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About Developer · **Released**: 12-09-2001

Hi,

This is something that is common in IRC - /me is away

In BBs, a user is either online or offline (or invisible).

But, on my Bulletin Board, the folks created such a community that every time someone goes on a holiday or goes offline for a while, he/she posts a new thread to annouce they're 'away.

So, I wrote a hack allowing a user to change his/her status to "away", including a return date and an away reason which will show up in their profile.

Likewise, the online/offline icon in postbit and buddy list will change to an away icon (a very faded version of the 'offline' one).

Some demo captures:

The Edit Profile screen, when a user is NOT away:

The Edit Profile screen when a user IS away:

The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user IS away:

The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user is NOT away:

The postbit icon when a user is away:

How to install:

Download the attached zip file. Upload away.gif to your images dir (or create your own away.gif).

Upload install_awayuser.php to your admin dir and follow the instructions.

Cheers,

Bira

newest version by sho here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...606#post287606

Buu · #**272** 07-12-2002, 10:35 PM

Question :

I installed the hack completely with all the right things no error what so ever but when i look @ a users profile who IS away i cannot see this :

did i over see anything i checked the files 3 times but couldn't see it . I'm running VBB 2.2.5

Boofo · #**273** 07-12-2002, 11:08 PM

Did you add the $away to your getinfo template?

Buu · #**274** 07-12-2002, 11:23 PM

yep that is the most strange thing about it :S

Boofo · #**275** 07-12-2002, 11:39 PM

I had that same problem when I first installed it. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and then everything worked fine. You might want to give that a shot.

Buu · #**276** 07-13-2002, 12:54 AM

k will do that tomorrow then thx for the advise

Troy J. · #**277** 07-13-2002, 02:45 PM

hmm mine vanished i had it installed and working just fine then i come back today and its gone.......all the files are still the same and the templates still the same.....i can get into the admin cp and change there away status it just doesnt show up for them in there edit profile.....but ive checked and rechecked the code i have in there and its right

Boofo · #**278** 07-13-2002, 02:52 PM

Things usually don't just disappear on their own.

Did you add any hacks or change any code or templates?

Scrub · #**279** 07-13-2002, 08:39 PM

Your best bet is to reupload the install file, click uninstall, then go back to the very beginning and click new install and keep clicking next until you reach the end of the file. Then tada. Its should work. Just did that and it worked for me.

dprice · #**280** 07-18-2002, 04:03 PM

Great hack! Thanks!

WitchyT · #**281** 07-20-2002, 03:13 PM

This is a great hack!

But I'm getting the same problem over here, the away reason isn't being shown at the profile, and I've tried re-installing it several times.

Any idea? I followed all steps and everything's working except for that part. I'm currently using VB 2.2.6.

Edited to say: Nevermind this post

, got it working! Thanks to talon3dhg for the fix posted before (post #252), that was the only problem.

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