UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.0x] Calling UBB Stats in PHP

This probably doesn't count as a hack as you don't edit any of the UBB files, if so sorry.

All this does is find the total member count, last member, number of forums, number of topics and number of posts and you can easily display it on your own formatted page.

http://www.ppn.f2s.com/stats.phps

It can probably be improved a little.

thx

This is awesome ! Thanks alot ..

Can you do it as a perl script as well and include via SSI?

Hi,

Well this runs, but you need to have some error control, a good example is:

$i = 1;
while($i <= $forumcount)
{
$d = file("$noncgi_dir/Forum$i/lastnumber.file");
$topics = $d[1] + $topics;
$posts = $d[2] + $posts;
$i++;
}

That's all fine and good, but not every forum DIR carries that file. Thus you end up getting a full page of error messages. PLEASE FIX.

God I wish there was a perl version of this.

Also, a lot of busy boards like mine prune posts to save space especially when we were running 5.x

How about counting the post counts from each member in the member files instead. This gives a true count and since this page will not be called every time someone visits it won't be such a load on the server.

Steve

Wouldn't that take longer? I mean you might have 10 or 100 forums, yet have thousands of members. It already takes roughly 1 second to load, surely checking all those member files would take things through the roof?

I'm no good with PHP, but I'm trying to add some 'error' control so if files are missing then it will ignore them. That's a start, we need somebody more skilled on this.

Perl/CGI ver would be even better =).