Improved Who's Online Display

This hack is pretty straightforward: it provides more detail on the Who's Online? page. Here are some examples:

• Things like "Editing Buddy List" or "Editing Forum Options" are not accompanied by links. "Buddy List" links to the page to edit your own Buddy List, and so on with "Forum Options, "Ignore List," and a few others similar to that.
  
• Instead of "Sending Email to Another Forum User" or "Viewing the Profile of a Forum Member," you'll be told which user it is in both cases, and their username will be a link to their profile.
  
• Most significantly, IMO: no more vague "Sending Private Message" or "Reading Private Message" messages. Now you have the following:
  -- Reading a Private Message
  -- Reading a Private Message From You
  -- Replying to a Private Message
  -- Replying to Your Private Message
  -- Sending a Private Message
  -- Sending a Private Message to You
  
  As you can see, this is much more useful, yet it still protects the basic privacy of each member. Cool, eh?
  
• "Viewing the Results of a Poll" now links you to the results of that poll, and the word "Post" in "Editing Post" is a link to the post being edited.
  
• The word "Attachment in "Viewing Attachmet in Thread Blah Blah Blah" is now a link to the specific attachment being viewed.

That's it, basically. I'm using it on my site: http://www.movieforums.net/online.php

It is *HIGHLY* recommended that you use vBHacker to install this hack, as it involves 14 code edits in one file (online.php)...automating that can save you a lot of time. Attached is an archive containing a vBHacker installation file, as well as a plain text instruction file. Enjoy.

[TWTCommish]

That should fix both parts; try it and see. As for the install; I'll try to get around to updating it soon. Sorry for the delays.

[Boofo]

Oh, by the way, I'm just curious...what did that fix actually do? Does it add another query? (I LOVE learning this stuff!)

[inetd]

good hack

[zeedy2k]

Im getting this: Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/httpd/hostchat/html/online.php on line 123 when running the vbhacker file.

Anyone know whats up?? heres whats on that line:
$user = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT username FROM user WHERE userid = ".intval($userid[1]));

[zeedy2k]

fixed thanks to https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...446#post252446

Althought whats this?

Unknown Location: /updateindex.php?&fid=6&val=1

[Boofo]

It is still reading "Reading Private Message" instead of "Reading Boofo's Private Message" (or however it is supposed to read.

[TWTCommish]

Hmm. Odd. I'll register at your board later today and see if I can figure things out.

[Boofo]

The error is gone from what I can tell, though.

[Ian]

For the people that installed this hack right when it came out, do we need to change or update anything if it seems to be working fine?

[TWTCommish]

If it's working fine, then no, I guess you won't need to change anything. I think the only way it could work in spite of that bug, however, is if you've installed another hack within that file that made a similar change.