Interesting addition. ;)

So we completely un-install the original hack and do this, right? Will this show invisible users as online of offline? I would like to see invisble users as online for those that are supposed to be able to see them and not online for those that aren't.

That's precisely what it does.

vBulletin already works that stuff out, showing invisible people to those who should see the, and hiding them from those who shouldn't.

All I've done is add a switch to retain that information in the user object/array so that we can access it. We're not bothered about whether they are invisible or not... just whether we have permission to see that they are online or not... hence the true|false indicator for IsOnline.

Then we can simply access IsOnline and know how to handle it in the conditional in the template.

If you wanted to use my way of doing it, then yes you'd need to uninstall the original.

However I should reiterate that my way doesn't cater for the memberlist fading... mainly because I'm not using it. But it shouldn't take anyone too long to figure out the few changes needed to get that working.

Cheers

David K

PS: Why quote the whole thing? You've made thread twice as long ;)

Is that better? ;)

We could use his version for the memberlist, I suppose and use yours for the other areas. Unless you know a way to do it maybe? ;)

thanks for the update on the opacity the invisible is now fixed and i don't show avatars on memberlist anyway so i like the new way :D

I can't seem to get this to work. Invisible users still show up as online.

Which version are you using?

If you're using mine, then if you have permission to see invisible users you will see them online, else you won't. That can't be wrong, as it's vBulletins own logic.

If you're using the original version, then you may indeed be seeing it incorrectly... I didn't look too closely at the logic of that and a few people did complain about it.

David, I got your version working in the memberlist now too. Next is the profile. ;)

Boofo, could you post back your changes so that others can benefit?

I'm not running either version, but it'd be nice to roll up the best bits into a single post that we can point people at :)

Sure, since you did all of the hard work. ;)

For the memberlist:

In the memberlist_resultsbit template

Find:

REPLACE it with:

For the profile:

In the MEMBERINFO template

Find:

REPLACE it with:

Since the pm's are already covered by the postbit, this catches them all, I think. ;)

And it works excellent, I might add. Thanks, David. ;)

Thank you for the newer version since the older version refuses to work even though I've tried installing it twice :) Will re-install later this evening.

[high]* Wifey says thanks!
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edit: It's working perfectly with the more elegant version - thanks!