Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

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.

[davidw]

I'm going to have to reinstall the spider hack as it changed due to 3.5.1

[Xplorer4x4]

I installed Kirby's version on 3.5.1 with no problems.

[davidw]

Wasn't aware Kirby had a version.

[divided_by_fear]

yeah me either... i wonder if it works with vBadvanced and shows the right things ?

[amykhar]

Kirby's is in this thread and from what Bob said, it doesn't show the spiders on forumhome - just counts them on online.php. I don't know cause I haven't looked at it.

I no longer use this version because I have one running on my site that reduces the code size and kills the extra query. Given the difficulty y'all have installing even this simple code, I have decided against releasing my new version. It's not worth the headaches.

Amy

[divided_by_fear]

well no clue why you think people are having a hard time installing this... i dont see no one complaining about it being a hard install... i just simple see people asking if you could get this to work with vBadvanced... and im glad you didnt release another one... since you couldnt help people with the first one you released... every other coder on this forum is willing to help... hard to believe you couldnt even try to... guess that just shows what kinda coder you truely are... and what kinda person you truely are... only person i would give credit to is christianb there trying to help...

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Kirby's is in this thread and from what Bob said, it doesn't show the spiders on forumhome - just counts them on online.php. I don't know cause I haven't looked at it.

Amy

It shows them as guests on the forumhome. I would be forever grateful for a fix for this issue.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by divided_by_fear

well no clue why you think people are having a hard time installing this... i dont see no one complaining about it being a hard install... i just simple see people asking if you could get this to work with vBadvanced... and im glad you didnt release another one... since you couldnt help people with the first one you released... every other coder on this forum is willing to help... hard to believe you couldnt even try to... guess that just shows what kinda coder you truely are... and what kinda person you truely are... only person i would give credit to is christianb there trying to help...

I DID release a vbadvanced version for the first one. The problem is, I keep getting weird counts with the little I played with the 3.5 version of Vbadvanced. Because I'm not using who's online on my portal page, it's just not worth anymore of my time to figure out what's going on with it.

Regards to the problems installing it, I get oodles of PMs from people who don't understand what the hack does or who have messed up the installation. The version I'm using is trickier because it modifies a query. I am just totally burned out on supporting people right now.

Amy

[Snake]

So you're going to give up or what?

[davidw]

Personally, one reason I stopped persuing it for the portal, aside from the reasons I gave, is that most people have no clue what a spider is, let alone the need to know. Yes, it is nice for an admin, however, it really isn't worth all the effort put into it. I have bigger and better fish to fry at the moment. I've already created two more important (than the portal part) hacks and plan for more. Maybe one day I'll share - if I can see if people wanting my types of hacks. Thanks for all you have done Amy. It is appreciated.