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

[DelFDgfd_gT]

PHP Code:

Step 3/4.

========
||FIND||
========

  if ($posts=="") {
    $posts=0;
  }
  
==================
||ABOVE that ADD||
==================

// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a)
  if ($awaydate!="") {
    $awaydate="UNIX_TIMESTAMP('".addslashes($awaydate)."')";
  } else {
      $awaydate="''";
  }
// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a) 


Ok, basically, I cant find

PHP Code:

  if ($posts=="") {
    $posts=0;
  } 


any thoughts?

[Splitfyre]

Received errors when hacking the user.php file.

Does this hack work in 2.30? Will be going through an uninstall for now and then re-hack at a later date when this function becomes fully stable on 2.30 :bunny:

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

This is a cool hack! I will install it soon (first I need to translate the texts )

[Frozen Dreams]

[QUOTE]05-28-03 at 07:09 AM Ramsy de Vos said this in Post #391

PHP Code:

Step 3/4.

========
||FIND||
========

  if ($posts=="") {
    $posts=0;
  }
  
==================
||ABOVE that ADD||
==================

// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a)
  if ($awaydate!="") {
    $awaydate="UNIX_TIMESTAMP('".addslashes($awaydate)."')";
  } else {
      $awaydate="''";
  }
// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a) 


Ok, basically, I cant find

PHP Code:

  if ($posts=="") {
    $posts=0;
  } 


any thoughts?

[C.Assassin]

installed on 2.3.0 no probs

[Christoff]

Yup... on 2.3.0 no probs... i like it a lot.
So does m users.
Thread about being away was the biggest one.

[cYbercOsmOnauT]

Great hack!

/me clicks install.

[Holidazed]

This is awesome. Works wonderously.

Suggestions:
Filter the Away messages through the vBB filter system
Multiple away messages.
Admins can edit and/or lock an away message so it cannot be edited.
Add a "Start Date" option so people can set away status in advance. eg. I will be gone from xx-xx-xxx to xx-xx-xxxx.

[DarkDraco07]

i get this error

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.9:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET element='2', birthday='1985-6-4',signature='',customtitle='1',usertitle='Admin / Web Master',email='darkdraco@darknemesis.com',parentem ail='',coppauser='0',homepage='http://www.darknemesis.com',icq='',aim='',yahoo='',usergr oupid='6', ,away='0',awaydate='',returndate='',awayreason='' WHERE userid='1', gender='2', rpgclass='11', rpgrace='13', alignment='3', rpgtype='2', rpggender='2' WHERE userid='1'
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 'away='0',awaydate='',returndate='',awayreason='' WHERE userid='

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 24th of July 2003 03:22:36 PM
Script: http://www.darknemesis.com/forums/forums/member.php
Referer: http://www.darknemesis.com/forums/me...on=editprofile

[clamcrusher]

i get this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ELSE in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/chemical-conversions.com/httpdocs/member.php on line 1387



heres my code:

btw-the last "else{" is line 1387

PHP Code:

$refcount = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT count(*) AS count
                                       FROM user
                                       WHERE referrerid = '$userinfo[userid]'");
    $referrals = $refcount[count];
    eval("\$referrals = \"".gettemplate("getinfo_referrals")."\";");
  }// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2)
  if ($userinfo[away]=="1") {
      $sincedate = vbdate($dateformat, $userinfo[awaydate]);
    if ($userinfo[returndate]=="0000-00-00") {
        $returndate = "Unknown";
    } else {
          $returnaway = explode("-", $userinfo[returndate]);
          $returndate = vbdate($dateformat, mktime(0,0,0,$returnaway[1],$returnaway[2],$returnaway[0]));
      }
      eval("\$away .= \"".gettemplate("getinfo_away")."\";");
  } else {
      $away = "";
  }
// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2)
 
 else {
        $referrals = '';
    }

  // get extra profile fields