Miscellaneous Hacks - Spider Display

Spider Display
Version 1.0.4
(By Boofo)

What does this product do?
This Hack displays the Number of Spiders on Forumhome and Who is Online.

If you are using a previous version of this mod, make sure to replace the default vBulletin template lines back into the templates and they are now automatically edited.

Version Information:
Version 1.0.1 --Initial release for vBulletin 3.7
Version 1.0.2 --Fixed MySQL error.
Version 1.0.3 --Fixed the leading comma issue when there were no members online.
Version 1.0.4 --Template edits now done automatically. No more manual template edits.

Credits:
A big thank you goes out to Andreas for coming up with the original code for this for 3.5.4. It now works in 3.7.

Installation overview:
Products to install: (1)
File Edits: (See the NOTE below)

Installation Instructions:
1. Upload spiders_vbulletin.xml to the includes/xml directory on your site.

2. Go to your Admin CP
Scroll down to 'Plugin System'
Click 'Manage Products'
Click 'Add/Import Product'
Click the 'Browse' button, and locate the product-spiderdisplay.xml file on your computer

Done!
Enjoy!

NOTE: There is one file edit that I have not found a way to get around yet. It is a special template cache that must be used with this. The easiest way to do it is add the file edit to the includes/config.php. Since this file does not change as often, you should be fine on most upgrades. This is the ONLY file edit.

NOTE: If you do not click install, you do not need support.

[odeezie]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Yes, it would be in the phrase manager. Just do a text search for the word spiders.

I did a search in phrases for spiders and there were five results that came back:

Who's Online Phrases Containing 'Spiders'
vBulletin Settings Phrases Containing 'Spiders'
GLOBAL Phrases Containing 'Spiders'
FAQ Text Phrases Containing 'Spiders'
Control Panel Help Text Phrases Containing 'Spiders'

Do I just edit the WHo's Online Phrase one? And when I click edit, I just have a blank text box for translations...is that where I edit it?

[odeezie]

If I use the find and replace tool will that work correctly. "Spiders" as the search for text and "New Name Here" as the replace with text?

[Boofo]

If you will look at the bottom of the XML file, you will see that:

x_members_y_guests_and_z_spiders

is the phrase you want to edit. That is the first place to check on any mod.

[Bonus Paradise]

many thanks for this hack
I installed it and I absolutely love it

[shofolofo]

seems good from other people quotes ..

i didn't understand what it is exactly doing .. I mean .. you can always see crawlers in whoisonle page .. what makes this special ?


P.S : I pressed install = I want support

[Bonus Paradise]

oh 1 question
if i check who is online
I see googlebot is there
but it say 0 spiders in the who is online bar
bot shows up as guest
Currently Active Users: 4 (2 members, 2 guests and 0 spiders)

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by shofolofo

seems good from other people quotes ..

i didn't understand what it is exactly doing .. I mean .. you can always see crawlers in whoisonle page .. what makes this special ?


P.S : I pressed install = I want support

You will see the number of spiders on the Who's Online page now as well as the number of spiders and their names on the forumhome.

Originally Posted by Bonus Paradise

oh 1 question
if i check who is online
I see googlebot is there
but it say 0 spiders in the who is online bar
bot shows up as guest
Currently Active Users: 4 (2 members, 2 guests and 0 spiders)

You need to do the config.php file edit.

[Bonus Paradise]

Originally Posted by Boofo

You will see the number of spiders on the Who's Online page now as well as the number of spiders and their names on the forumhome.



You need to do the config.php file edit.

yes i added this my includes/config.php what you say
maybe i did something wrong
the end of my includes/config.php looks now so ...

// Image Processing Options
	// Images that exceed either dimension below will not be resized by vBulletin. If you need to resize larger images, alter these settings.
$config['Misc']['maxwidth'] = 2592;
$config['Misc']['maxheight'] = 1944;

if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
global $specialtemplates;
$specialtemplates = array_merge($specialtemplates, array('wol_spiders'));
}

/*======================================================================*\
|| ####################################################################
|| # Downloaded: 17:11, Fri May 2nd 2008
|| # CVS: $RCSfile$ - $Revision: 25157 $
|| ####################################################################
\*======================================================================*/

[Boofo]

And you uploaded the spiders xml?

[Bonus Paradise]

Originally Posted by Boofo

And you uploaded the spiders xml?

yes i did all step by step