Online users on another page

[MetalMilitia]

I use joomla, obviously my sites in my signature : but I was wondering this.

Basically what I want it to do, is have vbulletin treat people that are on the main part of the site as "guests" - so it counts EVERYONE online. Is there a way that can be done?

[Lynne]

You would have to set it up so when people are on the other part of the site, they still get a session and then they will be counted. You will have to include global.php in order to do that (maybe just init.php, you can test it and see).

[MetalMilitia]

so have it call to the global or init file of the forums and that may count them as guests?

[Lynne]

Add the global or init file to the non-vbulletin pages so that they get seen as guests there.

[MetalMilitia]

LoL I wish I could just look in your brain sometimes. You always help me...

...But I am kinda lost when you explain it like that. If yer familiar with joomla, where and how exactly do I do that?

[Lynne]

I am not familiar with joomla at all so I really can't help with that. I just know that you get a session set for you if that file is included and if you have a session set, then you are either a guest or a logged in user.

[MetalMilitia]

Take any standard page - any non-vb page...

What kinda steps do you take to have it read any visitors as guests. I can probably figure it out if I know what to add where...

[Lynne]

You would add the file to the php page:
require_once('./global.php');

Your path may be different though since that is taken straight out of a vb page.

[MetalMilitia]

Worked for a bit and crashed. What would the case be if all I'm doing is adding that particular line into the index/php page?

[Lynne]

I don't know joomla, so I really have no idea. I guess you can check your error_logs and see what is going on. I'm not really sure what 'crashed' means either - it can mean so many different things to different people.