Miscellaneous Hacks - IWT - Time Spent Online

Notice
There are two versions of this modification. This is the vBulletin 4.x version, you can find the vBulletin 3.8 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=243221

Current Stable Version
Version 1.2.6

What is it?
This modification will add a counter to your forums that will record/track how much time your users have spent online. And output it in various sections of the site (EX: Time Online: 5 Months 2 Weeks 1 Day 15 Hours 44 Minutes 33 Seconds).

Features

• Total Time Online in Postbit & Ministats block in the profile
• Average Time Online (Per Day) in Postbit & Ministats block in the profile
• Leader Board Displaying Time Online & Average Time Online (Per Day) for all the sites members
• Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board & Stats box of FORUMHOME

Demo
You can see this product in action here.

Settings
Admin Control Panel Options to Toggle:

• Entire System
• Show Total Time in Postbit/Profile
• Show Average Time Per Day in Postbit/Profile
• Use Short Phrases (Ex. "1 Min 5 Secs" instead of "1 Minute 5 Seconds")
• Use Micro Phrases in Postbit (Ex. "32d 12h 44m")
• Display Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board/Forumhome
• Leader Board/Navbar Link Enabled

Installation/Upgrade
See included file.

Release Notes

Version 1.1.1

• Added the average time per day function
• Added 4 settings used for controlling display of the Time Online and Avg. Time Online for both profile and postbit.
• A few optimizations for memory/performance

Version 1.2.0

• Added Leader Board Displaying Time Online & Average Time Online (Per Day) for all the sites members
• Added Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board
• Added Cumulative Time Online on Stats box of FORUMHOME
• Added Numerous new settings for controlling the system

Version 1.2.1

• Fixed a Bug resulting in the timestamp for date installed not setting correctly.

Version 1.2.2

• Updated postbit template code.

Version 1.2.3

• Added Postbit Micro Phrases
• Added Template Group

Version 1.2.4

• Moved functions to a file.
• Added Time Spent Online to the Who's Online.
• vBulletin 3.8 Version Released

Version 1.2.5

• Fixed a timestamp flaw in the average time spent online function.

Version 1.2.6

• Fixed a Bug causing the postbit to show invalid average online times in vB 4.1.x.

Known Bugs

• Currently none.

Resolved Bugs

• Function definition problem causing scripts that utilized the postbit factory without the vbulletin global file being initialized, such as the vBcms commenting engine, to display errors. (version 1.2.0)
• Bug resulting in the timestamp for date installed not setting correctly. (version 1.2.1)
• Bug causing the postbit to show invalid average online times in vB 4.1.x. (version 1.2.6)

Planned additions
We currently are talking about making an average time per day (similiar to the posts per day) (Added in version 1.1.1)
We also have plans to make a leaderboard for so people can see who spends the most time floating around the site. (Added in version 1.2.0)
We are planning to add in more settings at some point to give quite a bit more control over the system.(Added in version 1.2.0)

Support
This modification is released for free and as such we don't officially support it, but as time permits we will try to offer support on it. You are more likely to get a response over at our site as we wont be checking this thread frequently.

This modification brought to you by Ideal Web Technologies.

[kontagio.us]

Thank you, works perfectly.

[hubix]

I want to take this condition:

<vb:if condition="$post['field10'] == 'Ja' OR $post['field10'] == ''">

because when i create the profilefield, there is no default setting. No choice for "yes" and no choice for "no".


For me it doesn?t works in the template "iwt_timespentonline_postbit"! In the template "postbit_legacy" it works! Hmmm...

[Ideal Web Tech]

Ah, yes, it won't work in iwt_timespentonline_postbit because the $post variable isn't registered into that template, so it has no knowledge of what it is.

[calvinnguyen]

It is working very good. Thank You IWT

[hubix]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

Ah, yes, it won't work in iwt_timespentonline_postbit because the $post variable isn't registered into that template, so it has no knowledge of what it is.

And there is no workaround for it?

[kontagio.us]

Is there any way I can get it to say Time Online in the header template? I tried {vb:raw post.onlinestatus} but it just came up blank.

[Dr.osamA]

thanx for update dude

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by hubix

And there is no workaround for it?

Well you could edit the plugin that calls and populates the postbit template and do it in there, which is the way I would do it to keep the template from even being used for those people...

Originally Posted by kontagio.us

Is there any way I can get it to say Time Online in the header template? I tried {vb:raw post.onlinestatus} but it just came up blank.

Right now, without editing/adding a plugin, there is no way to make it show in the header; however, we may keep it in mind for a new release.

[kontagio.us]

It would look really good with the "Advanced Header" plug-in I have running. (Replace last logged in with time online)

[hubix]

Originally Posted by Ideal Web Tech

Well you could edit the plugin that calls and populates the postbit template and do it in there, which is the way I would do it to keep the template from even being used for those people...

No, i couldn?t do it... Because i don?t know how