Improved Who's Online Display
 

This hack is pretty straightforward: it provides more detail on the Who's Online? page. Here are some examples:

• Things like "Editing Buddy List" or "Editing Forum Options" are not accompanied by links. "Buddy List" links to the page to edit your own Buddy List, and so on with "Forum Options, "Ignore List," and a few others similar to that.
  
• Instead of "Sending Email to Another Forum User" or "Viewing the Profile of a Forum Member," you'll be told which user it is in both cases, and their username will be a link to their profile.
  
• Most significantly, IMO: no more vague "Sending Private Message" or "Reading Private Message" messages. Now you have the following:
  -- Reading a Private Message
  -- Reading a Private Message From You
  -- Replying to a Private Message
  -- Replying to Your Private Message
  -- Sending a Private Message
  -- Sending a Private Message to You
  
  As you can see, this is much more useful, yet it still protects the basic privacy of each member. Cool, eh? :D
  
• "Viewing the Results of a Poll" now links you to the results of that poll, and the word "Post" in "Editing Post" is a link to the post being edited.
  
• The word "Attachment in "Viewing Attachmet in Thread Blah Blah Blah" is now a link to the specific attachment being viewed.

That's it, basically. I'm using it on my site: http://www.movieforums.net/online.php

It is *HIGHLY* recommended that you use vBHacker to install this hack, as it involves 14 code edits in one file (online.php)...automating that can save you a lot of time. :) Attached is an archive containing a vBHacker installation file, as well as a plain text instruction file. Enjoy.

very nice.....does it work on 2.2.4?

I think so. It should work on all 2.2.x versions...I don't think the online.php file has changed much over the last few versions.

Thanks for this great Hack

cool hack, although I personally I'm going to stick with my design, which is pop-up version of who's online (just goto my forums and click on who's online to see it).

good though :D

Sounds cool.. I'll install it now and get back to you.. :)

Ok, I get this error after installing it manually....

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/virtual/site24/fst/var/www/html/vb/online.php on line 172

ok.. this is wierd. Now the active users page works and I didn't do anything. But it doesn't have all the features you described.... I had someone view and reply to a PM I sent him and it simply said "Reading a Private Message" amd "Using Private Messenger" or something to that effect....

Sounds like a great hack, will install once I can get vbHacker to work...

Same here.