Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

This is a port of my 3.0.x modification. It shows, on your forumhome page, any spiders that are present (ones that show as a spider on your who's online page)

NOTE: If you are using a portal that shows who's online, this mod will mess up your portal. As of this date, I do not know of any working portals for 3.5 and I do not have the code to fix portals.

Please understand what this mod does before you start crying that it doesn't work. This mod will show any spiders who show up as a spider on who's online as a spider on the forumhome page. It will NOT show a spider who shows up as a guest on who's online as a spider. It does not add additional spiders to the list either.

PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL THIS IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ADJUST YOUR OWN PORTAL TEMPLATES SO THAT THE PHRASE DOES NOT CONTAIN AN ERROR.

[tidy_boy]

Does anyine no how i can fix this problem then please

[kall]

Originally Posted by tidy_boy

Does anyine no how i can fix this problem then please

To quote the first post: "PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL THIS IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ADJUST YOUR OWN PORTAL TEMPLATES SO THAT THE PHRASE DOES NOT CONTAIN AN ERROR."

[bashy]

Hi peeps

I can confirm that this does work fine on VB 3.5.2

Well apart from
2 members and 0 guests and [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders 3="1"
Showing in the Who's Online page (nowt to do with a portal before ya start shouting)

Apart from that its working fine..showing the spiders no problem...

Bashy

[Exernon]

Installed and works great!

Thanks!

[bashy]

Hi

I know how to do stuff, but what i do need is to know where and what to adjust to what....

Please advise as this Welcome to the [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] forums. comes up on the popup to welcome my guests... and also shows up in the Whos Online... This is nothing to do with my Portal this is the main forum issue....

Bashy

Originally Posted by kall

To quote the first post: "PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL THIS IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ADJUST YOUR OWN PORTAL TEMPLATES SO THAT THE PHRASE DOES NOT CONTAIN AN ERROR."

[Sooner95]

heh, I am slow, jus installed this., Works like a charm! Thx!

[The Lore Master]

I have an idea on how to use displaying spiders to enhance the atmosphere on my site, and I think it would be relatively easy to do and hope someone will point me in the right direction. I have a role-playing forum based on dungeons and dragons and would love to display the spiders as creatures found in my forums setting. For example: Instead of displaying Yahoo Slurp (8) when there are 8 Yahoo spiders I would like it to display Tundra Yeti (8), and a Googlebot could be displayed as White Dragon, etc.

These bots are going to be visitng anyways so why not take advantage of it to enhance the atmosphere

I can code anything in php and have done so on my phpbb forum, but I am just learning how vBulletin 3.5 works so this will be a good learning opportunity for me as well. Thanks in advance.

[Vierie]

You would have to change the names of the bots in the spiders_vbulletin.xml file.

PHP Code:

<spider ident="METATAG INFO">  
<name>SpiderName of Your Desire</name>  
</spider> 


[The Lore Master]

Thanks, that is too easy The more I learn of vBulletin the easier it seems to be compared to phpbb.

[The Lore Master]

Originally Posted by Vierie

You would have to change the names of the bots in the spiders_vbulletin.xml file.

PHP Code:

<spider ident="METATAG INFO">  
<name>SpiderName of Your Desire</name>  
</spider> 


That worked well for the forum home page, it displays for example Tundra Yeti, but on the Who Is Online page it shows: Tundra Yeti spider. How would I remove the 'spider' word? I searched the phrases for spider and none is found except for the plural 'spiders'. Thanks again.