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.

[oz_moses]

from what I've seen, it'll be a change to the template adv_portal_onlineusers, which is currently:

<!-- Online Users Block -->
	
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat"><span class="smallfont"><strong>$vba_options[portal_blockbullet] <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/online.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[active_users]</a>: $totalonline</strong></span>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="alt2"><span class="smallfont"><phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase></span></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1"><span class="smallfont">$activeusers</span></td>
	</tr>
	
	<tr>
		<td class="alt2"><span class="smallfont"><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase></span></td>
	</tr>
</table>
<br />

<!-- End Online Users Block -->

I've made the bit I think we'll have to change bold..

[amykhar]

Changing the template is enough to make it not show the error. But, it's not enough to make it show the spiders. I've been working on it, but for some reason on the portal page it thinks every guest is a spider.

[oz_moses]

that's where I'm at too.. I'm probably just grasping at straws here.. could it be due to the changes that were made in your instructions to index.php ? Perhaps we could include these same changes in \forums\includes\vba_cmps_include_top.php

[amykhar]

Oz, I've been trying to incorporate the changes from index.php. I think the problem has something to do with getting the spiderstring from the datastore. But, I haven't had time to sit down and really see what's going on.

[BigIke]

For some reason I can't edit the phrase x_members_and_y_guests to use the third parameter.. I mean I can click edit, but after I do that, what do I do? My only options are inserting something into the English US translation box. Any ideas?

[venomx]

I put it into the English US translation box and it works

[Snake]

Originally Posted by bringindaruckus

For some reason I can't edit the phrase x_members_and_y_guests to use the third parameter.. I mean I can click edit, but after I do that, what do I do? My only options are inserting something into the English US translation box. Any ideas?

I'm currently stuck here. What to do next? :ermm:

[Snake]

Oh and one more thing. I think I found a bug in the mod.

At current, it says...

Most users ever online was 312, Yesterday at 11:15 PM.
Snake , Uchiha Sasuke , weretere , Gamer , The Great One , Sasuke

Shoudn't it supposed to say/look like this...

Snake, Uchiha Sasuke, weretere, Gamer, The Great One, Sasuke

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Snake

I'm currently stuck here. What to do next? :ermm:

Do the English translation is all I can suggest. I don't know why some people have issues editing phrases. It's not a problem with this hack.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Snake

Oh and one more thing. I think I found a bug in the mod.

At current, it says...



Shoudn't it supposed to say/look like this...

We fixed that problem above. Read the thread. It's just a matter of taking the spaces out of the template for some weird reason.

[Snake]

Thanks, it's all fixed.

[subnet_rx]

I can't find this in the WHOSONLINE template

2="$numberguest"

[Snake]

Are you running vB 3.0.7?

[subnet_rx]

sure am

[Snake]

Okay then look for the following code:

<td class="tcat" colspan="$colspan"><div class="smallfont">
<span style="float:$stylevar[right]">
<a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]order=$sortorder&amp;sort=$sortfield&amp;pp=$perpa ge&amp;page=$pagenumber&amp;who=$who&amp;ua=$showu a"><strong>$vbphrase[reload_this_page]</strong></a>
</span>

You should see it.