Show Spiders Online on ForumHome
 

This one is a pretty easy hack to install. It shows any spiders that are indexing your site in the what's going on box on the forum home page. Please note. It will only show spiders as spiders and not as guests if it also shows them as spiders and not as guests on online.php.

This hack has been tested on 3.0.6 and 3.0.7.

It's not hard to install, but it does have one drawback. If you have a portal page that shows online users, you will have to edit it yourself to incorporate the changes. Consider yourself warned.

At this point, any problems reported are installation errors. If things don't work for you, make sure you have completed all the steps as written.

As I have upgraded to 3.5, I am withdrawing support for this older version. All the bugs are gone and any issues are now installation errors.

FAQ
1. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on my portal page.
As noted above, because of the large number of portals, you're on your own for integrating them into thie hack.

2. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on other pages.
1. Make sure you have done all of the code changes correctly.
2. Make sure you have updated your style to use the modified templates. If not, that error will occor.

German Translation provided by General. It can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=230

Here is the Advanced CMPS module that y'all have been clamoring for:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82339


Amy

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you. :)
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like it :)

Marvellous!

Woah. I didn't even notice this was in the vb2 forum.

Just installed it and was away laughing. :)

hmm is this not a bad idea?

i had over 500 spiders on my site once , and it happens often now so will displaying that many not overload something or cause any problems ?

or does it only show the name of one spider ?

Nice one, amy. ;)

Is there a way to show to amount of spiders online also?

well the title says : [vB 3.0.6]

oops. Wrong forum. I'll move it. I keep forgetting there is a vb2 beta forum still.

Regarding the number of spiders, I have it showing only one instance of a given spider. Therefore, it doesn't count how many spiders are on at a time. Why? Because I liked the way it looked on my board.

If more than three of you want me to do another version that shows every single instance of them and keeps a count, I'll do that for you.

Maybe have it do the amount behiond the spider name? Like this:

MSNBot (2)

I'd also like to have the amount in the line that says

(1 member and 3 guests)

Like this:

(1 member, 3 guests and 2 spiders)

if it is possible. ;)

Works great. Thanks.

Finally.... someone has done it. Thanks!

Installing 4 sure.

Nice one amy ;) I'll install this when I get home. Thanks!

Are you reading my mind? that is exactly what I was going to ask for :) that would be great wouldnt be?

Good Stuff...

Are you useing a cloured whos online hack or is that a admincp option?

that is in the admincp when you manage a usergroup you can set the HTML setup of the user group

How would one turn this off of invisible mode?

How do I get other bots to be listed such as Yahoo and MSN. At present only Google shows up as a bot. Is there another MOD for this.

you have to add their strings into your admincp in the "whos online" thinger in vBulletin options

I'll be the third to concur, I'll install with the added features... Great Hack!

Does this only work with 3.0.6? I'm running base 3.0.3 init.php patched to 0.5 as I've got a load of hacks installed and so am putting off upgrading. I've installed as per the instructions but no change, so have I answered my own question?

I'm not sure what you're asking?

It works with 3.0.6, but I assume it would work with 3.0.3 as well. Try it and see. It's only one file to edit.

OK. Now that we have three requests I'll try to do the variation. But, I'm not promising that I can do it so that it shows Google(3) for example. I know I can get the total number of spiders, but I am trying to think of a clean efficient way to sum up the different ones online rather than just showing them as being there like the online.php page does.

thank-you amykhar ^^ i love it

and i would like to see more features as well

I've got it installed - it shows in the Who's Online section that it's a bot, but on the Currently active users on the front page shows x users and x guests with only the member names. Must be a 3.0.3 thing.

Thanks

this is what i get when i install it.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT DISTINCT user.username, session.useragent,user.userid,
IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid
FROM session AS session
LEFT JOIN user AS user USING (userid)
WHERE session.lastactivity >

ORDER BY session.userid

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY session.userid' at line 7

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 10th of February 2005 08:46:21 AM
Script: http://nextelelite.com/forums/index.php?
Referer: http://nextelelite.com/
Username: Shadiguy1
IP Address: 205.188.116.7

Attached is a list of all known 'Robot Agent' Strings, and the list is pretty current (only 2 days old at this point).

IT WORKS! thanks this hack is great especially since I submitted my site to a lot of search engines and want to make sure it works.

OK. Then it doesn't work under 3.0.3. Sorry.

Support will be slow for the next couple of days. My home DSL is down and I can't spend a lot of time on the web at work.

can anyone find out why it wont work with 3.0.3 i would relly like to use it . Thanks in advance.

Works Perfectly. Thank you :)

I am using 3.0.3 and it works OK.

problem appears to be the syntax...not the mod.
try this
in line -> SELECT DISTINCT user.username, session.useragent,user.userid

there sud be a space between "session.useragent," AND "user.userid"

like below:

SELECT DISTINCT user.username, session.useragent, user.userid

I have the requested changes made. I am just testing them - need to wait for more spiders to hit my site.

If you have spiders on your site now and are willing to try out raw code , please follow the directions in this text file AFTER you have installed the original hack.

I have not been able to verify that this works because the spiders aren't crawling in hordes at my site today. If you install this test code and need help, you must be willing to share your forum url and have the who's online page available to guests. I can't debug otherwise.

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it wont let me edit the phrase O_o

It works fine for me.

http://forums.nzboards.com :)

For now, unregistereds can view the who's online.

*edit* although...I have google showing up multiple times.

*edit2*
And whosonline is spitting out the foul taste of an error:

curses why wont it let me edit the phrase ><!!!!

is it because we found a bug in vB when using safari?