Total Posts in Ultimate.cgi
Example http://cpfc.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi

Files to edit: Ultimate.cgi
Versions: tested on 5.39

Right after the require files statements add


next insert $TotPosts anywhere in the $MemberLine

heres mine

A delicious hack, if I may say so

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Cougar's here, so have no fear
Webmaster of www.artbeast.de

Me2Be, it worked for me on 5.40..

You'll prolly need to change your Members path....

Something just hit me...

This is going to be inaccurate. What about boards that prune? They'll have an artificially inflated post count.

The total number of posts EVER made (through profiles) shouldn't be counted - the total number of posts, PERIOD, should.

It says total posts not total active posts

damn, i tried that, and it worked, but said i had one regestered user, i'm alll WTF?!? anyone help?

This is a great hack but is there anyway to give you just the number of posts that are still active?

Ulimate.cgi gives you the total number of posts for each category. Is there anyway to just add these totals up and then display them as one number?

I have totals of over 500,000 and it takes about 2 minutes for the server to return a total as it is written.

Thanks,
Parker

I've been asked this before.
Again, it IS possible, but I personally don't know how to do this, since I'm not that good at perl, and haven't learned UBB all the way yet

I'm working on it, but it's actually a bit harder than I thought... *L*

http://flare.solareclipse.net/accurateposts.txt

100% accurate. Counts the posts and topics in all OPEN forums.

You can place the blurb elsewhere in Ultimate.cgi, but it may not perform as advertised... *L*

Thanks CC

In action
http://cpfc.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi

Charles:

Great hack as usual. Just what I was looking for. Works like a charm. The only other thing that would be great to add is the ability to show you the total number of posts that have been made in the last 24 hours too.

You really should submit this to Ted to include in the release version.

Thanks again for a great hack.

Parker

Well, this particular version of the hack is a bit more intense than Dave's, and would add enough load to the stock UBB to make it a 'problem'...

I'll see what I can do about the past 24 hours... I might need to rework the Today's Active Topics bit.

Charles:

I have a fairly large site with 9,300 members so your hack works for our site better as I really only want to see the active message count and not a total of all the messages that have been posted. This takes, on our board, about 2 minutes to compile as its total is about 500,000.

Parker

great hack, charles

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Cougar's here, so have no fear
Webmaster of www.artbeast.de

Im not sure where this hack pulls its information from, but it shows me having a total of 10 posts when I only have 1 post total on my site?? Where is it getting its info?

Thanks,

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Chris Miller
http://www.webtrixter.com/

Rage: Be sure that you're counting the number of POSTS, not threads.

Me2Be: It will count ANY forum that is ON. If the forum is off, it won't be counted.

Ha! I just figured out my problem. The file 000001 or whatever that is my members folder had me listed as having posted 8 topics. (I probally have but i have deleted them cause they were just tests) Thats why it was showing 10!

Thanks all!

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Chris Miller
http://www.webtrixter.com/