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Hi,
I want to feature top 5 earners of the week in my blog sidebar. Can you please suggest the best way to do that using ppc metadata?
Thanks,
SnehilHi Snehil,
there are no metadata on stats as stats they are generated on the fly and then cached for a day, but nothing permanent is stored.However, you can use the high-level method
PPC_generate_stats::produce_stats( $time_start, $time_end, $author, $format )
to generate stats for a given time range and authors (in your case, set $authors to NULL to get stats for all authors). $format is a boolean that affects the output: if it’s true, you will also get a ready-to-be-output version of the data.
To get the top 5 earners, you will still have to sort the data on your own. I’d encourage you to make the call to the function, printing the result (it’s going to be a big multi-dimensional array) and then reporting back any issues/doubts you may still have 🙂
The function you’d be calling is located in post-pay-counter/classes/ppc_generate_stats_class.php, and it (and the methods it invokes) do have some decent inline documentation 🙂
Have a nice day,
StefanoThanks for the detailed info.
I am thinking to create a shortcode output the top earners. To start with I added the below snippet in my functions.php file.
function top_earners() {
PPC_generate_stats::produce_stats( $time_start, $time_end, null, true )
}
add_shortcode(‘top_earners’, ‘top_earners’);Can you please let me the the format in which I should pass values to $time_start and $time_end variables. Sorry for being naive, but I do not have enough PHP coding experience.
There are a bunch of shortcode functions you get inspiration from in post-pay-counter-pro/classes/ppcp_shortcode_class.php 🙂
$time_start and $time_end should be UNIX timestamps.
Have a nice day,
Stefano
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