[Release] Total Users On Today

[imported_Tungsten]

AUTHOR:

Tungsten


DESCRIPTION:

This template modification allows you to display the total number of unique visitors to your site during the current day on your forum home page. It is identical to the statistic shown on the admin control panel's Quick Stats table.

This requires two template modifications: One to the phpincludes_start template and one to the forumhome template.

The modification adds one query to the generation of your forum home page. It has been tested and confirmed to work on vBulletin 3.0.0 Gamma running under PHP 4.3.2.


SUPPORT:

If you have a tweak or an optimization for this mod, please submit it to me privately via PM so that I may test it. If your idea works and is something that we could all benefit from, I will likely add it to the release and will give you credit for your idea.

All other support requests should be submitted in this thread so that others may benefit.


SCREENSHOT:

A screen shot would be pointless. This is a very simple addition to your Who's Online box on the forum home page. :)


UPDATE LOG:

I updated this modification to work with vB3 Gamma as of December 9th, 2003. :)

[Dan]

interesting add on may use it someday

[Brad]

Nice modification, :)

I see you are using the old strpos way to identify the page, now that vB 3's here we dont have to use strpos ;). Thanks to the dev's we have a much quicker way.

Try using this instead:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
// your script here
}

Just thought id share, its a little bit speeder then the old way, not that you will notice it much :).

[Tony G]

Nice mod, will have to try it out. :)

[imported_BarryA]

Works great... If some of you guys want to see what its like look at this page. I added the word Registered in front as I believe we are only counting registered users here and not guests.

www.FordPower.net/forums

[imported_Tungsten]

Works great... If some of you guys want to see what its like look at this page. I added the word Registered in front as I believe we are only counting registered users here and not guests.

www.FordPower.net/forums
Sweet! A fellow Ford enthusiast and performance board operator. :D

My toy: www.tennesspeed.net/members/tungsten/

[Brad]

Im going to check both your boards out, I get the mustang in april ;)

[Zehlek]

Thanks for sharing

[Zehlek]

It shows the number of people online today. Is there anyway to show the names of the ones online including guests?

[imported_BarryA]

It shows the number of people online today. Is there anyway to show the names of the ones online including guests?
You could list the names of the Registered user pretty easily. Worst case you just just do a select on the user table for everyone with a last login time > yesterday.

As for guests, anything you do with guests is inaccurate and probably should not be included. If an AOL user logs on he may register as 10 guests with his IP jumping all over the place. Dont forget spiders either.. :)

[imported_Tungsten]

As for guests, anything you do with guests is inaccurate and probably should not be included. If an AOL user logs on he may register as 10 guests with his IP jumping all over the place. Dont forget spiders either.. :)

Exxxxactly.

[Zehlek]

You could list the names of the Registered user pretty easily. Worst case you just just do a select on the user table for everyone with a last login time > yesterday.

As for guests, anything you do with guests is inaccurate and probably should not be included. If an AOL user logs on he may register as 10 guests with his IP jumping all over the place. Dont forget spiders either.. :)
Sorry, I dunno much about vB coding for vB3, what do I do to do this for the registered users?

[imported_scottct1]

I installed this in VB3 Beta 3 and its running fine. :)

[SmartGnome]

Installed and works perfectly.

Thanks for sharing. I did put the output in the welcome panel.

[hoahongtim]

wowo, good mod ! however, why we don't list member online today the same mod in vbb 2.30 ?? we will see the member access in our forum !

i very like that, please help me can i hack mod ? thansk a lot !

[trilOByte]

It shows the number of people online today. Is there anyway to show the names of the ones online.....?

I would very much like this too. If anyone knows how to do it, I'd be greatful.

[hoahongtim]

please help me ! hix :( thanks a lot !

[higabyte]

i added this! thank you, i have wanted this for a while...

i have one question though, is the number of users logged somewhere to keep track of users like a statistics page so you can see if your site is being used more or less each day, month, year?

thanks in advance...

[imported_chuanse]

still good for beta 6 or not?

EDIT: yep, works perfect :) thx ;)

[higabyte]

still good for beta 6 or not?

EDIT: yep, works perfect :) thx ;)

i just put it on beta 7, worked like a charm... still would like to know if & or how this could be logged for statistical purposes...

[Zachery]

probally not with out modifing the database and a few files id guess

[SmartGnome]

i just put it on beta 7, worked like a charm... still would like to know if & or how this could be logged for statistical purposes...

Same with me since beta 7 , piity ;)

[imported_iKwak]

Very neat.

[Floris]

Optimized for vbulletin.nl :) And installed there- tnx for sharing :)

[imported_iKwak]

The number of users visited, does it include new visitors or only members?

[imported_iKwak]

Can this hack be tweaked so that the number of users visited can accumulated (day after day) instead of resetting on the next day?

[carlitosz]

Installed and works perfectly.

Thanks for sharing. I did put the output in the welcome panel.

I installed it on Vb3 and is only showing 1. Is not changing =/

[Jean147]

I would very much like this too. If anyone knows how to do it, I'd be greatful.
Yepp, looking for that too. Saw that on some vb3 forums. Any hints?

[imported_chuanse]

Mates, just put a hitcounter on your site if ya want no resets?
free ones enough

[imported_Tungsten]

I have updated this modification to work with the Gamma release of vB3. It should work fine for subsequent releases as well since Jelsoft has stated that templates likely won't change much now.

Visit the first post in this thread to download the updated mod.

[gmarik]

An interesting function would be hosts per hours ...

[imported_psyblast]

so how can we get this to log which members log in, not just a general number of members.

[trackpads]

Nice! Installed it today!!

[Rico]

Where are the files phpincludes_start and forumhome located? I dont see them anywhere.

[Zachery]

there not files silly there templates :)

go into the ACP and open the style manager ;D

[idwf]

what he said.

[imported_Tungsten]

so how can we get this to log which members log in, not just a general number of members.
I've played around with this somewhat and it will require hacking rather than template changes.

A new php file will need to be created (most likely) and at least one new template will need to be added and a modification to the forumhome template will be required.

None of this is too difficult but it is beyond the scope of what is permitted here on vbtemplates and will likely be posted over on vb.org if I decide to take it on as another project.

[imported_94DROPTOPZ]

Will this work on 3.0 Beta7?

[bahamut0]

very nice simple and convenient thanks.:)

[dreck]

GUess this doesnt work with 3.5 considering there is no PHPINCLUDES_START template. :(