Guests show up as 'Guest' in the forumhome whois online list
 

Guests show up as 'Guest' in the forumhome whois online list - vBulletin 2.2.6 - Jake's third hack. wOOp! :D

About: This hack will list all guests as 'Guest' on your forumhome whois online list.

Indications: forums needing the appearance of more traffic. :p

Directions: one small file mod and one small template mod. see attached file.

Demo: my site @ http://www.macsubculture.com/

Nice.

very nice hack I was about to realse mine, but oh well..

there is a bug in urs.. I had 3 Active users, and those were my 3 members and it showed a Guest in the online.. even after my 3 members that were online!

I think I should realse the one I was gonna realse.. :cheeky:

The click 'Guest' should be linked to the register page.

you had zero guests but the list showed one? that means ' ' is less than 0 ??? try changing $guestcount = ' '; to $guestcount = 0; ... unless 0 is less than 0 in php :confused:

please let me know if that works. i will test it as soon as i get a chance. if it doesn't work i can fix it by adding an if statement to check for $numberguest==0, but that's just more code to process. ;)

the links for 'Guest' are the same as on the online.php page. i did this on purpose. you can change this by creating a new template called forumhome_loggedinguest with the same contents as forumhome_loggedinuser except you change the link to go to the register page. then in your index.php file...

change:
eval("\$activeguests .= \", ".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinuser')."\";") ;

to:
eval("\$activeguests .= \", ".gettemplate('forumhome_loggedinguest')."\";" );

that should work

just for your sake I won't realse my version, its kinda smililar but urs have one bitty problem.. and if you want me to I can realse it in this same thread, with that problem fixed!

for my sake? you can release yours if you want, that's fine. that bug is fixed though.

nice hack. I doubt i'll use it though since it clogs up whos online hehe but nethertheless, good hack =)

i found and corrected another oversight. when there are only guests on the forums the whois online list starts with a comma. i have fixed this and updated the download file in the first post. the change is in the additional code in forum/index.php

what would really be cool is #'ing the guests, i.e. Guest #1, Guest #2, Guest #3, and so on. i have seen a modification for online.php to do this...

i have attached a modified version of this hack that numbers the guests like you wanted: Guest #1, Guest #2, etc.

this doesn't have any purpose on the forumhome listing other than just having the numbers there. guest numbering would have a purpose on the online.php page though.

i fixed a problem that was causing the Members: ### on forumhome to be wrong. i was using a variable that was already being used in forum/index.php . i changed the variable and it worked fine. i have updated both downloads in this thread.

Good hack

i will try it now ! :)

my best wish...

LORD

Works great ! 2.2.5 Thanks

Hi

I am using your hack with the Guest #...it works great only one minor problem. I am logged on now, my name shows as Odil , guest #1, Guest #2. Do you see the problem, the space after my name and the comma. How can I get rid of that?

Thanks for any help!

Odil
www.agirlonvenus.com

Are you sure in your template you have $activeusers$activeguests and not $activeusers $activeguests?

Great mod by the way!

Is there any way where it can add a number to the end of each guest, Like say there are 2 guests one is names guest1 the other is names guest2. That would a lot better.

Simple to install, and works nicely, Thanks!

Jakeman,

That's really nice :)

Thanks

Do this hack have a bug because over 300 hundred "guest" is displaying on the list? Helppppppp

Thanks Jakeman ... I added this a few weeks ago but failed to say thank you or click installed.

Thanks :)

Destee

Great :) Thanks Alot ...

Wish You The Best ...

Thanks for this great hack.
I was looking for this hack since a long time.

but I have a question:
How do I get the guests displayed in "Active Users Today" part to count them as users of the forum?

My another question is:
How do I link online users with this hack to display the numbered guests activity?

Is there any way this can be used in the Forum Display instead where it shows the current users in the thread?

I got no answer about my question:

I cant find $numberguest=$loggedins['sessions']; in my index.php..... help!

Line 148

Yes I know I looked for it everywhere.... not to be found :cry:

Then you've installed some hacks that have removed that code (or changed it)