Allow Specified Number of Guests on Forum
 

What does this hack do?

This hack allows you to specify how many guests you want to allow to browse your forums simultaneously. If the number of guests is more than the amount you specified, then the new guests will receive an error message stating that there are too many guests browsing the forums. The new guests will be able to browse the forums again when some of the other guests have left.

This hack can drastically reduce your server load, allowing only members to completely enjoy the freedom of being able to browse the forums without having any messages saying there are too many members online :p :)

Enjoy!

Oooh.....I think I'll install this one once my forums are up again ^_^

I would install this but the most amount of guests I have ever had at one time was 5.... god my forum is pathetic :cry:

I would install this but I not want googly bots to be getting the error page or closed page.

You could just add some wildcard hostnames to the code, then, to not give the error message to bots.

This is requested a lot of times, so thanks for releasing it! :)

I'd never deny any guests - this is one mean hack :)

Not sure how this is supposed to work but I applied this last night with a DB value of 5 and I still have 39 guests on my board--from 60 last night.

Just because the who's online shows that there are 39 guests online, doesn't mean they are seeing forums, threads, etc. If it says 39 guests online, and you set the max to 5, then the other 34 is probably seeing the "Too many guests online" error message.

Actually, I logged off and became a guest by default. I wasn't seeing this message at all, and was able to see my forum.