Greetings!
This simple tip will show you how to put a Activity Level bar in each post.
The bar width increases by 1px for every post the member does.
When it reach 100px, it stops.
It works whit both SMF series.
Let's get started by opening ./Themes/default/Display.template.php and find the following line:
// Show avatars, images, etc.?
Got it? ;)
Then replace that line whit this code:
// The Activity bar... Small.... Simple... And made by Nascar :)
echo ' <b>', $txt['activity_level_posts'], '</b><br />
<img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_left.gif"><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_middle.gif" height="12px" width="', ($message['member']['posts'] < 100) ? $message['member']['posts'] : 100, '" title="', $txt[26], ': ', $message['member']['posts'], '"><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_right.gif"><br />
<br />';
// Show avatars, images, etc.?
You should have a bar displaying in each topic now, right?
Then head for ./Themes/default/languages/Modifications.english.php and add this right before ?>:
$txt['activity_level_posts'] = 'Activity Level';
We're done! Yey! ;D
In the feature I'll develop this tip in to a mod whit various admin features and more bars, based on different stats.
Also, a big thanks goes to:
Deprecated - Code help
geneiuk - Testing
MaxiPes - Requester
Enjoy
Nascar
Great Modification. Simple yet useful. ;)
Works Great!
Mathew
Interesting. :)
I think it is good, but I would like to see a bit more, if and when you upgrade it. Like when you don't post for a while it goes down.
Good job anyway!
It is amazing!!!
THX Nascar
I test this :)
great - thx
and if it´s possible when you update please with a little bit more differences inside the levels
Thanks for the comments!
This is just a small and fast solution to this. More adavanced features are comming..
well, so i´m waiting for your great work ;)
Nascas, a litlle sugestion
Can you make another bar?
turning from red to green?
And the activity can be measure by month?
Farewell and congrats for the tip
How about making the activity indicator go in three sections? Like 1-100, 100-1000, 1000-10000, but equal widths. You could make the readout scale logarithmic. :)
Quote from: Costa on November 09, 2008, 05:06:13 PM
Nascas, a litlle sugestion
Can you make another bar?
turning from red to green?
And the activity can be measure by month?
Farewell and congrats for the tip
Hi,
I have created some poll bars in different colours:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=273419.0
Regards,
Mathew
Can somebody please do this mod in ultraviolet light for me? It would look great with my black light posters and lava lamps. ;) :P
Quote from: Deprecated on November 09, 2008, 05:29:40 PM
How about making the activity indicator go in three sections? Like 1-100, 100-1000, 1000-10000, but equal widths. You could make the readout scale logarithmic. :)
good idea, how?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm
http://us2.php.net/log
I love this idea, but my forum is FULL of spammers...
The bar width increases by 1px for every post the member does.
When it reach 100px, it stops.
^ So that wouldnt work. Unless by changing the "100" parts of the code I could increase it?
You could increase yes, very easily but if you do the bar becomes to wide and disrupts the page look. The bar increases 1px every time a post is made, once it reaches 100 it stops, if you increase any further than 100 it will as stated go to long and things start looking horrible and messy.
Nascar is working on several otherthings to improve it and the idea of having 3 bars is good as that way 3 bars can increase.
Example:
bar one, once it reaches 100 it stops (like it currently does) and then it starts on next bar.
I did modify the code earlier to test i got 3 bars showing but when i change the values of the two others nothing happens this is because it needs a bit of extra tweaking to increase second and third bar. Only way i could get it to increase was by changing the px width of the second and third bar which is useless.
Mathew
I mean, if it increases per post, can I increase that? To like 100 or 500 or 1000 posts? I'd only want the bar 125px long :)
See my post above regarding logarithms. If you make the scale logarithmic it doesn't have to stop at 100. You could have for example a 3 inch area for the indicator where 0 to 1 inch represents 1-100 posts, 1 inch to 2 inches represents 100-1000 posts, and 2 inches to 3 inches represents 1000-10000 posts. I think you can see how it gets more compressed at the upper end, yet still shows small changes at the lower end.
I expect 3 inches is too big for this application but it could be scaled to whatever is desired. Colors could be added too.
It's Nascar's project so I'm not going to do anything beyond making suggestions. He's a budding mathematics expert and figuring this out would be good for his learning. :)
I agree, now you explained it, it would make sence and the ability to extend it beyond 100 with no increase in bar width.
I think Nascar will also agree with this.
MAthew
Hi, my friend and admin www.maxiforum.cz modificated it this way:
http://princ.name/temp/activity-bar.xml
or
http://www.maxiforum.cz/activity-bar.xml
There is screen:
(http://megaupload.cz/images/tYnprofil.jpg)
THX Nascar, Deprecated and Jaa(c) :)
PS: install it by hand ;)
If you are interested how does it count the bar length:
It takes the user with top posts, than it counts the percentage of single user posts.
Then its set that the useres with 90% - 100% has 90% of the width (of the profile column), users with 0 posts have 10%.. Other user are between :)
I really think this as a mod on the Mod Site will be a BIG hit. :)
If it were to be a MOD I think it should have more features.
Nascar has a lot of MODs that he's already doing
If anybody has designs on this as a mod you should contact Nascar first, okay? :) He has dibs. :)
Quote from: Jade on November 10, 2008, 11:00:28 AM
I mean, if it increases per post, can I increase that? To like 100 or 500 or 1000 posts? I'd only want the bar 125px long :)
Hint: / DIVISOR
;)
If you still need more help ask me.
// The Activity bar... Small.... Simple... And made by Nascar :)
echo ' <b>Activity Levels</b><br />
Based first 100 posts (1 post)<br /><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_left.gif"><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_middle.gif" height="12px" width="', ($message['member']['posts'] < 100) ? $message['member']['posts'] : 100, '" title="', $txt[26], ': ', $message['member']['posts'], '"><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_right.gif"><br />';
if($message['member']['posts'] > 100) {
echo '100-1000 posts (10 posts)<br /><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_left.gif"><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_middle.gif" height="12px" width="', (($message['member']['posts'] - 100) / 9 < 1000) ? ($message['member']['posts'] - 100) / 9 : 100, '" title="', $txt[26], ': ', $message['member']['posts'], '"><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_right.gif"><br />';
}
if($message['member']['posts'] > 1000) {
echo '1000+ posts (100 posts)<br /><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_left.gif"><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_middle.gif" height="12px" width="', (($message['member']['posts'] - 1000) / 90 < 1000) ? ($message['member']['posts'] - 1000) / 90 : 100, '" title="', $txt[26], ': ', $message['member']['posts'], '"><img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/poll_right.gif"><br />';
}What I use for my forums :P
I made the changes just like the first post and nothing changed... Now what?
www.mnsportscentral.com (http://www.mnsportscentral.com)
What is txt26? Nothjing showing up for me
Quote from: HR on February 16, 2009, 06:26:25 PM
What is txt26? Nothjing showing up for me
http://huw.org.uk/smfstrings
Try looking in there.
maybe is should try this tips. thanx.
subscribing for future reference...
are we going to look at doing any new changes to the tip and improve on this mod for the site
Hey nas
If your using a custom theme, do you just add it to there
@chrisb
It was a long time ago I made this. I might rebuild it and submit it as a mod some time, but not soon.
@Joe N
Yes, if you are using a custom theme, make the same edits.
This has been recoded and added to the mod site:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1929
Nice Nas
smf 1?
SMF 1.1.x version is comming.
Thx for adding it to mod site.
Interesting. Thanks
SMF 1.1.x version released.
Cheers Nas