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Show Spiders Online on ForumHome · **Released**: 07-02-2005

This is a port of my 3.0.x modification. It shows, on your forumhome page, any spiders that are present (ones that show as a spider on your who's online page)

NOTE: If you are using a portal that shows who's online, this mod will mess up your portal. As of this date, I do not know of any working portals for 3.5 and I do not have the code to fix portals.

Please understand what this mod does before you start crying that it doesn't work. This mod will show any spiders who show up as a spider on who's online as a spider on the forumhome page. It will NOT show a spider who shows up as a guest on who's online as a spider. It does not add additional spiders to the list either.

PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL THIS IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ADJUST YOUR OWN PORTAL TEMPLATES SO THAT THE PHRASE DOES NOT CONTAIN AN ERROR.

Sooner95 · #**137** 12-17-2005, 07:36 PM

heh, I am slow, jus installed this., Works like a charm! Thx!

The Lore Master · #**138** 12-18-2005, 02:36 PM

I have an idea on how to use displaying spiders to enhance the atmosphere on my site, and I think it would be relatively easy to do and hope someone will point me in the right direction. I have a role-playing forum based on dungeons and dragons and would love to display the spiders as creatures found in my forums setting. For example: Instead of displaying Yahoo Slurp (8) when there are 8 Yahoo spiders I would like it to display Tundra Yeti (8), and a Googlebot could be displayed as White Dragon, etc.

These bots are going to be visitng anyways so why not take advantage of it to enhance the atmosphere

I can code anything in php and have done so on my phpbb forum, but I am just learning how vBulletin 3.5 works so this will be a good learning opportunity for me as well. Thanks in advance.

Vierie · #**139** 12-18-2005, 09:10 PM

You would have to change the names of the bots in the spiders_vbulletin.xml file.

PHP Code:


			
<spider ident="METATAG INFO">  

<name>SpiderName of Your Desire</name>  

</spider>

The Lore Master · #**140** 12-18-2005, 10:15 PM

Thanks, that is too easy

The more I learn of vBulletin the easier it seems to be compared to phpbb.

The Lore Master · #**141** 12-21-2005, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vierie

You would have to change the names of the bots in the spiders_vbulletin.xml file.

PHP Code:


			
<spider ident="METATAG INFO">  

<name>SpiderName of Your Desire</name>  

</spider>

That worked well for the forum home page, it displays for example Tundra Yeti, but on the Who Is Online page it shows: Tundra Yeti spider. How would I remove the 'spider' word? I searched the phrases for spider and none is found except for the plural 'spiders'. Thanks again.

Vierie · #**142** 12-21-2005, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Lore Master

That worked well for the forum home page, it displays for example Tundra Yeti, but on the Who Is Online page it shows: Tundra Yeti spider. How would I remove the 'spider' word? I searched the phrases for spider and none is found except for the plural 'spiders'. Thanks again.

Search for x_spider_searchspider. That should be the one.

The Lore Master · #**143** 12-23-2005, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vierie

Search for x_spider_searchspider. That should be the one.

That's it, thanks.

I didn't mean to "take over" this thread, but it does give users a way to take advantage of Spiders showing up. They can change the names to what ever they choose to enhance their sites atmosphere.

Thanks Again.

divided_by_fear · #**144** 12-23-2005, 05:07 PM

this is a nice hack but if it only worked on vbadvanced it would be alot better

hotwheels · #**145** 12-28-2005, 05:49 PM

thanks for your hard work amy, another great hack..... hotwheels clicks *install*

GamerJunk.net · #**146** 12-30-2005, 08:42 AM

Just gotta wait for some spiders....installed

Snake · #**147** 01-24-2006, 07:43 PM

This is weird! Why are spiders linking to their profile link (http://forums.philosopherslegacy.net/member.php?u=0)? :S

bashy · #**148** 01-24-2006, 07:51 PM

Yeah ya right that is weird, it cant cant server lol

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aftermath

This is weird! Why are spiders linking to their profile link (http://forums.philosopherslegacy.net/member.php?u=0)? :S

amykhar · #**149** 01-24-2006, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aftermath

This is weird! Why are spiders linking to their profile link (http://forums.philosopherslegacy.net/member.php?u=0)? :S

Sounds like you didn't make the required template change which takes care of that.

Snake · #**150** 01-24-2006, 08:11 PM

Whoops my bad. Yeah you're right. I've missed a template edit. Thanks Amy!

amykhar · #**151** 02-03-2006, 01:23 PM

I've tweaked the install instructions to use the version I use that saves the added query. If you are the first to install this using the new directions, please let me know if there are any problems with the instructions.

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