Forum Home Enhancements - Show Spiders on ForumHome

Show the spiders browsing your board in the What's Going On box of your Forum Home Page.

This is, unfortunately, still a code mod. The code to find is different in 3.6 and I have updated accordingly.

I have not included directions to use this with any portals.

[vwdforum]

Originally Posted by TLove

Try this

Excellent!

Works just fine, shame not having the numbers on the home page but I can live with that!!

Mal

[mac27]

So can you color the spiders or make them a group. I was thinking of adding them to my legend that shows who is online.

[amykhar]

You can, but you have to modify the code. If you know how to code, yell and I'll point you to the section you would need to work in.

[Zia]

by the way..spiders visited today..can it be listed in "Users visited Today" block and "show spider browsing thread" too?

[mac27]

Hey Amy I don't want to yell to loud. LOL Thanks and yes could you point me in that direction.

[Ronak]

gr8 mod...Installed

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Zia

by the way..spiders visited today..can it be listed in "Users visited Today" block and "show spider browsing thread" too?

Yes, it can be done, and I had it done on my site at one point. I'll look into putting it back on my site and then will add it into the install directions here.

[amykhar]

If you want colored spider names (and I'm NOT supporting this part) here's what you do:

Find:

 while ($spidername = current($spiderlist))
  {
  if ($spidername > 1) {
  $loggedin['musername'] = trim(key($spiderlist)) . "(" . $spidername.")";
  }
  else
  {
  $loggedin['musername'] = trim(key($spiderlist));
  }
  $loggedin['userid'] = 0;
  eval('$activeusers .= ", ' . fetch_template('forumhome_loggedinuser') . '";');
  next($spiderlist);
  }

Replace it with (for example):

 while ($spidername = current($spiderlist))
  {
  switch($spidername)
  {
    case "Google": $spidername = "<span style='color:blue;'>$spidername</span>";
    break;
    case "Yahoo": $spidername = "<span style='color:red;'>$spidername</span>";
    break;
  }
  if ($spidername > 1) {
  $loggedin['musername'] = trim(key($spiderlist)) . "(" . $spidername.")";
  }
  else
  {
  $loggedin['musername'] = trim(key($spiderlist));
  }
  $loggedin['userid'] = 0;
  eval('$activeusers .= ", ' . fetch_template('forumhome_loggedinuser') . '";');
  next($spiderlist);
  }

Of course, you will have to look at the exact spider names and decide what colors you want the spider to be. The code I posted is just a general idea of how to go about it.

[rob30UK]

I would be most grateful for this hack, but feel there must be a way without edits.

Has anyone any idea how this can be ported to require no code changes.

[mcyates]

this does not work with vbulletin version 3.6.1.