Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

This one is a pretty easy hack to install. It shows any spiders that are indexing your site in the what's going on box on the forum home page. Please note. It will only show spiders as spiders and not as guests if it also shows them as spiders and not as guests on online.php.

This hack has been tested on 3.0.6 and 3.0.7.

It's not hard to install, but it does have one drawback. If you have a portal page that shows online users, you will have to edit it yourself to incorporate the changes. Consider yourself warned.

At this point, any problems reported are installation errors. If things don't work for you, make sure you have completed all the steps as written.

As I have upgraded to 3.5, I am withdrawing support for this older version. All the bugs are gone and any issues are now installation errors.

FAQ
1. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on my portal page.
As noted above, because of the large number of portals, you're on your own for integrating them into thie hack.

2. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on other pages.
1. Make sure you have done all of the code changes correctly.
2. Make sure you have updated your style to use the modified templates. If not, that error will occor.

German Translation provided by General. It can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=230

Here is the Advanced CMPS module that y'all have been clamoring for:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82339


Amy

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[catocom2]

Cool!
I've been waiting on this.


edit : it seems the spiders are showing up as guests.
gotta track down the prob....

[catocom2]

Originally Posted by subnet_rx

I can't find this in the WHOSONLINE template

2="$numberguest"

it is...
2="$numberguests"

[catocom2]

edit for post before last:
I found my problem....
I missed a step in the index.php.

Works great wit 307.
Thanks!

[albibak]

Thanks to share it

[Polo]

Originally Posted by bringindaruckus

Anyone have any luck with the spiders showing on portal homepages?

yeah... i'm still waiting for this...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

In the installation instructions for this hack you should search in the index.php for:

PHP Code:

// memory saving 


Somebody just pointed out to me that there are 3 instances of this in the init.php.

Amy could you please clarify which instance to use?

[TTG]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

In the installation instructions for this hack you should search in the index.php for:

PHP Code:

// memory saving 


Somebody just pointed out to me that there are 3 instances of this in the init.php.

Amy could you please clarify which instance to use?

If you follow the instructions down the index it takes you to the 3rd reference of "memory saving" .. add above that one

// memory saving
unset($userinfos, $loggedin);

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by TTG

If you follow the instructions down the index it takes you to the 3rd reference of "memory saving" .. add above that one

// memory saving
unset($userinfos, $loggedin);

Yes i know that it probably should be the third occurence if you follow all the edits in sequence. But better to update the instructions so that there can be no wrong interpretation.

[weaver]

Amy, are you still working on the vbadvanced add-on?

[Polo]

Originally Posted by snobbymom

Amy, are you still working on the vbadvanced add-on?

I would like to know that too