Few general vb coding queries

[veenuisthebest]

14. Just curious to know, why has vb changed functions like mail to vbmail, date to vbdate and so on. What is the difference in the two?

15. By following this article, I was able to create online locations for my vbpage via plugins. I wanted to know, how do I make it so that it shows a different location for sub-pages as well.

Like, if a person is viewing page.php?do=edit , then it should display the correct location and not the location of page.php

Thank You

[Marco van Herwaarden]

14. To see the difference, have a look at these functions in the ./includes/functions.php file.

15. Make sure the usergroup of the user browsing the WOL has permission to view detailed locations.

[veenuisthebest]

14. Thank You.. It did helped me.

15. Ofcourse the permissions are all set to YES. See this is my code

Hook: online_location_process

PHP Code:

if ($filename == 'page.php')
{
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'Viewing Page';
}
if ($filename == 'page.php?do=edit')
{
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'Editing Page';
} 


Hook: online_location_unknown

PHP Code:

if ($userinfo['activity'] == 'Viewing Page')
{
        $userinfo['action'] = 'Viewing Page';
        $handled = true;
}
if ($userinfo['activity'] == 'Editing Page')
{
        $userinfo['action'] = 'Editing Page';
        $handled = true;
} 


Now... my problem is that even on viewing page.php?do=edit , it shows "Viewing Page" INSTEAD OF "Editing Page" at whos online !

Thank You

[Opserty]

How about:

PHP Code:

if ($filename == 'page.php' AND $_REQUEST['do'] == 'edit')
{
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'Editing Page';
}  
elseif ($filename == 'page.php')
{
        $userinfo['activity'] = 'Viewing Page';
} 


[veenuisthebest]

I had put the above code in online_location_process hook but its still showing "Viewing Page" for page.php?do=edit

by the way, can the reason be that my actual subpage is page.php?do=edit&uid=$row_id

Any other way pleasee.. ?

[veenuisthebest]

11. vB uses this code to redirect to any location (in our case page.php), how do I redirect to previous page that user accessed?

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->url = "page.php" . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'];
  if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
eval(print_standard_redirect('redirect_linkdir', true, true));} 


15. How do I create online locations for my sub-pages. Solution in post #14 doesn't work for me.

16. After reading Send PMs (automatically), it was easy to send PM's. Just have a few queries, what does $pmdm->set_info('is_automated', true); AND cache_permissions($fromuser, false); does ? coz I can't see any difference with/without them.

[veenuisthebest]

One more plz:-

17. How do we use vbmail function in our page? I think there's something wrong in my code as I am getting very late mails OR not getting them at all. The other default mailing functions are working perfect i.e. I receive mails instantly when using contact us or any other email function but only not through my custom page.

PHP Code:

$emailto = "email@email.com";
$subject = "my email subject";
$message = "my message body";
vbmail($emailto, $subject, $message, false, $vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'], '', $row_name); 


[veenuisthebest]

anyone ??