[dstjohn]

Not sure what happend to Gary since he hasnt posted on this hack
in quite some time, but fixing it to work with 3.5.4 was easy,
below are my changes to online_external.php

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PHP Code:

mysql_connect($servername,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
mysql_select_db($dbname); 


and either comment that out or completely replace it with this.

PHP Code:

mysql_connect($config['MasterServer']['servername'],$config['MasterServer']['username'],$config['MasterServer']['password']);
mysql_select_db($config['Database']['dbname']); 


Which will then produce the following output
Member online: X. Guest online: X.

Place the script outside your forums directory obviously