Miscellaneous Hacks - IWT - Time Spent Online

Notice
There are two versions of this modification. This is the vBulletin 4.x version, you can find the vBulletin 3.8 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=243221

Current Stable Version
Version 1.2.6

What is it?
This modification will add a counter to your forums that will record/track how much time your users have spent online. And output it in various sections of the site (EX: Time Online: 5 Months 2 Weeks 1 Day 15 Hours 44 Minutes 33 Seconds).

Features

• Total Time Online in Postbit & Ministats block in the profile
• Average Time Online (Per Day) in Postbit & Ministats block in the profile
• Leader Board Displaying Time Online & Average Time Online (Per Day) for all the sites members
• Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board & Stats box of FORUMHOME

Demo
You can see this product in action here.

Settings
Admin Control Panel Options to Toggle:

• Entire System
• Show Total Time in Postbit/Profile
• Show Average Time Per Day in Postbit/Profile
• Use Short Phrases (Ex. "1 Min 5 Secs" instead of "1 Minute 5 Seconds")
• Use Micro Phrases in Postbit (Ex. "32d 12h 44m")
• Display Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board/Forumhome
• Leader Board/Navbar Link Enabled

Installation/Upgrade
See included file.

Release Notes

Version 1.1.1

• Added the average time per day function
• Added 4 settings used for controlling display of the Time Online and Avg. Time Online for both profile and postbit.
• A few optimizations for memory/performance

Version 1.2.0

• Added Leader Board Displaying Time Online & Average Time Online (Per Day) for all the sites members
• Added Cumulative Time Online on Leader Board
• Added Cumulative Time Online on Stats box of FORUMHOME
• Added Numerous new settings for controlling the system

Version 1.2.1

• Fixed a Bug resulting in the timestamp for date installed not setting correctly.

Version 1.2.2

• Updated postbit template code.

Version 1.2.3

• Added Postbit Micro Phrases
• Added Template Group

Version 1.2.4

• Moved functions to a file.
• Added Time Spent Online to the Who's Online.
• vBulletin 3.8 Version Released

Version 1.2.5

• Fixed a timestamp flaw in the average time spent online function.

Version 1.2.6

• Fixed a Bug causing the postbit to show invalid average online times in vB 4.1.x.

Known Bugs

• Currently none.

Resolved Bugs

• Function definition problem causing scripts that utilized the postbit factory without the vbulletin global file being initialized, such as the vBcms commenting engine, to display errors. (version 1.2.0)
• Bug resulting in the timestamp for date installed not setting correctly. (version 1.2.1)
• Bug causing the postbit to show invalid average online times in vB 4.1.x. (version 1.2.6)

Planned additions
We currently are talking about making an average time per day (similiar to the posts per day) (Added in version 1.1.1)
We also have plans to make a leaderboard for so people can see who spends the most time floating around the site. (Added in version 1.2.0)
We are planning to add in more settings at some point to give quite a bit more control over the system.(Added in version 1.2.0)

Support
This modification is released for free and as such we don't officially support it, but as time permits we will try to offer support on it. You are more likely to get a response over at our site as we wont be checking this thread frequently.

This modification brought to you by Ideal Web Technologies.

[sadiq6210]

Great .. Thanks

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by hubix

No, i couldn?t do it... Because i don?t know how

You asked if there was a work around, not if you would be able to do it... Maybe when we get a little more free time I'll see about writing you a quick, rough guide on how you would do that edit, its really not all that difficult.

[TandyServices]

Had to disable. It will not let new post refresh. Have to refresh the page after quick reply.. Might be messing with one of the other mods I have but wont work for me until I find out what is going on.. Sorry

[kontagio.us]

Mine still refreshes after quick reply. It might be plug-ins messing with each other.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by TandyServices

Had to disable. It will not let new post refresh. Have to refresh the page after quick reply.. Might be messing with one of the other mods I have but wont work for me until I find out what is going on.. Sorry

As far as I know, there's nothing in our product that would cause that; however, the last couple times we have had something reported after looking around the reporters site we were able to confirm it was another plugin containing improper code that caused the issues and they just weren't noticed or didn't show up until another plugin was enabled in the same area.

[Antiblank]

When you have Leader board disabled (no use for it) but still want to show the cumulative time spent online for all the users in the Statics block on the forum homepage it works fine but the time still links to the leader board which tells you that you're aren't to access that page.

If you disable the leader board it should also remove the link in the statistics block.

[gle041]

Any way I can make the field in the profile just visible by the user so they can only see their own?

[Ideal Web Tech]

We will update the demo links for this later, since the current links are now out of date.

[TITAN-UZ]

How to display here as image




to forum header

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by TITAN-UZ

How to display here as image




to forum header

Right now there is no way, if we release an update, which we may one day, we might see about adding that feature.