Hmm, no solution for that?

Hi Daniel,

Glad you reminded me. I looked into this, but forgot to finish things and finaly forgot all about it B) . My question is: what you want, does it resemble a sticky post? If so, have a look at [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=10233&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=sticky][Plugin] Sticky Post[/url] by balupton.

Good luck

Ah, no, not necessarily. Similar to my TOP 15 article-headlines displayed in the sidebar, I was looking for a possibility to not only show my most viewd postings of all time, but e.g. of the actual month (as well). So I (and all visitors) could see, what is/was of interest the most in the current month... and I would like to implement this in the sidebar... so for my understanding, no interaction with the sticky post plugin...

Can you provide me the code of the top 15 list?

Sure... especially because I couldn´t find it in the forum anymore... but I got the help from here... somewhere...

	<!-- =============== TOP ARTICLES =============== -->

	<?php
	echo "<div class=\"bSideItem\">
	      <h3 class=\"sideItemTitle\">Top 15 Artikel</h3>";
	      $TOPART = new ItemList($blog, array(), '', '', -1, '', array(),
	         '', 'DESC', 'views', 15);
	      echo "<ul>";
	      while ($TOPART_ITEM = $TOPART->get_item()) {
	         echo "<li><a href=\"", $TOPART_ITEM->permanent_url();
	         echo "\">", $TOPART_ITEM->title('','',false), "</a> <span class=\"notes\">(";
	         echo $TOPART_ITEM->views;
	         echo ")</span></li>";
	      }
	      echo "<li><a href=\"http://www.chaoszone.de/blog/index.php?orderby=views\">Mehr...</a></li></ul>";
	echo"</div>";
	?>

	<!-- =============== TOP ARTICLES OF THE MONTH =============== -->

	<?php
	echo "<div class=\"bSideItem\">
	      <h3 class=\"sideItemTitle\">Top 15 Artikel</h3>";
	      $TOPART = new ItemList($blog, array(), '', '', -1, '', array(),
	         '', 'DESC', 'views', 15, '', '', '', '', '', '', 0, '', mysql2timestamp(  date( 'Y-m-01 00:00:00', $servertimenow ) ) );
	      echo "<ul>";
	      while ($TOPART_ITEM = $TOPART->get_item()) {
	         echo "<li><a href=\"", $TOPART_ITEM->permanent_url();
	         echo "\">", $TOPART_ITEM->title('','',false), "</a> <span class=\"notes\">(";
	         echo $TOPART_ITEM->views;
	         echo ")</span></li>";
	      }
	      echo "<li><a href=\"http://www.chaoszone.de/blog/index.php?orderby=views\">Mehr...</a></li></ul>";
	echo"</div>";
	?>

¥
*edit* corrected date ;)

You want two new instances of this code, but with some minor differences. Most important: change the variable names to avoid conflicts.

Second you want to change this line:

$TOPART = new ItemList($blog, array(), '', '', -1, '', array(),
             '', 'DESC', 'views', 15); 

[url=http://doc.b2evolution.net/v-1-10/evocore/ItemList.html]Here[/url] is te technical doc's entry for this code.

The single most viewed article ever: change 15 om 1. That's easy.

The most viewed post of the current month:
1) add this code somewhere in the top of your snippet:

$today = getdate();
$this_month = $today[mon];

*edit*
This is the correct solution:

$today = getdate();
$this_month = $today['mon'];
$this_year = $today['year'];
$this_month = $this_year.$this_month;

2) change this line:

$TOPART = new ItemList($blog, array(), '', 
$this_month, -1, '', array(), '', 'DESC', 'views', 1);

¥åßßå beats me.

Good luck

Hey great... I wasn´t aware, that this is a content ;)

¥åßßå, I´ve integrated your code first, and in general it seems to work... There are x headlines displayed, only from this month etc. but before I get 3 times the same error message above the top list entries:

Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered in /home/www/.../blog/inc/_misc/_misc.funcs.php on line 431

The _misc.funcs.php around the mentioned position says:

/**
 * Convert a MYSQL date to a UNIX timestamp
 */
function mysql2timestamp( $m )
{
	return mktime(substr($m,11,2),substr($m,14,2),substr($m,17,2),substr($m,5,2),substr($m,8,2),substr($m,0,4));
}

/**
 * Convert a MYSQL date -- WITHOUT the time -- to a UNIX timestamp
 */
function mysql2datestamp( $m )
{
	return mktime( 0, 0, 0, substr($m,5,2), substr($m,8,2), substr($m,0,4) );
}

/**
 * Format a MYSQL date to current locale date format.
 *
 * @param string MYSQL date YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
 */
function mysql2localedate( $mysqlstring )
{
	return mysql2date( locale_datefmt(), $mysqlstring );
}

function mysql2localetime( $mysqlstring )
{
	return mysql2date( locale_timefmt(), $mysqlstring );
}

function mysql2localedatetime( $mysqlstring )
{
	return mysql2date( locale_datefmt().' '.locale_timefmt(), $mysqlstring );
}

function mysql2localedatetime_spans( $mysqlstring )
{
	return '<span class="date">'
					.mysql2date( locale_datefmt(), $mysqlstring )
					.'</span> <span class="time">'
					.mysql2date( locale_timefmt(), $mysqlstring )
					.'</span>';
}

Afwas, after that I tried your version, and this was the result:

Notice: Use of undefined constant mon - assumed 'mon' in /home/www/.../blog/skins/custom/_main.php on line 7

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/www/.../blog/skins/custom/_main.php:7) in /home/www/.../blog/inc/MODEL/skins/_skin.funcs.php on line 71

Any ideas to make this happen without any error-messages?

Ah... found the solution, even when I´m not fully understanding this...

$TOPART = new ItemList($blog, array(), '', '', -1, '', array(), '', 'DESC', 'views', 5, '', '', '', '', '', '', 0, '', mysql2timestamp(  date( 'Y-m-01 00:00:01', $servertimenow ) ) );

So the working date format shall apparently be "Y-m-01 00:00:0[u]1[/u]"

Hi Daniel,

Sorry for the inconvenience, I didn't test the code (needed to run). From my solution this works (tested):

$today = getdate();
$this_month = $today['mon'];
$this_year = $today['year'];
$this_month = $this_year.$this_month;

replaces the snippet I mentioned.
This gives a number like 200710 and that triggers the correct month (october 2007).

¥åßßås code also works: he selects ALL posts and limits output to one month. He made a very funny mistake (bet he didn't check either) and you were a true Sherlock Holmes finding the solution.

Happy blogging

Afwas wrote:

he selects ALL posts and limits output to one month.

Close, it adds a where clause to the mysql to limit the selection of results to just a month ;)

Afwas wrote:

(bet he didn't check either)

Yer meant to test code? 8|

¥

LOL

(and thanks again for your help)

Thanks from me too, I didn't even know it was possible to sort by popularity (or show single article view counters). Now I'm a little depressed that my second most popular article has over 35000 views less than #1 :D

OFFTOPIC: 35000 views less? how much hits has your best article and what is your URL?

wayfinder wrote:

Thanks from me too, I didn't even know it was possible to sort by popularity (or show single article view counters).

If you saw the [url=http://doc.b2evolution.net/v-1-10/evocore/ItemList.html]link[/url], you will notice that you can also sort by: author, issue_date, mod_date, status, locale, content, title, urltitle, url, category, wordcount, and comments.

Good luck

^^^thanks!

Daniel wrote:

OFFTOPIC: 35000 views less? how much hits has your best article and what is your URL?

www.yfinder.de

One of my posts got picked up by stumbleupon and garnered almost 40000 hits :)