template condition for spider bots?
 

I have a simple question:

I desactivated the archive on my forum, but i would like to display some text only for spider bots... is there a template condition / variable to do this ?

something like

<if condition="spider bot = 1">hello google bot</if>

thanks !

<if condition="$show['spider']">

its not working :(

i'm trying to display some text only for humans and hide it for spider bots, so i tryed:

<if condition="$show['spider']"><else />welcome, you are an human !</if>

but if i display my site with a google bot spoofer, the text is also displayed for spider bots :(

bump

why isn't it working ? :(

Spiders don't have their own array, not sure why nexia told you that they did. Spiders are counted as guest users.

if you don't know, why do you reply...

$show['spider'] is the default variable to identify a web crawler for vB 3.x ... in some situations it may not work... if i remember right, the bot spoofer is just a web interface, am i right? if so, it will not work because your browser still hold the session you are using to access your site the regular way, so you are considered human.

well phpbb have a similar variable condition to identify the spider bots, and the google bot spoofer works and the forum identify me as a spider so the page is displaying the spider conditions.... i think it should be the same for vbulletin

is there any other way to spoof a web crawler ? i really need to see how my page is displayed for spider bots