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Allow Specified Number of Guests on Forum · **Released**: 09-27-2003

What does this hack do?

This hack allows you to specify how many guests you want to allow to browse your forums simultaneously. If the number of guests is more than the amount you specified, then the new guests will receive an error message stating that there are too many guests browsing the forums. The new guests will be able to browse the forums again when some of the other guests have left.

This hack can drastically reduce your server load, allowing only members to completely enjoy the freedom of being able to browse the forums without having any messages saying there are too many members online

Enjoy!

Gary King · #12 09-28-2003, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethics

Actually, I logged off and became a guest by default. I wasn't seeing this message at all, and was able to see my forum.

When it says there are 39 guests online, that's not entirely true - it just means there were 39 guests in the past amount of time you specified for the cookie timeout.

This hack actually checks the real number of guests currently browsing the forums. If you want, though, I can help you raise the time frame to be longer.

ethics · #13 09-29-2003, 12:50 AM

Well, right now I have the following:

There are currently 16 members and 41 guests on the boards.

These bots and "guests" have been killing me lately, which is why I thought your hack would help out and save me!

Maybe I did something wrong? I DID set the value (in value field) in the DB to 5 though, was I supposed to? There were no instructions to do so but it just seemed logical.

Gary King · #14 09-29-2003, 01:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethics

Well, right now I have the following:

There are currently 16 members and 41 guests on the boards.

These bots and "guests" have been killing me lately, which is why I thought your hack would help out and save me!

Maybe I did something wrong? I DID set the value (in value field) in the DB to 5 though, was I supposed to? There were no instructions to do so but it just seemed logical.

Yes, you did it right.

ethics · #15 09-29-2003, 03:15 PM

Well, if you get a chance, take a peak at http://globalaffairs.org/forum and tell me what you see as a guest.

Gary King · #16 09-29-2003, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethics

Well, if you get a chance, take a peak at http://globalaffairs.org/forum and tell me what you see as a guest.

You're right in that I don't see the error message, but that's most likely because the other guests who seem to be online in the Who's Online, haven't really been active in the past few seconds (so who aren't really actively browsing your forums at the moment.)

If you want, you could open up global.php, and find

PHP Code:


			
$datecut=time()-5;

Replace it with

PHP Code:


			
$datecut=time()-$cookietimeout;

Then it will work the way you wanted it to

ethics · #17 09-29-2003, 10:43 PM

Thanks, will definitely try this out.

gmarik · #18 10-19-2003, 04:26 PM

Nice to to see this working

dethfire · #19 10-21-2003, 10:31 PM

hey gary, my members and I will get this error message periodicly even though we a logged in. Any ideas?

Remi · #20 10-21-2003, 10:48 PM

HI

Is there a way to modefy this hack to say ( If the load is higher that 30.00

allow 0 guests ).

Thanks

Gary King · #21 10-21-2003, 11:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dethfire

hey gary, my members and I will get this error message periodicly even though we a logged in. Any ideas?

Re-download the instructions; I've updated them, thanks for reporting this

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