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.

[Hooper]

Perfect!!

That is right where it should be. (left top is the link).

[Crinos]

Perfect

[LuBi]

So it works on 2.2.1 now? If so, what does it take to get the script running?

[Hooper]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by LuBi
So it works on 2.2.1 now? If so, what does it take to get the script running?

[Admin]

I'm going to split all posts from Hooper and Crinos in a bit, I'm as well already confused.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32879
Tell me if the title of the thread is not appropriate.

Does this work ok or not?
I want to release it as soon as possible, but I want to make sure it works perfect first!

[Freddie Bingham]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 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.

[Admin]

I was thinking of doing that, since eventually the ideal thing would be removing all locations from online.php and putting them into the Admin CP.
Would also make it easier to translate these locations to other languages.

[Freddie Bingham]

Some of the locations wouldn't be so easy to move into this system. The ideal way would be to totally rethink the way the system works, which I may also end up doing.

[DarkReaper]

How can we include the session hash?

I tried this - Editing their <a href="sedit.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=show">signature</a>, and it didn't parse the hash...

[Admin]

Try this DarkReaper.

In online.php, (after installing this hack) find this:

          $userinfo[where] = $text;

and right below it add this:

          eval("\$userinfo[where] = \"".addslashes($userinfo[where])."\";");

Then you'll be able to use $variables in the descriptions (although only $session[sessionhash] will mean anything).