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.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by TomasDR

I have a related question but I am not looking to change them but ask why.

I have this hack and the Coloured User Groups Legend/Key hack installed.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=104785

Occassionally the spiders appear in different colors, red & orange concern me the most since those are the colors for Admins & SupMods. I also made some colors for Custom groups and occasionally the spiders show up in those colors too.

Any ideas?

I haven't seen this behavior before. I don't think it can be an interaction of the two mods because many of us have installed both with no complications. Make sure you have the template mod correct and make sure the code that sets the bot's userid to 0 is in the index.php file as well.

[Logikos]

Thanks Amy for this hack. I think it's great. Though I have a small request. Would it be hard to have spiders show up at the end of the user list? I see in your SS they are at the end. Here is my screeny. Thanks!

[TomasDR]

Originally Posted by amykhar

I haven't seen this behavior before. I don't think it can be an interaction of the two mods because many of us have installed both with no complications. Make sure you have the template mod correct and make sure the code that sets the bot's userid to 0 is in the index.php file as well.

Sorry for the delayed response but had some family issues. I checked your instructions again and my files that I had to change, all is correct with one exception. I didn't want to "inflate" the total users online so I left the following line the same:

$totalonline = $numberregistered + $numberguest;

See attached the bots appear as BOD members.

[Logikos]

Originally Posted by LiveWire

Thanks Amy for this hack. I think it's great. Though I have a small request. Would it be hard to have spiders show up at the end of the user list? I see in your SS they are at the end. Here is my screeny. Thanks!

quite bump.

[amykhar]

I'm confused, Livewire. The way the mod is written, they will always show at the end because they are processed after the online members.

[Logikos]

Not sure what I did wrong. I'll just reinstall it when I have some time, not sure what I did.

[TomasDR]

Just so you know I am not making this up or dreaming. Attached are pictures of spiders in various colors that match my color schemes, plus one pic showing them normal.

[amykhar]

Thomas, For some reason, you seem to be missing the code that gives them a userid of 0 ($loggedin['userid'] = 0 OR you never made the template edit to the forumhome_loggedinuser template, which ensures that any user with a userid of 0 is not a link, but is plain text.

[Bhuwan]

bhuwan installs -- thx!

[TomasDR]

Checked my index.php and it's right, so is the template forumhome_loggedinuser according to your instructions.

I will pose the same question on the thread about the color schemes.

As you can see from the attached pics, they are definitely not clickable links/users.