Who's online on non-vB page (with usernames, same rules as Who's Online on forumhome)

PLEASE CLICK ON THE INSTALL BUTTON IF YOU INSTALLED THIS! THANKS!

What does this hack do?

Using this hack, you can show who is currently on your forums from anywhere else on your website! The page, though, must be a PHP page.

If you want to display this information on another webpage by integrating it (which you'll probably want to ), just put

PHP Code:

<?php require_once("online.php"); ?>

or

PHP Code:

<?php

require_once("online_external.php");

?>

depending on the location of the online.php file

THE BELOW IS ONLY IF YOU ARE USING ONLINE.PHP

If you are using online.php, then this line of code MUST be at the top of the page!

If you don't want to show the total users online at the top of the page, though, then remove

PHP Code:

print $show; 


and copy that to wherever you want to show the info instead (remember to surround this with PHP tags, such as:

PHP Code:

<?php

print $show;

?>

THE ABOVE IS ONLY IF YOU ARE USING ONLINE.PHP

Features

• supports phrases!
• option to display either usernames or a total number of registered members instead
• only administrators can see users who choose to be invisible

Instructions

Download the attached online.php if you want to show invisible users to administrators, etc., or download online_external.php if you don't want to worry as much about things , and follow these instructions:

1. Find
   PHP Code:

   $path = "./vb3/"; // path to your forums folder, normally /forum/ 

   , change the ./vb3/ to whatever the path is to your forums directory
2. Find
   PHP Code:

   $showusernames = 0; // 1 to show usernames online, 0 to only show the number of users online 

   and change $showusernames to 1 if you want to display usernames, instead of the total number of registered members browsing

That's it!

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by idwf

thanks. will try again.

If doesn't work, use online_external.php instead

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by eva2000

2 bugs for me

1. i get Member instead of Members - the 's' is missing even though i have more than 1 member online
2. members online figure is incorrectly shown, i.e. on my forums there are 29-32 members online but this script shows 65 members online ? i.e. http://animeboards.com/joinwink.php

Okay, try the new files I attached

[eva2000]

also it would be nice to add code to check if forum is closed or not and display "forum is down for maintenance" message if closed

[eva2000]

Originally Posted by Gary W

Okay, try the new files I attached

well new version reports less members than old version but still more than there really is heh

real members = 27
old script = 65
new version = 47

[Gary King]

It shows this for me:

Hack: Currently online: Members online: 6. Guests online: 12.
Forums: Currently Active Users: 16 (5 members and 12 guests)

[Gary King]

Anyways, I'm not too sure on why it doesn't work exactly correct on your forums, works fine on mine

[azmi]

great job!

big thx -> *install*

[eva2000]

Originally Posted by Gary W

Anyways, I'm not too sure on why it doesn't work exactly correct on your forums, works fine on mine

hmmm

http://animeboards.com/joinwink.php shows 202 members while forums really only have 39 members ???

[idwf]

tbh, i think that this should have been a BETA release, rather than a full one .

Also, i would like to see Members online and guests online

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by idwf

tbh, i think that this should have been a BETA release, rather than a full one .

Also, i would like to see Members online and guests online

Yeah it has the s when there is more than 1, or should anyways It's like that on my test forum