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
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.
We are still using this on our sites without issues if you are having problems make sure you still have them on the default style and if so please let us know as it seems most problems people have been having are from custom styles. Things may be conflicting with another addon that we don't currently use on any of our sites, which if that's the case I will see what I can do to work around that.
Sorry for the very late reply to people we have been swamped with stuff and really didn't have time to support a free addon that still works flawlessly on all of our heavily modified vBulletin sites.
Sorry for the very late reply to people we have been swamped with stuff and really didn't have time to support a free addon that still works flawlessly on all of our heavily modified vBulletin sites.
What about marking it as re-useable so someone can take it over??
We are still using this on our sites without issues if you are having problems make sure you still have them on the default style and if so please let us know as it seems most problems people have been having are from custom styles. Things may be conflicting with another addon that we don't currently use on any of our sites, which if that's the case I will see what I can do to work around that.
Sorry for the very late reply to people we have been swamped with stuff and really didn't have time to support a free addon that still works flawlessly on all of our heavily modified vBulletin sites.
The leaderboard isn't accessible on 4.2.2. Can you at least provide the landing page url for the leaderboard (it doesn't require any work, just the information) so that those of us who want to add it manually can do so?
A great mod, and I am already liking its use very much, and am thankful for developers like yourselves taking out time and effort, to provide us with such free modifications and add-ons.
With due respect, there is a small bug fix that would be nice (which should be a stroll in the park for coders like you). The issue is in the postbit, when this mod is used with Abe1's Post Thank You Hack. So what happens is that the time online is displayed along with the X Thanks in X Posts line which makes reading confusing. If this is not clear, I have posted an image. You could have a look. Thanks again for your time.
For the time being, I have disabled showing the Thank You, but I would really love to have this working.