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[RedWingFan]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

The way I understand it is that the longer you have the online time set for, say 60 minutes instead of 10 makes it easier on the system and requires less resouces. RedWingFan, what about just pulling that variable out of the "What's going on" section of your FORUMHOME template?

I thought about it, but what I'm now thinking is this: if I yank the variable out, all I'm doing is not displaying the contents of it. (Or if I wrap it in a conditional so only mods/admins can view it.) In other words, the variable is still being populated from the database, but all we're doing is not displaying it, when we yank it out of the template. Best thing I could think of is to possibly find out which page the variable is, maybe wrap it in some kind of code to check the usergroup (for admins/mods only), then populate it based on that. In pseudo-code:

IF member_of_groups(mods, admins) {

make database calls to populate $variable

}