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Board Statistics

ChrisGwynneChrisGwynne ✭
edited January 2006 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
I think a board statistics extention or main feature would be pretty cool.

It'd list things such as total discussions, total comments, total members, newest member etc.

Would be pretty simple to do also, what everybody think?
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  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    well it can be pretty easily found with a few searches and stuff. But yeah it could be cool, i think it'd be better if it had more advanced stats with new members/discussions/comments per day/month etc. Posts per minute, stuff like that. Maybe even graphs or stats showing info on a month by month basis etc. If anyone's seen mircstats you'll see what i'm getting at. Most other stats apps (web/bandwidth stats etc) do similar stuff.
  • dknowlesdknowles
    This is actually on my to-do list. But I probably won't even get started on it until next week sometime.
  • dknowlesdknowles
    I've got the week off next week (my vacation before i start work at google!!!!) so I'll get started on it on either sunday or monday. I'll add myself to the wiki, too. =)
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    nick me a couple of servers from google and pretend they broke.
  • dknowlesdknowles
    For once, I actually want to keep my job. ;)

    But I will be in the data center.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    dont google run entirely redundant servers and for the most part just leave them in the rack if they break cause its cheaper than finding them and replacing them? Asif they'll notice if one goes missing!
  • dknowlesdknowles
    honestly, as many NDA's as I had to sign, I don't know if I can answer that.
  • dknowlesdknowles
    Anyone opposed to me using the jpgraph library to render graps on the stats page?
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    lol dknowles, you should try working for a bank. forms everywhere. i had them coming out of my ears at one point.
  • dknowlesdknowles
    edited August 2005
    Actually, Friday was my last day working for a bank. Are you stalking me?
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    i'm afraid not. Are you in england or america?
  • lechlech ✭
    The only opposition you would have from me is the fact that the server in which I'm running vanilla from does not have either GD1 or GD2 installed. :/
  • dknowlesdknowles
    mini: I'm in America.

    lech: I could add a check for GD1/2 (I think the library already has one built-in) and if neither are installed it could just not do the graphs. Making images on the fly usually requires GD, and I've never seen a good/common alternative. Suggestions?
  • lechlech ✭
    hehe, what about good old faked out bar charts using an existing image? you could even base64encode something like that and decode it on the fly. I don't know what kind of crazy data you really plan on pulling from valilal tho to create detailed statistics, other than users/active/inactive and little things. I doubt much would require complicated bar charts.
  • the alohathe aloha
    if it were extension, that would be cool. that was one thing i always took off of phpbb. non-geeks do not care about the stats and the geeks care only to see if they have more.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    valilal? i like it!
  • dknowlesdknowles
    On my old board, we had most active users (monthly, all time, etc), most active refreshers (we had an insane accesslog through mysql...quite stupid, really), longest threads, posts per month. that sort of thing. i could really do just about anything with the data. it's a lot of fun.
  • lechlech ✭
    david, I'd say before getting complex with it, and drawing up insane pie charts, do it the old skewl way. Just plain no frills bar chart action to get the ball rolling with some simple deduction based on a the mean. Of course this might be something better saved for the next revision as mark's hopefully slapping in that extra sql table for extensions only :D
  • grastegraste
    You could use simple css-based barcharts - makes the styling easy :) http://www.notestips.com/80256B3A007F2692/1/NAMO-5JQ2NR (also follow the link to the tables version) http://concepts.waetech.com/bargraph/ or a js-based version: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jsexamples/multigraphExample.html And what about creating a stats extension with these small sparklines? ;) A PHP library: http://sparkline.org/ (uses GD I think)
  • nathannathan
    re: gd library. How about a gd extension? That way, othe rimage handling stuff could call on it. It would create an image API. Thoughts?
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