Member of the Day!

The idea is from SitePoint Forums.

I think a lot of people really want this hack, and I've even seen a released version of it here, but it used cronjobs and stuff like that I'm sure not all of use want to mess with.

So, here's my version of the hack, completely crobjob-less and 100% working.
The hack also includes an easy way for the admins to change the member of the day at any given time. (see note below)
You can see it in action in this board, on the main page in the stats box.

To install this hack download the attached file (memberofday.hack.php), upload to your /admin folder and use vbHacker.

A couple of notes:

• The member of the day will reset every day at 12:00am server time.
• It is possible for the admins to re-choose the member of the day at any given time, by adding "?resetmember=1" when visiting index.php. (only logged in admins can use this; for regular users it won't do anything)
• The only check in the code is to prevent the same member of the day two days in a row. It is possible, however, that the same member will be chosen two days after he was already a member of the month.
• I don't recommend using this hack on a small forum (with not-so-many members) because of the above.

That's it, have fun.

[cditty]

I don't know. It's weird. I figured it musta had something to do with the customized sql that you had to give me. Every time I tried it, I got an invalid sql command.

I also just sent you a pm....

Chris

[neal]

I have done so, and I still get the error

[ForKmaN]

works for me now

[cditty]

Any ideas on mine FireFly?

Chris

[Admin]

What's the error you are gettting, Chris?

[cditty]

This is the error that I am getting.

[code]
Database error in vBulletin 2.2.1:

Invalid SQL: -1209600
AND (usergroupid=5
OR usergroupid=6
OR usergroupid=7
OR usergroupid=9
OR usergroupid=10
OR usergroupid=2)
ORDER BY randNum
LIMIT 1
mysql error:

mysql error number:

Date: Thursday 07th of March 2002 06:46:03 AM
[\code]

This is the code as I have it in my index.php3 file.

$newmember=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT userid,username,userid*0+RAND() AS randNum
                                        FROM user
                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1] AND posts>99
                                         AND lastactivity>time()-(86400*14)
                                         AND (usergroupid=5
                                          OR usergroupid=6
                                          OR usergroupid=7
                                          OR usergroupid=9
                                          OR usergroupid=10
                                          OR usergroupid=2)
                                       ORDER BY randNum
                                       LIMIT 1");

I have tried it with and without the "s around the time() section. Wierd thing is that I can run this query though mysqladmin.

Chris

[cditty]

I just got it going. I simply replaced the "s with 's. Seems to work like a charm.

Thanks again.

Chris

[Dakota]

Thanks, my members love this hack, just need to change it so that the use must still be active on the forum.

[Dakota]

Originally posted by FireFly
Replace:

                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1]

with:

                                       WHERE userid<>$daybits[1] AND lastactivity>".time()-(86400*14)."

(14 is the number of days)

By the way, I'm not sure myself whether it's lastactivity or lastvisit we need to check, so I'm open for corrections here.

when I changed it to go by the activity, it gave me an error. I don't know why, I copied everything correctly.

[cditty]

try using single quotes instead of double. That was my problem.

Chris