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.

[TCB]

Great mod (and also thanks to the few great hacks made for it)

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by Oblivion Knight

This will fix the "unknown" issue in member.php:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=67

I got photopost and I have a TON of unknown locations now but this hack wont work with just the php I have to put the whole thing like php?p=553606&postcount=67 and that could be anything from the amount of users I have.

anyway to fix this? Arrays? I dont care if its long or ugly.

[ambumann]

Edit: Had to delete link from admincp to get it to work.

[ambumann]

I am not able to make this hack work at all. Whenever my test user is somewhere else than default vB locations, who's online shows "Viewing Index"...

[ChrisBaktis]

I converted to 3.07 and reinstalled the hack and I cannot get the url to show. It will print the Location but not the URL...

The Hack code calls for this:

// Edit 1
	------------------------
	Find the following text:
	------------------------

	global $limitlower, $limitupper, $stylevar, $vbphrase, $ipclass, $show, $forumcache;

	----------------------
	Replace the text with:
	----------------------

	global $limitlower, $limitupper, $stylevar, $vbphrase, $ipclass, $show, $forumcache, $custom_online;

However the 3.07 .PHP file only shows this:

global $limitlower, $limitupper, $stylevar, $vbphrase, $ipclass, $show, $forumcache, $usergroupcache;

I tried putting the $custom_online at the end and also before $usergroupcache but it still makes no difference...can I get some help?

[ChrisBaktis]

Anyone?

[Lyricsmama]

Clicked Install

[eva01_]

Originally Posted by ChrisBaktis

Anyone?

when you added it after the $usergroupcache; did you remove the ; and put a , in place and then put a ; after $custom_online

[bamaster]

Originally Posted by ChrisBaktis

I converted to 3.07 and reinstalled the hack and I cannot get the url to show. It will print the Location but not the URL...

Yes, I am getting the same thing. My script lies outside the forums root, which I think is the problem. The URL assumes the script is at forum root. But the displayed address is generated a different way.

The hack works fine, but could use a followup tuneup.

[paul41598]

This hack is brilliant!!!!!