Total Time Spent On Forums

Total Time Spent On Board
Author: tnguy3n
Live Demo: http://12.226.255.221/vb35

This hack shows total time that users spent on the board.

To show all time units including seconds, minutes, hours, etc, uncomment lines for thoese variables in "Total Spent Time On Board" plugin.

Query: 1
File modification: 1
Plugins: 2
Template mod: 2

Update: 10/12/05
Add option to show user's total spent time on forums in the profile.
If you want to run the User's Total Spent Time In Profile as an stand-alone hack, you have to run run following query:

PHP Code:

ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `timeonboard` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL AFTER `lastactivity`; 


[IrPr]

Originally Posted by peterska2

Let me see......

[high]* peterska2 gazes into crystal ball[/high]

You upgraded to 3.5.3
Your times stopped
You didn't re-apply the one code modification.




Don't worry, I do it every time.

one question
upgrading will lost 'timeonboard' field in 'user' table ?

another1
is it possible to make this without code modification ? a hook plugin or an extension is more stable than code modification

[peterska2]

It doesn't lose the data, just the bit in the code edit that tells it to add to it.

I believe earlier in the thread someone else asked the same thing and the reply from the author was no due to the nature of the edit.

[lifesourcerec]

Originally Posted by Moosa

same problem here untill re-uploading plugins

make sure u uploaded total time on board.zip plugin

re-uploaded the plugins 4 times. Still same thing.

[lifesourcerec]

Here is the part I need to know... in the instructions, it says:

UPLOAD timeonboard.xml plugin

yet, the file is named, "total_time_on_board.xml"

Would that make any difference?

[Megareus Rex]

Question.

Is there a way to edit exactly how this hack displays the time spent? Like, to change it from using abbreviations to the full words, and adding commas between the different measures of time?

Right now, for me, it displays it like this:
Time spent in the forum:
2 month 0 week 1 day

But I want to have it as:
Time spent in the forum:
2 months, 0 weeks, 1 day

Also, is there a way so it gives the plural of the word if the amount is not 1? And to skip a measure of time if its 0, so it would display like this:
Time spent in the forum:
2 months, 1 day, X hours

[fridayweb]

I have added everything and it works great, and I too am interested in Megareus Rex's suggestion. I went into the Total Spent Time On Board In Profile plug-in and added 's's and commas to the different words, but I would like there to be a way to show just 'day' instead of 'days' if it is only one, etc.

If this is too much work, then it's not that big a deal.

[interceptor]

works great.

"Installed"

[lifesourcerec]

Originally Posted by IrPr

same problem here untill re-uploading plugins

make sure u uploaded total time on board.zip plugin

uploaded the xml file over and over again and still doesn't work.

[Megareus Rex]

So, any advancement on the changes I suggested...?

[ctsolutions]

works like a charm, thanks.

Installed

mike