[Matias Ventura]

No problem

[Michael]

I uninstalled Mini-stats because I don’t like it. That script should be working.

My statistics come from manually editing files – the plugins are not very helpful to me.

I did write my own plugin – though you have to do manual editing to get the information to show. Simply add the following code to stats.php and place it in your plugins folder – and activate.

<?php

/**

* Plugin Name: General Statistics

* Plugin Description: Collects general statistics about the forum, including the newest users, online guests, and topic/post counts.

* Author: Inniosoft

* Author URI: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc

* Version: 0.1

*/

$mysql41 = true; // Change this if you have regular database problems



function show_newest_users()

{

global $bbdb, $bb_table_prefix;

$count = 3; // Edit this value to change how many users get displayed.

if ($newestuser = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM ".$bb_table_prefix."users ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 0,".$count."")) :

$counter = 0;

foreach ($newestuser as $nu):

$counter++;

if ($count != 1 && $count > $counter) :

if ($counter == $count - 1):

if ($count == 2):

$comma = " and ";

else:

$comma = ", and ";

endif;

else:

$comma = ", ";

endif;

else :

$comma = "";

endif;

if ($counter == $count) :

if ($count > 1) :

$stop = ".";

else :

$stop = "";

endif;

else :

$stop = "";

endif;

$user = bb_get_user($nu->ID);

$userdisplayname = (empty($user->display_name) ? $user->user_login : $user->display_name);

$userprofilelink = get_user_profile_link($nu->ID);

echo "<a href="".$userprofilelink."" title="See ".$userdisplayname."'s Profile">".$userdisplayname."</a>$comma$stop";

endforeach;

else : echo "Unable to fetch newest members(s). An error occured within the database.";

endif;

}



function show_total_users()

{

global $bbdb, $bb_table_prefix;

$totalusers = $bbdb->get_var( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ".$bb_table_prefix."users USE INDEX (PRIMARY);" );

echo "".$totalusers."";

}



function show_total_posts()

{

global $bbdb, $bb_table_prefix;

$totalposts = $bbdb->get_var( "SELECT SUM(posts) FROM ".$bb_table_prefix."forums;" );

echo "".$totalposts."";

}



function show_total_topics()

{

global $bbdb, $bb_table_prefix;

$totaltopics = $bbdb->get_var( "SELECT SUM(topics) FROM ".$bb_table_prefix."forums;" );

echo "".$totaltopics."";

}



?>

Then, to show the information, add the following to either front-page.php or `footer.php:

We have <b><?php show_total_users(); ?></b> registered members. Welcome to our newest members: <?php show_newest_users(); ?><br />

Our members have made a total of <b><?php show_total_posts(); ?></b> posts in <b><?php show_total_topics(); ?></b> topics.</td>

[bb-lover]

No Michael……. Its not working

I think you’ve installed mini_stats plugin……………….right?

so show me complete footer file or tell me the plugin which you’ve used along this script….thanx

[Michael]

Hi bb-lover

I recently wanted the same thing in my forum. I did not want to install complex plugins.

If you’re looking for something like this: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation (look at the bottom), then you need to add the following to your footer.php file in your template’s directory:

<?php function show_total_users()

{

global $bbdb, $bb_table_prefix;

$totalusers = $bbdb->get_var( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ".$bb_table_prefix."users USE INDEX (PRIMARY);" );

echo "".$totalusers."";

}

?>

Hope that helps

Michael

[bb-lover]

hi to all

i want to show just resisted users in my forum’s footer. how it will possible. but i don’t want to install mini-stats plugin…. and listen dears…. when we go to the dashboard of bbpress… there we can see the total resisted users in the “Right Now” Column. So I just want to show registed users in footer like that

Total resisted users : e.g 500

plz guide

[grassrootspa]

This is a random question, but is this “Topic Views” plugin (“http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-topic-views/#post-275″) required to display ‘Topic Views” on one’s front page, etc? Or is there some sort of output code I am missing?

We can display Topic Voices without a plugin using code built into the Core.

The reason for my question is this, if a plugin is required, shouldn’t the “Topic Views” code be built into the Core as well? It’s a rather useful feature and seems to be used on tons of bbPress sites…

[Michael]

Thanks!

[Michael]

I’m glad it worked I’d probably want to find a way to enhance the plugin, but I don’t think I will as bbPress is soon to be changed. We had our first-ever IRC last night, and some major developments are going to come out of it – including things that have not yet been mentioned. So there’d be no point developing a plugin for an old version of bbPress.

[Michael]

@Taeo: That sounds very interesting! And you have an excellent forum!

If you ever make it a stable plugin – please let us know. I, for one, would make huge use of it! I did mention how I my bbPress to be a community site at the recent IRC.

Great work!

[grassrootspa]

Just finished reading up…ecstatic to see this chat.

Random thoughts (from someone who has been periodically messing with this for a year and still learning the ropes):

-Don’t like the idea of eliminating bbPress’s stand alone ability and REQUIRING it be a WP plugin (some of us just want to run stand-alone forums without having to install WordPress first.) Prefer to keep it as a separate project.

-Love the idea of adding new OPTIONAL features to the bbPress core (bbPress 1.1) . Here are my top 6:

(1) Optional TinyMCE addition

(2) Ability to edit plugins and templates from within bbPress admin

(3) Ability to add widgets to certain areas without having to mess with the template (will be handy for easily editing ‘sidebar’ stuff from the admin page rather than having to play with the template code each time

(4) More Avatar/Gravatar options, such as easily adjusting their size on Profile pages and including instructions on how to get a Gravatar built into the ‘edit profile’ pages. People want to customize their forum character. Make it easier for them to do it right out of the box: display a click-able link to Gravatar.com!

(5) To combat spam registrations, build optional ‘Human Test’ and ‘Terms of Service’ registration page features (which can be further modified and tweaked by plugins/user modifications). I’m sure everyone else there has noticed ‘Spam’ user signups. A built-in human test and/or TOS box to check will go a long way in eliminating them!

(6) Better bozo management notification on the admin page (have numbers pop-up like for new comments and plugins in case a legitimate user has been marked as a bozo. I’ve had this happen a couple times because I didn’t check the bozo list.

-Pleased to hear bbPress.org design will be revamped and include Codex

-THRILLED to see folks from the message board helping bbPress.org and the overall project in various areas

-In summary, EXCITED about bbPress 1.1

[bb-lover]

Finally i got it…..Thanks a lot…. Michael You are really a Gooooooooooooood Person

[Michael]

The file should already exist in your bbPress Root.

Mine looks like this:

# BEGIN bbPress



Options -MultiViews



<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /devstation/



RewriteRule ^rules/?$ /devstation/bb-page.php?page_id=1 [L]

RewriteRule ^faq/?$ /devstation/bb-page.php?page_id=2 [L]



RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^forum/?$ /devstation/ [R=302,L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/?$ /devstation/ [R=302,L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /devstation/tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/?$ /devstation/profile.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /devstation/rss.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /devstation/rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /devstation/rss.php?forum=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /devstation/rss.php?tag=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^.*$ /devstation/index.php [L]

</IfModule>



# END bbPress

Most of those should already be there. I have separated the two rules at the top so you can see how it is done for pages.

If your site has a forum directory (ie the forum does not reside on the top-level of your site, then you should remove the “devstation/”. If it does, then replace “devstation/” with your forum’s directory.

Regards

Michael

[bb-lover]

please send me complete code… i can’t understand it…

of if you can send me .htaccess file then i’ll be happy

[Raize]

I’ve been looking for a solid forum software for quite some time now. vBulletin has a lot of features, but it’s too bloated…it’s “Web 1.0”

I explored Vanilla, EsoTalk, and now bbPress. I thought bbPress would be a good option, but it seems like the developer community has completely abandoned it over the past year. There are no themes, no plugins, and barely any updates to the core forum. As I kept looking for themes, I found this on bbShowcase:

The bbPress Showcase has been discontinued.

The removal of Sam Bauers and the halting of bbpress.org 2.0

was a clear and final sign that there is no interest in allowing

bbPress to become a mature, robust program and community.

By now bbPress 1.5 could have been in alpha but instead

bbPress development has been deliberately stagnated,

which should be a very alarming warning to everyone.

In addition, bbShowcase had only six donations in 2009,

which indicated to me there was no interest in my work.

My code will remain on bbpress.org as open source GPL

for those that wish to use it, however I caution you to

consider bbPress’s lack of leadership before continuing to use it.

Now I’m back at square one again. Not knowing which forum software to use.

[Matias Ventura]

Pretty much; something like this:

<a href="<?php forum_link( $topic->forum_id ); ?>"><?php forum_name( $topic->forum_id ); ?></a>

[Michael]

Greetings

I seem to be having many problems with my forum, most of them being mine.

So here goes the next one:

I am in the process of creating an additional item on the topic page that lets the member share the topic on Facebook, Twitter, and the like. I do not wan’t to use SocialIt as it puts it on every post, which starts to look messy. I have a neat forum.

So, I opened topic.php in my template’s directory and found the place where I need to add the code to achieve this.

At first, I added this, which worked: (bb_current_page_url is my own function)

<li><?php printf(__('Share this topic on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=%1$s">Facebook</a>'), bb_current_page_url() ?></li>

Then I wanted to add a title as per Facebook’s Sharer specifications. This means that I must add &t=<the-title>, where I put the cutom title in <the-title>.

So I did this:

<li><?php printf(__('Share this topic on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=%1$s&t=%2$s">Facebook</a>'), bb_current_page_url(), topic_title()) ?></li>

and it returned this:

DataSets and DataTableAdaptersShare this topic on Facebook

<string>Note: If you hover your mouse over “Facebook”, you’ll see that the URL has been cut off – which is why the title appears before the entire printf() function.

It should return this:

Share this topic on Facebook

I’m obviously doing something wrong with printf(), but I doubt it as it’s literally a copy-paste from the other printf()’s on that page.

I also want to stick to printf() as I will have multiple sites to link to, and I do not want to keep repeating things. I just want to refer to %1$s and %2$s for each entry.

Could anyone help me get out of this mess?

Michael

[Michael]

Greetings

I guess I could do the show off thing. Here’s mine: Dev:station

It has quite a lot of plugins installed – and everything works – though there may be a few bugs that I don’t know of.

Plugin List:

Admin Add User

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

BBCode Lite

BBCode Toolbar

bbPM

BBPress:SyntaxHiliter

bbPress Moderation Suite

bbPress Smilies

Bozo Users

Favicon

General Statistics (my own plugin)

Hot Tags Plus

Hot Topic

Human Test for bbPress

Indicate New Posts

Member List

bbPages

Post Count Plus

Project Honey Pot

Read-Only Forums

Related Topics

Reputation

Signatures

Simple Online List

Support Forum

Terms of Service

Topics per Page

Twitter

I know the address to this forum isn’t that great – I’ll be getting a .com domain for it some time next year (hopefully January).

Enjoy!

Michael

[Michael]

Hi Ben

I’m running quite a few:

Admin Add User

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

BBCode Lite

BBCode Toolbar

bbPM

BBPress:SyntaxHiliter

bbPress Moderation Suite (obviously )

bbPress Smilies

Bozo Users

Favicon

General Statistics (my own plugin, not the problem – have tested it extensively)

Hot Tags Plus

Hot Topic

Human Test for bbPress

Indicate New Posts

Member List

bbPages

Post Count Plus

Project Honey Pot

Read-Only Forums

Related Topics

Reputation

Signatures

Simple Online List

Support Forum

Terms of Service

Topics per Page

Twitter

Unread Posts (I should disable this one as I already have Indicate New Posts enabled)

I have gone through and disabled each one – this did not solve the problem.

Any help would be great. Thanks

[Elias]

Since bbPress 1.0.x you have to use my-languages, the path bb-includes/languages is correct for older bbPress versions.

[Michael]

Hi

You need to open the PHP file and edit the settings in there.

[Michael]

Thanks – works like a charm: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation

Is there maybe a way to get the link to that forum?

Would it maybe be forum_link( $topic->forum_id )? ^^,

[Matias Ventura]

Try the following:

<?php forum_name( $topic->forum_id ); ?>

[Michael]

Unfortunately, this plugin was meant to have support for Permalinks – hence the unused Page slug in the bbPages settings – but that never came about.

I recently had this problem too – so I manually edited my .htaccess file in the bbPress root.

So, I turned my Rules page from this:

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/bb-page.php?page_id=1

to

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/rules/

You need to open your .htaccess file in the bbPress root and add the following for each page, replacing <your-page> with the url you would like:

RewriteRule ^<your-page>/?$ /bb-page.php?page_id=1 [L]

[Michael]

You obviously don’t know what BBCode is at all – so let me explain.

BBCode is an alternative to HTML for people to use in their posts. For example, if they wanted to have bold text, they would put this in their post:

Text

You can download BBCode lite for bbPress here: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-lite/

You then need to save the'bbcode-lite.php file in your my-plugins directory. If you do not have one, you will need to create it. Then go to your admin panel, Plugins, and install BBCode Lite.

Then, in your posts, you will need to enter a URL like this:

http://www.example.com

or, with a title

My Example Site

Hope this solves your problem.

[nivosh]

what’s bbcode lite, and how can it be used to fix the problem?

thanks