Excellent, good to hear that, bondjetta and knight. :D

Just to note that this adds 2 queries to every page, for every user listed in that particular users account master field. So currently it's not advisable to use this feature for many users..

Will this be optimised in v1.2?

v1.1 already added the two queries, to make sure no wrong ID was matched.

Indeed, it will be optimised.

In v1.2 it will use all of zero extra queries per page for those online users who don't have extra accounts.

For those online with a linked account (either as the slave account or master account) it'll use a query for each of the additional accounts to resolve the name, and another for the usergroup formatting/colouring.

Possibly I'll be able to optimise that in itself as well. The username can only be changed in two places, I think, ACP and the userCP (if allowed)... so tapping in there to update a cached username for the slave accounts would remove one of those two queries per alternate account.

And a setting for the mod to disable the usergroup colouring in the menu would skip that extra query. It would of course also stop colouring the username ;)

Possibly this too I could cache *thinks* There is the matter of usergroup promotions which would have to be tapped in ontop of the regular usergroup changes, so for the time being I'll more likely make this group formatting a thing you can switch off in v1.2 onwards.

In other words v1.2 will intro two fields to the user table, one for determining if you're the master account to any slaves, if that's empty it'll check if the 'is_slave_of' field is empty as well. If this is the case the script will do nothing more. These fields will be pulled out of the usertable during the init stage, it shouldn't take an extra query :)

As for caching the username in this setup... that data can be serialised into the 'is_master_of' and 'is_slave_of' fields as appropriate, so it will store the userid you can switch to as well as it's name.

To then further speed it up that colouring can be switched off, people know what account name does what (I should hope). I've added it to the hack for consistency to start with, really.

this is happening to me with the latest 1.11. But don't go by me as I had my who's online issue in the past.

Lionel, I can you try this with a different browser than you normally use? Preferably one you haven't used on your forum yet. Mozilla if you use IE, or vice-versa would do. If this then works, we know it's some cookie debris, and cleaning out the cookies you have for your forum should fix it for you.

If you don't want to go as far as clearing the cookies for your site, you can start with logging out manually via the regular way once, then logging into the master account on your normal browser. If this then doesn't work you're left with only the removal of cookies.

This all of course if you do at all allow a cookie to be set? Dumb question probably, but better to rule out.

So far of all boards who reported back to me one way or the other on 1.1.1, there's 7 on which the timeout problem is gone, to your 1 board where it's not... This really does lead me to believe it's either a residue of your former hacks somehow, or a browser issue.

Since you stated you're happy to run the mod with this 'hitch' you experience I'll try in return to help debug the problem for you best I can. If you know of anything in your setup that would cause this incompatibility I will see if there's something I can do about it, without causing inconvenience to those it works for.

Thank you. I just installed fireworks. Let us see how it goes. I'll report later on

Watch out, you may like Mozilla so much you'll end up a convert as well ;)
It's happened to Caiman recently after he first tried it.

Disclaimer: This message is in no way sponsored by Mozilla.org, they just do that mojo that they do so well.

that's hilarious :D

and i have no problem advertising for firefox :D that program is fantastic! :D

Hey Ianomed: bad news....i'm getting logged out too. :( not sure what the trigger is, i cleared all etc.com cookies (i'm at work now, FF 0.1.1PR) and every...i'd say 10ish minutes i'm getting knocked out. Mind you I run 2-3 tabs minimum for ETC (2 backend, 1-2 front end) depending on what i'm doing. Might that have some adverse affects?

me too. In both firefox and IE. This after I deleted all cookies