who's online help

[Lionel]

My who's online stopped working. I installed so many hacks that I would not know where to begin to look. Which in the online_function or online.php can cause who's online to make everyone disappear, and do so randomly?

[Xenon]

actually both can

it depends on where it happens?
just on who's online page or on other pages where the online functions are used as well.

if it's jsut on who's online, then it's most likely online.php

[Lionel]

any clues on what to look for? I inspected every single comma and can't figure it out. No one can see each other anymore, and at times they do. It is as if this get triggered when someone visit 'a specific page' (I do not know which one). I had the same trigger problem with two hacks and interfering bitfields. But who's online do not seem to deal with bitfields.

I believe this happened with the different cookie for admin hack. I uninstalled it, deleted all my cookies, but still no good.

[Xenon]

Hmm, it could be several reasons.

i had a quite similar problem once on vb.org with just one style. In the end it was a missing image file, and nothing more...

I suggest to just replace online.php with an orignial one and test if the error occurs or not.
if it does, then reupload your modified file again, and do the same process with the function file.

[Natch]

Sounds like a cookies issue: ahve you installed any hacks that modify the way your board assigns cookies?

[Lionel]

Yes. The new hack about admin only cookies. I uninstalled, deleted all cookies... and everybody and me are having problems. It's pretty lonely.

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by Xenon

Hmm, it could be several reasons.
I suggest to just replace online.php with an orignial one and test if the error occurs or not.
if it does, then reupload your modified file again, and do the same process with the function file.

thanks, that was my first shot. That did not fixed the problem

[Lionel]

another thing that disappeared too: The link 'Go to First Unread Post'. I do not know if they are related?

[Lionel]

some more observations.

If I am logged in, then logout, and relog back in, I see two who's online the new me and the old me without an IP address.

If I start surfing and check who's online I see me viewing the different pages. Then for no reasons, I stop seeing the pages and I get stucked on viewing who's online.

If I live my site and go somewhere else, then come back, I show that I am stucked at old page.

I do not see anyone and nobody can see anybody. Except for another admin who can see me but I cannot see him. And he cannot see anyone else.

I deleted all cookies, tried 3 different PC.

Based on that, maybe someone else can give me a pointer?

[Lionel]

Shouldn't
define('VB_AREA', 'Forum');
in globals.php

reflects my forum folder name instead of "Forum"?