[RELEASE v2] Top XX Posters

[tubedogg]

LAST UPDATED: 3.26.01 2:10 AM Eastern

I put together a little thing to show the top XX posters on your board. It can be used on a non-vB page. The username is a link to the member's profile.



Hack version: 0.0.4

Changes from version 0.0.1: Fixed a small bug with the path.
Changes from version 0.0.2: Added option to exclude admins from list of posters.
Changes from version 0.0.3: Fixed alternating colors so they are horizontal, not vertical. Changed $path to $url and $path2 to $path to make variables easier. Added a seperate header row color.

For version: 2.0.0 beta 3 (possibly also beta 1 and beta 2, but it is untested with those versions).

Files needed: topposters.php (see attached zip file below).

Files to edit: topposters.php (see instructions below).

Possible file locations: Anywhere, so long as the $path is set correctly.

Instructions

• Unzip the file topposters.php from topposters004.zip to your hard drive.
• Open topposters.php in an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad (Windows), SimpleText (Mac), EditPlus, UltraEdit, TextPad, etc. (DO NOT use WYSIWYG HTML editors such as FrontPage, HotDog, DreamWeaver, etc. They will in all likelyhood screw up the file! I will not be able to support you if you edit the file in one of these programs.)
• Edit the variables at the top. These are:
  ---$maxposters > This is the number of posters you want to show.
  ---$hc > Set this to the color you want the header row to be.
  ---$bc1 and $bc2 > These are the first and second alternating colors. Look at the picture in the vbulletin.com thread and you'll see what I mean.
  ---$text and $link > Set the colors of the main text and the color of the links. Make sure this color is visible on both alternating colors, set in step 3b.
  ---$font > This is the font(s) to use for display. You can set specific fonts (e.g. Verdana, Arial, etc.) or general font-families (e.g. sans-serif, serif).
  ---$fontsize > Set a point size for your font. Size 8 is about equivelant to <font size=1>. Anything below about 6 will basically be undreadable, so be careful.
  ---$url > This is the path to your board files, such as index.php, members.php, etc. This is *not* the path to config.php (e.g. don't include the /admin part of the URL)!
  ---$path > This is the path to config.php - normally in the /admin directory. Do not add a trailing slash. It may need a leading slash.
  ---$admins > If you want admins included on the list of posters, set this to 1. If you do *not* want admins included, set this to 0.
• Upload it to your website. You can include it as follows. To include it on a PHP-parsed page (.php, .php3, .phtml, etc.):
  

  <? include("topposters.php"); ?>

  To include it on a server-parsed page (.shtml, .shtm, .ssi, etc.):
  

  <!--#include file="topposters.php"-->

Instructions are included in the zip file (topposters.txt) and brief instructions are also in the topposters.php file itself.

FEEDBACK WANTED! Likes/dislikes/modification requests, please.

[chrispadfield]

thanks, looks good.

[snyx]

I can't call it in?!?
I have done this sort of thing befor, and this isnt working? Hummmm . . .

[tubedogg]

You mean you can't include it? Did you double-check the path set towards the top? (Remember, not to /admin, just to the main forums directory.)

[Vociferous]

kickass!

[Joshs]

Okay I have this setup but how do I include it into an .html file?

[tubedogg]

You can't. You must either use an extension of .php or .shtml, as described in the instructions above.

[snyx]

no man, somthings wonky!
my server supports SSI
the file is SHTML
I donno whats wrong! I checked everything!
*pulls hairout*

snyx

[tubedogg]

Have you gotten the topposters.php to work separately? (e.g. upload it somewhere and go directly to it - myserver.com/topposters.php)

[snyx]

Im getting this:

Fatal error: Failed opening required '/forum/admin/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home2/form-kaos/www/forum/topposters.php on line 12

tubey?

[tubedogg]

That is a bug due to my sloppy coding.

I apologize for the inconvenience. Please redownload the zip file from the first post in this thread and try again.

[Da_Gem]

thanks, i thought i installed it wrong :P

[snyx]

Okay I got it to work (thanks for that) but you had a problem with path2, I had to change $path2/admin to forum/admin I donno why it didnt work?

Next, is there any way to leave the admins out of it? Cuz 2 of the 5 admins have top 10 posts, any ideas way yo leave admins out?

[tubedogg]

I'll work on leaving admins out.

Did you change $path2 = "board/admin" to $path2 = "forum/admin" ? That should've worked.

[snyx]

thats what im talking bout, I changed that, but it sisnt work