Miscellaneous Hacks - IWT - Time Spent Online

Notice
There are two versions of this modification. This is the vBulletin 4.x version, you can find the vBulletin 3.8 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=243221

Current Stable Version
Version 1.2.6

What is it?
This modification will add a counter to your forums that will record/track how much time your users have spent online. And output it in various sections of the site (EX: Time Online: 5 Months 2 Weeks 1 Day 15 Hours 44 Minutes 33 Seconds).

Features

• Total Time Online in Postbit & Ministats block in the profile
• Average Time Online (Per Day) in Postbit & Ministats block in the profile
• Leader Board Displaying Time Online & Average Time Online (Per Day) for all the sites members
• Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board & Stats box of FORUMHOME

Demo
You can see this product in action here.

Settings
Admin Control Panel Options to Toggle:

• Entire System
• Show Total Time in Postbit/Profile
• Show Average Time Per Day in Postbit/Profile
• Use Short Phrases (Ex. "1 Min 5 Secs" instead of "1 Minute 5 Seconds")
• Use Micro Phrases in Postbit (Ex. "32d 12h 44m")
• Display Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board/Forumhome
• Leader Board/Navbar Link Enabled

Installation/Upgrade
See included file.

Release Notes

Version 1.1.1

• Added the average time per day function
• Added 4 settings used for controlling display of the Time Online and Avg. Time Online for both profile and postbit.
• A few optimizations for memory/performance

Version 1.2.0

• Added Leader Board Displaying Time Online & Average Time Online (Per Day) for all the sites members
• Added Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board
• Added Cumulative Time Online on Stats box of FORUMHOME
• Added Numerous new settings for controlling the system

Version 1.2.1

• Fixed a Bug resulting in the timestamp for date installed not setting correctly.

Version 1.2.2

• Updated postbit template code.

Version 1.2.3

• Added Postbit Micro Phrases
• Added Template Group

Version 1.2.4

• Moved functions to a file.
• Added Time Spent Online to the Who's Online.
• vBulletin 3.8 Version Released

Version 1.2.5

• Fixed a timestamp flaw in the average time spent online function.

Version 1.2.6

• Fixed a Bug causing the postbit to show invalid average online times in vB 4.1.x.

Known Bugs

• Currently none.

Resolved Bugs

• Function definition problem causing scripts that utilized the postbit factory without the vbulletin global file being initialized, such as the vBcms commenting engine, to display errors. (version 1.2.0)
• Bug resulting in the timestamp for date installed not setting correctly. (version 1.2.1)
• Bug causing the postbit to show invalid average online times in vB 4.1.x. (version 1.2.6)

Planned additions
We currently are talking about making an average time per day (similiar to the posts per day) (Added in version 1.1.1)
We also have plans to make a leaderboard for so people can see who spends the most time floating around the site. (Added in version 1.2.0)
We are planning to add in more settings at some point to give quite a bit more control over the system.(Added in version 1.2.0)

Support
This modification is released for free and as such we don't officially support it, but as time permits we will try to offer support on it. You are more likely to get a response over at our site as we wont be checking this thread frequently.

This modification brought to you by Ideal Web Technologies.

[BaanFarsang]

It's still error when press http://www.baanfarsang.com/tsoleaderboard.php

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/baanfars/domains/baanfarsang.com/public_html/includes/class_core.php(4606) : eval()'d code on line 75

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/baanfars/domains/baanfarsang.com/public_html/includes/class_core.php(4606) : eval()'d code on line 76

[4nawadir.com]

Good Job Bro !! Can I Translate It To Arabic ?!

[Ideal Web Tech]

We will look into the issues with this on the newer vbulletin versions. We have been a bit swamped in work lately and don't monitor this site very much due to time constraints so to get faster responses please report things on our site.

[Alan_SP]

Just one suggestion I received in this topic (on VaultWiki site) related to your mod:

Also, in case you care about another 0.04s, add an index to your user table. You have another mod that is querying the user table on forum home without hitting an index:

ALTER TABLE user
ADD INDEX timespentonline (timespentonline)

You might want to report this to that mod's author. This could start being a significant lag for forums with over 100,000 members (although personally I consider .05 for a query to be slow).

Hope you'll consider including this index in next version. Thanks in advance. :up:

[clauz]

Hello,

On the new VB version 4.2.0 I cannot see link placed in the navbar?

[Ideal Web Tech]

There will be an update coming for 4.2 in the next few weeks, that will correct the navbar link issue, as well as a few other performance issues.

[Megaboost]

Tagged and waiting for 4.2 version

[Munch98]

Also waiting for 4.2 version.

Would be great if someone could PM me once version for 4.2 is out.

[Alan_SP]

If you set this mod as installed, authors usually send mail to all who set their mods as installed.

Of course, I don't know if Ideal Web Tech will do that, but option exists and authors usually use it.

[Ideal Web Tech]

We send updates via our site, and via the form on here to announce new releases so that everybody with things flagged will be informed.