Guests show up as 'Guest' in the forumhome whois online list

[Jakeman]

Guests show up as 'Guest' in the forumhome whois online list - vBulletin 2.2.6 - Jake's third hack. wOOp! :D

About: This hack will list all guests as 'Guest' on your forumhome whois online list.

Indications: forums needing the appearance of more traffic. :p

Directions: one small file mod and one small template mod. see attached file.

Demo: my site @ http://www.macsubculture.com/

[Dade]

Nice.

[Webmasta XT]

very nice hack I was about to realse mine, but oh well..

[Webmasta XT]

there is a bug in urs.. I had 3 Active users, and those were my 3 members and it showed a Guest in the online.. even after my 3 members that were online!

I think I should realse the one I was gonna realse.. :cheeky:

[xware]

The click 'Guest' should be linked to the register page.

[Jakeman]

Originally posted by Webmasta XT
there is a bug in urs.. I had 3 Active users, and those were my 3 members and it showed a Guest in the online.. even after my 3 members that were online!

you had zero guests but the list showed one? that means ' ' is less than 0 ??? try changing $guestcount = ' '; to $guestcount = 0; ... unless 0 is less than 0 in php :confused:

please let me know if that works. i will test it as soon as i get a chance. if it doesn't work i can fix it by adding an if statement to check for $numberguest==0, but that's just more code to process. ;)

Originally posted by xware
The click 'Guest' should be linked to the register page.

the links for 'Guest' are the same as on the online.php page. i did this on purpose. you can change this by creating a new template called forumhome_loggedinguest with the same contents as forumhome_loggedinuser except you change the link to go to the register page. then in your index.php file...

change:
eval("\$activeguests .= \", ".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinuser')."\";");

to:
eval("\$activeguests .= \", ".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinguest')."\";");

that should work

[Webmasta XT]

just for your sake I won't realse my version, its kinda smililar but urs have one bitty problem.. and if you want me to I can realse it in this same thread, with that problem fixed!

[Jakeman]

for my sake? you can release yours if you want, that's fine. that bug is fixed though.

[Robouk5]

nice hack. I doubt i'll use it though since it clogs up whos online hehe but nethertheless, good hack =)

[Jakeman]

i found and corrected another oversight. when there are only guests on the forums the whois online list starts with a comma. i have fixed this and updated the download file in the first post. the change is in the additional code in forum/index.php

[N!ck]

what would really be cool is #'ing the guests, i.e. Guest #1, Guest #2, Guest #3, and so on. i have seen a modification for online.php to do this...

[Jakeman]

Originally posted by nicksaunders
what would really be cool is #'ing the guests, i.e. Guest #1, Guest #2, Guest #3, and so on. i have seen a modification for online.php to do this...

i have attached a modified version of this hack that numbers the guests like you wanted: Guest #1, Guest #2, etc.

this doesn't have any purpose on the forumhome listing other than just having the numbers there. guest numbering would have a purpose on the online.php page though.

[Jakeman]

i fixed a problem that was causing the Members: ### on forumhome to be wrong. i was using a variable that was already being used in forum/index.php . i changed the variable and it worked fine. i have updated both downloads in this thread.

[lordnet]

Good hack

i will try it now ! :)

my best wish...

LORD

[[email protected] vbmenu_register("postmenu_253497", true);]

Works great ! 2.2.5 Thanks

[Odil]

Originally posted by Jakeman


i have attached a modified version of this hack that numbers the guests like you wanted: Guest #1, Guest #2, etc.

this doesn't have any purpose on the forumhome listing other than just having the numbers there. guest numbering would have a purpose on the online.php page though.

Hi

I am using your hack with the Guest #...it works great only one minor problem. I am logged on now, my name shows as Odil , guest #1, Guest #2. Do you see the problem, the space after my name and the comma. How can I get rid of that?

Thanks for any help!

Odil
www.agirlonvenus.com

[boatdesign]

Are you sure in your template you have $activeusers$activeguests and not $activeusers $activeguests?

Great mod by the way!

[BigJohnson]

Is there any way where it can add a number to the end of each guest, Like say there are 2 guests one is names guest1 the other is names guest2. That would a lot better.

[2 X Viverridae]

Simple to install, and works nicely, Thanks!

[Dan Flynn]

Jakeman,

That's really nice :)

Thanks

[Peace]

Do this hack have a bug because over 300 hundred "guest" is displaying on the list? Helppppppp

[Destee]

Thanks Jakeman ... I added this a few weeks ago but failed to say thank you or click installed.

Thanks :)

Destee

[OmaniMan]

Great :) Thanks Alot ...

Wish You The Best ...

[Master Computer]

Thanks for this great hack.
I was looking for this hack since a long time.

but I have a question:
How do I get the guests displayed in "Active Users Today" part to count them as users of the forum?

[Master Computer]

My another question is:
How do I link online users with this hack to display the numbered guests activity?

[RetroDreams]

Is there any way this can be used in the Forum Display instead where it shows the current users in the thread?

[Master Computer]

I got no answer about my question:

05-09-03 at 04:00 AM Master Computer said this in Post #24 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=393108#post393108)
Thanks for this great hack.
I was looking for this hack since a long time.

but I have a question:
How do I get the guests displayed in "Active Users Today" part to count them as users of the forum?

[MaDCaT75]

I cant find $numberguest=$loggedins['sessions']; in my index.php..... help!

[assassingod]

I cant find $numberguest=$loggedins['sessions']; in my index.php..... help!
Line 148

[MaDCaT75]

Yes I know I looked for it everywhere.... not to be found :cry:

[assassingod]

Yes I know I looked for it everywhere.... not to be found :cry:
Then you've installed some hacks that have removed that code (or changed it)