Mini Mods - [DBTech] User Spotlight v1 (vB4)

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

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Major Features

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

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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

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of the forum home page which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Blackhat

avatars: /hsphere/local/home/username/mysite.com/forums/customavatars
forum url : http://www.mysite.com/forums

What url are you ending up with?
And are the avatars stored in the database or filesystem?

[Sephentos]

And again, a nice mod.
I love your mods, Thanks for sharing all of your great work!

[Blackhat]

This is the url I end up with

..ww.mysite.com/forums/forums/customavatars/avatar56363_1.gif

They are stored in the filesystem

[tattooz]

I can not seem to get it to update. I have it set at daily and even tried to run the cron manually. When I check the logs it says "Not time to update spotlight userid yet"

Any ideas?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by tattooz

I can not seem to get it to update. I have it set at daily and even tried to run the cron manually. When I check the logs it says "Not time to update spotlight userid yet"

Any ideas?

Did you have it set to weekly before? It might of put a future time in the field. Just go to the settings
ACP->Settings->Options->Spotlight General Options
At the bottom is the Spotlight Next Cron Run,just set that to 1 and run the scheduled task.

[Dylanblitz]

nevermind

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Blackhat

This is the url I end up with

They are stored in the filesystem

I think I have it figured out. I was linking the images from the bb url and the images are served from the home url. I'm going to fix it and release a new package, should work after that.

[tattooz]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Did you have it set to weekly before? It might of put a future time in the field. Just go to the settings
ACP->Settings->Options->Spotlight General Options
At the bottom is the Spotlight Next Cron Run,just set that to 1 and run the scheduled task.

That worked. I set it to hourly before I ran the cron manually and this is what the log says " Updated settings to spotlight userid 532, set next runtime to 1294156297"

Will it run hourly?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by tattooz

That worked. I set it to hourly before I ran the cron manually and this is what the log says " Updated settings to spotlight userid 532, set next runtime to 1294156297"

Will it run hourly?

That time is 3:51pm GMT today, so if that was an hour from when you ran it then yes
The scheduled task will run every hour and log an entry, so you can check back in a couple hours and read the log to see if it keeps running.

[DragonByte Tech]

Few small changes with 1.6.0
Added last post date to the selection criteria and fixed problem with avatar url