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+<?php
+/**
+ * @package stats
+ * @version 0.1
+ */
+/*
+Plugin Name: IRC Stats
+Plugin URI: https://newnet.net/
+Description: Stats for newnet IRC Network.
+Version: 0.1
+Text Domain: stats
+Author: ChatGPT
+Author URI: https://chat.openai.com
+License: LGPLv2.1
+*/
+
+function stats_shortcode() {
+    $stats = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://stats.newnet.net/stats.json"));
+    ob_start();
+    ?>
+        <p>there are <?=htmlspecialchars($stats->usercount)?> users across <?=htmlspecialchars($stats->channelcount)?> channels.</p>
+        <p>if the channel is set with <a href="https://docs.inspircd.org/3/modes/#channel-modes">chanmode +s</a> it will be omitted from this list.</p>
+        <p>the table is sortable by clicking on the column headers</p>
+
+        <div class="table-responsive">
+            <table class="table table-striped table-bordered table-hover">
+                <thead>
+                    <tr>
+                        <th>Name</th>
+                        <th>Users</th>
+                        <th>Topic</th>
+                    </tr>
+                </thead>
+
+                <tbody data-link="row" class="rowlink">
+                    <?php foreach($stats->channels as $channel): ?>
+                        <tr>
+                            <td><a href="<?=$channel->webchatlink?>"><?=htmlspecialchars($channel->name)?></a></td>
+                            <<td><?=htmlspecialchars($channel->usercount)?></td>
+                            <td style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; max-width:700px"><?=htmlspecialchars($channel->topic)?></td>
+                        </tr>
+                    <?php endforeach; ?>
+                </tbody>
+            </table>
+        </div>
+        <hr>
+        <p>also available as <a href="https://stats.newnet.net/stats.json">json</a>.</p>
+
+        <script>
+            // sort stats page
+            const getCellValue = (tr, idx) => tr.children[idx].innerText || tr.children[idx].textContent;
+
+            const comparer = (idx, asc) => (a, b) => ((v1, v2) =>
+                v1 !== '' && v2 !== '' && !isNaN(v1) && !isNaN(v2) ? v1 - v2 : v1.toString().localeCompare(v2)
+                )(getCellValue(asc ? b : a, idx), getCellValue(asc ? a : b, idx));
+
+            // do the work...
+            document.querySelectorAll('th').forEach(function(th) {
+              th.addEventListener('click', (() => {
+                const table = th.closest('table').querySelector("tbody");
+                Array.from(table.querySelectorAll('tr'))
+                    .sort(comparer(Array.from(th.parentNode.children).indexOf(th), this.asc = !this.asc))
+                    .forEach(tr => table.appendChild(tr) );
+              }));
+              th.style.cursor = 'pointer';
+            });
+        </script>
+    <?php
+    return ob_get_clean();
+}
+
+add_shortcode('stats', 'stats_shortcode');