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  • January 12, 2018 at 7:36 pm #59916
    Snehil
    Guest

    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,
    Snehil

    January 13, 2018 at 9:17 am #59919
    Stefano
    Keymaster

    Hi 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,
    Stefano

    January 13, 2018 at 10:53 am #59922
    Snehil
    Guest

    Thanks 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.

    January 13, 2018 at 2:18 pm #59928
    Stefano
    Keymaster

    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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