Away message for users

Hi,

This is something that is common in IRC - /me is away

In BBs, a user is either online or offline (or invisible).

But, on my Bulletin Board, the folks created such a community that every time someone goes on a holiday or goes offline for a while, he/she posts a new thread to annouce they're 'away.

So, I wrote a hack allowing a user to change his/her status to "away", including a return date and an away reason which will show up in their profile.

Likewise, the online/offline icon in postbit and buddy list will change to an away icon (a very faded version of the 'offline' one).

Some demo captures:

The Edit Profile screen, when a user is NOT away:



The Edit Profile screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user is NOT away:



The postbit icon when a user is away:




How to install:

Download the attached zip file. Upload away.gif to your images dir (or create your own away.gif).

Upload install_awayuser.php to your admin dir and follow the instructions.

Cheers,

Bira

newest version by sho here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...606#post287606

[carpman]

Hello, need a lillte clarification on this hack.

I have $onlinestatus in postbit template which show

Online
or
Offline

If i install this hack can i get it to change 'offline' to 'away' if user sets themselves as being 'away'.

Would look silly having 'offline' and 'away' message.

cheers

[Boofo]

When you install the hack, it adds it to the functions.php so it will show the away message accordingly in the postbit.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by carpman
Hello, need a lillte clarification on this hack.

I have $onlinestatus in postbit template which show

Online
or
Offline

If i install this hack can i get it to change 'offline' to 'away' if user sets themselves as being 'away'.

Would look silly having 'offline' and 'away' message.


cheers

[PhoenixBB]

I'm using 2.2.6 and I can't get it working. I keep getting a parse error in Usercp.php line 382. Line 382 is just ?>

There is code differences to that in the installer script. Dunno if that is causing the problem. The code is actually

if ($buddy['lastactivity'] > $datecut and !$buddy['invisible'] and $buddy['lastvisit'] != $buddy['lastactivity']) {
$onoff="on";
} else {
$onoff="off";
}

As there was no mention of userid==6 stuff I left that out.

I've spent 2 days trying to suss it to no avail. I thought installing the weather hack and vbpad might have been more difficult but they went smoothly compared to this.

Anyone know why I'm getting that parse error?

[ZiRu$]

can i get a TEXT installation for version 1.2.........thx

[Boofo]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...017#post257017

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ZiRu$
can i get a TEXT installation for version 1.2.........thx

[ZiRu$]

thx man

[Boofo]

You're very welcome there, sir.

[marc49]

ok, this thread is 20 pages long so maybe this has been answered already but I am getting this error

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.5:

Invalid SQL: SELECT *,FROM_UNIXTIME(joindate) AS joindate,FROM_UNIXTIME(lastvisit) AS lastvisit,FROM_UNIXTIME(lastactivity) AS lastactivity,FROM_UNIXTIME(lastpost) AS lastpost,FROM_UNIXTIME(awaydate) AS awaydate


avatar.avatarpath,NOT ISNULL(customavatar.avatardata) AS hascustomavatar
FROM user
LEFT JOIN avatar ON avatar.avatarid=user.avatarid
LEFT JOIN customavatar ON customavatar.userid=user.userid
WHERE user.userid=103
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'avatar.avatarpath,NOT ISNULL(customavatar.avatardata) AS hascustomavatar
' at line 4

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Wednesday 14th of August 2002 02:53:11 PM
Script: http://www.mysite.com/admin/user.php...dit&userid=103
Referer: mysite.com/admin/user.php

I am running 2.2.5


*EDIT*

Never mind, I started looking through the pages while I was waiting for a reply and I think I got it fixed.

[Boofo]

I think you need a comma after FROM_UNIXTIME(awaydate) AS awaydate like this:

FROM_UNIXTIME(awaydate) AS awaydate,

[|DarkManX|]

how can i put the away icon in the sig??