Who was online today [available in english & german]

Hack Name: Who was online today
Hack Version: 1.0.2
For vB Version:: 2.x
Originally Created by: genial @ Skats Board (Contact)
Documentation, Translation, a few changes and posted by: Mystics

Description:
This Hack adds something like the "Currently Active Users:"-Feature of vBulletin.
The difference is, instead of showing the users, who are currently online, it shows
all Users, who were online on a day and it also displays "Most users ever online on a day".

Summary of the Features:

• Shows "Number of Active Users Today"
• Shows "Most users ever online on a day"
• Shows last online time for each User while pointing the Mouse Cursor on it's name (=mouseover) in the list

Important: The Hack only works 100% correct, when each member is in the same time zone as the Server!

Files to edit: index.php
Templates to edit: forumhome
New Templates: forumhome_todayloggedinusers, forumhome_todayloggedinuser

I have attached the Install Instructions in a Text File.
The Instruction is in English and in German.

I will attach a Screenshot in a Reply to this Thread!

Post any Questions into this Thread!

Updates in 1.0.1: Inserted the two new templates into the template precaching (first step)

Updates in 1.0.2: Fixed a little Bug with the "Most users ever online on a day"-Count
(Replace '$maxusers[2] = $todayonline;' with '$maxusers[2] = $numbertodayonline;' in index.php)

Info: You can find an other version of this Hack here. In this other version the usernames of the members, who were already online today, are not shown on the Forum-Mainpage; the names are shown in an extra File (like online.php), onlinetoday.php (Screenshot).

So, depending on which version of the Hack you prefer, you have to download this:
Version with usernames on the main Site of the Forum

or this:
Version with usernames on extra site (onlinetoday.php)

Regards,
Mystics

[CRego3D]

actually, it's as if every x minutes it resets itself to whathever number users is on

[Mystics]

ok, updated again.

[CRego3D]

I am not sure I undersatand what was updated .. on my instructions I see version 1.0.3 .. that's what I already had

[CRego3D]

it sems it's thje $recordusers variable that is getting messed up

[CRego3D]

Originally posted by SgtSling
| Most users ever online was 43 on 01-12-2002 at 05:38 PM.

Why does my record for online users keep changing to the number that is currently online?

is something not gettig updated?

$recordusers seems t just point to whatever number I currently have online now.
how can I fix this .
I posted my code for loggedinusers on page 2
Sarge

that is my problem .. lookign thru the thread .. see if anybody foudn how to fix it

[Mystics]

Have you replaced the code in online.php with the newest version??? (it got changed in 1.3 (I started to use version number in 1.3))

If not, do it

[CRego3D]

I replaced it with the code you gave me in the previous page .. yes

[chris frolic]

Hmmm, I seem to be experiencing the same problem as above.

I installed the first version of this hack, and it worked fine. Problem was my board had over 200 visitors for the day, so at that point I decided to install the window version.

I replaced the original with the window version. At that point it stopped working, reporting 0 visitors today.

I triple checked and re-installed the installation to make sure there wasn't anything left over from the original. I reinstalled it over a older version of index.php that hadn't been hacked. I recopied the templates. Still no joy.

I also tried installing the version thats merged with online.php, and that one doesn't work either (0 visitors today).

Then I noticed something wierd (but probably related in some way); my "Most users ever online" has reset to today, with a very small number.

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

[mashby]

I like this hack so much, I just installed it on a new board that I'm creating. This is my second vB board to use this hack. It installed like a piece of cake. Thanks for all the hard work Mystics! Great job.

[Velocd]

I'm having a weird problem with this hack. Recently I found my homepage was generating an abnormal amount of queries for the small amount of hacks consisting on it. It was creating 43 queries, and that is even after I included all the templates in the $templateused="" list.

Well I was going through the index.php code, trying to find the suspect involved and I reached this hack. I was basically commenting out all the hacks individually on my index.php till I found which one was creating the excessive queries. When I commented out the who-is-online-today hack, it reduced my queries by 20! That makes me sad though, because this is one of my favorite and most useful statistical hacks I have

I installed everything perfect, does anyone know why this could be happening?? PM me if you would like to see my index.php.

Regards,
Velocd

[g-force2k2]

Only code from looking at the file that i don't recognize is this:

PHP Code:

  $DB_site->free_result($todayusers); 


Im not sure if its needed in the hack or not... not really sure of this free_result function but it may be the problem? just a suggestion that im not really sure about

g-force2k2

[Velocd]

Unfortunantly, no that wasn't the source of the problem. I tried commenting just that out but I still recieve 20 extra queries.

Does anyone else get this affect from using this hack?

[g-force2k2]

Code out this part

PHP Code:

  if ((int)$maxusers[2] <= $numbertodayonline) {
    $time = time();
    $maxloggedin = $maxusers[0] . " " . $maxusers[1] . " $numbertodayonline " . $time;
    $DB_site->query("UPDATE template SET template='$maxloggedin' WHERE title='maxloggedin'");
    $maxusers[2] = $numbertodayonline;
    $maxusers[3] = $time;
  } 


Then see if the amount drops or not ;\ i'd test but i don't have a server at the moment ;p

g-force2k2

[Gary King]

Popular hack I've seen it around most boards

[Gary King]

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