Add Who's Online locations from Admin CP

This hack was requested on vBulletin.com.

It lets you add possible locations to Who's Online, directly from the Admin CP.
This is good if you are using external hacks, that use vBulletin's system. You probably know that users browsing these external files have Unknown Location (or Main Index for non-admin viewers) next to them.

With this hack, you can easily add a new custom location with ease!
It's also designed in a way that won't let you overwrite existing locations. ('dummy protection' as I like to call it )

The locations you add are not stored in their own table, because I really felt that would be waste of space and resource.
Instead, I store the locations in the template table, in one special template dedicated to this data.
It was a lot harder to do it this way, btw.

Please let me know if you find any bugs, or if this script doesn't work with files in child folders (this is my main concern).
This can be easily remove (just undo changes to online.php), so please don't fear to try it out!

A nice screen shot is in my next post.

[FleaBag]

Working great on 2.2.6. Also, I haven't read all this thread [just the first page] so maybe this has also been mentioned. To add admin_online.php to your CP edit admin/index.php and replace...

PHP Code:

makenavoption("vBulletin Options","options.php?t=0","<br>"); 


...with...

PHP Code:

makenavoption("vBulletin Options","options.php?t=0","<br>");
makenavoption("Add Who's Online Location","admin_online.php?","<br>"); 


Sorted.

[Admin]

Stop following me!!

[FleaBag]

Following you?!

[xug]

Great Work FireFly, work like a charm on 2.2.6

I only hope that someday there will be a solution for the vbportal module file

[Velocd]

Can't seem to get it working with 2.2.6, but if others are then I must be doing something wrong =falls over=

I've installed everything perfectly but when I add locations like shoutbox.php and main_photogallery.php, or quiz.php, etc, they still show up as unknown location. If you could take a look at my online.php that would be great, just PM for it ^^;

[jbear6]

This hack works much better if you remember to upload the hacked online.php. Great hack Firefly

[yetdog11]

This post's issue is no longer relevant

[yetdog11]

I am getting an Unknown Location in WOL - it shows the link to the file and the session ID, but its titled Unknown Location, even thought I entered it in the admin_online.php file correctly.

Matthew Yette
matt@antsmarching.org

[yetdog11]

I followed directions perfectly, and I get this in WOL when someone is on a page I added through the admin_online control panel.

Unknown Location: /setlists/test.php?

The file in question's URL is www.antsmarching.org/setlists/test.php

and the path i use in the admin_online is ../setlists/test.php

Still no dice, though. Anyone? Please?

Matthew Yette
matt@antsmarching.org

[FWC]

I use complete urls for the paths and don't have any problems. That might work for you, too.