Add Who's Online locations from Admin CP

This hack was requested on vBulletin.com.

It lets you add possible locations to Who's Online, directly from the Admin CP.
This is good if you are using external hacks, that use vBulletin's system. You probably know that users browsing these external files have Unknown Location (or Main Index for non-admin viewers) next to them.

With this hack, you can easily add a new custom location with ease!
It's also designed in a way that won't let you overwrite existing locations. ('dummy protection' as I like to call it )

The locations you add are not stored in their own table, because I really felt that would be waste of space and resource.
Instead, I store the locations in the template table, in one special template dedicated to this data.
It was a lot harder to do it this way, btw.

Please let me know if you find any bugs, or if this script doesn't work with files in child folders (this is my main concern).
This can be easily remove (just undo changes to online.php), so please don't fear to try it out!

A nice screen shot is in my next post.

[yetdog11]

Ok - so in admin_online, I entered in the full URL into the filename box (http://www.antsmarching.org/setlists/test.php), and the link comes up as http://www.antsmarching.org/forum/ht...lists/test.php

The way I got it to work(basically link to the right place) was by entering "../setlists/test.php" into the filename field. But then I still get the Unknown Location error, complete with the &s=(random numbers) information.

Matthew Yette
matt@antsmarching.org

PS - thanks for replying, i hope that the information I provided can better help you understand my problem so that I might get this working soon.,

[yetdog11]

Top - I feel so close - anyone have anything?

[yetdog11]

Yikes - anyone?

[Schorsch]

works great, thanks FireFly!!

cu
Schorsch

[Schorsch]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by yetdog11
Ok - so in admin_online, I entered in the full URL into the filename box (http://www.antsmarching.org/setlists/test.php), and the link comes up as http://www.antsmarching.org/forum/ht...lists/test.php

[Mr_P]

works perfect on 2.2.6

even does files outside of main folder

Installed perfect and without one error - added to admin cp as well

Nice one Firefly - another good hack under your belt.

[Mr_P]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Schorsch


just type the filename test.php into the location field, works fine for me.

cu
Schorsch

[yetdog11]

The problem is, the test file is not in the vB folder. And I haven't found a way to dynamically include the session if it is needed.

[stangpower]

Installed..works great

[zachb]

Anyway to get it to work with child forums yet? I'd like to link to http://www.planetplastica.com/home.html, but it always adds /forums/ to everything i add.