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[Red G. Brown]

Since SMF if perfectly capable of being posted to without the need for modifying its code, I think this mod is the wrong approach. What we need is a bot that can login to the forum as a regular user, with the usual permissions, without any risk of unexpected or non-functioning behavior.

[SheCanPlay.org]

Yep!  Working fine now. I just had to wait for it to grab some feeds.

[endomorph]

vbgamer45,

I assume that posts by this mod do not increase the forum stats for topics / posts ?

[vbgamer45]

I think they would increase stats since it is a post.

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vbgamer45,

I assume that posts by this mod do not increase the forum stats for topics / posts ?

They do.

[endomorph]

Even in forum history ? Not on mine.

Have a look at

http://www.timesharetalk.co.uk/index.php?action=stats (shows 3 new topics today)

Now look the posts that have been started today (By Newshound) -

http://www.timesharetalk.co.uk/index.php?action=unread;all;start=0

And yes the forum settings are set to increase post count and I have run maintenance to re-count too.

Any ideas ?

[endomorph]

OK found the problem. The mod does not seem to update smf_log_activity. So it does update the member stats, not the forum stats.

Any chance of getting some code to fix this ?

[NanoSector]

I'm having trouble...

If I want to change the number of minutes and save, it doesn't save that number.

[vbgamer45]

What number are you entering and what SMF version?

[NanoSector]

What number are you entering and what SMF version?

I am entering the number ´5´ and my SMF version is 2.0 RC4.

[vbgamer45]

I see what I did I have code in there if anything less than every 30 minutes it defaults to 30 minutes.

[NanoSector]

I see what I did I have code in there if anything less than every 30 minutes it defaults to 30 minutes.

...tip for the next version: add it as extra information under the option.

[vbgamer45]

Yeah surprised I had it that high I thought did around 15 minutes or so mainly sanity checks so someone doesn't put on their board every minute.

[endomorph]

OK found the problem. The mod does not seem to update smf_log_activity. So it does update the member stats, not the forum stats.

Any chance of getting some code to fix this ?

Any idea on this ?

[vbgamer45]

Haven't looked at it. I am surprised though that the createpost function doesn't take care of that.

[endomorph]

In theory it should. I have looked through the code and just after inserting the post it runs the update -

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if ($new_topic)
{
$smcFunc['db_insert']('',
'{db_prefix}topics',
array(
'id_board' => 'int', 'id_member_started' => 'int', 'id_member_updated' => 'int', 'id_first_msg' => 'int',
'id_last_msg' => 'int', 'locked' => 'int', 'is_sticky' => 'int', 'num_views' => 'int',
'id_poll' => 'int', 'unapproved_posts' => 'int', 'approved' => 'int',
),
array(
$topicOptions['board'], $posterOptions['id'], $posterOptions['id'], $msgOptions['id'],
$msgOptions['id'], $topicOptions['lock_mode'] === null ? 0 : $topicOptions['lock_mode'], $topicOptions['sticky_mode'] === null ? 0 : $topicOptions['sticky_mode'], 0,
$topicOptions['poll'] === null ? 0 : $topicOptions['poll'], $msgOptions['approved'] ? 0 : 1, $msgOptions['approved'],
),
array('id_topic')
);
$topicOptions['id'] = $smcFunc['db_insert_id']('{db_prefix}topics', 'id_topic');

// The topic couldn't be created for some reason.
if (empty($topicOptions['id']))
{
// We should delete the post that did work, though...
$smcFunc['db_query']('', '
DELETE FROM {db_prefix}messages
WHERE id_msg = {int:id_msg}',
array(
'id_msg' => $msgOptions['id'],
)
);

return false;
}

// Fix the message with the topic.
$smcFunc['db_query']('', '
UPDATE {db_prefix}messages
SET id_topic = {int:id_topic}
WHERE id_msg = {int:id_msg}',
array(
'id_topic' => $topicOptions['id'],
'id_msg' => $msgOptions['id'],
)
);

// There's been a new topic AND a new post today.
trackStats(array('topics' => '+', 'posts' => '+'));

updateStats('topic', true);
updateStats('subject', $topicOptions['id'], $msgOptions['subject']);

But my php is not good enough to see if everything is correct. and in the right order

[vbgamer45]

Doublechecked as well it should since the createpost function does call all the track stats code.

[endomorph]

Can anyone else confirm if posts by this mod increases the stats in their forum history (Stats > Scroll to bottom of the page)

I am surprised that the forum maintenance re-count does not re-calculate this table too

[endomorph]

Will this be looked into ?

[vbgamer45]

By me no busy with other projects.