Need some volunteers for a Whos Online Beta

[Christian]

The hack works very good!

@webhost:

Download the original hack by tubedogg and install it!
Then replace the file and the templates with this version!
Works without any problems!
In the thread of the original hack I have also posted the lines where you have to replace the code in sessions.php from version 2.0.1. It's on page 5!

Originally posted by Christian
The hack works very good!


Works without any problems!

not for me it dont work at all it doesnt show anybody

[Christian]

I just clicked your link and saw you and a guest (probably me)!
Seems to work!

must take awhile to filter through

because when i first put it in it dodnt show anyone was on

i had two of my friend sgo and see if it showed anything and they said no

but good im glad its working now

[Mutt]

hey crew

what i've been working on

checking permissions to filter out ones you aren't supposed to see

breaking a big page into multiple pages

not showing pm column if pms are off

cfg options to turn on/off
- PM
- avatar
- profile icons

cfg option to pick php or php3

answering questions

they are ordered by ip. I'd perfer sorted by time, but the order is necessary to pick out the duplicates. changing the order would be possible but slow it down a little. I'd have to have it build the array then read the array to build the page instead of just building the page in one step. if it would have been ok to filter out the duplicates when sessions table is built, I could sort it any old way and still be fast.

filtering guests off to the bottom. yes it's do-able but why? I'll look at it and see how easy it would be.

you have gotten an unknown location description? please let me know the url when you get these. email them to me. it has nothing to do with them being guests, it means they are somewhere that I'm not recognizing. if you let me know the url, I can add that description.

I'll add a cfg option to have the online page viewable by admins

if you don't show up, hit refresh. it's wierd but it's like it reads sessions table then writes to it. this means that when you go to the online page, it's one behind and sees you at your last location.

I'll try and work on it tonight and upload the newest version.

[SFishy]

Hey Mutt,

Thanks for answering some of my questions...

One thing I did... and I don't know if this is okay or not, but it seems to be working fine... I have ORDER BY username, session.lastactivity) now and that's putting them in alphabetical order. I like seeing the times, but alphabetical order makes more sense to me, just because if I'm looking for someone specific, it's easy to find. (update -- I've changed it back to host... I realized that once I sorted it by username, I was getting people showing up two and three times again... so for now it's back to sort by host)

Only my guests are getting "Unknown" and it links to my main forum page. On my server that can be either index.php or the root (fishyvb.something-fishy.org)

I'd like all the guests lumped together at the bottom because separating them would mean being able to turn them off in future versions of the hack (maybe?) -- so for example... options to "see guests, see ghosts, see registered users only" etc. In most cases I could care less where guests are -- it's rare that I even need that info. I'm sure there are others that don't really need or want the online list cluttered with guests either.

One last thing... and this is another question...
I noticed in the original hack locations were determined by (strstr(strstr($location,"action=faq")!==false) ... you are doing (strstr($location,"misc.php")) instead. Is there any problem with me switching some of them back to the old way ... the reason I ask is because I created a custom chat login page, and in doing some of that I added a #start chat# section to misc.php -- so if they are on misc.php it could either be in the faq or my chat login. (Go easy on me, I'm no coding wiz LOL) -- I tried doing the (strstr($location,"action=faq")!==false) and (strstr($location,"action=chat")!==false) in your online.php and it seems to be working fine... but I thought I'd run that by ya and make sure I'm not screwing with something I shouldn't be.

most important... functionality issue...
Last but not least -- and this was happening "right out of the box" before I did any of my own modifications... Sometimes I see the users location as just "posting :" -- without any forum name or link. It SEEMS to be when they are replying that this happens, and maybe editing. When I looked at your code it looks like you lumped these three together (new thread, new reply, editing) to appear as one location. I think it would be nice to see a difference between posting and replying (and even editing) -- in the original hack you could see "replying to thread..." Also, like I said, when they are replying I'm just getting "posting :" with no forum name or link.

You asked for feedback -- maybe I'm giving ya more than you wanted (hehehe) -- Believe me, I'm not UNHAPPY with what you've done at all, I think it's great -- but you asked for volunteers

Thanks for all you've put into this so far... I know it can be time consuming to do all this!

ps. You asked for volunteers with busy boards... of course, "busy" is pretty subjective... but almost around the clock I have at least 100 registered users logged in -- highest it goes is about 200, lowest is about 75. Don't know if that qualifies, but I thought I'd let ya know -- and it's all very speedy

[chris frolic]

Originally posted by SFishy
most important... functionality issue...
Last but not least -- and this was happening "right out of the box" before I did any of my own modifications... Sometimes I see the users location as just "posting :" -- without any forum name or link. It SEEMS to be when they are replying that this happens, and maybe editing. When I looked at your code it looks like you lumped these three together (new thread, new reply, editing) to appear as one location. I think it would be nice to see a difference between posting and replying (and even editing) -- in the original hack you could see "replying to thread..." Also, like I said, when they are replying I'm just getting "posting :" with no forum name or link.

I've been experiencing this as well.

The thing I love most about this hack is that I am also running vbPortal, so that means visitors to my site are tracked immediately from my home page since it's all intergrated with the board and since every part of my site is a PHP file that calls global.php I've added the neccessary code to who's online to tell me what web page they might be looking at at any given time. awesome

[Mutt]

I think i've fixed the posting: ________ error. just bad coding. I threw i together quickly and honestly, I'm still trying to figure all this php mysql stuff out.

I also went threw and fixed other description errors, like an unknown on the homepage

added the ability to have the page only view able by admins

added a meta refresh

started working on breaking it up into pages

I think I got it checking permissions to see if you are allowed to view a forum before it shows it in who's online. should come up as "private forum" with no url

gave it a php / php3 cfg option. just set it and change the require global line and it should work for both php and php3

here's the updated file
since this is just an early beta, I didn't repackage it with directions. this is just the updated file so if you haven't installed the original beta, you'd better look at it first.

answering some questions

- (strstr($location,"misc.php")) should work fine
- I'll work on some guest/ghost options
- seperated posting/editing/and replying

[RobAC]

Dude, AWESOME job!!!! I've installed it and have it up and running. Thanks! The only thing I do see are a lot of guests are listed as being "Unknown" for location?

[Mutt]

the unknwon guests are people at your homepage. you are using vbportals so you'll have to modify it so it recognizes those sections outside of your forum.