Number of new members statistic on forum home

I wanted to show potential advertisers as well as potential forum members how many people are registering to use our forums every day.
So I wrote this hack to display a 30 day average in the stats box of the forum home. It counts the number of people in user group 2 - registered members, ignoring those people who haven't activated their accounts, yet.
It's very easy, takes just a few minutes and requires 1 additional query.
You can see it working at www.avforums.com.
Please click Install if you use it.
Thanks to Bryan Ex for doing a bit of bug fixing help

[Bryan Ex]

Great idea... well, at least for active forums. LOL Adding it in today - thanks!

[Bryan Ex]

Something you will likely get asked about is a query to update the stats after a new install. I can see many not wanting to display 0.00 to start out with.

[Spinball]

I doubt anyone having done a new install will want to have this hack working for a wee while. Anyway all they'll have to do is revert back to the original FORUMHOME template. Glad you think it's useful.

[Bryan Ex]

LOL... yeah, that I agree with but what I meant was even for an established board the stats start out at 0 and I would presume it will take a month for them to be accurate (each day that passes getting a little closer). I've done exactly what you've suggested and left it installed but commented out the forum display until later this month when it looks a little better. I'll just have to remember to uncomment next month. Nice hack though and it will be very helpful to me.

[M1th]

You could use the round() function to get a whole number out of the average.

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by M1th

You could use the round() function to get a whole number out of the average.

Just change the new line in the index.php script from

PHP Code:

$averageregistrations = vb_number_format($userstats['averageregistrations'],2); 

to

PHP Code:

$averageregistrations = vb_number_format($userstats['averageregistrations']); 

i.e. remove the ',2'. I deliberately wanted to specify a couple of decimal places. Makes the stats look more scientific

[Polo]

Nice Hack, I like it

[Johnny]

i dont understand how this mod works spinball...

i looked on ur site and it says:
New registrations per day (30 day average): 66.20

whats the decimal part for? i thought each new register counts as one and not as a decimal

[Bryan Ex]

It's averaged over a 30 day period... in this case 1986 new joins in 30 days (1986 / 30).