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!

[Cygnus]

the hack is not currently working as the changes in 2.0.3 changed the sessions.php file. All people on the boards are currently listed as "browsing the boards" which kind of defeats the purpose of the hack, no? I mean... obviously they're browsing the boards...

Cygnus

[tubedogg]

The hack does not list where anyone is, it never has.

I may update it for 2.0.3 in the future, I may not. I don't know at this point.

[tubedogg]

Now that I think about it, the session table was barely changed, and nothing that was changed would affect this hack in the least...Are you sure you're talking about the right hack???

[Cygnus]

Originally posted by tubedogg
Are you sure you're talking about the right hack???

Uh... I believe so. Is this the hack which shows who is online and doing what (i.e. Reading this post in this thread)? If not intended to do so - and seeing that this is the only hack that I have installed - it would be pretty odd if it was doing it, no?

Cygnus

[amykhar]

Cygnus,
What you are describing is a bug in 2.0.3 itself. A fix is in the bugs forum.

Amy

[Evoir]

Tubedogg,

Thanks for the great hack. One question: is there a way to make the script simply output the total number of people on the boards, rather than seperating the members from the guests?

I'd like it to say: "there are currently x people on our boards."

Thanks again,
Evoir

[Cygnus]

Originally posted by amykhar
What you are describing is a bug in 2.0.3 itself. A fix is in the bugs forum.

Are you talking about this one: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=25832

If so... I fixed this just now and see no changes yet. I will give it a few minutes so that the sessions table can be filled with new data...

Cygnus

[Cygnus]

OK... tried that one... no luck. I switched it back.

I also tried this one...
http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=25521

Still no luck.

Any chance you could tell me which bug?

Thanks,
Cygnus

[Cygnus]

Bueller?

Bueller?

Bueller?

I have uninstalled this now useless hack. Thanks for all of the attention that I... well... didn't get.

Cygnus, who would service hacks he writes... otherwise... why write them?

[tubedogg]

This hack never showed where people are and in fact it works perfectly for me on 2.0.3...