[Release] Online/Offline Move
 

Author: Sinecure

Description: This will teach you how to make your online/offline status a little more noticable then the default look. It will place Online or Offline under your username depending on your status.

Thank You!

Very nice! But Saint Dog, how did you get the usergroup to show up in the postbit, let alone to make the admin and mod's part a different color

And sorry about the double post but how did you get the offline part to look faded?

i figured this out myself already...thanks anyway

yep installed and working fine,just have to figure out the changing of the online offline colours

In the postbit templates there's templates for the online/offline stuff. You can put font tags around the text so it's differnt colors.

For it to change colors. In the postbit_online and postbit_offline templates, instead of it just being <b>Online!</b> and <b>Offline!</b> He added something like <font color="red"><B>Online!</b></font> and <font color="c0c0c0"><b>Offline!</b></font>

To display a usergroup in your postbit if you don't already have it.

(which the default template does)

goto your postbit template and where u want it put: $post[usertitle] will output the usergroup your in IF you don't have a custom title.

thanks for that appreciated

is there a way to make the online font glow a color orange?

it is on the second page in this section..

I can't get it to work though..

It doesn't show up in my postbit template... but it shows up when someone sends me a private message along the bottom.... why is this?

Put this in your postbit_online template EmuMasta.

<normalfont color="#000000"><TABLE STYLE="filter:GLOW(color=orange,strength=2"><b>Onl ine!</b></table>

Excellent. I've wanted to do this for a while. Thanks! Heres what mine looks like now:

Thx I need this for another hack....lets try :)

could anyone help me?

Sweet addition to my forums, thanks! :)

w00t nice works fine :D

I have tried to add the online offline with no luck could someone lend a hand...? I am using 2.26

Thanks

Well...what's the problem, firstly?

Well I install everything as stated and it does not show up anywhere on the board....

Did you follow the postbit instructions properly? If it doesn't show up AT ALL thats where the problem would be.

Followed them to the T...does it work with 2.2.6?

Yes it should.

Can I have a link to your forum to see?

It is a private forum...here is my postbit

<table bgcolor="{pagebgcolor}" width="{tablewidth}" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td width="10"><img width="10" height="1" src="{imagesfolder}/space.gif" alt=""></td><td width="100%"><!-- spacer -->

<table cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth}" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableouterextra} width="{contenttablewidth}" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="{tableinnerborderwidth}" border="0" {tableinnerextra} width="100%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="175" valign="top" nowrap>
<a name="post$post[postid]"></a>
$post[firstnewinsert]
<normalfont><b>$post[username]</b></normalfont><br>
<smallfont>$post[usertitle]</smallfont><br>
$post[avatar]<p>
<smallfont>$onlinestatus<br>Registered: $post[joindate]<br>
Location: $post[field2]<br>
Posts: $post[posts]</smallfont></td>

<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="100%" valign="top">
<smallfont>$post[icon] <b>$post[title]</b></smallfont>
<p><normalfont>$post[message]</normalfont></p>
$post[attachment]
<p>$post[signature]</p>
<p>$post[editedby]</p>
<p align="right"><smallfont><a href="report.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&postid=$post[postid]">Report this post to a moderator</a> | $post[iplogged]</smallfont></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="175" height="16" nowrap><smallfont>$post[foldericon]
$post[postdate] <font color="{timecolor}">$post[posttime]</font></smallfont></td>

<td bgcolor="$post[backcolor]" width="100%" valign="middle" height="16">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td><smallfont>
$post[profile] $post[pmlink] $post[useremail] $post[homepage] $post[search] $post[buddy]
<!-- $ post[icqicon] --> <!-- $ post[aimicon] --> <!-- $ post[yahooicon] -->
</smallfont></td>
<td align="right" nowrap><smallfont>
<a href="editpost.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=editpost&postid=$post[postid]"><img src="{imagesfolder}/edit.gif" border="0" alt="Edit/Delete Message"></a>
<a href="newreply.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=newreply&postid=$post[postid]"><img src="{imagesfolder}/quote.gif" border="0" alt="Reply w/Quote"></a>
</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>

<!-- spacer --></td><td width="10"><img width="10" height="1" src="{imagesfolder}/space.gif" alt=""></td></tr></table>

Well online status is there.

Can't understand what could be going wrong.

heres a kicker for u...it shows up in some sub forums but not others...OMG...I am so confused

Can you PM me the link then? It would really help..

But otherwise no idea.

Sorry.

Now comes the tricky part. Open up the postbit template.
About 3 quarters of the way down you will see a variable called $onlinestatus.
Cut it from there. Then scroll up until you see the following

What you mean by cut it there..just delete the $onlinestatus?

I can't get this to work at all..and when you read it,it aint that hard hmm..


What do i put into postbit_offline and online,can someone tell me that cause i deleted it..yeah stupid me

I want it to be like you guys have it here,taht would be awesome:)

Anyway help will be nice,i really want to use this.

i got the same ,very weird..using 2.2.6 version

Anyone can help plz?

You will need to edit the PM template to make the "Online" part place like that of the postbit (being they are 2 different sections of the board, hence 2 different templates need to be edited). As for it not working with 2.2.6, check what version we are running ;). Unless you have hacked up your board with code hacks and something, it shoud work just fine.

All I did was edit my postbit_online and postbit_offline and it worked. I'm on 2.2.6 too so I don't see why it shouldn't work.

thanx you guys,so it can't be the version..then i have to edit the pm template,i know the one i must edit,but what must i place in then?

Hello,

This is how I did :

Opened showgroups.php

Replaced all occurances of postbit_online with online
Replaced all occurances of postbit_offline with offline

Saved it back to my forums root directory.

Then Added two new templates :

1. "online" with this code in it :
<smallfont>Status : <B>Online</B></smallfont>

2. "offline" with this code in it :
<smallfont>Status : <B>Offline</B></smallfont>

Then in the "postbit" template, I added this $onlinestatus , where i wanted.

What I actually want to appear in the postbit is
Status : Online for online users &
Status : Offline for offline users

And that is what my two new templates reflect.

But, I am getting an image in the postbit, instead of text, what i wanted. How can i get the text as i mentioned above ??

Thanks for help.

Cheers