Add Who's Online Locations From Admin CP

General Info
This hack was requested to be available on Vbulletin 3. Being bored, I figured I would take the task in hand and complete it, to be better than it ever was before.

The original designer of the hack (on Vbulletin 2) is the well known Chen Avinadav, which being the great coder that he is, I dont particularly agree with his methods in this case, which he used a an excess query to select data from a template and loop through. This uses the built in datastore of vb3, therefore using No extra queries.

Therefore this hack is Completely original, in every way. I have used a different method, for accomplishing this, and the control panel I have created is intuitive and utlilizes a great many of vbulletins built in controls and phrases. Looking at the code itself on the admin panel alone you will see I didnt just throw this together and slap it on the site. Total creation time was around 4 hours, the code itself not being the main part, just mainly working out issues with the control panel etc..

Features
My version which is completely new, allows you to add the filename for the who's online along with the location name, and URL Title of the link.

The control panel which was the longest part, is pretty concise in how it works considering what I did to it. Provides a good bit of error checking to keep from accidentally doing stuff you didn't intend to do.

Also should note, the deletion part of the script uses JavaScript to confirm whether or not you wish to delete the selected Location.

I hope this gets a lot of installs, being as that my other 2 hacks/bug fixes were really just something I did in a few minutes and didn't put a great deal of effort into, judging by the fact I didnt have to "edit" any vbulletin files, to do what I wanted.

This is really my first release on this site, that I can say I believe is unique in its effort, and shows some insight on things for the newer coders out there. I have put a great deal of effort into the setup of everything as well as the readme file to be concise and as easy to read and understand as possible.

Hopefully hack of the month, lol.. j/k

Installation
I have provided an readme file inside of the zip, with information on how to install the hack, and what needs to be done to do so. Its a fairly easy installation, as you only have to add things.

Other Misc.
Files To Modify: 2
Total Modifications: 6
Installation Difficulty: Easy

Version Updates
Version 1.0 = First Release
Version 1.1 = Fixed Weird Query Error For Some People
Version 1.2 = Added ability to enable/disable links for locations

Click install if you like. Thanks.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by princeton

installation was flawless :up:

very nice looks very useful for some people

[SnowBot]

Question

If you have to files with same name but in 2 seperate directories how would you add them?

For example

forum/index.php
/links/index.php

[ChrisBaktis]

Awesome Hack!!!! I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to do this manually - your a life saver!

** Chris Clicks Install!

[Trigunflame]

Ok people, cause of 58Sniper I updated the hack to allow you to enable/disable whether links are shown or not for locations.

Enjoy.

[Trigunflame]

Originally Posted by SnowBot

Question

If you have to files with same name but in 2 seperate directories how would you add them?

For example

forum/index.php
/links/index.php

Unless you rewrote partly how vbulletin does this stupid, I dont believe that is possible. Vbulletin automatically finds filename by using REGEX to determine base filename, and then compares it doesnt look for which directory it is located in, as everything in its eyes are relative to itself (online.php)

Maybe try renaming one of them to a slightly different name, ie index2.php this can be done easily enough in vbulletins configuration files plus the

// Example
define('THIS_SCRIPT','index2.php');

directive at the top of each script name, helps the script know what its current filename is, when it referrs to itself.

[ImportPassion]

Originally Posted by RapCheck

Would this be able to differ things such as, index.php, index.php?page=contact, index.php?page=links all as different who's online locations?


So basically, using vbindex created pages, would I be able to add the extra pages to the who's online with this hack?

I would like this as well, along with being to distinguish between 2 index.php in 2 diff dirs.
At least this is a jumping point.

[SnowBot]

Originally Posted by Trigunflame

Ok people, cause of 58Sniper I updated the hack to allow you to enable/disable whether links are shown or not for locations.

Enjoy.

where are the upgrade instructions ? what do we have to change ? thanks

[SnowBot]

i got it btw but you may wanna add that to your first post to just overwrite the file

[Trigunflame]

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I would like this as well, along with being to distinguish between 2 index.php in 2 diff dirs.
At least this is a jumping point.
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It would require a good bit of modification, I might release an update for that in a day or 2.

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i got it btw but you may wanna add that to your first post to just overwrite the file
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Well you need to replace that code in the readme, on the (functions_online.php) file also, as I changed some directives.

[wrongful]

Thanks a lot. This is exactly what I needed. Installed fine.