Who's online on non-vB page (with usernames)

LAST UPDATED: 3.24.01 10:40 PM Eastern

Hack version: 0.0.2

Changes since last version: New option to display either usernames or a total number of registered members.

For version: 2.0.0 beta 3 (possibly beta 1 and beta 2 also, but it's untested on those versions).

Files needed: online.php (see zip file attached below).

Files to edit: Possibly online.php (see instructions below).

Possible file locations: Anywhere, as long as the relative path to config.php is correct (see instructions below).

Instructions
1] Download the zip file online002.zip below. It has online.php in it; unzip this file to a location on your hard drive.
2] Open online.php in Notepad (Windows) or Simpletext (Mac) or another ASCII text editor (EditPlus, UltraEdit, TextPad, etc. Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and other HTML editors are not ASCII text editors and will in all likelyhood screw the file up.)
3] Check the path to config.php in the $path variable (in the CONFIG section). Figure out where you're gonna put the file online.php, and then edit the path accordingly. For example, if you put it in your document root (e.g. yoursite.com/) and your board files are in a directory called forum, your path is "forum/admin" (no quotes, no trailing slash).
4] If you want usernames of registered members displayed, then leave the $usernames option alone. If you want a number instead of a list of names, set this to "off" (no quotes).
5] Edit the second-to-last line (the "echo" line). Change it to say what you want. The list of registered members is $regmemberson and the number of guests is $guestson - you can use these anywhere in that line.
6] Save the file and upload it your server.
7] You can include it on another page one of two basic ways:
First, by a PHP include:

<? include("online.php"); ?>

The file that you are going to be including online.php in must then have a .php, .php3, .phtml or other extension that makes your web server recognize it as a file to be parsed as PHP.
Secondly, by an SSI include:

<!--#include file="online.php"-->

The file that you are going to be including online.php in must then have a .shtml, .shtm or other extension that makes your web server recognize it as a file to be server-parsed.

Instructions are also included in the zip file (online002.txt) and brief notes are in the online.php file itself.

FEEDBACK WANTED! Likes/dislikes/modification requests all gladly accepted!

[Ninth Dimension]

find
echo("Member(s) on: $regmemberson. Guest(s) on: $guestson.");
replace with
echo("Member(s) on: $regmemberson.<br>Guest(s) on: $guestson.");

[lowlight]

Duh... I thought of that, but I didn't even try it... Thanks!

[Ninth Dimension]

did it work? (it should have)

[lowlight]

Yup it worked

Now my next question:

Which is faster, PHP includes, or SSI? I have the option of both...

[Ninth Dimension]

i personally use PHP includes, due to the simple fact that all of my pages are built using PHP, however, if you are running a series of normal shtml pages, and only using PHP on some of them, it might be easier to use the SSI.

But it's up to you at the end of the day really

[lowlight]

Well my whole site is going to be PHP based soon, so I thought I would use PHP includes... But I seem to be having a problem...

Say I am using the includes on my home page (index.php)....

I want to use includes in a subdir (say /included/)

The problem is, my IMG tags aren't right when I include... If I use IMG SRC ="image.gif", the references on the included page all point to root (root/image.gif), rather than /included/image.gif

If the page is on another subdir (say /reviews/), the img tags all change to that subdir... (/reviews/image.php)

So what should I do? I think SSI would work for now, and if that's the case I can just use .inc on the included pages (I assume both SSI and PHP will include those files just fine)...

But to keep things simple for my programmer, I'd like to use PHP includes all the way through...

Ideas?

[monaarts]

Hey,
When you post an image do it liek this:

../image.gif

That will bring you back one directory.. if you want to go back two directorys do this:

../../image.gif...

Or if you want to go back a directory and into one do somethign like this:

../images/image.gif

I hope that helps you..


-Joe

[lowlight]

Originally posted by monaarts
Hey,
When you post an image do it liek this:

../image.gif

That will bring you back one directory.. if you want to go back two directorys do this:

../../image.gif...

Or if you want to go back a directory and into one do somethign like this:

../images/image.gif

I hope that helps you..


-Joe

That's what I did... it doesn't work

[ice!~neko]

what code do i put into the main page to get it to show up?

[E]

ill definetly use it when my page is up