Top XX Posters

LAST UPDATED: 3.26.01 2:10 AM Eastern

I put together a little thing to show the top XX posters on your board. It can be used on a non-vB page. The username is a link to the member's profile.



Hack version: 0.0.4

Changes from version 0.0.1: Fixed a small bug with the path.
Changes from version 0.0.2: Added option to exclude admins from list of posters.
Changes from version 0.0.3: Fixed alternating colors so they are horizontal, not vertical. Changed $path to $url and $path2 to $path to make variables easier. Added a seperate header row color.

For version: 2.0.0 beta 3 (possibly also beta 1 and beta 2, but it is untested with those versions).

Files needed: topposters.php (see attached zip file below).

Files to edit: topposters.php (see instructions below).

Possible file locations: Anywhere, so long as the $path is set correctly.

Instructions

• Unzip the file topposters.php from topposters004.zip to your hard drive.
• Open topposters.php in an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad (Windows), SimpleText (Mac), EditPlus, UltraEdit, TextPad, etc. (DO NOT use WYSIWYG HTML editors such as FrontPage, HotDog, DreamWeaver, etc. They will in all likelyhood screw up the file! I will not be able to support you if you edit the file in one of these programs.)
• Edit the variables at the top. These are:
  ---$maxposters > This is the number of posters you want to show.
  ---$hc > Set this to the color you want the header row to be.
  ---$bc1 and $bc2 > These are the first and second alternating colors. Look at the picture in the vbulletin.com thread and you'll see what I mean.
  ---$text and $link > Set the colors of the main text and the color of the links. Make sure this color is visible on both alternating colors, set in step 3b.
  ---$font > This is the font(s) to use for display. You can set specific fonts (e.g. Verdana, Arial, etc.) or general font-families (e.g. sans-serif, serif).
  ---$fontsize > Set a point size for your font. Size 8 is about equivelant to <font size=1>. Anything below about 6 will basically be undreadable, so be careful.
  ---$url > This is the path to your board files, such as index.php, members.php, etc. This is *not* the path to config.php (e.g. don't include the /admin part of the URL)!
  ---$path > This is the path to config.php - normally in the /admin directory. Do not add a trailing slash. It may need a leading slash.
  ---$admins > If you want admins included on the list of posters, set this to 1. If you do *not* want admins included, set this to 0.
• Upload it to your website. You can include it as follows. To include it on a PHP-parsed page (.php, .php3, .phtml, etc.):
  

  <? include("topposters.php"); ?>

  To include it on a server-parsed page (.shtml, .shtm, .ssi, etc.):
  

  <!--#include file="topposters.php"-->

Instructions are included in the zip file (topposters.txt) and brief instructions are also in the topposters.php file itself.

FEEDBACK WANTED! Likes/dislikes/modification requests, please.

You're still the best Boss....

TUBEDOGG:

I'm getting two problems..

1.) When I click the name, it goes to bbs/admin instead of bbs/ for their profiles.. which makes a broken link..

...and

2.) I'm not getting Administrators to show up, even though I set it to 1.

Tubey...

I have the second problem too....

*bump*

[tubedogg]

Originally posted by badmeetsevil
1.) When I click the name, it goes to bbs/admin instead of bbs/ for their profiles.. which makes a broken link..

What do you have $url set to? It needs to be the path to your forums.

2.) I'm not getting Administrators to show up, even though I set it to 1.

Try replacing the line

	$exn = "WHERE usergroupid<>$exr";

with

	$exn = "WHERE usergroupid<>$exr AND usergroupid!=6";

$url is http://www.soapedup.f2s.com/bbs ..

..and I changed around that coding, but still tries to get in my admin directory.

The Top Posters Include is on my front page as well.

Bah, I found the glitch. I had to change $path to my Forums directory.. you should really fix that tubedogg.

Or atleast change the $path/member.php?blahblah to $url/member.php?blahblah.

c00l hack! can you please make a Top XX Threads started?
Thnx!

[FireandicE]

Great hack Thanx alot, works like a charm

($admins = "0"; // change this to "0" to leave admins off the list of top posters. does so indeed, only the other way arround, so "1" to leave em off)

See plz this sample --> include all needed functions in one file, not required conf file, all in one page, transparent include vb style on non vb pages....