Display number of published stories not only at profile

[visine]

I would like to display the user's number of published stories anywhere at my pligg site.

I tried to copy&paste the variable given at user_center.tpl {$user_published_links} but it doesn't show up at any other site than user_center.tpl.

Is there another (global) variable to display the number?

[vwdw]

No, but you can set it. Open libs/smartyvariables.php and insert the following in the end

 if ($current_user->authenticated) {
$qty = "SELECT count(*) FROM " . table_links . " WHERE link_author = ".$current_user->user_id." AND link_status = 'published'";
$user_published_links = $db->get_var($qty);
$main_smarty->assign('user_published_links', $user_published_links);
} 
  

Just do a backup