Resolve IPs only on demand

The biggest problem I've had with the Who's Online is the resolving IPs. If you set the admin CP option for it to on, then they all get resolved and it makes the page load very slowly. If you turn it off, then you have to tracert the thing yourself.

With this hack, the IP in Who's Online (if you're a mod/supermod/admin) will be clickable. Clicking it will open up a new window that resolves the IP, if it can.

A screenshot's in the next post once I post the hack itself here. I tested it on my version of vBulletin (a highly hacked 2.2.3) but it should work on practically any 2.x.x board, although I'd recommend 2.2.x.

If you want support for the hack, just post here.

Enjoy!

[filburt1]

I can only get the 2.2.5 install files though

No file edits are needed, just a file upload and template edits, so it should be safe anyway

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[filburt1]

Well for some reason vbHackMaker is butchering up my quotes: when doing the template it does this:

<a href=\"javascript:resolveip(\'$userinfo[ipaddress]\')\">$userinfo[ipaddress]</a>

In the file it looks like that, but when I use vbHacker to try installing the hack it actually dumps that in the whosonlinebit_ip template. If somebody wants to try (it's my first time working with vbHackMaker) then be my guest...

[Boofo]

Works like a charm. Thanks! I don't know why you would want to bother will porting it to vbhacker, though. It would take longer to run that than to do the 2 minor template edits and upload the file. If I can install it without messing it up, then anybody can!

[filburt1]

It's just that most people like vbHacker (I would too if I bothered to upgrade my board with its tons of hacks), but you're right, it would probably be more effort to use vbHacker

[Boofo]

I've used vbhacker on some of my installed hacks and it works great for the bigger hacks, but something as little as this is, it really isn't worth the time and trouble for you to mess with it. You dun good!

[filburt1]

I uploaded a new version: this one will say so if the IP will not resolve.

[ixian]

Great hack! Thank you! Browsing who's online is much faster now.

Have it working no problem in 2.2.6. BTW, I wouldn't bother with a vbhacker version, this is one of the easiest hacks I have installed.

[filburt1]

This latest version adds two cool new features. If the IP could be resolved, then a link to the (guessed) ISP home page and a link to abuse@ispdomanname is provided. Pretty fun if somebody is spamming your board and you can open your mail client to their abuse e-mail address in two clicks.

To install the update just overwrite resolveip.php with the new one.

[Boofo]

I changed this part of your file to reflect the www that might be needed for most ISPs.

<a href=\"javascript:go('http://www.$suffix')\">$suffix</a>

When I tried it with the original updated file here, it gave me a page not found error. But after adding the www, it found it fine. Great addition!

Originally posted by filburt1
This latest version adds two cool new features. If the IP could be resolved, then a link to the (guessed) ISP home page and a link to abuse@ispdomanname is provided. Pretty fun if somebody is spamming your board and you can open your mail client to their abuse e-mail address in two clicks.

To install the update just overwrite resolveip.php with the new one.