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.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by War.Frog

Oh!!! Thank you for that. Hmm...ok, then something got funky in my upgrade. I'll uninstall and reinstall.

If you still continue to notice funny statistics please let me know. I know this mod is not officially supported, but we would still like to make sure its working as best we can in our free time.

[War.Frog]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

If you still continue to notice funny statistics please let me know. I know this mod is not officially supported, but we would still like to make sure its working as best we can in our free time.

Thanks so much. I uninstalled and reinstalled at 2:40 today and got this board stat at the one hour mark so far:



It looks like it's still using the registration date of approx 200 days. Any way I can correct this?

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by War.Frog

Thanks so much. I uninstalled and reinstalled at 2:40 today and got this board stat at the one hour mark so far:



It looks like it's still using the registration date of approx 200 days. Any way I can correct this?

Hmm... I will see about having our lead developer look into it if he has the time to.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Okay, we have found the problem and have uploaded a new version that will fix the problem. If anyone notices this problem after this date please let me know. Now for the bad news, you will once again have to purge all your user's current total times online. Sorry but hopefully this will be the last time that is needed to be done, although it was caught quickly so you wont lose too much hopefully.

[War.Frog]

Awesome. I just installed it and it's working! Thanks so much for your help!

[gsmlover4u]

installed and working fine

[aaronrand]

got a bit of a spacing issue on 4.0.1 , as shown below, on both "Use Short Phrases", yes and no. same error occurs.
seems to be missing a <br> or something when installed
with the post thanks hack.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by aaronrand

got a bit of a spacing issue on 4.0.1 , as shown below, on both "Use Short Phrases", yes and no. same error occurs.
seems to be missing a <br> or something when installed
with the post thanks hack.

A fix to that issue is included in the new version posted.

[sulasno]

not sure whether this is a bug
but the Average Time Online (Per Day) exceeds the total Time Online

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by sulasno

not sure whether this is a bug
but the Average Time Online (Per Day) exceeds the total Time Online

Its basic math, for the first 24 hours it will be more, because you have time/days, were days would be less than 1.

In other words if you spend 2 hours online and the script has only been installed for 4 hours you would get the following:

2 hrs / ( 4 hrs / 24 hrs ) = 12 hrs