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.

[amykhar]

Which color scheme mod did you use? If you used mine, it won't help to post in the other thread And, i use both mods with no problem on my site. If you use one of the other color scheme ones, it could be a compatibility issue.

[TTG]

this work on 3.5.4 ?

[Snake]

Yes it works just fine on v3.5.4.

[Blue-Inc]

5. In your phrase manager, edit the phrase x_members_and_y_guests to use the third parameter, which is spiders. Example:
{1} members and {2} guests and {3} spiders

Ok in this last step of the readme.txt file, it says the above (Yep I'm a genius) well I looked in my phrase manager, and if you look at my screen shot below I cannot find "phrase x_members_and_y_guests".

Eek, so what should I do, I have done all necessary php & template edits, it's just this last thing I am stuck on. And when it comes to vBulletin I come quite a noob, so bare with me here.

So any help would be appreciated.

Also thanks amy for the awesome hack.

I am running vBulletin v3.5.4.

5. In your phrase manager, edit the phrase x_members_and_y_guests to use the third parameter, which is spiders. Example:
{1} members and {2} guests and {3} spiders

Also that last step, how would I edit "x_members_and_y_guests" to use a third parameter?

[fabianv]

Great hack!

I just installed it and it says : Currently Active Users: 3 (2 members and 1 guests and spiders) on forumhome

I find it quite peculiar that its not saying 0 spiders.. just says... spiders >_<

Weird...

[fabianv]

OMG haha sorry my bad! I just checked my ftp program and it was still prompting for overwrite! hahahaha... it works like a dream! Thanks!

[kurtbarker]

Hey Amy, awesome hack

been using it for a little while, but just realised that 2 of my 5 skins are showing the arg3:undefined error on forum home in current active users. the statement is fine in whos online, it's only forum home that this is happening...

I did all the template edits on the vBulletin default skin, and I have 4 skins as childs of that... so I figured that all the skins would have picked up the template changes...

i'll include screenshots of that section on 3 of my skins, the default [that the template edits were made on, 1 child where the error didn't come up, and a child where it did...]

I also thought that maybe it was skins I added after the original template changes, but 1 of 2 skins added later have the error, and 1 skin that I had before the changes...

any suggestions?

Thanks,
Kurt

my url is http://www.commodorelife.com/forums/ if you wish to have a look

vBulletin Defailt > fine
Heavy Metal > fine
formBasics light > error
Red 2 Black > error
Fireball > fine

[peterska2]

Hey Kurt,

It could be something as simple as that the styles in which it is not working have not inherited the changes from the parent style due to other changes in the forumhome template that are localised to those styles. I suggest checking each style in turn and making the changes manually.

I hope this helps.

[kurtbarker]

now that was fast...

lol, does this mean I have to check all the template changes in the txt file and compare them to 2 styles???

stupid damn styles, lol

thanks mate

[peterska2]

Yeah, or at least the ones for the forumhome template as that is where it is not working. The ones for the whos online templates you can ignore as you have already said that they are working ok.