Online/Offline In Forums

[Stretchr]

I've searched this board for several hours and now I guess I have to ask for some help. On the left side of this board, beside the posts, what hack was used to show whether the user is Online or Offline? I love the feature but can't find how to implement it. Thanks in advance and I hope I'm asking in the right place. :confused:

[Sinecure]

Its actually just a simple templae modificiation.

Go to your admin panel, then go to the templates section.
You are going to need to modify the following templates.
Postbit
Postbit_offline
Postbit_online

First off change the postbit_offline template to the following:

<b>Offline!</b>


Second, change postbit_online to the following:

<b>Online!</b>


Now comes the tricky part. Open up the postbit template.
About 3 quarters of the way down you will see a variable called $onlinestatus. Cut it from there. Then scroll up until you see the following:

<smallfont>Registered: $post[joindate]<br>
Location: $post[field2]<br>
Posts: $post[posts]</smallfont>


Replace that code with the following:

<smallfont>$onlinestatus<br>Registered: $post[joindate]<br>
Location: $post[field2]<br>
Posts: $post[posts]</smallfont>


That should work perfectly, if you have any troubles let me know.

[Stretchr]

You're right that it was simple to do but you sure saved me a lot of time by letting me know where to change things. I appreciate your quick response and help. Thank you!!

[Sinecure]

Your welcome :)

[TurboFC3S]

Cool! Just what I was looking for ...

[dezoris]

so do you just delete
the default script in the postbit_offline/online?
Or do you just place that
line that you mentioned in there?

[dezoris]

forget it I figured it out :)

[KISS]

how do you make it glow? btw it works great :)

[Airwaves]

and to get them to glow I must...

PLEASE reply

[ace]

<font color="#FFFFFF"><table style="filter:glow(color=yellow, strength=2)">Online</table></font>

there ya go ;)

[Stretchr]

I'm sure if you search you can find this in another post, but here's an example for Online.
<td><div align="right" style="width:100%; font-size:8pt; color:white; filter:Glow(color=#e111a8, strength=2)">Online </div></td>
<td><div style="width:100%; font-size:8pt; color:grey; filter:none"> | Offline</div></td>

I think I may have found the full code at vB.com

HTH
:D

[Floris]

Thank you guys :) I applied this template hack too now :P And am very pleased with it. Fnx.

[mondaynightmike]

So we have a long way to go then :)

*edit*Sorry, i posted in the wrong thread*edit*

[ZiRu$]

worked like a charm!

I used the Glow.....

[InnerSelf]

the userstatus won't show up at my board ???

anybody who can help me out?

maybe i made an error in a php file or something

[Ryan McBain]

instead of online and offline, how do I put an image there?

[KrisP]

Thanks! Works like a charm :-)

- Kris (Glow is the key...)

[Sinecure]

I'm going to move this to the template modifications..

[Chris M]

Ryan...

Replace it with :

<img src="url to the image">

in both cases...

Satan

[XFLBret]

Originally posted by ace
<font color="#FFFFFF"><table style="filter:glow(color=yellow, strength=2)">Online</table></font>

there ya go ;)

I gotta problem with this code...

when the user is off line, it works exactly as it should. however, when the user is on line, there is a inexplicable space between the word on line, and the registered line.

i've tried working on htis, but could not get that space outta there.

any suggestions?

[exodus]

t

[Dade]

Lyle you saint :D

[asweetdeal]

I installed this, however for some reason everyone is showing up as online... why is that?

Thanks!
ASweetDeal

[SaintDog]

Postbit
Postbit_offline
Postbit_online

As long as you just modified the above templates, you should not be having any problems.

- SaintDog

[deFunx]

thanks man it works realwell

[PET]

very simple & very cool TEMPLATE MOD.

[Massiel]

I have the same problem as XFLBret, any ideas?

[Massiel]

Any ideas why I get an extra space below Online in my forums?

[Massiel]

bump

[SaintDog]

He is not using a complete table, use the following instead (just replace it with the color(s) you want :)


<table>
<tr>
<td style="filter:glow(color=orange, strength=3,400)">
Online!
</td>
</tr>
</table>


The above should work fine,

- SaintDog

[Massiel]

Thank you!!! :)

[nghiasi]

Thank You for this hints. Really nic eone!

[NexDog]

Damn, been looking for this for weeks. Going to attempt it as soon as the server comes back to life from it's memory upgrade. :)

[NexDog]

Installed ok but have a weird problem. Check out the attached image. The message box seems to have expanded for some reasons. Plus the pages are taking ages to load.

[[D]Vincent]

Maybe make table width="100%" in it... i.e. <table width="100%"> this may not be it though.

[NexDog]

My hacked code looks like:


<table cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth}" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableouterextra} width="{contenttablewidth}" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="{tableinnerborderwidth}" border="0" {tableinnerextra} width="100%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="175" valign="top" nowrap>
<a name="post$post[postid]"></a>
$post[firstnewinsert]
<normalfont><b>$post[username]</b></normalfont><br>
<smallfont>$post[usertitle]</smallfont><br>
$post[avatar]<p>
<smallfont>$onlinestatus<br>Registered: $post[joindate]<br>
Location: $post[field2]<br>
Posts: $post[posts]<br><br>
<b>Server:</b> $post[field4]<br></smallfont></td


That second table tag is 100% but isn't obeying it's master before it. :(

[NexDog]

Anyone?

[NexDog]

Figured it out. ;)

[exTracT]

I was looking for this as well

thanks!!

[Rock]

damn, my $onlinestatus
isnt working ...
any ideas what i can be ???

[Dan Flynn]

Can someone check this postbit template I installed the online/offline as said in the first post and all I get is Offline! even if im on? Maybe I messed something up here. I might have other things I changed in here and I did want to go back to the original.

<table bgcolor="{pagebgcolor}" width="{tablewidth}" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td width="10"><img width="10" height="1" src="{imagesfolder}/space.gif" alt=""></td><td width="100%"><!-- spacer -->

<table cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth}" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableouterextra} width="{contenttablewidth}" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="{tableinnerborderwidth}" border="0" {tableinnerextra} width="100%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="175" valign="top" nowrap>
<a name="post$post[postid]"></a>
$post[firstnewinsert]
<normalfont><b>$post[username]</b></normalfont><br>
<smallfont>$post[usertitle]</smallfont><br>
$post[avatar]<p>
<smallfont>$onlinestatus<br>Registered: $post[joindate]<br>
$age
Location: $post[field2]<br>
Posts: $post[posts]</smallfont>

</td>

<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="100%" valign="top">
<smallfont>$post[icon] <b>$post[title]</b></smallfont>
<p><normalfont>$post[message]</normalfont></p>
$post[attachment]
<p>$post[signature]</p>
<p>$post[editedby]</p>
<p align="right"><smallfont><a href="report.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&postid=$post[postid]">Report this post to a moderator</a> | $post[iplogged]</smallfont></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="175" height="16" nowrap><smallfont>$post[foldericon]
$post[postdate] <font color="{timecolor}">$post[posttime]</font></smallfont></td>

<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="100%" valign="middle" height="16">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td><smallfont>
$post[profile] $post[pmlink] $post[useremail] $post[homepage] $post[search] $post[buddy]
<!-- $ post[icqicon] --> <!-- $ post[aimicon] --> <!-- $ post[yahooicon] -->
</smallfont></td>
<td align="right" nowrap><smallfont>
<a href="editpost.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=editpost&postid=$post[postid]"><img src="{imagesfolder}/edit.gif" border="0" alt="Edit/Delete Message"></a>
<a href="newreply.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=newreply&postid=$post[postid]"><img src="{imagesfolder}/quote.gif" border="0" alt="Reply w/Quote"></a>
</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>

<!-- spacer --></td><td width="10"><img width="10" height="1" src="{imagesfolder}/space.gif" alt=""></td></tr></table>

[a43079]

nice

[maestrosdelweb]

Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.

[MuSuL]

Thanks

[Dean C]

*moved an old post to correct forum* ;)

- miSt

[AaahhNuts]

Kewl hack...But I still get that extra space when using the glow online....hack to the hack, make the offline glow...LOL

Oo Well, it will do for now.