MySteemitFriends New Feature: How much $ has user X contributed towards your articles in the last Y months?

Tool website: http://mysteemitfriends.online
Github: https://github.com/Bulletproofmonk/MySteemitFriends
Merged Pull Request:
https://github.com/Bulletproofmonk/MySteemitFriends/pull/4

New Features

• What feature(s) did you add?

Previously, I have added an article contribution calculator, on the article list page. Users have found this button to be useful to add up the contribution made to each article one by one to the calculator at the top of the page. However, users found that pressing the button next to each article manually to add to the contribution quite tiresome. To get the total contribution, a user could be made to click the calculate button over a hundred times, depending on how many articles were voted on by a particular user.

In this edition of My Steemit Friends, you will see that the total amount contributed by a particular voter over a number of months is automatically calculated, so you no longer have to click the Add up contribution button manually next to every article.

To test the new feature, please go to the My Steemit Friends homepage http://mysteemitfriends.online, type in your user name and click "Upvote Stats".

Then scroll down and click the number of upvotes next to a particular voter to go to the list of articles voted on by this voter.

You will see that at the top of the screen, it tells you how much this voter has contributed towards all of your articles during this time period (which you would have set in on the previous page).

You can also use the middle mouse button to click on many voters' numbers of upvotes (from the previous screen) to calculate many voters' contributions at once.

• How did you implement it/them?

upvotelist.php: The showContribution() function used to calculate a user's contribution has been turned into an async / await function. This is because to automate running this function for every single article, it is required to run one function after another and not all at once. There are too many articles for all functions to be called at the same time. Another async function outputData() was created and called to run the contribution function one after another using await in a for loop. That is why when you first open up the upvotelist.php page, you will see that each article's contribution will be added to the calculator at the top one by one.

As a result of automating the function calls for every article, the Show Full Ranking List button now loads the ranking instantaneously, so there is no waiting to see the ranking table. Click it!

I have also isolated the code for connecting to SteemSQL database, because it is now on a VIP system and the password cannot be revealed, so I put it in a separate file steemSQLconnect2.php so I won't have to hide it every time I commit a page to Github.

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