Referral Statistics

Are you looking for statistics on the number of referrals your members have made? Or are interested in promoting your website by allowing members to engage in a referral competition?


THIS HACK IS FOR YOU
To show referral statistics from members and to manage referral competitions.
- this hack is to help you manage your forums referrals
- promote new user registrations
- perfect for contests/promotional giveaways or incentives for referrals
- INSTALL today and start managing your boards referrals.

Features:

- Limit the number of results shown
- Admin ability to reset all members referrals to zero
- Admin ability to reset "specific members" referrals to zero
- Includes an update to your whois online
- Up-to-date listing on when you last reset all members referrals to zero
*** Seen in the admincp and an option for all members to view
- Total number of referrals since last reset
*** viewable in admincp and again an option for all members to view
- Pagination is now included and an option for another at bottom of results
- Shows up-to-date total number of board referrals
- Shows leading referrer in admincp
- Ability to limit referral results by number of posts or a usergroupid(s)
- Configuration is now done in admincp
- Auto installer now included w/ auto un-installer
- BEST OF ALL (LETS MEMBERS REFER MORE PEOPLE TO YOUR SITE.

I will like always SUPPORT my hacks

Thanks goes out to: unixman - for all the referred members are now clickable to their profile.

Total install time: less than 3 minutes.
New templates: 2 - refer, referbit
New files to upload: 2 pages
Edit templates: 2 - footer, /includes/functions_online.php
File edit: 1 - /admincp/index.php


** 4/17/05 - Version 2.3 Released = Includes many new one click options in the admincp, also auto configures your vbulletin path (which many people were having errors performing) **

[Big Kahuna]

Ok -- what's the secret format for the //path to your vbulletin directory?

I getting the below error

Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/moparsty/public_html/forums/referals.php on line 28




Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/moparsty/public_html/forums/referals.php
Line: 28

my forums are at www.moparstyle.com/forums

[gspot]

For you it would be: /home/moparsty/public_html/forums/

REMEMBER CLICK INSTALL

[Big Kahuna]

Ok thanx -- that got me one step further -- but now I have a blank screen

http://www.moparstyle.com/forums/referals.php

Suggestions?

[Big Kahuna]

I modified includes/functions_online.php and uploaded it

I created the two templates (in one of my 12 styles to test) in my 64 Imperial style

I added the path to the referals.php and put it in my main forum directory

I added the call in the footer of the style with the templates http://www.moparstyle.net/forums/index.php?styleid=36

But I get a white screen.

[Big Kahuna]

Fixed -- I gave the full URL to the referals.php so I could also use it in the footer of the Portal.

Thanx

I'll click install as soon as I update the other styles.

[Big Kahuna]

I'm missing the big picture here -- how does it relate new members to the person that referred them? Is this something that occurs this moment forward as a person registers?

I already have an extra field in the user CP that has the person registering leave the name of the person refering them. Any way to use that data?

[gspot]

Originally Posted by Big Kahuna

I'm missing the big picture here -- how does it relate new members to the person that referred them? Is this something that occurs this moment forward as a person registers?

I already have an extra field in the user CP that has the person registering leave the name of the person refering them. Any way to use that data?

What version are u using for vbulletin? This hack is to show statistics on referrals that have been made. For instance, if you referred 5 people, it will show the 5 people you referred as well as a count of referrals for you which would be 5 and your username as the referrer. This is just for statistics. I'm currently finishing an addon for this hack that will be used for competitions. Say you only want to show statistics for members who have referred new members that have posted a certain amount of times. This will show the results based on this condition. Hope this helps.. By the way, did you get it up and working??

** Change that I have visited your site and you didn't copy and paste the information for the templates correctly. Please re-copy the templates and make sure they are named: refer & referbit .. Then this hack will work properly, it works for all referrals made prior to this hack and for future referrals.

[Big Kahuna]

this is the template refer

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head><title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - Referral Statistics</title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[outerborderwidth]" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="550" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="550" align="center">
<tr>
  <td class="thead" align="center" width="160"><b>Member</b></td>
  <td class="thead" align="center" width="80"><b>Referrals</b></td>
  <td class="thead" align="center" width="310"><b>Members Referred</b></td>
</tr>
$referbits
</table>
</td></tr></table>
$footer
</body>
</html>

this is the template referbit

<tr align="center">
	<td class="alt1"><b><a href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&userid=$referrer[userid]">$referrer[username]</a></b></td>
	<td class="alt2">$referrer[referrals]</td>
	<td class="alt1">$referrerlist</td>
</tr>

I copied and paste exactly as the .txt file instructed. Am I seeing something different than you?

[Big Kahuna]

although the instructions has referbit (singular) -- I see the refer wants to call $referbits (plural)

[gspot]

Originally Posted by Big Kahuna

although the instructions has referbit (singular) -- I see the refer wants to call $referbits (plural)

That doesn't matter.. It's how the script actually works. Do you actually have members at this time that have made referrals?? Please feel free to AIM me my username is: gspot003