This is a small (very small) Hack i made today. Its like ubb's UBonline.cgi hack. so small anyone could install it

Step 1
Open showthread.php/php3 and find
and UNDER it add
Step 2
save and upload

Step 3
open your postbit template
and instert $usersstatus where you want to display if the threads poster is online or offline

Step 4
download or make 2 images (offline.gif and online.gif)
I use the ones that ubbdev.com use

Please be nice on me, this is the first hack i have made for vBulletin. If someone has already done it sorry.

BTW - does anyone want to help me with a Instant Message Hack, i am crap at php but i have done the templates etc etc.


If you have trouble with this hack reply or contact me

thx for the great hack :) no problems so far.....guess i need to install it first :p

i can tell you it works on my vBulletin. no demo sorry

2 comments....

1) This is already included as a feature in version 2.0 of vBulletin.

2) Private messaging is included as a hack now and as a standard feature in version 2.0

And this will add a query per post. It'd be more efficient to join it with the big query.

I agree.

I will wait till a better optimized version of this hack comes out before adding it...or wait till 2.0. :)

Thanks for the hack though surfichris.

works great but here are some little improvments:
to make the online icon a link to the onlineusers hack change this:
$usersstatus = "<img src=\"images/online.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Online\">";
to:
$usersstatus = "<a href=\"whoisonline.php?action=onlineusers\"><img src=\"images/online.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Online\"></a>";

to see if the user is online on the memberlist:
open memberlist.php.
look for $posts = $user[posts];
(at the start)
and After it add:
// User Online Icon Hack by Chris Boulton
$status = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT session.userid,user.username,user.receivepm FROM session, user WHERE session.userid=user.userid AND session.userid='".intval($userinfo[userid])."'");
if ($status) {
$usersstatus = "<a href=\"whoisonline.php?action=onlineusers\"><img src=\"images/online.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Online\"></a>";
} else {
$usersstatus = "<img src=\"images/offline.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Offline\">";
}
// User Online Icon Hack by Chris Boulton

then goto memberlist template:
Find:
<td align="center" bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Number Of Posts
</b></smallfont></td>
After, Add:

<td align="center" bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Status</b></smallfont></td>
</tr>

Then Goto memberlistbit
look for:

<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" align="center"><normalfont>$posts</normalfont></td>

After Add:
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" align="center"><normalfont>$usersstatus </normalfont></td>

Thats all

Update:
Sorry im having troble with the second improvment that It shows all the users as offline.
anyone can help?

i know it will be in 2.0 but i started to miss UBB (kinda) so i made this.

I just made something simple becuase i'm pretty crap and don't know much php.

Any way, thanks for your comments and thanks for the enhancments

I know about private messaging instant messaging is different
http://matt2004.com/cgi-bin/ubb/post...1&topic=000001 click my status (online/offline)

on line
http://www.f0f.net/vb/images/online.gif
off line
http://www.f0f.net/vb/images/offline.gif

well I dunno y all these peeps r dissing it, but i happen to like it a lot! thanks!

i don't know if it's just me.......but this hack doesn't seem to to work in vbb1.15......whenever i add it it shows a database error.....has anyone using vbb1.15 get this hack to work??

No one is dissing it. I think its a great hack...but I'm all for improving it and making it easier on my server load.

:)

works great on 1.14, will try on 1.15 later.

whats the error you get

Anyway to Optimize this like Ed Sullivan suggested?

Sure you could do it like I have done it in v2.0 :)

well......everything works fine until i click on one of the threads, then it showed up a page that said there was some database error......

I get same error with 1.1.5

Unless anything here is wrong

$userid=$post[userid];

if ($userid!=0) {
$userinfo=$post;
// User Online Icon Hack by Chris Boulton
$status = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT session.userid,user.username,user.receivepm FROM session, user WHERE session.userid=user.userid AND session.userid='".intval($userinfo[userid])."'");
if ($status) {
$usersstatus = "<img src=\"images/online.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Online\">";
} else {
$usersstatus = "<img src=\"images/offline.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Offline\">";
}
// User Online Icon Hack by Chris Boulton
$username=htmlspecialchars($userinfo[username]);
$searchuser=urlencode($userinfo[username]);
//star hack
if ($userinfo[usertitle]=="Administrator") {

Hey Scaramanga

I like the addition but here is your problem for the all offline problem

PS

This work for 1.1.5
just make sure you have the whos online hack.

How would that be freddie? :)

You have the join the post.userid with the session table to see if the user is online. That is why I have made it an optional feature as it will add query time to showthread.

===== > showthread.php/php3

==== > Find
require("global.php");

====>Add below
// on line hack
if ($displayloggedin==1) {
$datecut=time()-$cookietimeout;

$numberguest=0;
$numberregistered=0;
if ($logged=$DB_site->query("SELECT userid FROM session")) {
while($thislogged=$DB_site->fetch_array($logged)) {
if ($thislogged[userid]==0) {
$numberguest++;
} else {
$numberregistered++;
}
}
}
$totalonline = $numberguest+$numberregistered;

$numbervisible=0;
$activeusers = "";
$loggedins=$DB_site->query("SELECT DISTINCT user.userid,username,session.location FROM user,session WHERE session.userid=user.userid AND session.userid<>0 AND invisible=0 ORDER BY username");
if ($loggedin=$DB_site->fetch_array($loggedins)) {
$numbervisible++;
$userid=$loggedin[userid];
$username=$loggedin[username];
$location=$loggedin[location];

eval("\$activeusers .= \"on line - ".gettemplate("loggedinuser")."\";");

while ($loggedin=$DB_site->fetch_array($loggedins)) {
$numbervisible++;
$userid=$loggedin[userid];
$username=$loggedin[username];
$location=$loggedin[location];
eval("\$activeusers .= \", ".gettemplate("loggedinuser")."\";");
}
}
$numberinvisible=$numberregistered-$numbervisible;
eval("\$loggedinusers = \"".gettemplate("loggedinusers")."\";");
}

// end on line hack

====>Save and upload this file

====> In "showthread" template:

==== > Find
$nextnewest</smallfont></TD>
</tr>
</table>

====>Add below

<tr bgcolor="{categorybackcolor}"><td colspan=6>
<smallfont>$activeusers</smallfont></td>
</tr>
Save template

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test
http://www.f0f.net/vb/showthread.php3?threadid=54

i did a similar hack for 1.x but i added the db-queries to existing queries so that there wont be an extra query(load) to the database.

2 comments....

1) This is already included as a feature in version 2.0 of vBulletin.

2) Private messaging is included as a hack now and as a standard feature in version 2.0

But it does not show if they are online in the message board where the person made the message?

I know, who said it was for 2 it is for the version 1 series

I know that to. instant messages is different. it allows you to click there status icon (Online or Offline) and a window pops up and you can send a message to them. When they visit the boards and have an unread instant message a popup box appears with the message. Read through this post for a demo

It does