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.

[xtrim]

Firefly,

thnx for the hack, i find it great and would like to request what I think won't be very tough modification.

How could I add diplaying the avatar the member of the day has?

Thanks again!

[diettalk]

I had this type of a hack when I used UBB but haven't used it with vBulletin because all the "members of the day" where people who didn't come to the forums anymore or it picked someone with 0 posts.

How about adding a feature to make sure the member of the day is someone who actually is a participating member. Someone who has logged in within the past month or 2. vBulletin already keeps the "last visit".

[Admin]

Reading through the thread usually helps, diettalk.

[KuraFire]

Great hack, just installed it using vbHacker :up:

[ceo_tfw]

is there a text version of the (Members of the Day so that I can do this manually, I prefer this as I can backtrack my mistakes, if any, I am on version 2.2.5
can anyone help please

[Smalley]

can we have the 2.2.5 version soon ..

[Danny]

is there anyway to make the member of the day clickable?

[ULTIMATESSJ]

Originally posted by ceo_tfw
is there a text version of the (Members of the Day so that I can do this manually, I prefer this as I can backtrack my mistakes, if any, I am on version 2.2.5
can anyone help please

if you go into vbhacker ou should be able to generate a txt file with all the instructions

[Velocd]

I haven't read through the posts in here yet, but is there a way to make it choose a random user through all those who have posted recently, say, in the last week. I just don't want it to choose a user who hasn't posted in 1 month or something.

[Roxie]

Does this work with 2.2.5?
Thanks

[Admin]

Yes it does.

[missorator]

Chen, this is a great hack. However, it isn't working too well at my forums (it's not the hack - it's nothing to do with vb actually ). How can I safely remove it?

Sorry for sounding dumb...I haven't ever removed a hack before

Thanks!

Jen

[Admin]

Just do everything the instructions say, only backwords. Don't mind the query you ran, there's no need to remove what it added (trust me).

[Kars10]

Great Hack FireFly!!!
Very Easy to install!!
Thanx so much..

[Velocd]

So how about post #99? Think it can be done?