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.

[KuraFire]

I have a suggestion: explain to use how to incorporate home-made files that reside in the directory of vbulletin.


For instance:

http://www.kurafire.com/files/thecouch/portal2.php

http://www.kurafire.com/files/thecouch/ is the directory of my board, and the portal2.php is a home-made portal page that lists 50 threads that have last had a reply in (excluding threads from a private forum). (oh, and portal.php lists 250 instead of 50).

Now, can we just list portal2.php in the input panel of this hack and it'll work already? That's all I want to know, how to make that work

(I read it already works, with some editing, for the vbstats hack)

[Admin]

If portal2.php requires global.php, then yes you can simply list it using the hack.

[KuraFire]

No, it doesn't use global.php. It only creates an opening to the forum's database, runs one query and creates an output of that.

How would I go and include global.php for it? I want to know that because I want to use some of the global functions in the new version of the portal2.php page (which will actually LOOK like something, unlike now).

[Admin]

PHP Code:

require('./global.php'); 


just add it to the file and it'll act just like any other vB file.

[KuraFire]

Great, thanks

So what exactly does it allow me to use in my code with that?

[KuraFire]

While I'm at it: how did you do that awesome "user is away" script ???? That's awesome!

Edit: nm, I see the hack already.

[Admin]

The major advantage is using the sessions vBulletin provides.
Other than that, checking for permission becomes easier, and also templates. You can use templates with that.

[KuraFire]

Ooh, permissions, THAT I like very much! ^_^

[KuraFire]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FireFly

PHP Code:

require('./global.php'); 


just add it to the file and it'll act just like any other vB file.

[Admin]

What are the exact warnings?