Topcommenters

[FI-DD]

This hack either shows a list of commenters ordered by the number of comments made in a certain month (list).

Month and year can be selected with the help of dropdowns.



Or it simply shows the top commenter of a certain month (top).



Installation:

1. Copy topcommenters.php to your main CuteNews.RU directory.

2. Put this where you want to show the list:

<? $topstyle = 'list'; include('path_to/topcommenters.php'); ?>



3. Put this where you want to show the top commenter:

<? $topstyle = 'top'; $topmonth = 12; $topyear = 2006; include('path_to/topcommenters.php'); ?>



For example, use this to show the top commenter of the current month:

<? $topstyle = 'top'; $topmonth = date('m'); $topyear = date('Y'); include('path_to/topcommenters.php'); ?>

[scottdallas]

Oh this is niceeeeee FI-DD you're the man.

[FI-DD]

Modified it a little bit to make it show the single top commenter instead of the list.

[Saszoo]

Genious, really this is

Just what I've wanted

Hm... I discovered that I get some errors with this, it seems it got some problems with enable/disable comments and custom quick tags plugins.

Cannot redeclare cqt_variables. Did you guys get any errors like this?

TIA

[astrostart]

Can I make a request?



Now it shows the 'author' name of the users.



However, in Cutenews they can register a username (author) and a nickname for on the site.



Can it show the nicknames of the users and not the usernames?

[asson]

Thanks FI-DD

[FI-DD]

Now it shows the 'author' name of the users.

It shows what the users put in the name field when leaving a comment, doesn't it?

If they put in their nickname it shows the nickname, if they put in their username it shows the username.

[astrostart]

You're right, but I have the loginbox hack on my site. So visitors don't have to fill in there name everytime they make a comment.



They just have to register themself with a:

- Username (a name to log in)

- Password

- Nickname (the nickname)

- E-mail



With the username & password the users log in, but if they leave a comment (when logged in), the nickname appears next to it.

[FI-DD]

1. Open topcommenters.php and add this at the end of the file:

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function get_nick_by_author($author){

global $sql;



   $query = reset($sql->select(array('table' => 'users', 'where' => array("username = ".$author))));

   

   return $query['name'];



}

2. Change this:

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echo $author.': '.$comments.'<br />';

to this:

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echo get_nick_by_author($author).': '.$comments.'<br />';

(Not tested.)

[astrostart]

You're absolutely brilliant! It works!



I have one final request. I know, I'm annoying.



Could you make something within this plugin that doesn't show the topcommentor of the month, but the five topcommentors of the month?



So instead of this:

User: 49



You get this:

1. User: 49

2. Piet: 48

3. Jan: 13

4. Kees: 10

5. Nop: 9



Is that somehow possible? Can you make something like this with the numbers 1 till 5?



It would be great if you could do this!

[FI-DD]

Change this:

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$i = 0;

   foreach($result as $author => $comments){

      if($i == 0){

         echo $author.': '.$comments.'<br />';

      }

to this:

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$i = 1;

   foreach($result as $author => $comments){

      if($i <= 5){

         echo $i.'. '.$author.': '.$comments.'<br />';

      }

[astrostart]

OMG! Thank you very much! It works!

[eberswine]

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Fatal error: Cannot redeclare cn_calendar() (previously declared in /home/content/r/u/n/site/html/admin/plugins/etc.php:13) in /home/content/r/u/n/site/html/admin/plugins/etc.php on line 12

are there any plugins you need to activate or deactivate for this?

[FI-DD]

Make sure that you include head.php only once. If you put topcommenters.php into a page which already has head.php included you can remove head.php from topcommenters.php. I hope this makes sense.

[typeman]

Anyway to add the user's avatar to it?