Comments on: Average Posts Per Day

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, it took me a minute, but add this just before the echo:

$posts_per_day = substr ( $posts_per_day, 0, ### );
$posts_per_day = substr ( $posts_per_day, 0, strlen( $posts_per_day ) - strpos( strrev( $posts_per_day ), ” ” ) );
$posts_per_day = trim ( $posts_per_day );

$days_per_post = substr ( $days_per_post, 0, ### );
$days_per_post = substr ( $days_per_post, 0, strlen( $days_per_post ) - strpos( strrev( $days_per_post ), ” ” ) );
$days_per_post = trim ( $days_per_post );

Replace both of the ### with the number of characters you want shown, INCLUDING the decimal. So 1.62 would be 4 characters, 1.6 would be 3, etc.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

PS, you don’t have to uncomment both echos, only the one you want to use.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Is there a way to restrict the amount of dp (decimal places) its given to, mine is avg. one post every 1.6266666666667 days which is a bit annoying

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Right, you have to change USERNAME, PASSWORD, DATABASE, and TABLE. I did it that way because I use my own journaling script rather than Moveable Type, and I don’t know what the table is called, neither do I know if MT uses a column called ID. This way it’s pretty much compatible with anything that uses a MySQL db.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Ok I got this now, I had to replace TABLE with mt_entry and uncomment the two echos

By: KMB

KMB — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hi there

I think it could be a bit faster when you change the SQL-Statement to something like this:

“SELECT id FROM TABLE”

Now MySQL don’t have to get all the info from the whole table. You probably have to change id to the name of a column in your table. Don’t know if MT is using IDs…

Btw: Arvind you have to change the name of the TABLE too.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/arvinds/public_html/blog/sidebar2.php on line 298

Warning: Division by zero in /home/arvinds/public_html/blog/sidebar2.php on line 307

Why does this happen. Edited the db stuff and changed date of first post

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Actually, that has an extra line in it, that makes it not end in the middle of a word, which isn’t necessary here. You can just add this (and replace the ### both times):

$posts_per_day = substr ( $posts_per_day, 0, ### );
$posts_per_day = trim ( $posts_per_day );

$days_per_post = substr ( $days_per_post, 0, ### );
$days_per_post = trim ( $days_per_post );

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I should do more testing before I post… It turns out you only need the first line for each variable:

$posts_per_day = substr ( $posts_per_day, 0, ### );
$days_per_post = substr ( $days_per_post, 0, ### );

I copied this straight from the rss feed I wrote, and I guess I didn’t understand the concept as well as I thought. Hey, at least my feed works, right?

By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I get a parse problem when I put that code into my template just above the echo