vBulletin CMS Widgets - Top posters widget type

What does this do?
This mod provides a Top Posters widget type which can be configured to show the members who made the most posts over a period of time.

Features

• Provides widget type Top Posters.
• Displays a list of the top posters on your forum inside a widget.
• Allows multiple instances of the widget.
• Easy installation via products system.
• Configuration options:
  • Usergroups to include
  • Eight different time periods to choose from
  • Number of posters to display.
• Displays avatar of 'top poster'

Potential features

• Exclude forum(s) from counting
• Exclude forum(s) with no post count
• Top all time posters (eg based on post count)
• Top bloggers widget
• Top article posters widget
• Top social groups widget
• Top posted in forums widget
• Top posted in threads widget
• Top commented on album/blog/articles widget

Installation
1. Upload the contents of the upload folder to your site.
2. Import product file.
3. Clear CMS cache. (failing to do this may mean the widget doesn't show up in the create new widget box)

Usage
1. Go into the widget manager and select Create new widget.
2. Select the top posters widget type from the drop down list.
3. Fill out the remaining form items and hit save.
4. Configure the widget from the widget manager.
5. Add the widget to a layout.

What is an Alpha release?
This modification has been released as an Alpha release. This means that it has only been tested within a limited number of environments, eg My development board and boards of a small number of other users. As far as I'm aware, all releases are bug free at the time of release, but due to the limited number of users not all the bugs may have been found yet.

As with all mods, make a full backup of your database before installing and ideally, test on a development board which matches the setup of your live board as closely as possible first. Please report any issues you have and any solutions you find, to help improve this product.

Changelog

• 4.0-0.1 a2
  • Fixed issue with configuring widget on vb 4.1
  • Added avatar of top poster to widget.
• 4.0-0.1 a1
  • Initial release

Notes

• I created this widget because the existing ones that do similar things had performance issues and the mod author was unwilling/slow to implement the fix I sent them. This behaives much more reasonably, even in the worst case (top posters this year) It takes a little over a second when run against my 1.2 million posts board. Considering that this result is cached for a day, the performance implications of this widget are minimal.
• Caching behaivour can only be changed by editing the code; currently the last* time periods cache the result to the end of the time period (eg if you are using last month, the cache is set to expire about 1 minuite after the start of the next month) For this year and this month, the cache is set to expire after a day, this week is set to expire after 6 hours and today is set to expire hourly. A future version may allow customisation over these timings.
• The Planned features are a set of ideas that I could do using the current code fairly easilly; however most are not required for my own use, if there are sufficient people interested in a feature to make it worth my while coding it, I will do.
• This is an example of how to write a widget properly and I used the direct php execution widget as a model of how to implement it. Please feel free to use this code as an example when creating your own widgets types.

[Juggernaut]

Originally Posted by Carnage

I've got an idea what may be happening; could you try adding a vb widget to the page which shows avatars such as recent posts?

Got it working by adding the recent threads widget and also the articles widget. Any way to make it work, without a vb widget?

[Fready]

Yesterday we installed the mod and the Home Page crashed. Good thanks, we got the Home Page working again but the widget interface in vB CMS is completely screwed up and out of order. We've running 4.1

[Fready]

There is a load of errors like this after installing this widget:

Fatal error: Trying to get widgettype class from invalid widgettype '25' on line 270 in [path]/packages/vbcms/types.php in [path]/vb/vb.php on line 287

[Juggernaut]

Got it to work just like you said, all I had to do was place that vb widget, and it worked from then on, however if I make changes in the settings, I have to do the same thing over again, and I also have to clear the cms cache.

[Carnage]

Originally Posted by Juggernaut

Got it to work just like you said, all I had to do was place that vb widget, and it worked from then on, however if I make changes in the settings, I have to do the same thing over again, and I also have to clear the cms cache.

Thanks, you've confirmed my suspicion about what was going wrong. I've got a fix; will release once I've tested it some more. For now, if you try going into packages/topposters/widget/topposters.php and add the following:

require_once DIR . "/includes/functions_user.php";
require_once DIR . '/includes/functions.php';

after:

if($cachedata)
{
$view->class = $cachedata['class'];
$view->title = $view->widget_title = $cachedata['title'];
$view->description = $cachedata['description'];
$view->users = $cachedata['users'];
$view->type = $cachedata['type'];
$view->user = $cachedata['user'];
$view->useravatar = $cachedata['useravatar'];
return;
}

it should fix the issue.

[Carnage]

Fatal error: Trying to get widgettype class from invalid widgettype '25' on line 270 in [path]/packages/vbcms/types.php in [path]/vb/vb.php on line 287

Where abouts is that error appearing? admincp or front page?

[Fready]

Originally Posted by Carnage

Where abouts is that error appearing? admincp or front page?

Admin CP, Widget manager.
When I click on the widget manager it shows a long list of errors.
and I can no longer us the widget manager.
I deleted the folders I uploaded and took out the xml but the whole load of errors are still there.

[Fready]

If I sent you log in details to my Admin CP do you think you could have a look and try to help to fix this problem?

[pinoypot]

i've got the same problem when i installed it... even if i uninstall it... i cannot fix the error.

please tell me the complete step by step UNINSTALLATION procedure.

below is the error: AdminCP --> vBulletin CMS -->. Widgets

Trying to get widgettype class from invalid widgettype '23' on line 270 in /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/types.php
#0 /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/collection/widget.php(230): vBCms_Types->getWidgetTypeClass('23')
#1 /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/collection.php(448): vBCms_Collection_Widget->createItem(Array, 1)
#2 /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/collection/widget.php(162): vB_Collection->applyLoad(Resource id #82, 1)
#3 /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/model.php(348): vBCms_Collection_Widget->applyLoad(Resource id #82, 1)
#4 /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/model.php(302): vB_Model->loadInfo()
#5 /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/collection.php(408): vB_Model->Load(false)
#6 /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/collection.php(843): vB_Collection->Load()
#7 /home/pinoypot/public_html/admincp/cms_admin.php(1837): vB_Collection->valid()
#8 {main}

Fatal error: Trying to get widgettype class from invalid widgettype '23' on line 270 in [path]/packages/vbcms/types.php in [path]/vb/vb.php on line 287
#0 vb_error_handler(256, Trying to get widgettype class from invalid widgettype '23' on line 270 in /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/types.php , /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/vb.php, 287, Array ([exception] => vB_Exception_Warning Object ([] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => Trying to get widgettype class from invalid widgettype '23',[] => ,[] => 0,[] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/types.php,[] => 270,[] => Array ([0] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/collection/widget.php,[line] => 230,[function] => getWidgetTypeClass,[class] => vBCms_Types,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => 23)),[1] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/collection.php,[line] => 448,[function] => createItem,[class] => vBCms_Collection_Widget,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => Array ([itemid] => 41,[title] => Top Poster,[description] => Last week's top poster.,[widgettypeid] => 23),[1] => 1)),[2] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/collection/widget.php,[line] => 162,[function] => applyLoad,[class] => vB_Collection,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => Resource id #82,[1] => 1)),[3] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/model.php,[line] => 348,[function] => applyLoad,[class] => vBCms_Collection_Widget,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => Resource id #82,[1] => 1)),[4] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/model.php,[line] => 302,[function] => loadInfo,[class] => vB_Model,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ()),[5] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/collection.php,[line] => 408,[function] => Load,[class] => vB_Model,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => )),[6] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/collection.php,[line] => 843,[function] => Load,[class] => vB_Collection,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ()),[7] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/admincp/cms_admin.php,[line] => 1837,[function] => valid,[class] => vB_Collection,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ()))),[code] => 256)) called at [(null):0] #1 trigger_error(Trying to get widgettype class from invalid widgettype '23' on line 270 in /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/types.php , 256) called at [/home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/vb.php:287] #2 vB::handleException(vB_Exception_Warning Object ([] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => ,[] => Trying to get widgettype class from invalid widgettype '23',[] => ,[] => 0,[] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/types.php,[] => 270,[] => Array ([0] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/collection/widget.php,[line] => 230,[function] => getWidgetTypeClass,[class] => vBCms_Types,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => 23)),[1] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/collection.php,[line] => 448,[function] => createItem,[class] => vBCms_Collection_Widget,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => Array ([itemid] => 41,[title] => Top Poster,[description] => Last week's top poster.,[widgettypeid] => 23),[1] => 1)),[2] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/packages/vbcms/collection/widget.php,[line] => 162,[function] => applyLoad,[class] => vB_Collection,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => Resource id #82,[1] => 1)),[3] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/model.php,[line] => 348,[function] => applyLoad,[class] => vBCms_Collection_Widget,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => Resource id #82,[1] => 1)),[4] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/model.php,[line] => 302,[function] => loadInfo,[class] => vB_Model,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ()),[5] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/collection.php,[line] => 408,[function] => Load,[class] => vB_Model,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ([0] => )),[6] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/vb/collection.php,[line] => 843,[function] => Load,[class] => vB_Collection,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ()),[7] => Array ([file] => /home/pinoypot/public_html/admincp/cms_admin.php,[line] => 1837,[function] => valid,[class] => vB_Collection,[type] => ->,[args] => Array ())))) called at [(null):0]

[Gemma]

Nice addition. Thanks