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!

[integra99]

Also, a nice template hack to go along with this. If you notice in the MEMBERINFO template, the image links directly to an IM window, but the text next to it does not. If you edit the memberinfo template.. Also fixed that pesky space in the AIM username problem.

Edit /includes/functions_showthread.php

 $aimtemp = str_replace(" ", "", $userinfo["aim"]);
$userinfo['aimicon'] = "<a href='aim:goim?screenname=" . $aimtemp . "'><img src='http://big.oscar.aol.com/" . $aimtemp . "?on_url=http://www.kydsm.com/images/misc/aim_online.gif&off_url=http://www.kydsm.com/images/misc/aim_offline.gif' width='16' height='16' style='border: 0;' /></a>"; 
$userinfo['aimtext'] = "<a href='aim:goim?screenname=" . $aimtemp . "'>" . $userinfo['aim'] . "</a>";

I don't remember what was originally in the first TD cell, so it is represented by ...

In MEMBERINFO template, find:

<td> ... </td>
<td><a href="#" onclick="return imwindow('aim', '$userinfo[userid]', 400, 200)">$userinfo[aim]</a></td>

Replace with:

<td>$userinfo[aimicon]</td>
<td>$userinfo[aimtext]</td>

[djjeffa]

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 tried it but it didnt work

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