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As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[rasp187]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You would need to edit the custom CSS.

Any way you can detail this more, like how I make it darker for my dark skins instead of white? Great mod, btw. Thanks a lot!

[Paul M]

Sorry, I cannot give specific examples - the custom css is a template supplied as part of the mod, you can edit as you wish.

[Paul M]

Updated: This is now available for the 4.1.x series of vBulletin only.

[Alan_SP]

Paul, could you make that users' names appear how they look like in postbit (with different colors)?

[vividbreeze]

Is there a homepage widget for this too? Kinda like the top 5 poster one I saw long ago?

[nodofollow]

work with 4.1.9 ?

[Paul M]

As it says : vB Version: 4.1.x

[Danny Diamond]

Installed. It would be cool if you could make it so it appeared under "Who's online" and a bit smaller.

Overall its a sweet mod though. Thanks for it.

[lazytown]

This is a great mod, and I used to run it on 3.x. However, I had to disable it because it is an absolute resource hog on my large forum (5+mil posts). Running it the first time spiked my server load for 30 seconds from 2 to 8 (and tied up mysql). subsequent runs still take over 15 seconds. This is on a very fast server (8cpu, 12gig, 15K scsi raid 10, xcache, sphinx, etc).

Are there any options to cache tho results or reduce server load? Maybe a cron job once per day?

[lazytown]

Interesting... If I enable the monthly count, it takes forever.. If I do 28 days it also takes forever. But if I do 1 day, 7 days and all time, it takes only a second or two. 14 days maybe adds 1 second. There is a threshold of some type where it takes vastly longer, so it's not linear. Could it have to do with some cache filling up (vbulletin, mysql or xcache)?