Toplist

Toplist
Developer: derekivey
Version: 2.0.0
vBulletin Version: 3.5.5 (Seems to work fine on 3.6.0)
File Edits: 0
Template Edits: 2 (Optional)
New Phrases: 294
Uses Plugins: Yes!
Difficulty: Easy

Description: This hack adds a Toplist to your forums. You can choose in the AdminCP whether to rank the sites by their In hits or their Out hits. It is fully phrased to make it easy to translate to another language if you need to. The users are able to add a site, edit, or delete their site if they added it. The Administrators can Edit the users' sites or Delete them.
This hack is for vBulletin 3.5.5.

*** I Strongly Recommend That You Backup Your Database Before Installing/Upgrading This Hack! ***

Planned features for a later release:

• Add Image Storage Setting (hot linking or upload)
• Add Stats Page [ Will be released later ]
• Add API to get site info onto non-vB pages and other vB pages.
• Add Site Comment System
• Fix bug with & not being allowed in URLs [ Done ]
• Add Setting to choose where to put Toplist Sites Marquee
• Whatever else is suggested

Change Log
The change log is now available here.

Screen Shots
I have added screen shots of this hack in action below.
More screenshots are located here.

Demo
You can find demo information here.

Translations
You can find a French translation of this hack here.

For a How To on Editing the Dynamic Image, See this Post.

Please click Install you installed this hack.


Thanks!

[derekivey]

By the way guys. Here are some screenshots of my progress so far. So far I have the feature that checks to see if the code has been added to their site done. I just need to make the cronjob that can automatically check it and validate it. The code checking feature is optional and can be disabled or enabled in the settings. All it does is looks for the board URL on each site and validates the site if it is found.

Derek

[Mr.D]

Great when can we aspect the release

[derekivey]

Not sure when, I've been busy studying for finals which are Tuesday and Wednesday. So hopefully after those 2 days sometime maybe, before, I don't know exactly when.

[vonedaddy]

Great hack, I have one small problem. The dynamic image.png button does not work, I editted according to your directions in post #450. Any ideas?

[derekivey]

Can you paste the contents of it here in tags please?

Thanks,
Derek

[vonedaddy]

PHP Code:

<?php 

/*======================================================================*\
|| #################################################################### ||
|| # Toplist Hack - Version 1.0.6                      # ||
|| # For vBulletin 3.5.3                          # ||
|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ||
|| # By Derek Ivey (derek@modbb.com)                      # ||
|| # This hack may not be redistributed without my written permission # ||
|| #################################################################### ||
\*======================================================================*/

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ########################### 
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); 

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'toplist_dynamic_image');

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
// change the following to the path to your forum, with no ending slash.
chdir('/home/u1/vonaone/html/forum');
require_once('global.php'); 

// ####################################################################### 
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################ 
// #######################################################################

// ############################## MISC STUFF #############################
header("Content-type: image/png"); 
$image = imagecreatefrompng("images/toplist/buttons/dynamic/background.png");  
$color = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 255);
$font = 3;

// ######################### GRAB INFO FROM DB ###########################
//$sql = "SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "toplist_sites WHERE id='8'";
$sql = "SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "toplist_sites WHERE id='".$db->escape_string($_GET['id'])."'";
$sqlr = $db->query_read($sql);
$sr = $db->fetch_array($sqlr);

if ($vbulletin->options['toplist_ranking_method'] == 0)
{    
    $order = '`in`';
}
else if ($vbulletin->options['toplist_ranking_method'] == 1)
{
    $order = 'out';
}
else if ($vbulletin->options['toplist_ranking_method'] == 2)
{
    $order = 'rating_average';
}
else
{
    $order = '`in`';
}

$rank1 = "SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "toplist_sites ORDER BY ".$order." DESC";
$rank2 = $db->query_read($rank1);
$i = 1;
while($rank3 = $db->fetch_array($rank2))
{
    if ($rank3['id'] == $_GET['id'])
    {
        $rank = $i;
    }
    else
    {
        $i++;
    }
}

// ############################# CREATE IMAGE ############################
imagestring($image, $font, 44, 28, $rank, $color);
imagestring($image, $font, 52, 42, $sr['in'], $color);
imagestring($image, $font, 62, 56, $sr['out'], $color);
imagestring($image, $font, 52, 70, $sr['rating_average'], $color);
imagestring($image, 2, 5, 83, $sr['name'], $color);

imagepng($image); 
imagedestroy($image);
?>

[derekivey]

See what the permissions are for that file. Make sure it has execute permissions (CHMOD 755). Please let me know if that fixes it.

Thanks,
Derek

[vonedaddy]

Originally Posted by derekivey

See what the permissions are for that file. Make sure it has execute permissions (CHMOD 755). Please let me know if that fixes it.

Thanks,
Derek

No Sir, any other ideas?

[derekivey]

Make sure the .htaccess file is in that folder and also make sure your host supports .htaccess and also has GD.

[vonedaddy]

Originally Posted by derekivey

Make sure the .htaccess file is in that folder and also make sure your host supports .htaccess and also has GD.

Yes to all of the above, we use gd 2 btw.