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Mod Version: 0.22, by Floris (Coder/Designer) Floris is offline
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vB Version: 3.6.11 Rating: (42 votes - 3.88 average) Installs: 308
Released: 07 Jun 2006 Last Update: 27 Aug 2007 Downloads: 19036
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Title: Fake Community Statistics
For: vBulletin forum software version 3.6.11 and 3.7.3 and 3.8.0
By: Floris Fiedeldij Dop & Huanga & Colin F
Version: 0.22 +manual patch

What does this do?
After importing this product you will have additional options in the Administrator Control Panel below the 'Fake Community Statistics Options' section. This plugin gives you the ability to cheat the stats on forumhome (and a few other locations) by increasing the real value with a false value. The goal of this plugin is to helps new communities boost their activity by pretending they are bigger and more active; provoking visitors to register and participate to generate real activity (after which the admin can stop using this plugin)

Example:

Total registered members: 5
Added amount: 100
Forumhome now shows instead of 5:
Total registered members: 105

Of course, if a new member registers it will be 106.


Available options & features:

* Registered members (0.01, Floris)
* Total threads (0.01, Floris)
* Total posts (0.01, Floris)
* Active members (0.01, Floris)
* Online Guests (0.02, Huanga, also appears on online.php)
* Invisible Users (0.02, Huanga, also appears on online.php)
* Big-Boards.com Compliance (0.03, Huanga)
* AdminCP Help (0.03, Floris)
* History: Updated phrases (0.03, Floris)
* Updates the 'Most Users Ever Online' Counter (0.04, Huanga)
* Dump Postcount into Specified Forum (0.04, Huanga)
* x members chosen not to be displayed (0.04.1, rogersnm, appears on memberlist.php)
* Showing results x of y of z+fake (0.04.1, Floris, appears on memberlist.php)
* 'Fake Online Users List' Display on Forumhome (0.05, Colin F & Floris)
* History: Updated AdminCP Help & Screenshots (0.05, Floris)
* 'Most Users Online' Date & Time Switch (0.06, Floris, also appears on online.php)
* 'Fake Online Users List' CSS Markup (0.06, Floris)
* 'Fake Online Users List' Display Newest User Switch (0.06, Floris)
* History: Updated AdminCP Help and Installation Instructions (0.06, Floris)
* Rebuild for vBulletin 3.6.0 beta 1 (0.10, Floris)
* AdminCP Help is now included, no need to manually import it (0.10, Floris)
* Included product URL- product now links to the official vBorg thread (0.10, Floris)
* Included product version check URL- to help check for new version (0.10, Floris)
* History: Updated AdminCP Options to display which options didn't work in 360b1 and updated readme.html (0.10, Floris)
* Updated for 3.6.7 PL1 (0.20, Floris)
* Fixed bug for Most Active Users on FORUMHOME (0.21, Floris)
* Fixed bug for Registered Users and Active Users on FORUMHOME (0.22, HuangA)
* History: Updated AdminCP Help (0.22, HuangA)
* History: Didn't update anything, but wrote 'manual patch' in a post (0.22, Floris)
* Erhm, there is probably more? ..



Does this come with phrases?
Yes .. but the product import will take care of these, no worries.

Does this come with templates or require me to modify my templates?
No, no new templates are required. Original values are overwritten.

Yes, two template modifications are required if you wish to show 'x members chosen not to be displayed' on memberlist.php and add fake online users to the online users list. (see install instructions below)

Does this create additional queries?
Nope, this will not overload your server, and no sql queries are run.

Does this run on vBulletin 2.x or 3.0.x?
No.

Does this run on vBulletin 3.5.0 - 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3 and 3.5.4?
I don't see why not. But download the 3.5 stable release please!

Does this run on vBulletin 3.6.x?
Yes. I recommend to use 3.6.11.

What about 3.7.x and 3.8.x?
Yes, yes .. works just fine. See this post!

Does this work with third party plugins like vBAdvanced, etc?
No, we don't support third party plugins right now, sorry! Stop asking LOL

Installation instructions:
Admin Control Panel > Plugin System > Manage Products > Import > browse to the file and select the xml from your hard drive, click import and you're done. Default values are 0 for most options, you can change these at any time.

Admin Control Panel > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > dropdown: Edit Templates > Expand: Members List Templates > Customize: memberlist >
FIND:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)  
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.


Replace With:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)  
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.



Admin Control Panel > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > dropdown: Edit Templates > Expand: Forum Home Templates group, select the FORUMHOME template and click on customize to modify it.
FIND:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)  
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.


Replace With:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)  
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.




Support:
Don't PM me about this, I can't see how you require support for this and I don't plan on giving it. Nor is this written to support third party plugins.

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Old 07 Jun 2006, 22:25
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Version history for those who want to know:

Version 0.00 -> for vBulletin 3.0.x (was never released)
Version 0.01-0.06 -> for vBulletin 3.5.x (released as stable)

Version 0.10 -> for vBulletin 3.6.x (released in this thread as beta)

Version 0.20 -> for vBulletin 3.6.7pl1 (updated .zip in this thread)
Version 0.22+manual patch -> for vBulletin 3.6.11 (updated .zip file in this thread)

Last edited by Floris : 20 Sep 2008 at 22:22.
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Old 07 Jun 2006, 22:51
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woot me first reply = Kihon.

Floris, how much did you have to change?
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Old 07 Jun 2006, 23:02
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Just a rebuild + new options to select and tried to get things working. The next update will hopefully fix the little issues of options not working. I just have to do too much 3.6 support on vBcom right now to look through the index.php file
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Old 07 Jun 2006, 23:07
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I was only wondering how much different converting an old hack would be to convert it to 3.6 since I have hundreds of hacks installed. :/
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Old 07 Jun 2006, 23:43
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That would be very easy
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Old 08 Jun 2006, 00:00
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Thanks Floris does this mean we are going to have to change all our hacks from 3.5 to 3.6
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Old 08 Jun 2006, 00:32
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Most hacks from 3.5 will work on 3.6.
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Old 08 Jun 2006, 03:16
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OMG, this statement just made me pee my pants.

Originally Posted by Floris
Most hacks from 3.5 will work on 3.6.
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Old 08 Jun 2006, 11:35
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Read the announcement on vBcom by Kier, it is explained there.
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Old 10 Jun 2006, 16:24
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apart from the small problem is most hacks don't. specially the big important one's like vbplaza and ldm
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Old 12 Jun 2006, 19:12
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btw.
Originally Posted by Floris
Does this run on vBulletin 3.5.0 - 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3 and 3.5.4?
I don't see why not.
NO!

due to the update build stucture of vb3.6 xml files it will not work.
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Old 12 Jun 2006, 19:13
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Originally Posted by Floris
Just a rebuild + new options to select and tried to get things working. The next update will hopefully fix the little issues of options not working. I just have to do too much 3.6 support on vBcom right now to look through the index.php file
i wish vb would just put a manual for things that have changed in vb 3.6
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Old 16 Jun 2006, 23:29
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Originally Posted by rogersnm
btw.

NO!

due to the update build stucture of vb3.6 xml files it will not work.
The 3.5.stable release is still there .. the same code/features (for now)
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You might want to edit the part in the first post that says this is for 3.5.4
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