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As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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

[Paul M]

Do you have the Post.Dateline index on your forum ?

Do you use the usergroup filtering ?

[lazytown]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I have a Post.Dateline index.

I tried it with and without usergroup filtering, no noticeable difference.

Have you tried it on a very large forum?

[Nirjonadda]

Installed...working fine on 4.1.10

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by vissa

Have you tried it on a very large forum?

My forum has 2 million posts, it renders the whole page in < 1 second.

[Trevor Matthews]

Installed, works perfectly in 4.1.11

[ZEN888]

Hi,
I installed the 4200 on VB4.2, it did not work. No display of any numbers.

[Paul M]

Works just fine for me on 4.2

[ZEN888]

It is okay now. My forum was upgraded from VB4.1.11 to VB4.2. I needed to uninstall the older version of Top Posters, and to revert the Top Posters templates left in the system before I could install the VB4.2 Top Posters. Thanks.

[DevilGreeny]

Work fine with VB4.1.12
Could you please help me a small trouble?

I want to display more poster, with page navigation ( page 1, page 2... last page )
I want to display the Overall column, could you please edit that ?

Please help me

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by DevilGreeny

I want to display more poster, with page navigation ( page 1, page 2... last page )
I want to display the Overall column, could you please edit that ?

1. You can display more by changing the setting, however, there is no paging in this.

2. Edit what ? There is already an overall column.