AIM Online Status Indicator

Originally Posted by AdmiralB

I've downloaded quite a few hacks from these forums and thought that I should contribute one of my own (First hack and first post ever!)

I dislike the way that vBulletin sets up way you send AIM messages. You have to go from that pop-up window to the profile in order to IM someone by clicking on the icon. With this hack, the image will display whether or not the user is logged into AIM as well as opening the AIM IM window upon clicking the icon. To check whether the user is online, it checks with the AIM server. This only requires two file uploads (images) and a one-line file edit.

STEP ONE:
Upload the files aim_online.gif and aim_offline.gif to any directory.

STEP TWO:
Open up includes/functions_showthread.php and replace this line:

PHP Code:

        eval('$userinfo[\'aimicon\'] = "' . fetch_template('im_aim') . '";'); 


With this:

PHP Code:

        $userinfo['aimicon'] = "<a href='aim:goim?screenname=" . $userinfo['aim'] . "'><img src='http://big.oscar.aol.com/" . $userinfo['aim'] . "?on_url=http://yoursite.com/path/to/aim_online.gif&off_url=http://yoursite.com/path/to/aim_offline.gif' width='16' height='16' style='border: 0;' /></a>"; 


Make sure you change the url's in there to match the path to your images. The icons are attached.

Well, it's not much, but it is my first hack. Just a fun 'lil thing that makes your forum more convenient. I don't know if this can be done with MSNM, but if it's possible, I'll post a follow-up to this thread.

Feel free to edit the images as you like

Looks interesting. And simple! Thanks!

[Vivi Ornitier]

How bout doin this for MSN as well? or is that not possible?

[AdmiralB]

I'm going to look into checking the online status of all the messengers (Yahoo!, MSN, ans ICQ). Once I get that all together, I'll release it in a final hack. I've seen one for ICQ and a promising one for MSN, but I haven't tested it.

[GamerJunk.net]

Sometimes this makes it take longer to load the page.

That's the only part about it I don't like.

[hogarth]

This hack doesn't have to be a code hack, look at the Instant Messaging Templates -> im_aim template. I used the example images AdmiralB provided.

<a href="#" onclick="return imwindow('aim', '$userinfo[userid]', 400, 200)"><img src="http://big.oscar.aol.com/$userinfo[aim]?on_url=http://www.yourserver.com/images/im_aim_on.gif&amp;off_url=http://www.yourserver.com/images/im_aim_off.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="<phrase 1="$userinfo[username]">$vbphrase[send_message_via_aim_to_x]</phrase>" border="0" /></a>

Yahoo's online indicator unfortunetly is a bit smaller than AIM's, so I won't be using it because it won't match the size of the other chat protocol indicators. But, that too is in the Instant Messaging Templates -> im_yahoo template:

<a href="#" onclick="return imwindow('yahoo', '$userinfo[userid]', 400, 200)"><img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=$userinfo[yahoo]&amp;m=g&amp;t=3" alt="<phrase 1="$userinfo[username]">$vbphrase[send_message_via_yahoo_to_x]</phrase>" border="0" /></a>

The "t" argument in the URL to Yahoo can be changed from 1 to 3 to get a different indicator.

Still looking into MSN.

[Slapyo]

might want to check this out. might be able to some how incorporate this.

http://www.onlinestatus.org/hosting.html

[Mr. HillBilly]

Does this slow down the loading of showthread?

[momlwt]

This is neat, but our group primarily uses YIM (Yahoo Instant Messenger) if you could create one of those now, that would be awesome!

[Host Directory]

Originally Posted by hogarth

This hack doesn't have to be a code hack, look at the Instant Messaging Templates -> im_aim template. I used the example images AdmiralB provided.

<a href="#" onclick="return imwindow('aim', '$userinfo[userid]', 400, 200)"><img src="http://big.oscar.aol.com/$userinfo[aim]?on_url=http://www.yourserver.com/images/im_aim_on.gif&amp;off_url=http://www.yourserver.com/images/im_aim_off.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="<phrase 1="$userinfo[username]">$vbphrase[send_message_via_aim_to_x]</phrase>" border="0" /></a>

Yahoo's online indicator unfortunetly is a bit smaller than AIM's, so I won't be using it because it won't match the size of the other chat protocol indicators. But, that too is in the Instant Messaging Templates -> im_yahoo template:

<a href="#" onclick="return imwindow('yahoo', '$userinfo[userid]', 400, 200)"><img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=$userinfo[yahoo]&amp;m=g&amp;t=3" alt="<phrase 1="$userinfo[username]">$vbphrase[send_message_via_yahoo_to_x]</phrase>" border="0" /></a>

The "t" argument in the URL to Yahoo can be changed from 1 to 3 to get a different indicator.

Still looking into MSN.

I am trying to add a section to each page of my site with a drop down list containing info on admins and mods - www.hostcompanies.com/forums/profilepages.htm

I would like to add the online / offline status for all message icons to all these profile pages.

I did try using the code your presented for aim but i got an error message - http://www.hostcompanies.com/forums/...inistrator.htm

Any help appreciated.

[lifesourcerec]

Anyone got small images for Yahoo messenger?

[Host Directory]

You can find images to use here - http://www.onlinestatus.org/forum/usage.php just click on the different osi hosts. Although i have been advised not to use their service since it is hosted by third party individuals and the servers can often go offline or people just suddenly close the servers.