Counting users online

[kh99]

Furthermore... is there a way to have the three valued visualized on the screen? Or maybe this impact on the cron?

Thank you

Sorry, I forgot about the display part. Change the end of the usercount.php file to look like this (add the one build_data_store line above the log_cron_action):

PHP Code:

build_datastore('usercount', serialize(array('users' => $users['users'], 'guests' => $guests['guests'])), 1);

log_cron_action('', $nextitem, 1);

?> 


Next you need to create a plugin using hook location init_start with this code:

PHP Code:

$datastore_fetch[]="'usercount'"; 


Then in a template where you want to display it add something like:

PHP Code:

<if condition="!empty($vbulletin->usercount)">
{$vbulletin->usercount[users]} Users, {$vbulletin->usercount[guests]} Guests
</if> 


The 'if' is there in case it's not in the datastore yet. If that's a problem you could probably do something more complicated with a plugin to calculate the values if they aren't in the datastore, but probably it won't be necessary.

Originally Posted by vbdarwin

Unfortunately, the script not worked for me. The table remains empty...

I have no idea why the script would exit there. That's "standard" code that I copied from another cron file, and it appears in a lot of them. I tried it myself and had no problem. You're adding it using the "scheduled task manager", right? Maybe you can compare what you have to another php file in includes/cron and see if there's some extra character or space somewhere.

Or maybe someone else has an idea?

ETA: I could make it all a product and post an xml file to import if you'd like.