Who's online on non-vB page (with usernames, same rules as Who's Online on forumhome)
 

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What does this hack do?

Using this hack, you can show who is currently on your forums from anywhere else on your website! The page, though, must be a PHP page.

If you want to display this information on another webpage by integrating it (which you'll probably want to ;)), just put or depending on the location of the online.php file

THE BELOW IS ONLY IF YOU ARE USING ONLINE.PHP

If you are using online.php, then this line of code MUST be at the top of the page!

If you don't want to show the total users online at the top of the page, though, then remove and copy that to wherever you want to show the info instead (remember to surround this with PHP tags, such as:THE ABOVE IS ONLY IF YOU ARE USING ONLINE.PHP

Features

• supports phrases! :D
• option to display either usernames or a total number of registered members instead
• only administrators can see users who choose to be invisible

Instructions

Download the attached online.php if you want to show invisible users to administrators, etc., or download online_external.php if you don't want to worry as much about things :), and follow these instructions:

1. Find
   PHP Code:

   ---

   $path = "./vb3/"; // path to your forums folder, normally /forum/ 


   ---

   , change the ./vb3/ to whatever the path is to your forums directory
2. Find
   PHP Code:

   ---

   $showusernames = 0; // 1 to show usernames online, 0 to only show the number of users online 


   ---

   and change $showusernames to 1 if you want to display usernames, instead of the total number of registered members browsing

That's it! :D

allthough, http://www.indeathwefall.co.uk/online.php works?!

Instructions updated, please check again :)

You're not going to make it in a nice little table to match the forum?

only logged in Users can show it.
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Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: N/A
Line: 0
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Another one with this problems?

You have to put the require_once() at the top of any file.

thanks. will try again. :)

no, the same Problem.

but is it a must to have cookies?
there must be a simple way to get this

Members: 8 Guests: 10

nothing else!

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@Admins
clicking for smilies brings me always to the top (#)

2 bugs for me

1. i get Member instead of Members - the 's' is missing even though i have more than 1 member online
2. members online figure is incorrectly shown, i.e. on my forums there are 29-32 members online but this script shows 65 members online ? i.e. http://animeboards.com/joinwink.php

Download online_external.php ;)

If doesn't work, use online_external.php instead :)

Okay, try the new files I attached :)

also it would be nice to add code to check if forum is closed or not and display "forum is down for maintenance" message if closed ;)

well new version reports less members than old version but still more than there really is heh

real members = 27
old script = 65
new version = 47

It shows this for me:

Hack: Currently online: Members online: 6. Guests online: 12.
Forums: Currently Active Users: 16 (5 members and 12 guests)

Anyways, I'm not too sure on why it doesn't work exactly correct on your forums, works fine on mine :)

great job!

big thx -> *install*

hmmm

http://animeboards.com/joinwink.php shows 202 members while forums really only have 39 members ???

tbh, i think that this should have been a BETA release, rather than a full one .

Also, i would like to see Members online and guests online :p

Yeah it has the s when there is more than 1, or should anyways :) It's like that on my test forum :)

Hi

I had a similar problem when i made some external site stats for my board. I think it's counting the total number of sessions in the table for members rather than for each unique id

replace:

with:

And it should solve the incorrect count of members.

Okay could someone please confirm and if it is the correct query then let me know, I'll change in the instructions :)

spot on.. .
fixed it

Okay I'll change in instructions then :)

Okay.. I'm kind of confused.

What directory should online.php be located? I want all the names of the users online to be listed, so, I think I eed to use online.php. I tried putting it in the same directory as my files I want it to be displayed on, but it couldn't find the files it needed such as global.php. So, I tried to put it in the /forum directory, but it overwrote the online.php that vB needs, so I didn't want to do that.

What do I do?

If you place the online.php outside of vB directory then just change the path to something else in the require_once() code.

Errors:
Online.php:
Top of PHP page I want to include members on:
Table I want members to show up in, same page as last quote:
Online.php and the file I want the members to show up on are in the same directory which is public_html/beta/ and the forum is public_html/forum/.

What am I doing wrong?

Change $path = "./forum/"; to $path = "./../forum/";

if i still this on a non vb page will it show the users browseing that page as guest?

Yep it should I believe.

i don see them showing up in my whos online

I have another way of tracking active users and it shows 250 in the last 5 min and this one that track it in 30 min is showing 120

What's the other way that you use?

http://ripper.webrats.com

at the bottom i have the code

its not adding to the guest when someone visits that page

This is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for however, I've had a few problems:

1. When using "online.php" everything is fine and working (formatting of the output text isn't great but that's easy enough to change). However, that's only the case while I'm logged into the boards, if I'm not logged in I get the "Unable to add cookies, header already sent." message. online.php works fine on it's own regardless of log in status, only the including seems to screw it up.
2. Using "online_external.php" outputs results regardless of login status however the results displayed on my page are similar to "Members online: 00, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0. Guests online: 26." This is the case on the standalone page too.
3. I'm still don't fully understand the use of the
   PHP Code:

   ---

   "print $show;" 


   ---

   instructions, I'm probably a fool but they don't seem to be explained that clearly i.e. exactly which page we're adding this code to and whereabouts on the page it should be added to.
4. One other small request, any chance that when usernames are displayed by choice the names are links to the corresponding users profile (new window)?

Thank you for listening to my moaning ;)

hi! Is there a way to change the font style and size of this? Thanks in advance

1. Can the user names include the links to their profiles? if so, how do I add them?

2. Can the extra "most users online ... " text be added? if so, how?

3. Finally can the extra bit "Who visited today" also be added? That'd kick ass!

Thanks!

Simple HTML will do the trick you can use the <span></span> tags around the $show variable perhaps? I haven't tried it myself but it may work such as:

<span class=\"format\">$show</span>

or something like that. Of course you would have to define .class in your stylesheet. :D

thanks but grateful if you could give me a more detailed instruction since im not that good in html. Thanks

instead of print $show maybe you can use

echo "<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px\">$show</span>";

Obviously you can change the font-family and font-size to whatever else you want :)

Great! it works! Thanks a lot pal! :)