I don't know if there's a hack for this, but what I would like is a way to see how many topics someone has opend in specified forums.

So I would like to know if something like this exists or if I have to make it myself, and if someone is willing to give me some pointers if I have to make it myself.

Options I would like:
- admincp option to specify the forums
- add 1 topic count to total when a new topic is opened in 1 of the specified forums
- remove 1 topic count if topic is removed by hand
- Make the topic count appear in postbit (is easy to do)

I think this is all, hope you guys understand what I mean.

The way you put it is making it to hard. if you look into the database then you can see their is a thread starter column. All you need to do is: If you did it that way then you can add some more code to make it all work. or you could do it like this:
and then you can just put $post[topicsstarted in the postbit and it SHOULD work. Not quite shore where to put it though. Maybe someone else can help you with that.

That's pretty handy, but than it will show all the topics started, but my problem is that I don't want every topic the started to show but only those in specified forums.

But if the already keep track of the topics started I can make a if so it will only insert when the forum number matches. Can you tell me where I can find the code that insert the threadcounter into the database?

And if I can't figure it out I gues I can always disable post counts for all the forums in which I don't want the topics to count (if that makes sense)

That should be relatvely easy. You just have to add some more info to the WHERE.

The just change X,Y and Z into the forum id's that you want. If you want any extra just add: AND thread.forumid =N to the end of the query.

Why do you want to insert it into the database? You would have to update the value every time a user posts a topic and it would be more efficient to use this method.

This is better, but I didn't know the kept it like this.

But I now get an error.

any idee what I'm doing wrong here

post username doesn't work (not much of a surprise.) What hook location are you using?

I don't know what a hook location is, but I put the code in showthread.php and try to get the data with postbit.

I don't know if that's how this is supposed to be done, but this is the part I'm really bad in.

oh. Well that probably wasn't the best idea. Hang on.

haha I thought so, I'll hang on

actually don't hang on. I'm kinda doing something else at the mo (+i am stumped :p) It would go in a plugin.... Just find the right one...