aPaddedCell Article: An Introduction to the User Stats Module for Drupal

JeevesBond posted this at 18:05 — 30th April 2008.

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This is documentation for a Drupal module, so mostly only of interest to Drupal forum admins and what not. I wrote this module to count posts on TWF, so you can see it in action all around you.

Article summary:

The User Stats module inserts information on a user into their posts on a site. It is aimed at forum administrators who need to see the post counts, date registered and IP addresses of their users. This article provides an introduction to the User Stats module and shows how it may be used in themes.

Here is the link: Introduction to the User stats module.
Post any questions/comments here. If you're seeing a specific problem with the module, you should probably raise a bug/support request, from the project home page.

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Michelle posted this at 13:23 — 2nd May 2008.

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Note to anyone using the advanced forum module: all you have to do is enable user stats. You don't have to add anything to your theme. Advforum automatically finds and uses it.

Michelle

JeevesBond posted this at 20:23 — 2nd May 2008.

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Note to anyone using the advanced forum module: all you have to do is enable user stats.

That's just the Drupal six version of Advanced forum isn't it? I should add that to the article, thanks Michelle.

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Michelle posted this at 21:32 — 2nd May 2008.

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Nope, that's the D5 version. Actually, I think the D6 version does, too, but I haven't tested it on there. I just copied the function from 5.x as is.

Michelle

JeevesBond posted this at 23:44 — 6th May 2008.

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Last time I looked (a few weeks ago) Adv. Forum for Drupal six did use User stats. I thought it was just the six version though.

*** EDIT ***
I've updated the article with a note for Advanced Forum users. Thanks for the tipoff Michelle.

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Michelle posted this at 04:37 — 7th May 2008.

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Hmm... Don't know why that would have been. I add features to D5 and then copy them to D6. At any rate, I know it's there now because I installed user stats on my own site.

Michelle

jerbroo posted this at 23:15 — 23rd February 2009.

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Michelle,
Is there documentation somewhere explaining how User Stats and AdvForum work together? I have both installed on D5 (both downloaded today 2/23/09). AdvForum seems to work but I get no user stats in my forum anywhere. When I come to this site, I'm told it just works and to refer to the Advanced Forum docs. However, the docs don't say anything about this, that I can find.

Please just point me to something pertaining to User Stats and Advanced Forum specifically.

Thank you!

Jeremy Brooks

peashooter posted this at 15:11 — 4th July 2008.

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Great module and nice tutorial.

The only thing I'm having problems with is the formatting of the 'joined' date.

You suggest:

<p>Join Date: <?php print date_format(user_stats_get_stats('join_date', $node->uid), 'custom', 'd/m/Y'); ?></p>

Which I assume changes to $comment->uid when used in a comment.

However, my error message is telling me that "date_format() expects exactly 2 parameters, 3 given in ..."

I tried removing 'custom' but no joy either. Any ideas?

Cheers

James

JeevesBond posted this at 08:28 — 5th July 2008.

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Whoops, I meant format_date. Article updated, thanks.

sanne posted this at 23:25 — 1st September 2008.

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Hello, just installed the module. Nice work.
I do have one bug I can't figure out myself.
I have added the code to the templates, example below:
---------------------------------------------------------------

<?php
 if ($submitted || $terms): 
?>

<?php
 if ($submitted): 
?>

<?php
 print $submitted 
?>

| Post count:

<?php
 print user_stats_get_stats('post_count', $node->uid); 
?>

| Online:

<?php
 print (user_stats_get_stats('online', $node->uid) ? 'yes' : 'no'); 
?>

| Join date: Join Date:

<?php
 print format_date(user_stats_get_stats('join_date', $node->uid), 'custom', 'd/m/Y'); 
?>

<?php
 endif; 
?>

<?php
 endif; 
?>

<?php
 print $picture 
?>

<?php
 print $content 
?>

-----------------------------------------------------------------

It looks just like I want it, but there are no statistics with every comment. The text is there but no acutal statistics.

My site is www.360defense.nl. Here you can see it.

As you might see I did not use the tags to keep the format the same as the submitted line.

Any suggestions?

Greetings,
Sanne