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]

Originally Posted by derfelix

Anti cheat..
we have now the ability to control if the code is on the users site.. great.
but the user could click hundreds of times on his banner on his site.. giving it lots of ins! there are 2 ways of preventing this.. by logging ips.. and with cookies..

I believe I added the feature to limit the number of ins per IP address. But I think adding a cookies thing would be good also. I'll prolly add that...

Originally Posted by derfelix

second:
a user links out to his site.. this is a good and clean site.. its ok..
after a week.. he changes the outlink and sends people clicking his banner to a viagra site.. or a ringtone site or a porn site.. his outlink the admin should be notified. (ok... as few of these sites will have the code - which is checked here - it is only of minor importance)

So your saying have it PM the admin when they change their URL? That would be easy for me to add. Let me know if this is what you mean.

Thanks,
Derek

[Mr.D]

Ok the button problem is fixed in admin cp that file works

Can you make an addon so buttons can be shown in header

[DementedMindz]

ok that fixed my problem with the Categories... now i just have one other question... a few of the new topsites out its hard to link to them cause the basiclly use a button... here is a example code...

<a href="http://www.example.com/">
<img src="http://www.example.com/button.php?u=DementedMindz" alt="Example Topsites" border="0" />
</a>

how code we link to that?

also make it a little easier to validate the sites... ex. i added like 20 sites yesterday as admin from admin panel... now when i added them i figured it would of added them but it didnt... i had to go to the toplist.php page once on there i had to hit edit not validate cause if i hit validate it said waiting admin approval when i was the admin so i hit edit then save and it validated them... Aardvark Topsites PHP you maybe able to get some nice ideas of features from that script... such as a Stats page and the site Movement say it goes up or down in rank... here is a few features that it has that would be nice on here also...

- Members ranks can be shown on their button.
- Advanced stats and graphs
- Stat Buttons, allowing you to customize your buttons and display all kinds of stats on them
- Counts unique pageviews, total pageviews, unique hits in, total hits in, unique hits out, and total hits out
- Rank daily, weekly, or monthly

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by Mr.D

Ok the button problem is fixed in admin cp that file works

Can you make an addon so buttons can be shown in header

Sure, I'll try when I get some time. Where in the header should it be?

Derek

[derekivey]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

ok that fixed my problem with the Categories... now i just have one other question... a few of the new topsites out its hard to link to them cause the basiclly use a button... here is a example code...

<a href="http://www.example.com/">
<img src="http://www.example.com/button.php?u=DementedMindz" alt="Example Topsites" border="0" />
</a>

how code we link to that?

also make it a little easier to validate the sites... ex. i added like 20 sites yesterday as admin from admin panel... now when i added them i figured it would of added them but it didnt... i had to go to the toplist.php page once on there i had to hit edit not validate cause if i hit validate it said waiting admin approval when i was the admin so i hit edit then save and it validated them... Aardvark Topsites PHP you maybe able to get some nice ideas of features from that script... such as a Stats page and the site Movement say it goes up or down in rank... here is a few features that it has that would be nice on here also...

- Members ranks can be shown on their button.
- Advanced stats and graphs
- Stat Buttons, allowing you to customize your buttons and display all kinds of stats on them
- Counts unique pageviews, total pageviews, unique hits in, total hits in, unique hits out, and total hits out
- Rank daily, weekly, or monthly

I don't quite understand what you mean about trying to link to them. Can you please give me a better example?

Also I'll take a look into adding your suggestions.

Derek

[DementedMindz]

Originally Posted by derekivey

I don't quite understand what you mean about trying to link to them. Can you please give me a better example?

Also I'll take a look into adding your suggestions.

Derek

ok for example there html code is this

<a href="http://www.example.com/">
<img src="http://www.example.com/button.php?u=DementedMindz" alt="Example Topsites" border="0" />
</a>

now if you try to link to this http://www.example.com/button.php?u=DementedMindz it will only bring you to there topsite button and not give you a hit and rate to there topsite... you need the full html code to get hits to there topsite... basiclly you need to enter that code if not you dont get hits... ill send you a pm with a direct link and it should explain it more

[Mr.D]

Originally Posted by derekivey

Sure, I'll try when I get some time. Where in the header should it be?

Derek

At the bottom of the Header

[Mr.D]

Error No. 1
I cant upload this .gif file Attachment 49340

Error No. 2
I cant validate site from siteurl.com/toplist.php

Attachment 49342

i get this message when i click on the validate.

Attachment 49341

Error No.3

The buttons that are on the forums home page they are shown and they are not validated i think that needs fixing. And they are not opening in the new window and that is selected in admin cp.

Error No.4

The link to username of the user that submited the site is wrong in admin cp toplist see screenshot

Attachment 49344

This are the errors that i found so far i hope this helps.

[jaks]

I was just coming to ask about the categories edit link being broken and I see you have a fix for it already. I uploaded the new file and it's now working just fine.

I would love it if you could add category descriptions to this hack and figure out the issue with the VBadvanced pages breaking the voting popup. Category descriptions are a more important thing I would think though.

[jaks]

I modified the VBA module template so it could be used as a side module.
If you would like it I posted it in the VBA module addon thread for the topsite here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=101302 and I also added a screenshot of what it looks like finished.