Statistics Modifications - vbTrends - An Enhanced Statistics Box on Forum Home

Note: This product is now being supported at www.catnine.net

Keywords: Statistics, New members, joins, trends, Forum Home, threads, posts

ATTENTION:
If you download the latest version go into your usergroups and set the 'can view trends' permission. SAVE the usergroup even if you haven't changed the setting or things may not work. There is an odd permissions bug I haven't figured out yet.

Also note that overwrite will not work. Please uninstall the previous version before installing the new one.

Description:
Enhances the "YourBBS" Statistics box on the forum home to show trends of posts, threads and new users vs. the overall history of the board. Also allows you to display more than one "newest member".

Version 2.0.0:

1. Calculations exposed and modifiable in admincp.
2. Added ability to delay updates of stats to every x minutes in admincp.
3. Added a style setting for positive and negative trends.
4. Added custom hooks for all aspects of vbTrends, and moved code into said hooks.
5. Changed template to still show total threads when trend is negative and 'positive trends only' is enabled.
6. Usergroup permission to view trends.

Note: You cannot cause an error by messing up the calculations in the admincp. If the calculation you provide contains errors the stat in question will show as N/A.

This is a major rewrite, so I've set the hack to beta for now.

Version 1.2.6:

1. Made some minor tweaks for cleaner code
2. Made change to build datastore call to force serialization

You can just overwrite the product.xml if you are upgrading. Remember vbTrends has an option in the admincp to reset the counters. To see any changes/fixes you'll want to run that, or you'll end up having to wait for a new day before the changes will take affect.

Version 1.2.5:

1. fixed minor bug in auto-replace that was causing it not to work on some boards

Version 1.2.4:

1. fixed bug in percentage of active users
2. fixed bug in limit of queries (added order by)

Thanks to bchertov and Battle_Ring for the testing

Version 1.2.3:

1. Added option to display % of active users.
2. Added option to set the number of previous months to include in the trend data.

Version 1.1.3:

1. Updated for vBulletin 3.6.
2. Fixed long standing problem with stats calculating incorrectly.
3. Added option to only show positive trends.

Version 1.1.2:

1. Added admincp menu to reset cached counters.
2. Fixed a couple of divide by zero errors that occurred when your board had no history (was less than a month old).
3. Fixed so templates are now cached.

Version 1.1.1:

1. Fixed calculation of statistics - should definately be correct now

Version 1.1.0:

1. Fully phrased.
2. Uses templates now so look and feel can be customized
3. Fixed bug so output is valid xhtml 1.0.

Version 1.0.0:

1. Turn on/off in admincp
2. Offers the option to auto replace in templates, or to manually edit templates.
3. Allows more than one 'newest user' to be display.
4. Shows trends for posts, threads and new users - this month vs. the boards average.

Install

1. Download the vbTrends_2.0.0.zip.
2. Unzip and follow instructions in install.html.

[Doctor Death]

Have you considered adding an option to show number of inactive users that is hyperlinkedl to their names? I would love this to determine who my inactive members are since I run a small board.

In Admincp options you would have "Show Inactive users YES NO"

Great mod

[hambil]

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

Have you considered adding an option to show number of inactive users that is hyperlinkedl to their names? I would love this to determine who my inactive members are since I run a small board.

In Admincp options you would have "Show Inactive users YES NO"

Great mod

Interesting. After some searching it looks like there are several 'auto-prune' and 'auto-email' inactive users hacks out there, but nothing that just simply lists them. Perhaps, you'd be better off talking up one of those hack authors though. I don't want this hack to start to become a grab-bag.

[Doctor Death]

One other request: I use a version tracker for products within VB. Could you please consider supporting version checking and other product metadata (website link, etc).

Thanks, this is great stuff.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by Doctor Death

One other request: I use a version tracker for products within VB. Could you please consider supporting version checking and other product metadata (website link, etc).

Thanks, this is great stuff.

I definitely want to do that. Right now I'm still in the process of setting up my own site, and will version check and website link and whatnot everything once it's up and running

[ericgray]

i love it!

www.pbsmiles.com

could we set off the line titles in bold?

like this --

Active Members: 261 (25%)
Threads: 12,077, This Month: 606 (2%)
Posts: 168,037, This Month: 10096 (18%)
Members: 1,057, This Month: 65 (25%)
Welcome to our newest 5 members, Amatul, mmr, luv4pits, Ulyssa, chellyk17
There have been 489 post(s) in the last 24 hours.

[ericgray]

also, is there a way to get commas inserted?

like in the 10000 number above -- 10,000 is much easier --

[hambil]

Originally Posted by ericgray

also, is there a way to get commas inserted?

like in the 10000 number above -- 10,000 is much easier --

Good point. I'll add it to the next release once we have enough changes to warrant the risk again

[spazz191]

Has anyone experienced an issue with this hack and ibProArcade. When I have this hack enabled I cannot access the arcade, with it off I can. I looked on the ibProarcade forums and there is nothing said over there.

[ymy]

Hi

I am Installed . but no percentage all (0%) (0%) (0%)

any help

thanks

[hambil]

Originally Posted by spazz191

Has anyone experienced an issue with this hack and ibProArcade. When I have this hack enabled I cannot access the arcade, with it off I can. I looked on the ibProarcade forums and there is nothing said over there.

I have ibProArcade installed on my site along with this hack, and have no issues...