Total Group Members on Index Stats

[Farraday]

Hello again,

I am wanting to show the total number of members in certain groups on my index page (This is a roleplaying forum, so stats for number of players, different character races, etc., which all have their own groups.)

In my search for this, I came across this topic and this topic, but the information appears to be outdated, and my very-amateur attempts to cobble together a solution from that code has not worked.

If anyone with better php expertise could either point me to, or provide a solution to this, I would be very grateful!

Thank you for considering!

[Anișor]

The topics you mentioned are for something else.
Do you want to edit the current legend of the forum or to have a new section with all groups?

[Farraday]

I'm sorry for the delay, I must have forgotten to click notify me!

The topics you mentioned are for something else.
Do you want to edit the current legend of the forum or to have a new section with all groups?

I have custom theme on my board with extensive HTML and CSS changes, and I would like to add the current total counts for two groups to a modified version of the stats section, and then for five other groups to a different section I have at the top of the board.

Edited to add that I don't need the legend edited.

[Farraday]

I figured this out on my own. The first post I linked above by Phil is in fact the correct method for doing this — The trouble I ran into was that

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$total_users    = $config['num_users']; 

is no longer in index.php, and I had placed the additional php code in the wrong place — If you are new to php, make sure your code is after a semi-colon. I placed all of mine after

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$controller_helper = $phpbb_container->get('controller.helper');

and it worked perfectly.

You can call as many different group totals as you like using the linked method, just change the variable names and group numbers, and make sure you follow all steps every time for each group.

[Anișor]

You should rather write an extension for this that will return the member count for each group instead and then you can show whatever you want.
It's not recommended to edit phpBB's core files.