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Installation Time: < 5 mins
Product: 1
Files: 1
VB Version: 3.6.X


Description:
I wanted to display the current amount of guests and users online without adding any stressful queries. So basically this mod provides the following variables you can use globally in templates:

$hsz[guests] - shows the current count of guests online
$hsz[gphrase] - is the word guest or guests deturmined by how many guests are online
$hsz[members] - shows the current count of members online
$hsz[mphrase] - is the word member or members deturmined by how many members are online
$hsz[total] - is the total amount of guests and members online
$hsz[totalthreads] - total forum threads
$hsz[totalposts] - total forum posts
$hsz[totalmembers] - total forum members

This does add one query to every page, buts its a harmless query. If you would like to remove the query you can make the following file edit:

FILE: /includes/class_core.php
FIND: ADD UNDER: now the mod will add zero queries.

Installation Instructions:

1. Install Product
2. Make your own template edits

some people may not have a use for this mod but i decided to release it because i needed it.

you can see an example of its use on my forum: http://www.scriptasy.com its under the navbar.

also if you want to use it on a vbadvanced page just allow the following global var in the vbaCP "hsz"

Small nice feature Coders Shack.

yea i didn't want the online count to be recalculated every pageload so i made a datastore entry that stores the $hsz values.

I like it :)

Still a good hack, some of those variables would be useful. thanks :)

I found out that on the "You are required to login" pages the var's don't work.

So you should just do this to prevent bad output:

The datastore update in the cron file, is missing table_prefix.

Is there a possibility to read out how many hits in total i`ve had?!

you have the right idea, this would be the mod that you would want to use to have counter. Keep in mind though a hit counter would add one query per page view.