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.

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by tareqbd

Thanks for the work. But I think it's better to make it permission based. Because normal users also can see the duration, which makes problem for invisible users. I hope it can be improve so far.

It was designed to be a community thing, so that users could see how they compared with others total time online, but we could add that in as a feature for a future release. However, right now we're not spending much time expanding features of this, just mainly fixing the bug here and there that pop up with new vBulletin versions.

Until then, you could always add another if check at the top of the tsoleaderboard.php file that prints a no permission for anyone other then the people you would like to see it, and disable the postbit/profile displays. I know that's not as elegant as it being a feature, but at least it would allow you to use it how you wanted for right now.

[tareqbd]

Sorry! I am not good in coding can you please post a module if you have time and if you don't mind.


Thanks in advance.

[rootsxrocks]

Originally Posted by Welshy2008

Good Mod,

But I think it may scare some members offline when they realise how long they actually spend on there.



TBH, I don't install mods that aren't supported either. Mod added Today and "Not Supported".

Thanks, and I am sure a lot would go for this.

thats my first thought it would be cool to have the stats in the admin cp though.

[faraz_hamza]

online time is not showing properly in front of onilne time:

how can i fix?

[faraz_hamza]

No REply Yet..... today is 2nd Day huh........

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by faraz_hamza

online time is not showing properly in front of onilne time:

how can i fix?

Originally Posted by faraz_hamza

No REply Yet..... today is 2nd Day huh........

Sorry, if you read above, we don't officially support this product, but we try as we have time, so expecting an instant response is absurd.

Now to the point, that problem is caused by the Post Thanks mod actually. I have fixed it a few times in the past, but I don't exactly remember what the fix was that was needed, but if you give me a link to your site, I'll look at the HTML and find the fix again real quick.

[faraz_hamza]

realy thx a lot sir for your kind help and kind response to my request.

www.vu39.com/forum

here is the site link.

i will be thankfull to yew. whatever the favour you will do for me.

[faraz_hamza]

NO HElp....... in vain to ask anything about Vbulletin.......

phpbb free forum support is better then this onez.

[DS MrSinister]

the problem is the thank you hack..

this should fix your issue https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=445

[Ideal Web Tech]

Originally Posted by faraz_hamza

NO HElp....... in vain to ask anything about Vbulletin.......

phpbb free forum support is better then this onez.

I sent you a Private Message several days ago (with no response back) pertaining to your issue.

Originally Posted by DS MrSinister

the problem is the thank you hack..

this should fix your issue https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=445

Thanks for helping give support!