This is a small (very small) Hack i made today. Its like ubb's UBonline.cgi hack. so small anyone could install it

Step 1
Open showthread.php/php3 and find
and UNDER it add
Step 2
save and upload

Step 3
open your postbit template
and instert $usersstatus where you want to display if the threads poster is online or offline

Step 4
download or make 2 images (offline.gif and online.gif)
I use the ones that ubbdev.com use

Please be nice on me, this is the first hack i have made for vBulletin. If someone has already done it sorry.

BTW - does anyone want to help me with a Instant Message Hack, i am crap at php but i have done the templates etc etc.


If you have trouble with this hack reply or contact me

thx for the great hack :) no problems so far.....guess i need to install it first :p

i can tell you it works on my vBulletin. no demo sorry

2 comments....

1) This is already included as a feature in version 2.0 of vBulletin.

2) Private messaging is included as a hack now and as a standard feature in version 2.0

And this will add a query per post. It'd be more efficient to join it with the big query.

I agree.

I will wait till a better optimized version of this hack comes out before adding it...or wait till 2.0. :)

Thanks for the hack though surfichris.

works great but here are some little improvments:
to make the online icon a link to the onlineusers hack change this:
$usersstatus = "<img src=\"images/online.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Online\">";
to:
$usersstatus = "<a href=\"whoisonline.php?action=onlineusers\"><img src=\"images/online.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Online\"></a>";

to see if the user is online on the memberlist:
open memberlist.php.
look for $posts = $user[posts];
(at the start)
and After it add:
// User Online Icon Hack by Chris Boulton
$status = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT session.userid,user.username,user.receivepm FROM session, user WHERE session.userid=user.userid AND session.userid='".intval($userinfo[userid])."'");
if ($status) {
$usersstatus = "<a href=\"whoisonline.php?action=onlineusers\"><img src=\"images/online.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Online\"></a>";
} else {
$usersstatus = "<img src=\"images/offline.gif\" border=0 alt=\"$userinfo[username] is Offline\">";
}
// User Online Icon Hack by Chris Boulton

then goto memberlist template:
Find:
<td align="center" bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Number Of Posts
</b></smallfont></td>
After, Add:

<td align="center" bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Status</b></smallfont></td>
</tr>

Then Goto memberlistbit
look for:

<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}" align="center"><normalfont>$posts</normalfont></td>

After Add:
<td bgcolor="{secondaltcolor}" align="center"><normalfont>$usersstatus </normalfont></td>

Thats all

Update:
Sorry im having troble with the second improvment that It shows all the users as offline.
anyone can help?

i know it will be in 2.0 but i started to miss UBB (kinda) so i made this.

I just made something simple becuase i'm pretty crap and don't know much php.

Any way, thanks for your comments and thanks for the enhancments

I know about private messaging instant messaging is different
http://matt2004.com/cgi-bin/ubb/post...1&topic=000001 click my status (online/offline)

on line
http://www.f0f.net/vb/images/online.gif
off line
http://www.f0f.net/vb/images/offline.gif