Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

This one is a pretty easy hack to install. It shows any spiders that are indexing your site in the what's going on box on the forum home page. Please note. It will only show spiders as spiders and not as guests if it also shows them as spiders and not as guests on online.php.

This hack has been tested on 3.0.6 and 3.0.7.

It's not hard to install, but it does have one drawback. If you have a portal page that shows online users, you will have to edit it yourself to incorporate the changes. Consider yourself warned.

At this point, any problems reported are installation errors. If things don't work for you, make sure you have completed all the steps as written.

As I have upgraded to 3.5, I am withdrawing support for this older version. All the bugs are gone and any issues are now installation errors.

FAQ
1. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on my portal page.
As noted above, because of the large number of portals, you're on your own for integrating them into thie hack.

2. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on other pages.
1. Make sure you have done all of the code changes correctly.
2. Make sure you have updated your style to use the modified templates. If not, that error will occor.

German Translation provided by General. It can be found here:
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Here is the Advanced CMPS module that y'all have been clamoring for:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82339


Amy

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[amykhar]

Originally Posted by lefthome

The install appears not to have an adverse effect on any other part of my forum but I do have a minor problem and that is the last step regarding (vb 3.07):



In the template WHOSONLINE find:

2=?$numberguest?



Add after:

3=?$numberspiders?



Doesn?t exist in my WHOSONLINE Template and the closest things I can find is



<strong><phrase 1="$numbervisible" 2="$numberguests">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase></strong><br /><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase>

</div></td>



Or this:



<select name="who">

<option value="all" $whoselected[0]>$vbphrase[all]</option>

<option value="members" $whoselected[1]>$vbphrase[members]</option>

<option value="guests" $whoselected[2]>$vbphrase[guests]</option>

<if condition="$vboptions['enablespiders']">

<option value="spiders" $whoselected[3]>$vbphrase[search_bots]</option>

</if>

</select>



Assistance please?

It's this one:

<strong><phrase 1="$numbervisible" 2="$numberguests">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase></strong><br /><phrase

Put it in right after the 2="numberguests"

[lefthome]

Disregard my prior posting?.I am such a dummy sometimes. I figured it out and the hack works great in 3.07

[HC.]

Installed
I have 12 msn.bots on there right now and it says no spiders on the WOL
any ideas ?
I have triple check all replacements and everything is there

[amykhar]

Are the spiders showing as spiders on online.php or do you just know they are spiders by their host? If they are not showing as spiders in online.php, but as guests, then they won't show as spiders on forumhome either.

[HC.]

ok
they are showing as guest
the 2 that are all ways on there are
msnbot.msn.com
inktomisearch.com

[amykhar]

Then why do you expect them not to show as guest on forumhome? It's working propertly. If you want to add more spiders to the group that shows up as spiders, you need to follow the instructions posted above about adding more spiders to the detected group.

[amykhar]

I have replaced the install instructions with a fresh text file that fixes the dropdown bug. I am including uninstall directions here for the portion of code changed in online.php for users who installed the version found in spiders3.txt.

Use this text file to uninstall those changes and use the new text file to apply the new changes made to online.php

THIS DOES NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE USING ANY VERSION OTHER THAN SPIDERS3.TXT

Amy

[shadiguy1]

no new file attached lol

[rex_b]

new file? where!!

[amykhar]

Not sure how I managed that one. It's posted now.

[rex_b]

That text file layout is horrible. Can you give something better?

[amykhar]

Yikes. It doesn't look like that on Linux. I'll clean it up in notepad and repost.

[stevey]

hi, everything seems to work great apart from: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders i think i have edited the phrase (new to this) i attached a pic of it and the site is in my profile

thanks

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by stevey

hi, everything seems to work great apart from: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders i think i have edited the phrase (new to this) i attached a pic of it and the site is in my profile

thanks

You are missing part of a file edit. It depends on which script is showing the error. If you see it on formhome, you haven't completed the index.php edits. If you see it on online.php, you haven't done all of those edits. If you see it on a portal page, read the first post of this thread

[stevey]

i just double checked my index.php and all the code is there, it works fine in the online page but in the forum home it shows the error