if you download a style youll have to delete the MAXONLINERECORDS template first, or when you upload it youll have the old record.

No, you won't. MAXONLINERECORDS is stored in template set -1, so you can't download it.

ohhh ok thanks. and what about using another style in the board? will it save the right record?

am i the only person who cant do it ? :(

The template is called from templatesetid -1, which is not affected by custom styles. It will work regardless of which style you or your users choose.

Please read the Extraordinarily Important Info which I have just posted in the first post of this thread... if you don't, your records will be destroyed when you upgrade to a new version of vBulletin.

Little tip for optimization, if you want to include it on a later version...

UPDATE template SET template="$totalonline ".time()." WHERE title='MAXONLINERECORDS' AND SUBSTR(template, 0, INSTR(template, '0')-1) < '$totalonline'

And you can remove MAXONLINERECORDS from the cache. Actually, the string functions might slow it down even more, oh well...

Well, guess what everyone.

I forgot to add the code to the upgrade script when upgrading from b3 to b4....:o

Its ok I lost the records, but now it show the max # as the current number..... what do i do?
sorry for being so dumb.

This hack is no longer necessary as it is built into vBulletin 2.0 Beta 4 and higher.

I installed this hack on Beta 3. Then I upgraded from Beta 3 to Beta 5. Now where this hack used to be, all I see is this:

So how to I get the built-in version to work now?