making this HTL compatible? I really want this hack, but HTL compatibility would make it easier for me to deal with.

Once HTL1.1 is out and I can create txt from there (<hint>Bug Kurafire a little</hint>) I will make it HTL compatible

[kennethj]

When installing the addition - running the install ... php file gives and error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 4:

Invalid SQL: 
  UPDATE setting SET optioncode='
  <input type=\\\ ...
... </table>'
  WHERE varname='memberlistfields'
mysql error: Table 's####freaky.setting' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Date: Wednesday 03rd of March 2004 10:53:32 AM
Script: http://www.freakybutfun.com/forum/ad...st.php?start=1
Referer: http://www.freakybutfun.com/forum/ad...memberlist.php

the table is wrong :: should be 'vB3s####freaky.setting' ::

is Not adding the table prefix sor some reason.
Is there another way to run this ? thru the admin cp? or what is going wrong as everything else with the board is working with no problems.

admin cp is renamed -

Originally Posted by Kentaurus

An update for this one. Some extra modifications that will let you add the board spent time (total and average) to the memberlist. You can also sort by it to see who is the user with most board spent time.

great hach and addition - thanks

[Beermonster]

[high]* Beermonster installed
[/high]

Thanks

[alfaowner]

Originally Posted by Kentaurus

did you modify the postbit (OR) postbit_legacy template?

If you use the normal postbit template you need to add $timespent somewhere, if you use the new vertical (horizontal?) template then you need to add $timespent to postbit_legacy

Okay, sorry, but where would the $timespent go? I really have no idea. Myine is also not showing up, i tried both tempaltes too! I am using the new style forum just like this one with drop down links etc...