Miscellaneous Hacks - Top Posters List

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This displays a page with the Top Forum Posters for a given set of periods. Two of the periods are fixed ('This Month' & 'Overall') but can be turned off in the options. The other three periods are user definable (in days). The default values for these columns are 1 day, 7 days & 28 days (note that 0 = off).

* The number of posters to be shown can be set, the default is the Top 10 posters.
* You can select which usergroups are included (or excluded) in the count, so members in banned groups etc are not shown
* You can exclude individual userids such as rss posters.
* You can exclude forums from the counts - however, this exclusion does not apply to the final "overall" count.
* If enabled, this will also add a link to your Quick Links or Community Links menus.
* There is an option to prefix the link path if you use something like CMPS.
* Usergroup & forum settings now display actual lists rather than needing csv id lists.

To install just unzip the xml file and import it using the Product Manager


History:

v4.0.1 : 03-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 12-Jan-2010 : Fixed WOL location. Added userid exclusion facility.
v4.0.3 : 17-Jan-2010 : Updated settings display. Added forum exclusion facility.
v4.0.4 : 20-Jan-2010 : Internal update, not released.
v4.0.5 : 26-Jan-2010 : Various updates.
v4.0.6 : 16-Feb-2010 : Settings update.
v4.0.7 : 27-Feb-2010 : Style code updates for vB 4.0.2.
v4.0.8 : 26-Sep-2010 : Install Code Updated.
v4.0.9 : 06-Nov-2010 : Install code updated.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.
v4.1.1 : 05-Mar-2011 : Fix possible array issue.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

[mindway]

how can i display this on top of each page... for instance call the plugin at top of each page...

[Paul M]

You cannot do that, its designed to be its own page.

[beatyourtruck]

Excellent Paul. Working perfectly on 4.1.2.

Thank you! 8)

[Strauss]

awesome thanks!

[dlewisr]

Cheers mate. Job's a good 'un

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by mindway

how can i display this on top of each page... for instance call the plugin at top of each page...

Originally Posted by Paul M

You cannot do that, its designed to be its own page.

Well, it could be done, if he really want it and want to do a bit work on it.

You need to change template Top_posters, remove everything except table code for creating list and usual HTML page code. The rest is just how vBulletin creates its own pages, so it could go and in this case it should go.

Then find template that is used everywhere. You should use either navbar or footer (i.e. if you want it on top or bottom of your forum). After that, just put iframe html code calling top posters.

If you don't know about what I'm talking, don't do this.

[Alan_SP]

Paul, excellent mod, really like it. I use it for Top 100 posters, so I needed to add poster's position number (you can get lost in this many posters).

If someone wants to do this, edit this template:

Top_Posters_Bit

find:

{vb:raw posts.username}

add before:

{vb:raw posts.row}.

As posts.raw isn't defined, you need to create it. Edit plugin Top posters that uses hook misc_start (all plugins have same name, so look for hook).

Find:

PHP Code:

                $posts['userid'] = $posts[$col]['userid'];
                $posts['username'] = $posts[$col]['username'];
                $posts['postcount'] = vb_number_format($posts[$col]['postcount']);
                $templater = vB_Template::create('Top_Posters_Bit');
                $templater->register('posts',$posts);
                $toppostrow .= $templater->render(); 


Add right before or after this code:

PHP Code:

$posts['row'] = $row+1; 


That's it, you have users postion before users name. I attached modified file.

[billstelling]

awesome mod! I like it allot, well done.

[jack150464]

How do I change the background color?

thanks

[Paul M]

You would need to edit the custom CSS.