Mini Mods - [DBTech] User Spotlight v1 (vB3)

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present User Spotlight v1: A mini mod to show a random member on your forumhome page.


Why User Spotlight?

DBTech's User Spotlight mod lets you display a random member on your forum home page as a way to increase member commmunication.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support for this version is handled at the Developers Website.

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Translations available @ [url="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations[/URL]
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Major Features

ForumHome Integration: Members' details will show in the infobar on the forumhome.

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To Install:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" folder to your forum.
2. Import the product file via the product manager in your AdminCP.
3. Done!

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Feature List

• Random user selected every night
• Admin override of selected user
• Admin variables to limit selected users by number of posts, reputation and days active

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by haytham

Hi,
I am running 3.8.6 and I have carried out installation instructions but I get nothing. I tried IE 8 and FF and same result. Look at the pic.

What do you have in the settings area for the Member ID and is it a valid user? It looks like what I would expect if you had an invalid userid in there.

[EnigmaVariation]

Everything is working great. I just had a question about the random member selection. Will it cycle through all of the members and not repeat anyone until it starts over again? Or is it truly random and some people could show up 3 times and others not at all? I have a member who has been in the spotlight twice now so I was wondering.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by EnigmaVariation

Everything is working great. I just had a question about the random member selection. Will it cycle through all of the members and not repeat anyone until it starts over again? Or is it truly random and some people could show up 3 times and others not at all? I have a member who has been in the spotlight twice now so I was wondering.

It selects all the users that fit the criteria in a random order. Then it cycles through the list and picks the first person that's a member of the allowed groups. So yes, someone could be selected a few times before someone gets picked once.

[haytham]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

What do you have in the settings area for the Member ID and is it a valid user? It looks like what I would expect if you had an invalid userid in there.

Hi. I left it as it is and my ID is 1.

[mjjboard]

Thanks I updated, however now it appears like the cron never runs, due to the fact the user never changes.

I have even run the cron manually, and the user still does not change.

I have this set to daily:

When to run
Choose how often you want the scheduled task to run.

And I have not edited anything anywhere.

When I upgraded I chose overwrite in all incidences.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by mjjboard

Thanks I updated, however now it appears like the cron never runs, due to the fact the user never changes.

I have even run the cron manually, and the user still does not change.

I have this set to daily:

When to run
Choose how often you want the scheduled task to run.

And I have not edited anything anywhere.

When I upgraded I chose overwrite in all incidences.

What does the scheduled task log for the spotlight say?

[SamirDarji]

I like this plugin, but it's overkill for what I need. I can dissect the code and figure out how to make a query for this, but all I need is a sql query to give me a random user that's logged in say in the last week or month. Would it be possible to just give me that query?

[Rickpwns]

Nice, Will try!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

I like this plugin, but it's overkill for what I need. I can dissect the code and figure out how to make a query for this, but all I need is a sql query to give me a random user that's logged in say in the last week or month. Would it be possible to just give me that query?

What info do you what? just the username? and which do you want, a week or a month.

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

What info do you what? just the username? and which do you want, a week or a month.

Yep, just the random username of someone who was active within the week or month that the query is run in. I'm planning to make it into a cron job and just email me or somehow otherwise send me the name.

I want to use this to reward users for being online and logged in. I have a large number of users that visit my site, but don't log in.

Thank you so very much!