Beta test of edited who's online VB addon
Made By Mutt
7-3-01

VB 2.0.1

Original Who's Online by Kevin (kevin@tubescan.com)

You need to have kevins Who's Online installed and working.
Then save your original online templates and online.php script
upload the new online.php script and edit the 2 templates.
You should be done. This is only a beta test and not a complete addon.

I'm making this available now so you guys with busy sites can give it a try, let me know what else it needs, and hopefully I'll be able to make it better

I'm not looking to give tech support to all of you over install problems. If you have install problems, make a post at the VB forum.

If you find legitimate holes in the script or think of some nice features
email me at momomutt@home.com

So anyway, this is a Beta so the kinds of holes I'm looking for are
- If you find any privacy/secrurity issues
- If a thread title or forum title isn't displayed correctly
- If some part of the site isn't showing up
- If any Admin sections show up
- If any links show up that you feel shouldn't
- If you get an "unknown" Location Description
- If the session # shows up in an url
I want you to send me the Location URL and Location Description that was listed on your Who's Online Page

It's named online.php3 but you can just change the extension to .php without any problems

I forgot to mention what was new

it's more like my original UBB who's online

No duplicate entries, only the newest usuable entry

added time

added PM for visible members that allow it

track guests, members, and invisible members (ghosts)

admins can see who ghosts are

handled location/description a little differntly so I can have a decription with no link (ex. reading private messages)

you shouldn't get any wierd urls or descriptions

I'll be breaking it into multiply pages later today for those of you with lots of visitors

to whoever tries this hack, don't forget to change php3 to php in several places within the online.php file.

works great so far btw. Although sometimes my own user doesn't show up.

wicked! The original who's online never worked for me (kept getting parse errors on line 44, just like many other people did)

but this version works correctly! awesome work!

Mutt,

Excellent!

Of course, I have a few questions ;)

How are they sorted? Times are all over the place (in order... 11:57, 12:08, 11:51, 12:07, 11:54, etc.), and obviously not alphabetical by username. Alphabetical would be good along with seeing while being able to see their time.

Is there a way to lump all the guests together at the bottom (like the original hack)?

I notice some of the locations of guests say "unknown" -- how's that translate for us? Does it just mean you haven't figured out all the trackable areas (if that makes sense)?

For my own purposes I removed the PM column -- we have PMs turned off on our board. It would be GREAT to have "search for this users post" icon/link there instead. Or even the e-mail user icon/link.

Last but not least, my who's online is only available for admins, so is it okay that I changed the ['canview'] to ['cancontrolpanel'] in the permissions area? (I don't want to provide too much code here, if you want more details just lemme know)

Keep up the great work!

great tx Mutt :)

ive tried acouple times and it dont work :(

BTW

My Site Forums : http://www.r-music.net/forums/

My Online Page : http://www.r-music.net/forums/online.php

I have never installed this hack. What files and their location do I need for a new/clean installtion for vb 2.0.1?