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.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by rex_b

How would one turn this off of invisible mode?

I'm not sure what you're asking?

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Soto

Does this only work with 3.0.6? I'm running base 3.0.3 init.php patched to 0.5 as I've got a load of hacks installed and so am putting off upgrading. I've installed as per the instructions but no change, so have I answered my own question?

It works with 3.0.6, but I assume it would work with 3.0.3 as well. Try it and see. It's only one file to edit.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Durtay

I'll be the third to concur, I'll install with the added features... Great Hack!

OK. Now that we have three requests I'll try to do the variation. But, I'm not promising that I can do it so that it shows Google(3) for example. I know I can get the total number of spiders, but I am trying to think of a clean efficient way to sum up the different ones online rather than just showing them as being there like the online.php page does.

[eva01_]

thank-you amykhar ^^ i love it

and i would like to see more features as well

[Soto]

I've got it installed - it shows in the Who's Online section that it's a bot, but on the Currently active users on the front page shows x users and x guests with only the member names. Must be a 3.0.3 thing.

[richiepearce]

Originally Posted by eva01_

you have to add their strings into your admincp in the "whos online" thinger in vBulletin options

Thanks

[shadiguy1]

this is what i get when i install it.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT DISTINCT user.username, session.useragent,user.userid,
IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid
FROM session AS session
LEFT JOIN user AS user USING (userid)
WHERE session.lastactivity >

ORDER BY session.userid

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY session.userid' at line 7

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 10th of February 2005 08:46:21 AM
Script: http://nextelelite.com/forums/index.php?
Referer: http://nextelelite.com/
Username: Shadiguy1
IP Address: 205.188.116.7

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by richiepearce

How do I get other bots to be listed such as Yahoo and MSN. At present only Google shows up as a bot. Is there another MOD for this.

Originally Posted by eva01_

you have to add their strings into your admincp in the "whos online" thinger in vBulletin options

Attached is a list of all known 'Robot Agent' Strings, and the list is pretty current (only 2 days old at this point).

[babolo]

IT WORKS! thanks this hack is great especially since I submitted my site to a lot of search engines and want to make sure it works.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by shadiguy1

this is what i get when i install it.

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT DISTINCT user.username, session.useragent,user.userid,
IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid
FROM session AS session
LEFT JOIN user AS user USING (userid)
WHERE session.lastactivity >

ORDER BY session.userid

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY session.userid' at line 7

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 10th of February 2005 08:46:21 AM
Script: http://nextelelite.com/forums/index.php?
Referer: http://nextelelite.com/
Username: Shadiguy1
IP Address: 205.188.116.7

OK. Then it doesn't work under 3.0.3. Sorry.