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:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=230

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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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[wattieuk]

I dont get any spiders visiting although I know they are there. Was trying to add the identifyers into the AdminCP WHos online but dont know what part of the file I have to add where.
Any help much appreciated.

[Francisco]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Maybe.

I am a supporter of this idea

Installed it works great. One question, on My VB config I have the MSN and Google bots description as "MSNbot" and "Google" but in my forumhome I see:

Most users ever online was 356, 01-29-2005 at 07:33 PM.
Me , google , msnbot

How can I change those names?

Also, it would be sweet to have each bot to have a different color

[amykhar]

I have it set to change the names to lowercase to make matching the names more accurate. You can always remove the call to strtolower in my code to keep it from changing to lower case.

[Francisco]

Originally Posted by amykhar

I have it set to change the names to lowercase to make matching the names more accurate. You can always remove the call to strtolower in my code to keep it from changing to lower case.

I am not a php guy, could you tell me exactly how?

Sorry, thanks

[Francisco]

also, works with .7 ?

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Francisco

also, works with .7 ?

Yes. I just installed it on 3.0.7 and it works fine.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Francisco

I am not a php guy, could you tell me exactly how?

Sorry, thanks

Replace this in index.php

$key = strtolower($datastore['wol_spiders']['spiderarray']["$agent[1]"]);

With this:

$key = $datastore['wol_spiders']['spiderarray']["$agent[1]"];

I haven't tested this, but it should do what you want.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by wattieuk

I dont get any spiders visiting although I know they are there. Was trying to add the identifyers into the AdminCP WHos online but dont know what part of the file I have to add where.
Any help much appreciated.

Adding more spiders is a question better asked in a separate thread in the General Vbulletin Questions. If you do a search, you will find people have already compiled large lists of spiders that aren't already installed by default. I believe some directions for adding them are posted as well.

[wattieuk]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Adding more spiders is a question better asked in a separate thread in the General Vbulletin Questions. If you do a search, you will find people have already compiled large lists of spiders that aren't already installed by default. I believe some directions for adding them are posted as well.

Cheers - found it here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76662 in case anyone else is interested.

[lifesourcerec]

Hmm.. seems mine not working correctly. It always says "0 spiders" and never shows any online, yet when looking at vB statistics, it shows a lot of hits by spider/crawlers.