Away message for users

Hi,

This is something that is common in IRC - /me is away

In BBs, a user is either online or offline (or invisible).

But, on my Bulletin Board, the folks created such a community that every time someone goes on a holiday or goes offline for a while, he/she posts a new thread to annouce they're 'away.

So, I wrote a hack allowing a user to change his/her status to "away", including a return date and an away reason which will show up in their profile.

Likewise, the online/offline icon in postbit and buddy list will change to an away icon (a very faded version of the 'offline' one).

Some demo captures:

The Edit Profile screen, when a user is NOT away:



The Edit Profile screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user IS away:



The Get Info (User Profile) screen when a user is NOT away:



The postbit icon when a user is away:




How to install:

Download the attached zip file. Upload away.gif to your images dir (or create your own away.gif).

Upload install_awayuser.php to your admin dir and follow the instructions.

Cheers,

Bira

newest version by sho here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...606#post287606

[Keyser S?ze]

having a problem, i got lesanes store installed and the newthread/new reply gets messed up when i replace that past, so what code would i use to use both?

sorry if this has been asked before, but 232 replies is alot


thanks

[Mone']

Great hack bira just installed on vb 2.2.6 and is working so well

( thx "cityofangelus" for pointing the installer mistake )

[Keyser S?ze]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by IceMalee
having a problem, i got lesanes store installed and the newthread/new reply gets messed up when i replace that past, so what code would i use to use both?

sorry if this has been asked before, but 232 replies is alot


thanks

[Keyser S?ze]

cannot get this to work for some reason, i click on "edit profile" and it acts like its goig to work, i see the profile, but then it jumps to a dead screen with nothing on it

anyone up late and want to help me out?

-update- on another style, it refreshes itself like every 3 secs,

[Boofo]

How would you do this for a memberlist online status column?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wolf42


Ok, I got it for myself

Find

PHP Code:

$templatesused="postbit_online,postbit_offline,showgroups,showgroups_groups,showgroups_adminbit,postbit_sendpm,showgroups_bit,showgroups_forumbit,showgroups_forumsplit,postbit_avatar"; 


and replace with

PHP Code:

$templatesused="postbit_online,postbit_offline,postbit_away,showgroups,showgroups_groups,showgroups_adminbit,postbit_sendpm,showgroups_bit,showgroups_forumbit,showgroups_forumsplit,postbit_avatar"; 


Find

PHP Code:

if ($user['lastactivity'] > $datecut and !$user['invisible'] and $user['lastactivity'] != $user['lastvisit']) {
        eval("\$onlinestatus = \"".gettemplate("postbit_online")."\";");
    } else {
        eval("\$onlinestatus = \"".gettemplate("postbit_offline")."\";");
    } 


an replace with

PHP Code:

if ($user[away]=="1") {
        eval("\$onlinestatus = \"".gettemplate("postbit_away")."\";");
        } else {
    if ($user['lastactivity'] > $datecut and !$user['invisible'] and $user['lastactivity'] != $user['lastvisit']) {
        eval("\$onlinestatus = \"".gettemplate("postbit_online")."\";");
    } else {
        eval("\$onlinestatus = \"".gettemplate("postbit_offline")."\";");
    }
} 


Find

PHP Code:

// get administrators & super moderators **********************************************************
$users = $DB_site->query("
    SELECT
        $locationfieldselect usergroup.title, user.username, user.userid, user.invisible, user.receivepm,
        user.usergroupid, user.lastactivity, user.lastvisit 


and replace with

PHP Code:

// get administrators & super moderators **********************************************************
$users = $DB_site->query("
    SELECT
        $locationfieldselect usergroup.title, user.username, user.userid, user.invisible, user.receivepm,
        user.usergroupid, user.lastactivity, user.lastvisit,user.away 


Find

PHP Code:

// get moderators **********************************************************
$users = $DB_site->query("
    SELECT
        $fieldselect forum.forumid, forum.title AS forumtitle,
        user.username, user.userid, user.invisible, user.receivepm, user.lastactivity, user.lastvisit 


and replace with

PHP Code:

// get moderators **********************************************************
$users = $DB_site->query("
    SELECT
        $fieldselect forum.forumid, forum.title AS forumtitle,
        user.username, user.userid, user.invisible, user.receivepm, user.lastactivity, user.lastvisit,user.away 


I just added user.away twice, added postbit_away in templatesused and modified the code like the funktions.php.

It is working well on my board.

[Boofo]

here's how my private autoreply looks. Can someone please help me figure out why it is doing this?

Auto Reply: RE: RE: Gender
Hi Boofo,

I have been away since Today (GCSE Exams ) and will read your message when I return on Jun 18, 2002.

[size=1 ]This is an auto-reply generated by the bearfacts2.com Forum Messaging System.[/size ]

I had to add spaces just before the ] because the code wouldn't show right in here. In the message, there is no spaces before the last bracket. And also, if I try to take the space out between the awaymessage and the ) I get a parse error when I send a message. What have I got set wrong on my site that won't let the size function work in the message? The color function works fine.

[Boofo]

Can someone please help me add the ability to have the away status icon show in the privmsg template? Here is the code I need to edit from the private template.

unset($onlinestatus);
	if ($post['lastactivity'] > $datecut and !$post['invisible'] and $post['lastvisit'] != $post['lastactivity']) {
	   eval("\$onlinestatus = \"".gettemplate("postbit_online")."\";");
	} else {
	   eval("\$onlinestatus = \"".gettemplate("postbit_offline")."\";");
	}

I want it to show in private messages like it does in the postbit.

[Keyser S?ze]

this was working fine for about a hour, i didnt do a thing, then without me doing anything stopped working again

same problem

[aidler]

OK, great hack. But why isn't there a detailed explanation what has chanced so one can do it manually. I upgraded to 2.2.6 and now I can't reintegrate the modifications for this hack into my templates because I don't know the necessary modifications. Now what??

[Keyser S?ze]

u know i wanted the same thing, because i dont really like these auto installers for the simple reason of if there is a problem, it makes it hard to hunt down, so i made this, its just a txt copy of the installer

now let me be clear, all i did was copy/paste in the right spots, i didnt make this in any way, all credit goes to bira