works for 2.2.8, is there a way to make it show user id instread of number of users?

Anyone know how I could set this up, where it would show # of users in thread on forum display? that would be real cool IMO. :) Thanks,

Metro.

A great hack, thanks! Got it working on v2.3 #3

Suggestion: There is so much good information in this thread, that it outdates the actual initial posting. Because of that, a newbie (such as myself) can pretty much get lost. (I did but managed to survive, lol) - Maybe someone can update it with what the actual best hack is (and complete (most efficent) hack).

I hope Neo doesn't mind me adding a revised version of this hack here. All credit to him, FireFly, & Orlandu for the coding in the revised version. I just take credit for the template edits, because I didn't use the ones posted or in the original file. ^^; I'll add a demo of what it looks like in another post.

Here's the file, I installed it on the vB 2.3.0 Candidate 3 btw. :]

And this is what it looks like.

I thought firefly said that you only have to edit index.php not both index.php and forumdisplay.php?

I had to edit both. I just put all the code from the original hack into the .txt file. I only did it to make things easier since codes were here and there. ^^;

SavgeDusk: A fine job, and I thank you for condensing it all into an easily installable format. I was running v2.3.3 under the original hack, but I since used your 'updated file' and made the changes to keep up to date with the latest. Many thanks for making a newbies life worth living!

SavgeDusk..
Fine job THANKS!!!!

firefly,

any way to adjust the query so it includes all subforums under the parent forum? In other words if there is a forum on the homepage which containts 5 popular forums and the parent forum is a no posting forum then it shows 0 users browsing that forum leading to the appearance nobody is browsing the 5 forums inside of it when in reality it could be 100's of users.