Top XX Posters

LAST UPDATED: 3.26.01 2:10 AM Eastern

I put together a little thing to show the top XX posters on your board. It can be used on a non-vB page. The username is a link to the member's profile.



Hack version: 0.0.4

Changes from version 0.0.1: Fixed a small bug with the path.
Changes from version 0.0.2: Added option to exclude admins from list of posters.
Changes from version 0.0.3: Fixed alternating colors so they are horizontal, not vertical. Changed $path to $url and $path2 to $path to make variables easier. Added a seperate header row color.

For version: 2.0.0 beta 3 (possibly also beta 1 and beta 2, but it is untested with those versions).

Files needed: topposters.php (see attached zip file below).

Files to edit: topposters.php (see instructions below).

Possible file locations: Anywhere, so long as the $path is set correctly.

Instructions

• Unzip the file topposters.php from topposters004.zip to your hard drive.
• Open topposters.php in an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad (Windows), SimpleText (Mac), EditPlus, UltraEdit, TextPad, etc. (DO NOT use WYSIWYG HTML editors such as FrontPage, HotDog, DreamWeaver, etc. They will in all likelyhood screw up the file! I will not be able to support you if you edit the file in one of these programs.)
• Edit the variables at the top. These are:
  ---$maxposters > This is the number of posters you want to show.
  ---$hc > Set this to the color you want the header row to be.
  ---$bc1 and $bc2 > These are the first and second alternating colors. Look at the picture in the vbulletin.com thread and you'll see what I mean.
  ---$text and $link > Set the colors of the main text and the color of the links. Make sure this color is visible on both alternating colors, set in step 3b.
  ---$font > This is the font(s) to use for display. You can set specific fonts (e.g. Verdana, Arial, etc.) or general font-families (e.g. sans-serif, serif).
  ---$fontsize > Set a point size for your font. Size 8 is about equivelant to <font size=1>. Anything below about 6 will basically be undreadable, so be careful.
  ---$url > This is the path to your board files, such as index.php, members.php, etc. This is *not* the path to config.php (e.g. don't include the /admin part of the URL)!
  ---$path > This is the path to config.php - normally in the /admin directory. Do not add a trailing slash. It may need a leading slash.
  ---$admins > If you want admins included on the list of posters, set this to 1. If you do *not* want admins included, set this to 0.
• Upload it to your website. You can include it as follows. To include it on a PHP-parsed page (.php, .php3, .phtml, etc.):
  

  <? include("topposters.php"); ?>

  To include it on a server-parsed page (.shtml, .shtm, .ssi, etc.):
  

  <!--#include file="topposters.php"-->

Instructions are included in the zip file (topposters.txt) and brief instructions are also in the topposters.php file itself.

FEEDBACK WANTED! Likes/dislikes/modification requests, please.

Sorry dudes,

have been away for some time. Anyone care to bring me back on track?

-Pie

I want to Include it on the index.php ... HOOOOOOOW ?

Help me plz

[webhost]

top of index.php make look like this

<?php
error_reporting(7);
require('./global.php');
require("./topposters.php");

Try that make sure topposters.php is in your forums root directory

add $topposters in forumhome you will need to build a table for it.

I need More help with the Table ...

Verry cool, but how to exclude admins AND moderators ?

[ColdFusion]

is there any way to include it on my forums home page
the first page where you see all forum?
like in http://mysite.com/forums

[Neo]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ColdFusion
is there any way to include it on my forums home page
the first page where you see all forum?
like in http://mysite.com/forums

[ColdFusion]

I have a swf intro on my forum home page and i want to place the topposters below that but above the list of forums the forums. right in the index.php page.

[Neo]

like this.... http://www.animegathering.com/
look in the stats bar.

sorry for my bad english, but how to exclude admins AND moderators ?

thank