Who's online on non-vB page (with usernames)

LAST UPDATED: 3.24.01 10:40 PM Eastern

Hack version: 0.0.2

Changes since last version: New option to display either usernames or a total number of registered members.

For version: 2.0.0 beta 3 (possibly beta 1 and beta 2 also, but it's untested on those versions).

Files needed: online.php (see zip file attached below).

Files to edit: Possibly online.php (see instructions below).

Possible file locations: Anywhere, as long as the relative path to config.php is correct (see instructions below).

Instructions
1] Download the zip file online002.zip below. It has online.php in it; unzip this file to a location on your hard drive.
2] Open online.php in Notepad (Windows) or Simpletext (Mac) or another ASCII text editor (EditPlus, UltraEdit, TextPad, etc. Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and other HTML editors are not ASCII text editors and will in all likelyhood screw the file up.)
3] Check the path to config.php in the $path variable (in the CONFIG section). Figure out where you're gonna put the file online.php, and then edit the path accordingly. For example, if you put it in your document root (e.g. yoursite.com/) and your board files are in a directory called forum, your path is "forum/admin" (no quotes, no trailing slash).
4] If you want usernames of registered members displayed, then leave the $usernames option alone. If you want a number instead of a list of names, set this to "off" (no quotes).
5] Edit the second-to-last line (the "echo" line). Change it to say what you want. The list of registered members is $regmemberson and the number of guests is $guestson - you can use these anywhere in that line.
6] Save the file and upload it your server.
7] You can include it on another page one of two basic ways:
First, by a PHP include:

<? include("online.php"); ?>

The file that you are going to be including online.php in must then have a .php, .php3, .phtml or other extension that makes your web server recognize it as a file to be parsed as PHP.
Secondly, by an SSI include:

<!--#include file="online.php"-->

The file that you are going to be including online.php in must then have a .shtml, .shtm or other extension that makes your web server recognize it as a file to be server-parsed.

Instructions are also included in the zip file (online002.txt) and brief notes are in the online.php file itself.

FEEDBACK WANTED! Likes/dislikes/modification requests all gladly accepted!

[jcroft]

Has anyone modified this hack for use in a sidebar...with like a vertical list of the online users, with links to their profiles? If so, would you mind sharing your code?

Thanks,
Jeff Croft
forums.newbeetle.org

Just installed your online.php. Works like a charm!!!!!!!!

Thanks!

[Mike Gaidin]

Yes, I'm looking for a sidebar version as well.

ok what happns if the path to your admin is on another server?
so you want to include who's online from your forum which is hosted elsewhere to your homepage, you see?

its ok, i just insatlled the hack ontio the forums server and use php includes to include it onto my homepage, thanks!

[Oliver]

how`d u do that robouk <sp> exactly?

please tell cause our board is on a completly different host, and i want online users on our main website.

i tried diferent variations, but to no avail.

what should the ssi call be?
where do i upload online.php, which server?

cheers
oli

upload online.php to the forums server and make it all work ok, then on you other website, use PHP INCLUDES to include it into your website...
you can see my version here:
http://robouk.gdesign.nl/v3/page.php

[Oliver]

Can SSI calls include files from another server,

<--!include file="http://anotherhost.com/online.php"-->

OR

<--!include virtual="http://anotherhost.com/online.php"-->

the page i want online members to be on is *.shtml on a different server.

Help anyone?

oli

As far as i know SSI can only be used with files on the same server, but Includes can include files from anywhere..

[James Cridland]

Originally posted by jcroft
Has anyone modified this hack for use in a sidebar...with like a vertical list of the online users, with links to their profiles? If so, would you mind sharing your code?

Not running this - yet, at any rate. But looking at the code...

FIND
$regmemberson .= ", ";
REPLACE WITH
$regmemberson .= "<br>";

FIND
echo("Member(s) on: $regmemberson. Guest(s) on: $guestson.");
REPLACE WITH
echo("Member(s) on:<BR>$regmemberson.<BR>Guest(s) on:<BR>$guestson.");

My understanding of the code is that this should produce:

Member(s) on:
Hammer
Friend
JDoe
JBloggs.
Guest(s) on:
8.

Should be easy to program that as a configuration option; I'd fix "Member(s)" to work properly too, to be honest... not a difficult thing.

J