Add Who's Online Locations From Admin CP

General Info
This hack was requested to be available on Vbulletin 3. Being bored, I figured I would take the task in hand and complete it, to be better than it ever was before.

The original designer of the hack (on Vbulletin 2) is the well known Chen Avinadav, which being the great coder that he is, I dont particularly agree with his methods in this case, which he used a an excess query to select data from a template and loop through. This uses the built in datastore of vb3, therefore using No extra queries.

Therefore this hack is Completely original, in every way. I have used a different method, for accomplishing this, and the control panel I have created is intuitive and utlilizes a great many of vbulletins built in controls and phrases. Looking at the code itself on the admin panel alone you will see I didnt just throw this together and slap it on the site. Total creation time was around 4 hours, the code itself not being the main part, just mainly working out issues with the control panel etc..

Features
My version which is completely new, allows you to add the filename for the who's online along with the location name, and URL Title of the link.

The control panel which was the longest part, is pretty concise in how it works considering what I did to it. Provides a good bit of error checking to keep from accidentally doing stuff you didn't intend to do.

Also should note, the deletion part of the script uses JavaScript to confirm whether or not you wish to delete the selected Location.

I hope this gets a lot of installs, being as that my other 2 hacks/bug fixes were really just something I did in a few minutes and didn't put a great deal of effort into, judging by the fact I didnt have to "edit" any vbulletin files, to do what I wanted.

This is really my first release on this site, that I can say I believe is unique in its effort, and shows some insight on things for the newer coders out there. I have put a great deal of effort into the setup of everything as well as the readme file to be concise and as easy to read and understand as possible.

Hopefully hack of the month, lol.. j/k

Installation
I have provided an readme file inside of the zip, with information on how to install the hack, and what needs to be done to do so. Its a fairly easy installation, as you only have to add things.

Other Misc.
Files To Modify: 2
Total Modifications: 6
Installation Difficulty: Easy

Version Updates
Version 1.0 = First Release
Version 1.1 = Fixed Weird Query Error For Some People
Version 1.2 = Added ability to enable/disable links for locations

Click install if you like. Thanks.

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

General Info
This hack was requested to be available on Vbulletin 3. Being bored, I figured I would take the task in hand and complete it, to be better than it ever was before.

The original designer of the hack (on Vbulletin 2) is the well known Chen Avinadav, which being the great coder that he is, I dont particularly agree with his methods in this case, which he used a an excess query to select data from a template and loop through. This uses the built in datastore of vb3, therefore using No extra queries.

Therefore this hack is Completely original, in every way. I have used a different method, for accomplishing this, and the control panel I have created is intuitive and utlilizes a great many of vbulletins built in controls and phrases. Looking at the code itself on the admin panel alone you will see I didnt just throw this together and slap it on the site. Total creation time was around 4 hours, the code itself not being the main part, just mainly working out issues with the control panel etc..

Features
My version which is completely new, allows you to add the filename for the who's online along with the location name, and URL Title of the link.

The control panel which was the longest part, is pretty concise in how it works considering what I did to it. Provides a good bit of error checking to keep from accidentally doing stuff you didn't intend to do.

Also should note, the deletion part of the script uses JavaScript to confirm whether or not you wish to delete the selected Location.

I hope this gets a lot of installs, being as that my other 2 hacks/bug fixes were really just something I did in a few minutes and didn't put a great deal of effort into, judging by the fact I didnt have to "edit" any vbulletin files, to do what I wanted.

This is really my first release on this site, that I can say I believe is unique in its effort, and shows some insight on things for the newer coders out there. I have put a great deal of effort into the setup of everything as well as the readme file to be concise and as easy to read and understand as possible.

Hopefully hack of the month, lol.. j/k

Installation
I have provided an readme file inside of the zip, with information on how to install the hack, and what needs to be done to do so. Its a fairly easy installation, as you only have to add things.

Other Misc.
Files To Modify: 2
Total Modifications: 6
Installation Difficulty: Easy

Version Updates
Version 1.0 = First Release
Version 1.1 = Fixed Weird Query Error For Some People
Version 1.2 = Added ability to enable/disable links for locations

Click install if you like. Thanks.

Thanks for your hack, its working very well but I have one additional question.

I have integrated Photopost to my board and users browsing the gallery are showing up like this now in who's online for example:

Unknown Location
/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=88&sort=1&size=medium&cat=2

Could the hack be updated so that I can also add file or complete directorys to be shown as a link.

Example:

My Board is installed at ./forum
The gallery is installed at ./photopost

It would now be nice if any user browsing within /photopost which is logically ../photopost from the view of /forum can be shown as 'BROWSING THE GALLERY' without entering a special file.

Its easier cause everyone navigating through /photopost is in the gallery and it does not matter where in detail.

Regards
jluerken

[Trigunflame]

Ill try to make an update in a few days, ive been very busy on some game development on private projects as of late, and havnt had time to provide support some of the stuff Ive been working on here.

[SVTBlackLight01]

If you could add directories as well as specifics files that would be great. Most of the locations I need to add are outside the forum directory.

[apokphp]

I thought this was what I was needing...but it doesn't do quite what I thought. Like 1/2 the other posters here...I'm needing it to show locations for non-vb pages outside the /forums directory.

Things like /chess/index.php or /gallery/index.php or quizzes/index.php, which are all subdirectories of the root.

[sully02]

I must be doing something wrong. When I tested it and went to look at my online.php page, everything came up as 12-31-1969 and unknown location. Furthermore, my index.php on my AdminCP is no longer working, giving me the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}' in /home/sportsd/public_html/forums/admincp/index.php on line 587

[roundhost]

Intalled flawlessly, thnks a bunch

[rinkrat]

Originally Posted by RapCheck

Would this be able to differ things such as, index.php, index.php?page=contact, index.php?page=links all as different who's online locations?


So basically, using vbindex created pages, would I be able to add the extra pages to the who's online with this hack?

I need that for VBAdvanced too.

[vonedaddy]

I installed and it works great! But I have to agree with the rest of the folks. I need it to work outside the forums firectory also.

[Caiman]

Flawless install, works a treat, thanks!

*clicks install

[Zelda-King]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

I beieve I have it installed and working but I want it to show when people are in my VBXIRC chat...

I add the chat/index.php and it shows nothing

That would be because the file is called 'index.php' which is already covered. I've not tested but perhaps the hack doesn't work with sub-directories so what you could do is put your chat/index.php in your root forum directory and rename the file, though perhaps that may complicate things inside the chat program itself.