Browser on Who's Online

Browser on Who's Online
Developers: derekivey
Version: 1.0.2
vBulletin Version: 3.5.5 (3.6.0 version available here)
File Edits: 2
Template Edits: 1
New Phrases: 8
Uses Plugins: Yes
Difficulty: Easy

Description: This hack will show each user's browser in the Who's Online Box beside their name. It supports IE, Firefox, Opera, Camino, Safari, Konqueror, and Netscape. If the user is using a browser that is unsupported with this hack, it will show a Question mark icon, which means its an Unknown browser.

*** I Strongly Recommend That You Backup Before Installing/Upgrading This Hack! ***

Planned features for a later release:

• Add support for more browsers.
• Add browser to online.php
• Show only 1 image for each browser when there is more than 1 person with that browser.
• Whatever is suggested.

Features/Changes in Version 1.0.2:

• Fixed SQL bug

Features/Changes in Version 1.0.1:

• Moved browsers to session table.
• Removed 'Unknown' from being stored in database, replaced it with Psionic Vision's suggestion.

This was a hack request by ReadOrDie.

Note: If you are using vBadvanced CMPS, please follow 350Chevy's post to get this hack working on it, if you want to show their browser on the CMPS' Who's Online.

I have added screen shots of this hack in action below.

Please click If you installed this hack.

Thanks!

[teedizz]

nevermind...its working fine. Thanks

[S@NL - BlackBik]

Originally Posted by bashy

MySQL Error : Query was empty
Error Number : 1065
Date : Saturday, February 4th 2006 @ 07:08:08 PM
Script : http://IP.ADDY/bashys-place.com/forums/index.php
Referrer :
IP Address : This was an IP addy
Username : This used to be a username
Classname : some database

I've got the same error from some people.
One only has it when using Netscape, he can login using Internet Explorer or telling Netscape to act as IE.
One other had this error ones, but not all the time.

Could it still be something that's been blocked by a firewall?

[S@NL - BlackBik]

Well, I fixed the problem, i think.
I've added one line of code to the plugin, at the bottom of the elseif statements:

    } else {
        $sql = "UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "session SET browser='unknown' WHERE userid='".$db->escape_string($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])."'";
    }

Now the people who use a browser that is not detected by vBulletin don't get a sql-error no more.

[derekivey]

Ok, that should work, I will take a look at my code and see if I can release a better fix that doesn't require 'unknown' to be added to the database.

Derek

[S@NL - BlackBik]

Well, since it's stored in the session table, wich is temporary, I don't have a big problem with it

[Brandon Sheley]

this doesn't really work for me ?

it shows a ? icon on a FF or IE browser.. I'll check it out for a little while.. may un-install later

[Luggruff]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

this doesn't really work for me ?

it shows a ? icon on a FF or IE browser.. I'll check it out for a little while.. may un-install later

It may take some time for the system to register what browser a user uses.

[derekivey]

Yeah, you usually have to load another page or refresh after the session is created. I'm currently not sure why this does this, sorry.

Derek

[Brandon Sheley]

it's been installed a few hours now and there is still an issue

before i seen the ? mark icon next to my name.. but now I see an error on IE and just the text " Internet Explorer" on FF

with the error the page loads slower it seems on IE

http://locoforum.com u can see

[derekivey]

Did you do the file edits?