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

[clamcrusher]

nevermind birdie501 already solved it on page 14

[clamcrusher]

ok new problem.

fixed the above and now when i try and use admin cp to view a user, or edit a user, or find away users etc....it gives the same error code.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{' in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/chemical-conversions.com/httpdocs/admin/user.php on line 1733

i tried uninstalling the hacks on user.php and nothing changed, just now the error is on line 1733 instead of line 1746(cause i removed lines from removing the hack code)

here is the code where it sais the error, line 1733 is the line that sais: if ($orderby=="") {

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start findaway #######################
if ($action=="findaway") {
__if ($orderby=="") {
____$orderby="awaydate";
__}
__if ($limitstart=="") {
____$limitstart=0;
__} else {
____$limitstart--;
__}
__if ($limitnumber=="") {
____$limitnumber=99999999;
__}
__$users=$DB_site->query("SELECT user.userid,username,FROM_UNIXTIME(awaydate) AS awaydate,returndate,awayreason,away FROM user WHERE away = 1 ORDER BY $orderby $direction LIMIT $limitstart,$limitnumber");
__$countusers=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS users FROM user WHERE away=1");
__$limitfinish=$limitstart+$limitnumber; 


[Oblivion Knight]

To save yourself a couple of queries (currently for every instance that someone sets their status as away, a query is added), I'd advise doing the following:

Open: showthread.php

Find:

postbit_offline,postbit_online

Add BEFORE:

postbit_away,

Find (again):

postbit_offline,postbit_online

Add BEFORE:

postbit_away,

[Dan_UPC]

Thanks bira, this is a really nice hack.

[Crank]

i got user.php erorrs when i installed i would love to use this hack although i had to uninstall.
i couldnt even approve members to the site

Invalid SQL: SELECT userid
FROM user
WHERE username='wildflower'
AND userid <> 
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '' at line 4

mysql error number: 1064

i had used the 1.2a the latest version to install this hack and still got this erorr. any one know of a fix. i would love to use this hack.

[Pseudomizer]

Hello @LL,

does this hack work in VB3.0.x ?

Cheers,

[jamesk]

Anyone planning on doing this for vb3?

[Gamingforce]

I will.

[Pseudomizer]

[QUOTE=Gamingforce]I will.

[Edison Chen]

Okay, I have installed the Custom AWOL hack locatedhere as well and it won't allow me to incorporate the hacks together.

For this particular line in the member.php,

// +++++++ Custom Who's Online Locations Hack v1.0 [ g-force2k2 ] +++++++
$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET birthday='".addslashes($birthday)."',signature='". addslashes($signature)."',customtitle='".intval($c ustomtitle)."',usertitle='".addslashes($customtext )."',email='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($email)) ."',parentemail='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($pa rentemail))."',coppauser='$coppauser',homepage='". addslashes(htmlspecialchars($homepage))."',icq='". addslashes(htmlspecialchars($icq))."',aim='".addsl ashes(htmlspecialchars($aim))."',yahoo='".addslash es(htmlspecialchars($yahoo))."',usergroupid='$bbus erinfo[usergroupid]',userloc='".addslashes($userloc)."' WHERE userid='$bbuserinfo[userid]'");
// +++++++ Custom Who's Online Locations Hack v1.0 [ g-force2k2 ] +++++++

I can't seem to know where to add the $awaysql for this hack.

// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a)
$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET birthday='".addslashes($birthday)."',signature='". addslashes($signature)."',customtitle='".intval($c ustomtitle)."',usertitle='".addslashes($customtext )."',email='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($email)) ."',parentemail='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($pa rentemail))."',coppauser='$coppauser',homepage='". addslashes(htmlspecialchars($homepage))."',icq='". addslashes(htmlspecialchars($icq))."',aim='".addsl ashes(htmlspecialchars($aim))."',yahoo='".addslash es(htmlspecialchars($yahoo))."',usergroupid='$bbus erinfo[usergroupid]' $awaysql WHERE userid='$bbuserinfo[userid]'");
// Leave Away Message in Profile (v1.2a)

I can't seem to incorporate them. Help?