[How to] Change the time period for Visiting Members

[djbaxter]

Now that the "Total members that have visited the forum" listing on the forum home has become part of the core vBulletin files, what do I need to change to customize the time period for visiting members?

Currently, the only options are Today (since midnight) or Last 24 Hours.

I need a custom time period for a niche forum.

[kh99]

You could do it with plugins. If you look in forum.php around line 660 you can see where it sets $cutoff and $description based on the "last 24 hours/today" setting. For example you could set $cutoff to TIMENOW - (3600 * X) to get the last X hours.

[djbaxter]

Previously edited the core file. Now after the upgrade to 4.2.1 had to redo those edits of course.

I'm not sure how to construct a plugin that modifies the calculated value from the core file without having the core file calculation override mine.

What would it look like? What hook would I use?

[Lynne]

You could try the hook location forumhome_whovisited_prelist