Extension Name: Top Poster of the Month [SMcCandlish fork]
Author: SMcCandlish, based on original 2016–2020 code by 3Di (3D-I on GitHub)
Extension Description: Update of extension for an auto-calculated Top Poster of the Month award and top-posters Hall of Fame page, to work properly in phpBB 3.3.x, to fix some bugs, and to add some feature improvement.
Extension Version: 2.1.2.1-beta1
Requirements: phpBB 3.3.0+ (thus PHP 7.2.0+).
Features:
Overhaul:
Author: SMcCandlish, based on original 2016–2020 code by 3Di (3D-I on GitHub)
Extension Description: Update of extension for an auto-calculated Top Poster of the Month award and top-posters Hall of Fame page, to work properly in phpBB 3.3.x, to fix some bugs, and to add some feature improvement.
Extension Version: 2.1.2.1-beta1
Requirements: phpBB 3.3.0+ (thus PHP 7.2.0+).
Features:
Overhaul:
- Some tweaks to comply with phpBB 3.3.x directory structure and coding standards.
- Implemented fixes by original developer, which existed in a 2020 branch but were never merged into the main codebase.
- Fixed issue where exclusion of Founders didn't work if Admins were included, because Founders are also Admins.
- Fixed bug in which "just use the last month's stats" logic for calculating the TPotM was also applied to Hall of Fame rendering, which both ignored recent activity and confusingly claimed in the listing that all these users had not logged in for a month.
- Enabled inclusion of Founders, Admins, and Mods in Hall of Fame listing even if excluded as Top Poster of the Month candidates.
- Textual cleanup (normal English capitalization and punctuation, etc.)
- Display a Top Poster of the Month (TPotM) on your phpBB board, as well as a top-posters Hall of Fame (HoF) page, with mini-profiles.
- Founders, Admins/Moderators, and banned users can be selectively excluded via ACP panel.
- The (non-excluded) poster with the max number of posts made in the current month's timespan will win.
- Custom-cached data management is in the extension's ACP module, along with a bunch of options (including logs).
- The TPotM's profile link complies with the "Can view profile" native permissions of users.
- Provided is a customisable viewport which contains the HoF (top posters ever) since the board's start date up to present
- The current TPotM lies in the present month's stats.
- Multiple template locations.
- Compatible with Default Avatar Extended (DAE).
Statistics: Posted by SMcCandlish — Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:35 am
