Add Who's Online locations from Admin CP

This hack was requested on vBulletin.com.

It lets you add possible locations to Who's Online, directly from the Admin CP.
This is good if you are using external hacks, that use vBulletin's system. You probably know that users browsing these external files have Unknown Location (or Main Index for non-admin viewers) next to them.

With this hack, you can easily add a new custom location with ease!
It's also designed in a way that won't let you overwrite existing locations. ('dummy protection' as I like to call it )

The locations you add are not stored in their own table, because I really felt that would be waste of space and resource.
Instead, I store the locations in the template table, in one special template dedicated to this data.
It was a lot harder to do it this way, btw.

Please let me know if you find any bugs, or if this script doesn't work with files in child folders (this is my main concern).
This can be easily remove (just undo changes to online.php), so please don't fear to try it out!

A nice screen shot is in my next post.

[Crinos]

Kewl Must've been a caching problem with either the browser or maybe the attachment feature itself, I dunno ...

So far I'm not experiencing any bugs on this one, and works as advertised. Maybe it's safe to move it out of the Beta forum

btw, still interested in that non-VB/global.php question I had, if it's possible

Great hack!

[Hooper]

Yeah!!!! It works!

This is going to be nice!

I agree. I am getting ready to see if I can get my "outside non vb powered schtuff" to work. I have about 8 or 9 outside of vBull that need a linking!

Yeah. About ready for full release. Thanks Chen. Nice Hack.

[Hooper]

Am I missing something here or should the last10posts.php be a link to the file????

[Crinos]

You could use HTML to do a link tag on that location in the description:

Viewing <a href="last10posts.php">Last 10 Posts</a>

That's what I did with mine

[Hooper]

Geez... I guess I just want the hack to do everything now don't I...

Ok.. I'll do that.

[Hooper]

Works like a charm. This is a super improvement. Just think, If this can be (and hopefully will) added to a vBulletin release, it will make adding internal links for WOL so much easier. This is fine for me as is. Maybe we can get the outside linking to work with the non vBpowered.

I had several hand coded links I installed into the online.php since Kevin showed me how to do it. This is a whole lot faster and easier.

[Crinos]

Might wanna include some instructions on how to include it in the VB admin control panel once it's released (although I think that's the plan when FF made it).

I already did by adding it into the admin/index.php

[Hooper]

Well let's here it....? You incorporated the new admin with the main admin? If so, spill the beans on the how....

[Crinos]

Well, since it wasn't really a part of any general category in the admin panel, I just put it below the vBulletin Options (which I have renamed "General Options" in my own VB)

Anyway, in admin/index.php, find:

makenavselect("Options","<hr>");

And right above it, add:

makenavoption("Who's Online Options","admin_online.php?t=0","<br>");

here is a screenshot of how it looks like in my admin control panel:
http://canislupus.opentechsupport.ne...woloptions.jpg

[Hooper]

Super.... Going to do it. Your admin panel looks as good as your site!