[rimianperkins]

When I was a wee HTML coder in the 90s at the beginning of the .COM boom in Australia, most of the clients I built sites for wanted counters at the bottom of their pages. This was something I enjoyed placing at the footer of my web pages because I could go back and visit some of my sites and see 37 people had viewed my webpage! We would feed this back to the clients to measure our success.

Back then, there wasn’t much in the way of stats packages like urchin. There was no google either.

At the work Christmas Party we joked that about 50% of the time we were tripping the counters ourselves. They weren’t very reliable.

This trend faded with the advent of stats packages and the disappearance of the blink tag (and MC hammer).

Anyway I’ve created my own for nostalgic purposes. Maybe it’s a mid life crisis. See the bottom of this page! I started at zero, honest! At the time of this post it’s got to 12. That would have been me.

If you want to download it for your bbPress forum it’s here. I would appreciate it if you posted about this in your forum! http://www.freelancewebdeveloper.net.au/topic.php?id=49

Just unpack the ye-olde-counter.zip and upload the counterinstall.php file to your root folder and then browse to it. This creates a table for your counter in your MySQL database. Delete this file after you run it.

Then upload the ye-olde-counter.php file to your my-plugins directory. You may need to create this.

Place the code <div id="counter"><?php ye_olde_counter(); ?></div> somewhere in in the footer div tag of your ‘bb-tempaltes/footer.php’ file and place these in your stylesheet

#counter{text-align: center;padding-top: 20px;}

.counter_number {color: red;}

Enjoy! and please let me know how you go.

you may wish to edit those styles.

[Trent Adams]

Nothing is up yet, but maybe post something over at the following link because it might be just adding a little code to add a forum list to the code in this topic. Might be quick for someone. I would like this as well!

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/347?replies=24

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Temporary fix (REQUIRES CORE HACK).

Go to bb-admin/admin-functions.php and edit line 288 from:

function display( $show_search = true, $show_email = false ) {

to

function display( $show_search = true, $show_email = true ) {

That will get it showing the the admin area under users. There might be an easier way or a setting to change without this core hack, but the functionality was already built in.

Trent

[miamiron]

Thanks again-

I know I had problems with permalinks in WP and had to hardcode some setting to make them work….

anyway, I appreciate your help!

[ardentfrost]

do something like this:

$result = get_profile_info_keys();

foreach ($result as $key => $label ) {

if ( $key == 'user_email' )

echo $label;

}

That needs to have some way to pull in the user you’re trying to get though… hmm. It should be close though.

[Trent Adams]

What I would try is getting bbpress site 2 using the WP 1 users directly. Try using the cookie information from the docs:

If bbPress is not installed in a subdirectory of your WordPress install, you’ll probably need to adjust both bbPress’ and WordPress’ cookies to meet your specific requirements. Below is a brief outline of the variables and constants that control the cookie behavior in the two programs.

PHP bbPress WordPress

name $bb->usercookie USER_COOKIE

name $bb->passcookie PASS_COOKIE

path $bb->cookiepath COOKIEPATH

path $bb->sitecookiepath SITECOOKIEPATH

domain $bb->cookiedomain COOKIE_DOMAIN

Trent

[snowcrash]

bbpress with plugins such as this is really coming along – great stuff.

Now if only there was a forum subscribe version, which would send out an email indicating there is a new post on a forum you’ve subscribed too (and better still, could be set to send out only one email or one for each new forum post). Of course probably asking for too much at this stage of development

[spencerp]

Awesome!! Done!.. You’re the greatest, whee!!

http://spencerp.net/forums/mlist

spencerp

[ardentfrost]

glad it works

And spencer, since you have my post count plugin also, you can uncomment those lines in memberlist.php

[spencerp]

Yup, it works for me if I have pretty permalinks, and no pretty permalinks set. I did exactly as said on here:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

And she’s working.. see it in action here:

http://spencerp.net/forums/

http://spencerp.net/forums/mlist

YAY!! Thanks again!!

spencerp

[Null]

Hi,

I am stuck again. I wanted to split the code to the php part and the template part. I did this:

In index.php I’ve added (right after require('./bb-load.php') ;:

$forum_id = 1;

$number_of_topics = 10;

$forum_one_topics = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->topics WHERE forum_id = $forum_id ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 0,$number_of_topics")

In front-page.php I’ve added:

<?php

foreach($forum_one_topics as $topic) :

$forum_one_topic_posts = get_thread( $topic->topic_id); ?>

<a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a>

<?php echo $topic->topic_last_poster_name; ?><br/>

<?php echo $forum_one_topic_posts[0]->post_text;

endforeach;

?>

But this results in errors on the index.php file:

parse error, unexpected T_STRING on the first line after the code I’ve put in the index.php file.

What am I doing wrong?

[ardentfrost]

spencer, I have permalinks enabled and it works for me, trent doesn’t and it works for him now too (and you too), so I think that bug is fixed.

Trent, I know what you mean… that’s why that deletion part of the plugin is so cool I can delete all spam users in literally a few seconds.

[spencerp]

Hi guys, sorry.. was offline for a bit there. I didn’t have pretty permalinks enabled, and still don’t. But, after uploading those new files of your’s. It seems to be working fine now..

http://spencerp.net/forums/

Would you like me to try with pretty permalinks enabled then too, or..? Please let me know ok, I’ll test it.

spencerp

[ardentfrost]

I thought about that, but there’s two things: 1. post count is another plugin altogether… not too big of a deal, making a function that is commented out by default is easy to do. 2. Post count isn’t a db entry, so to do it I’d have to sort results after I got them (whereas now I do it all with SQL queries).

I do hope to add it in at a later time, I just gotta figure out the best way to do it first

[ardentfrost]

There’s some commented out code in memberlist.php in your templates folder. Just take out the comments (I wrote some words in there too)

[ardentfrost]

Trent, you have my post count plugin installed, you should enable post counts on the member list page

[Null]

Any progress about:

“Would be nice to add total guests too”

– Good idea … i’ll give it a try

“Great plugin, if you made this one AJAXED it would be even greater!”

– Thought about it, but this would be easer to realize with next version of bbpress (current version only loads bb_head() when topic is displayed)

??

[ardentfrost]

well, dang, now I gotta figure out how to deal with if you don’t have that enabled

Did you enable it? I want to test the plugin out on your site

[Trent Adams]

That would be why. Neither of us has pretty permalinks enabled. Not sure why we don’t though….

Trent

[so1o]

yes i have used standard functions like get_option and update_options..

and whenever we get the code in the core i will write a function to import all the options from this table to the core..

[Trent Adams]

This will defintely change this! No more hard coding options in plugin code! Options saved in db! Yeah! This will be the bridge until Micheal and Matt get this in the core I would imagine?

Trent

[Emre Erkan]

Thanks,

The problem is that we have 10 hours of difference with our server.

[spencerp]

I just tried it, and for some reason.. the link is taking me to a 404 page..

http://spencerp.net/forums/

Everything was done, per the READ ME file.. Any thoughts?

spencerp

/Even styled it, and located it where you have on your forums mentioned above lol.

[fuuk]

Great Plugin thanks

[fuuk]

Good to see you here Hasan. Thanks for your suggestion