Miscellaneous Hacks - Spider Display

Spider Display
Version 1.0.4
(By Boofo)

What does this product do?
This Hack displays the Number of Spiders on Forumhome and Who is Online.

If you are using a previous version of this mod, make sure to replace the default vBulletin template lines back into the templates and they are now automatically edited.

Version Information:
Version 1.0.1 --Initial release for vBulletin 3.7
Version 1.0.2 --Fixed MySQL error.
Version 1.0.3 --Fixed the leading comma issue when there were no members online.
Version 1.0.4 --Template edits now done automatically. No more manual template edits.

Credits:
A big thank you goes out to Andreas for coming up with the original code for this for 3.5.4. It now works in 3.7.

Installation overview:
Products to install: (1)
File Edits: (See the NOTE below)

Installation Instructions:
1. Upload spiders_vbulletin.xml to the includes/xml directory on your site.

2. Go to your Admin CP
Scroll down to 'Plugin System'
Click 'Manage Products'
Click 'Add/Import Product'
Click the 'Browse' button, and locate the product-spiderdisplay.xml file on your computer

Done!
Enjoy!

NOTE: There is one file edit that I have not found a way to get around yet. It is a special template cache that must be used with this. The easiest way to do it is add the file edit to the includes/config.php. Since this file does not change as often, you should be fine on most upgrades. This is the ONLY file edit.

NOTE: If you do not click install, you do not need support.

[mariocaz]

Thank you so much I will do it in a moment.

[Butcher]

ok i've installed this hack but it never seems to show how many spiders are browsing
ie:
Currently Active Users: 37 (28 members, 3 guests and 0 spiders)

yet if i click on currently active users and then on the ip of the guest it is infact a googlebot (crawl-66-249-65-65.googlebot.com)

oh i am using vB version 3.6.8 PL2
but i'm sure i read it would still work

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Butcher

ok i've installed this hack but it never seems to show how many spiders are browsing
ie:
Currently Active Users: 37 (28 members, 3 guests and 0 spiders)

yet if i click on currently active users and then on the ip of the guest it is infact a googlebot (crawl-66-249-65-65.googlebot.com)

oh i am using vB version 3.6.8 PL2
but i'm sure i read it would still work

You need to do the wol_spiders edit to the config.php file.

[stelthius]

Thanking you! lol cheers mate great work, can i ask tho how do i stop the spiders on the who's online showing the same color as the admin, say when only i'm logged on with a spider it shows Google, Google AdSense in red because my user group is red, but then when a user logs on say for example registerd users wich is a blue color the Google, Google AdSense shows up blue i dunno if you 100% understand what i'm saying but if you check out my site you will see what i mean may need to visit it a few times if there is no spiders/users on at the time you visit it, http://www.digitalised-data.com, also thank you as well if you do look into this for me.

Regards Rick

[Boofo]

This hack doesn't touch the listing in the Who's Online, just the amount of spiders in there. Sounds like you might not have a closing tag on one of the usergroup color markups somewhere.

[loonytune15]

Nice work.

Can you include for all us peeps, who had to go looking to see what templates we edited for this hack, what template edits to remove ?

[Boofo]

This line will need to be put back in there. Just do a "Show Defualt" and it will show you what the line should look like.

<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]

They are the FORUMHOME and WHOSONLINE templates.

I guess I should have included that in the install file. Sorry about that, sir.

[Butcher]

Originally Posted by Boofo

You need to do the wol_spiders edit to the config.php file.

yup checked that and it's done but still nothing

[Boofo]

I'm not sure why yours is acting up. Line me and I will take a look.

[Azhrialilu]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Hey, Lee, how' it going? It has been a while, I guess.

It's going well, hit me up on msn when you get some freetime