Then we just let you wait another day maybe :D

[high]* TECK starts the revolution.... :)[/high]

inph - you got the code done! Stop playing wc3 and start posting :) now EYE even get inpatient

]LOL ;) :cheeky: *sorry for spam* :classic:

oi wc3 is important :p

useragent checking

Works both standalone and as a very nice compliment to TECK's vbarchive hack.

What does it do?
Allows you to match the useragent for Guests in Who's Online and display custom names/urls for recognised useragents such as Google, Teoma, Inktomi etc

You can also use it for matching the useragent anywhere on vb, ie for Currently Active Users on forumhome. expect a jazzed up online.php with icons next to names for which browser people are using sometime.

Why?
Got bored of looking up IPs then digging around the session table trying to find out which guests were really web robots also nosey to see who was reading the archives.

Install
Instructions in the file, should work with 2.2.x
Install time, 3-5mins. level, medium.

List of Detected Web Robots (thanks to TECK for listing the main ones)
Last updated: 08/02/03 10pm GMT
googlebot www.google.com Google
gulliver www.northernlight.com Northern Light
ia_archiver www.archive.org The Internet Archive
internetseer www.internetseer.com Internet Seer
linkalarm linkalarm.com Link Alarm
mercator www.research.compaq.com/SRC/mercator Mercator
openbot www.openfind.com.tw Openbot
pingalink www.pingalink.com PingALink Monitor
psbot www.picsearch.com/bot.html PicSearch
scooter www.altavista.com AltaVista
slurp www.inktomi.com/slurp.html Inktomi
turnitinbot www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html Turnitin
slysearch www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html Turnitin
zeus http://www.waltbren.com/products/zeu...rnet_robot.htm Zeus Internet Marketing
zyborg www.wisenutbot.com WiseNut
teoma www.teoma.com Teoma/Ask Jeeves

-- these last 3 are generic and will display the useragent on who's online with a link to robotstxt.org where you can look up the useragent for obsecure and new bots.

spider Web Spider
spyder Web Spyder
crawl Web Crawler
robot Web Robot

Screenshots?
Who's online:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=351495
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=351832
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=351533

Currently Active Users
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=351831

enjoy,
inph

thanks to floris for screenshots and testing

just a quick note if you're using TECK's guest_crawler

you should add the trailing dot to the ip addresses

so that you dont match (ie an octet at the beginning):
*216.239.46*
*66.196.72*

with the trailing dot you will only match:
216.239.46.*
66.196.72.*

:)

also a minor point for the vbarchive installer

the templates added are set to templatesetid=-1
which is fine but in vB's upgrade scripts, lines like:

tend to obliterate peoples templates :)

i would recommend adding the templates twice once with -1 and then again with the style id's so they appear as custom templates (with default content)

hey is 1000 hits by googlebot in 2 days good?

edited the number from 609 -1000

Very good point, I edited the file. :)
Also, I'm going to add your mod in the first post, with credit of course. Great job. :)
About the templates, is really easy, simply run again the installer, no need to recustomize the templates because they are automatically saved, if they are edited (not original), so your work is not lost...

EDIT: Link added. Check no. 5 in Forum Optimizations section. ;)

Glad you liked the hack teck

]@ inphinity > big thanx for adding that feature to show web robots on home page! and also thanx for releasing this addon! Very nice :)

PS: I think you should also release it as a hack so people will know it exist and it will be possible to add this hack to the fine collection of vb.org hacks :)

Cheers!

]:: 51 members, 46 guests and 32 web robots (Google) on the boards

Nice to see it on the main forum page! Thanx again for the great addon! :D

In the instructions for the modification of functions.php it just has a piece of code, but no instructions as to where to put it. Where does it go?

]Find Add ABOVE this code the code mentioned in the attached file

Looks like those first googlebots were scouts and they sent the deepcrawlers over the past few days. Here they are in action.

]They are crawling my forum right now :D
I have about 120 users online + 32 Google bots :D

isnt this a bot? inktomi2-wat.server.ntl.com

if so how can i add it to inphinity 's hack?

that isnt a web robot its:

Inktomi's Traffic Server network cache (transparent cache aka web proxy)

basically sits between ntls end users and the net and saves them bandwidth by caching files and requires no end user configuration

an old new article: http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/44591

--
on a side note
updated instructions for location of code in functions.php (thanks J-OST and wooolF)

## At the bottom of functions.php
## Just BEFORE ?>

Most users ever online was 81 on 10-02-2003 at 03:41.

whoo hoo :)
No members online last night but a few, and just a few normal guests. 75+ search engines crawlers

scary :alien:

Hey Teck,
I finally got this puppy installed, the archive is working great, but now when I go to my vbhome page, I get the following error

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare archive_nopermission() (previously declared in /home/ochroma/public_html/alpha1/global.php:228) in /home/ochroma/public_html/alpha1/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2497

What have I done wrong at 3am in the morning?

line 2497 looks like this

You need to install the vbHome addon instead (search engine indexer), that does this.
http://www.teckwizards.com/forum/sho...=&threadid=617

Just installed. Works well, just got to wait for the little spiders to come and crawl all over my site.....

www.mini2.com/forum/archive/

Thanks very much.

By the way, is the latest archive hack xhtml compliant, or can we expect an update for 1.4 (maybe with the other tweaks too) ? So it feels more natrual together with vbhome4

I just found a site to submit for FREE to several engines. It doesn't hurt if we try it...
http://www.ineedhits.com/add-it/free/

No is not, Floris. It uses the old vBulletin code.
For those who want a true XHTML compliant solution, you will have to install vbHome (lite) and use it's indexer add-on or to edit your current templates to make it also XHTML compliant.
I will not release a new version.

Triple post! *applause*

w00t w00t! :D

Google came a nosing round today. Up to 28 on at one point, unfortunately I missed it, but was reliable informed by members of the event :D

Deleted all extra posts... for some reason VB was not responding... :)
Hwulex: So far the highest number of crawlers I saw on my site was 38. Some of other users got hit up to 47...

I just installed this hack and it's working great (www.webdevforums.com/archive/). About to go submit my link to all SE's mentioned in your first post.

I was going to install the other SE friendly hack, but after reading the problems other members had I decided on trying this one and it was dead easy to install. Good Job :)

BTW, I also changed the metatags keywords and description to my own ones.

Now lets hope that I get indexed by all the SE's I submit too.

TECK,

Yey ANOTHER great hack from you! I had it installed within only a few minutes and it work great ( http:www.RCNitroTalk.com/forum/archive )

Thanks!


-Michael

You are supposed to have it in http://www.mydomain.com/forum/ your archive.
You are not posting related to the vbHome add-on, right? Because it would be the wrong thread.

What is the URL of your forums? Is the root?

It will not work, unless you hack all files.
Your archive files must be in the /forum folder, as instructed in the readme file (I quote from):

what's wrong I only get text ??

click

Do you have the ForceType directive enabled? Don't think so. ;)
Check with your host if mod_mime is installed and that the directive is enabled.

Hi TECK,

mod_mime is installed. how can I enable the "directive" ??

Teck, just to restate this has been working a treat, not sure when Google will update it's index (is it 1st of each month) but Inktomi and Google in particular have been crawling ALL OVER the archived threads (also seen a few other drop by, but google's gone nuts).

www.mini2.com/forum or www.mini2.com/forum/archive/index.html

:)

Top marks.

this is a great script teck - thanks.

one question though. would it be possible to only let admins see the the search engines on "who is online", while still showing normal guests to users?

tina

oops....

Ignorant me. I just upgraded to VB 2.30
Guess what? I screwed up your hack that was working so good:
http://www.yes-its-free.com/vbbs/archive/

Is there an easy fix ( I hope!)

Ya, run the installer again, it will re-add the templates. :)

thank you sir....