Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

This one is a pretty easy hack to install. It shows any spiders that are indexing your site in the what's going on box on the forum home page. Please note. It will only show spiders as spiders and not as guests if it also shows them as spiders and not as guests on online.php.

This hack has been tested on 3.0.6 and 3.0.7.

It's not hard to install, but it does have one drawback. If you have a portal page that shows online users, you will have to edit it yourself to incorporate the changes. Consider yourself warned.

At this point, any problems reported are installation errors. If things don't work for you, make sure you have completed all the steps as written.

As I have upgraded to 3.5, I am withdrawing support for this older version. All the bugs are gone and any issues are now installation errors.

FAQ
1. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on my portal page.
As noted above, because of the large number of portals, you're on your own for integrating them into thie hack.

2. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on other pages.
1. Make sure you have done all of the code changes correctly.
2. Make sure you have updated your style to use the modified templates. If not, that error will occor.

German Translation provided by General. It can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=230

Here is the Advanced CMPS module that y'all have been clamoring for:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82339


Amy

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[amykhar]

Off and on. When it's done, I'll post it.

[weaver]

Thanks Amy

[Kaishi]

I have a question, that I don't think was very clear, or maybe I'm just stupid. But for this hack to work, do I have to have "Enable Spider Display" in the Who's Online options, and what am I supposed to put in the spider identification strings and description?

[venomx]

Yes and look at the posts here to get an updated list from VB.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...5&postcount=12

Basicly just delete whats already in both of the spider boxes in VB's admincp and put the stufffrom the two text files.

[Kaishi]

Originally Posted by venomx

Yes and look at the posts here to get an updated list from VB.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...5&postcount=12

Basicly just delete whats already in both of the spider boxes in VB's admincp and put the stufffrom the two text files.

thanks alot!

[venomx]

If you add a new one that you have found make sure you put the info on the same line in both boxes! :P

[Kaishi]

i don't know if this is a bug or not, but a couple of people reported seeing like, 240 guests when some others see only like 8. but most users online would say 260 (including members and guests)

well, or it could be that 240 ppl came and left in a period of 10 minutes, which i think is pretty unlikely. anyone else experienced this?

[amykhar]

My code doesn't touch the most users online stat. So, if it says 260, I'm guessing you had a major influx of spiders. Yahoo slurp seems to be out in droves for many people right now.

[Kaishi]

Originally Posted by amykhar

My code doesn't touch the most users online stat. So, if it says 260, I'm guessing you had a major influx of spiders. Yahoo slurp seems to be out in droves for many people right now.

yea, maybe it was just an influx of spiders, i submitted my site to some search engines a couple of days ago. i didn't think that they would send spiders out so fast though, after like 2 days :surprised:

[EricaJoy]

just checking on the status of getting this working in vba cmps. i'm anxiously awaiting this before i install. thanks for your work on this hack amy.