UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas Extended board statistics

Hi,

I would love to be able to have reporting feature showing me, for instance:
- amount of new threads/replies per forum over the last week/month
- amount of pageviews per forum
- amount of new members over the last week/month
- top 10/25 most active posters, possibly by forum
- etc.

I know that I could use SQL to grab most of this from the database, but a reporting feature would be really neat.
I guess it should be admin only though, since this is likely database intensive.

Sanuk!

Amount of new members over the last week/month can already be viewed by clicking on User Info in the admin menu.

Amount of pageviews might be a bit hard to implement, since it would require a counter on each page (could possibly be added to ubbt.inc.php of course) which would add extra load on the server. Unless you just want a total of all thread views, which could be tallied up quite easily.

Amount of new threads/replies per forum over the last week/month would be a nice addition, I like that.

Top 10/25 most active posters, possibly by forum. The earlier bit is found in one of the pals of IIP, but not by forum though. Wouldn't too hard to steal the code from that script though, providing it's OK with JustDave.

I like statistics as well, so I might just write this up later today (even though I really should do some other stuff). What are the other things you are thinking about?

Not exactly what you want, but maybe that's interesting for you. I wrote a hack that displays ubbt statistics as charts. Could be extended to count other stats, too.

[]http://www.bikefreaks.de/images/forum/extern/grafcount.png[/]

The labels are in German, but can be changed. The charts on the left show
- overall hits
- total read posts
- new posts
per day. The charts on the right show the average over 24 hours for every 10 minutes. It's nice to see when your users are most active.

The first month I got it running with a textfile to store the counter values. But there were too many problems with the php flock() function that didn't work well, so I switched (notice the gap) to a mysql based counting. Runs fine since one month.

I didn't post it so far, but if there is enough interest in this...

I am curious on how these charts are generated, and really interested in this hack.

I would appreciate it if you could share it Maze.

Warm regards

Nikos

I've done a mod which adds these statistics, you can find it here.

Sweeeeet!

Thanks Gardener! No sleep tonight I guess :P

Warm regards

Nikos

Hi,

Great! Noticed the thread already before checking this forum, so I've already downloaded it. Will be installing shortly.

Sanuk!

Hi,

"What are the other things you are thinking about?"

Hmmm, dunno. Basically I am interested in finding out what people do on the board, where do read/post the most, which topics interested them the most (I know this would be very difficult).

The reason behind this is that attached to the free message board is a paid member's only section which contains a lot of information. If I can figure out what it is that people search for, write about on the message board I could improve the member area.

And then there are the advertisers...

Sanuk!