ADDON: Advanced Pixelpost Comment Statistics

[Dkozikowski+]

ADVANCED PIXELPOST COMMENT STATISTICS v1.01


Last updated on: May 10th, 2007

FEATURES

• Multi-lingual:
  • English
  • Polish
  • German
  • Dutch
  • Spanish
  • Persian
  • Italian
• Email link that generates a thank you message
• Pixelpost v1.5 & v1.6 compatible
• Automatic database install and upgrade from v0.5
• + more . . .

LANGUAGE PAK's
Language file Updates:

• Spanish, updated 04/17/2007. Download
• Italian, added 05/10/2007. Download

ADDON INFO
Addon Type:
Admin Addon

Description:
This admin addon allows you to view various tidbits of information pertaining to your photoblog comments and commenter's.

Addon Details:
Version: 1.01
Added: 2007-01-18
Updated: 2007-05-10
Requires Pixelpost: v1.5/1.6

SCREEN CAPTURES
Screen Captures:
Click each thumbnail for a better view!
IP and Email address have been pixelated to protect my commenter's privacy.

Main Breakdown Page:
The breakdown page allows you to view statistical data pertaining to your published and moderated comments!
You can choose to view only published or both published and moderated comments.



Commenter's Page:
The Commenter's page allows you to see the total amount of comments per commenter and what their comment was for each image they have commented on!
By clicking on the total number of comments, their data will be displayed!
You can also choose to view only published or both published and moderated comments as well as enabling/disabling thumbnails and changing the date/time format output.
Note: moderated comments are shown with a yellow background



Popular Page:
The Popular page allows you to view what images have the most comments. Again, click on the comment total and an "exploded" view will appear showing you all comments for that specific image!
You can also choose to view only published or both published and moderated comments as well as enabling/disabling thumbnails and changing the date/time format output.
On top of that, if a commenter has supplied an email address, you may click on their email to send a pre-formatted message thanking them for their comment!
Note: moderated comments are shown with a yellow background



Newest Page:
The Newest page gives you a quick look at your newest comments.
You can also choose to view only published or both published and moderated comments as well as enabling/disabling thumbnails and changing the date/time format output.
On top of that, if a commenter has supplied an email address, you may click on their email to send a preformatted message thanking them for their comment!
Note: moderated comments are shown with a yellow background



Comment Options Page:
The Comments Option page allows you to specify how many Top Commenter's, Most Popular, and Newest Comments to display.
You can also format the date/time output, show/hide thumbnails and show/hide moderated comments.
(The defaults are set to 7,7,7,Relative,Hide,Show)



Language Options Page:
The Language Option page allows you to specify what language you would like to use.
Note: If you have translated or would like to translate to a new language, please contact me so I can add them to new releases.



NEW INSTALLATION & UPGRADE from v0.5
Installation:

• Extract archive and upload admin_comment_stat.php to your addons/ directory.
• Upload the commentstats folder to your language/ directory.
• Login to your pixelpost admin panel.
• You're done!

UPGRADE from v0.1
IMPORTANT!
Upgrade from 0.1:

• Login to your pixelpost admin panel.
• Navigate to the menu item: Addons.
• Find Advanced Pixelpost Stats and click the Remove APS button!
• Goto your addons folder and DELETE admin_adv_stat.php from your addons directory
• Now, follow installation instructions above!

UPGRADE from v1.0 to 1.01
Upgrade from 1.0 to 1.01:

• Replace the old addon, admin_comment_stat.php with the new.
• Replace the old commentstat language folder with the new.
• You're done!

FINDING THE MENU
Use:

• Pixelpost v1.5:
  • Login to your pixelpost admin panel.
  • Navigate to the new menu item: Stats
• Pixelpost v1.6:
  • Login to your pixelpost admin panel.
  • Navigate to: General Info
  • Navigate to the new menu item: Stats

GET IT
Addon Page:

• Visit

Download:

• Download

VERSION HISTORY
Key:

• [!]Important
• [+]New
• [-]Fixed error
• [*]Changes

Version 0.1

• [!]Initial release.

Update to version 0.5:

• [-]Fixed Breakdown calculations
• [+]Added Options menu
• [+]Added Commenter's submenu item
• [+]Added Popular submenu item
• [+]Added Newest submenu item
• [+]Added Possibility to retrieve person details
• [+]Added basic check to make sure the addon only runs while viewing the admin panel
• [!]Changed name to Advanced Pixelpost Comment Stats from Advanced Pixelpost Stats

Update to version 1.0:

• [+]Added multilingual support
• [+]Added Language Options menu
• [+]Added thumbnail display to Commenter' s submenu item
• [+]Added date-time output switch
• [+]Added Show / Hide thumbnails option
• [+]Added Show / Hide moderated comments option
• [+]Added RSS 2.0 feed for newest comments
• [*]Changed database install from manual to automatic
• [*]Changed Breakdown calculations to account for moderated comments
• [+]Added support for pixelpost v1.6 General Info workspace

Update to version 1.01:

• [+] Added Persian language support
• [+] Added Spanish language support
• [+] Added debug menu (http://www.yoursite.com/admin/?apcsdebug)
• [+] Added ability to check for updates
• [-] Altered CSS to match Pixelpost's v1.6 admin theme
• [*] Removed the comment RSS function. Pixelpost v1.6 supports this right out of the box
• [*] Cleaned more code and made some minor optimizations
• [*] Updated Spanish language file (04/17/2007) (no version change)

[Dennis+]

Nice work: will definitely try this one out.

[Dkozikowski+]

Thank you. Let me know how everything works for you.

For those of us who use a stats program called MINT and have the pepper called PCP have seen something like this before.

PCP does not however distinguish between published and moderated comments as the PCP peppers development stopped before the release of pixelpost 1.5x

I plan to port the PCP pepper for MINT into a pixelpost admin addon so those of you who do not use MINT can see cool statistics like the rest of us

[Dkozikowski+]

v0.2 is available for testing.

The addon is not done my all means but it's getting there.

before i release it publicly, i'd like to get a few people running the addon and letting me know if any bugs exist.

Private message me or post here and let me know if you'd like to test this and i'll send you a message with a link.

[Dennis+]

Hit me up, I'll can do some testing tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

[austriaka+]

I tried your addon and it seems to work fine. But I cannot give very much information, because I have not much comments yet...

Two things to mention:
The name of your addon is a bit confusing, because there is a "advanced_stat.php" which comes with PP installation. Name of your "admin_adv_stat.php" is perhaps too similar, I suggest renaming it to "admin_comment_stat.php" or somewhat like that.

In line "Average published comments per person:" it says "1" here, but I have a few thousand visitors and exactly 7 comments. So rounding to ceiling is not very true when having low amount of total comments... Perhaps it would be better to show the "real" average which must be something like 0.000nnn

Thx for the idea
KArin

[Dkozikowski+]

Originally Posted by austriaka

I tried your addon and it seems to work fine. But I cannot give very much information, because I have not much comments yet...

Which version did you test? v0.1 or the unreleased v0.2 i sent you a few minutes ago?

Originally Posted by austriaka

Two things to mention:
The name of your addon is a bit confusing, because there is a "advanced_stat.php" which comes with PP installation. Name of your "admin_adv_stat.php" is perhaps too similar, I suggest renaming it to "admin_comment_stat.php" or somewhat like that.

Yes, you are right and the final release will be changed.

Originally Posted by austriaka

In line "Average published comments per person:" it says "1" here, but I have a few thousand visitors and exactly 7 comments. So rounding to ceiling is not very true when having low amount of total comments... Perhaps it would be better to show the "real" average which must be something like 0.000nnn

Thx for the idea
KArin

Average published comments per person does not care how many visitors you have had. If you only have 7 comments then it saying 1 sounds about right.

Average published comments takes the total # of comments, in your case 7, and divides that by the total # of unique commenters (by name).

So what its doing is searching your database, pulling the total amount of comments out and dividing by the total amount of unique commenter names it also finds in your database.

So lets say you have 7 comments all by the same person, average published comments would say, 7.

[austriaka+]

Originally Posted by dwilkinsjr

Which version did you test? v0.1 or the unreleased v0.2 i sent you a few minutes ago?

My last answer was for 0.1
Now I installed 0.2 and it is looking very good.

Originally Posted by dwilkinsjr

Average published comments per person does not care how many visitors you have had. If you only have 7 comments then it saying 1 sounds about right.

I have 7 comments fom 6 different people. So 1 is almost right ;-)
It is a cool addon (at least for the ones with more comments than me... Comeon people, leave a few comments so I can say more about that ;-)))

And yes, let us be collaborators!
KArin

[Dkozikowski+]

Originally Posted by austriaka

My last answer was for 0.1
Now I installed 0.2 and it is looking very good.

Thank you

Originally Posted by austriaka

I have 7 comments fom 6 different people. So 1 is almost right ;-)

Thats why its called AVERAGE published comments and not exact published comments!

Originally Posted by austriaka

And yes, let us be collaborators!
KArin

I agree, 100%

[Dkozikowski+]

Version 0.5 released!

You can find the details within the first post